Evening journal., 1892-12-01
RECENT LITERATURE.

Worthington Co., of New York an
nounce for Immediate publication
Little Ways and Great Plays Mono
tints, verses and stories. by E. s. :.
With twenty-four colored illustrations
by Elizabeth S. Tucker and others. 81 80.
A series of delightful sketches of child
life exquisitely drawn and colored as
realistic and true to life as anything
that has ever been done in this line.
The pictures are not only sure to please
the little ones, but grown people who
wish TO instill into young minds the
love Of the beautiful will be charmed
with the artistic as well as finished
execution of the work The first de-
sign shows three lovely children, one a
baby on its high chair sucking its
thumb; the other two playing. Next
we get glimpse of Baby's Breakfast !;
then a pretty little miss is engaged in
measuring the height of the children
wee bit smaller than herself. then comes:
All Aboard, representing coaching.
Next Great Plays: children dressed in
the costumes of their elders, apparently
having a good time, and so it goes on
showing children at play in various
graceful attitudes till finally the hand
some book ends with a Five O'clock
Tea, a Pillow Fight and Good Night
scene of peculiar lovleiness-
$50 up the broad stair
We climb, all in white
Saying and singing
Good Night, Good Night
1.-TWO Tales, for December 8, contains
can Uncovenanted Tryst." by John j.
a'Becket; and 1.-THE Babes in the Woods, &"
by Kate Woodbridge Michaelis. "An
Uncovenanted Tryst," has conven-
tional plot. A young woman refuses to
link her fortunes with those of an artist
until he makes a name for himself She
visits a summer resort, and while stroll
ing along the beach sees the body of a
drowned man who woresher lovers coat
and ring. Believing the body to be that
of her lover she makes arrangements for
its removal Subsequently she goes to
look at the body and finds her
lover bending over it. 1t trans
pires that the lover had given
the dead man his ring to realize some
money on and the coat TO take the place
of a dilapidated affair The couple came
to the conclusion that marriage is expe
dent.
"The Babes in the Woods, is aitale
with a moral to it for little folks. Two
little children are being taken to place
by rail. The story of '"fhe Babes in the
Woods" has made such an impression
upon the children that they misconstrue
the conversation of their uncle to mean
that they are to be disposed of in the
manner that "rhe Babes" were. They
leave the train unobserved at station
near their destination, are lost in the
woods and found asleep by acquaintances
of their uncle and restored to him. Much
dialogue makes a short story long.
Worthington Co., of New York, an
nounce for immediate publication the
funniest book of this season, with bright
colored plates, called: "Bits of Prom
inent People, or, Transformation Char
acter Portraits. 1t contains amusing
pictures of prominent people, these
sheets are cut up in slices, and hundreds
of laughable changes may be produced
by transposing them. They include
Grover Cleveland, ]. q. Blaine. President
Harrison, Governor Flower, Senator
Hill, Governors Russell and Boles,
Chauncey NJ Depew, Wanamaker, Nc
Kinley, Talmage, Colonel Ingersoll,
Ward McAllister, and other political
celebrities. While the portraits are
really excellent liSenesses, and the cos
tunes remarkably well drawn, finished
and colored, the different situations that
it is possible to produce make this little
book a source of merriment everywhere
1t is put up in boards at 70 cents, aud in
paper covers at 80 cents