The herald., 1893-12-17
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uOliQhy DOOke.
In Robins Recruit. by A. G. Plymp-
ton, this house has issued book in
which verv perfect picture of post and
barracks army life is given, illustrated
with spirited pictures drawn by the
author. 1t is touching story for young
people. which nobody is too old to read.
and to feel kinder and softer and better
when they put it down. The scene is a
military barracks in Texas, where
Robins father is captain of regi-
nent. Robins recruit is the ugliest
tempered man in the regiment, but
Robin finds something unaccountably
attractive in him. his loving, trusting
little heart finally working 80 forcibly
on the mans nature that he becomes
quite changed, finally dying a hero's
death.
A new, attractive and dainty book by
Edith Emerson Forbes is published by
this house, in the shape of new selections
of prose and poetry for every day in the
year. The title is The Children's Year
Book.
Roberts Bros. certainly have placed
before their patrons this season the
choicest, finest and most attractive as
sortmens OF holiday books ever issued
by them. Especially are their books for
children and young folks amusing and
entertaining, and many little people
will be made happy by receiving Little
Women, The Barberry Bush, Under
the Water Oaks, More Good Times at
Hsckmatack, The Story of Jnliette,
or some of the Coolidge books, the
Mouton books, the Alcott books, the
Ewing books, or the Hale books. All
OF these series are Issued by them. Be.
sides these for the older readers, they
issue the complete edition OF Balzac's
novels, translated by Miss Wormeley !;
Jane Austen's novels, Countess Ksth-
leen, a dramatic poem, by w. B. Yeats; I;
The Lovers Yearbook of Poetry, by
Horace Parker Chandler Retrospect and
other poems, by Mary F. Robinson; /;
Allegreito, a volume of poems, by Ger
trude Hall For Fifty Years, a collection
of the poems of Edward Everett Hale,
and many other valuable and interesting
books OF which we have no space to
mention.
From Lowell, Coryell & Co. we find in
editions de luxe, of The Drama, sa-
dresses Dy Henry Irving. with a troutise
piece by Whittier. The Little Minister,
by Barrie, in two editions, one the
Kirriemuir edition of last season and
The other with illustrations printed on
imperial Japanese paper, with illumin-
ated title page and exquisite bindings.
Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, with
frontispiece portrait of author on India
paper. beautifully bound. Other works
that may be used as presentation vol
umes are plentiful Among the more
important are Edmund Gosse's Gossip
in a Library, Eric Mackay's Love Letters
OF Violinist, daintily bound in three
quarter calf, and Sidney Whitmsn's
The Realm of the Habsburgs, power
fully written book ON Anstria- Hungary,
it's nobility, its army, its peo.
pie and their government; and
to the various statements OF
TACT many useful reflections have been
added by the author. These publish
ers also have complete sets of the works
OF Marie Corelli, j. NJ. Barrie and A..
Conan Doyle, handsomely gotten up in
half calf and boxed, which make most
valuable Christmas offerings. Their
paper bound books were such favorftes
mere in the summer time, that their
winter holiday books should be in great
demand. They are elegantly printed
and neatly bound.
III DOOAb auo DOOhb lOE
boys and girls, Lee & Shepard's list is
very complete. Their celebrated war
series is carried through it's sixth
volume in a Victorious Union. Oliver
Optics attractive style of writing has
made the Blue and Gray series one OF
the most popular, as 1T ia one of
the most astractive series to he
found for young readers. Its pretty
hlna and adnrnad
with confederate and federal medals,
is significant of the bipartisan
and unprejudiced methods of the writer.
Not but that he sticks to facts, but he
gives the facts on both sides. In A
Victorious Union he has numerous
thrilling events to relate which brought
the war to successful ending, euch as
the taking OF Forts Gaines and Morgan
and the capturing of blockade runners
off Mobile. The second series of ALI
Overt the World series, also the work of
industrious Oliver Optic, calls attention
to two new volumes recently added to
it, viz, Young Americans Af1oat; or,
Cruising in the Orient, and The Young
Navigators. The steam yacht Guardian
Mother and its young millionaire
owner, Louis Belgrave, with his inti-
mate friend and ally, Felix McGavorty,
again furnish the stage and leading
characters. The happy and fortunate
boys steam at their leisure from one
port to another, staying at a place
long enough to see all the sights worth
seeing. In this way they 60 from Glib.
raltar to Constantinople, and thence to
the islands of the Archipelago, continu-
ing the voyage to Athens, Corinth.
Delhi and the Ionian islands. In j. T.
Trowbridge's Toby Trafford series we
have Woode Thorpe's Pilgrimage and
other stories. The collection deals with
the doings of brave, manly fellows, of
whom it is pleasure to read. All these
books are nicely bound and illustrated,
and any father or mother or friend can
gladden. the heart and win the loyalty
and smiles OF many bright boy or girl
by remembering them with q beautiful,
interesting and substantial gift of this
kind.
All OF the above books for sale by the Stoll-
Thayer company, 130 south Spriag rect.
70 Preserve Grapes.