The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-05
Aesops Fables. With 100 iIIustra-

Pablo de Segovia: The Adventures
of Spanish Sharper BY Francisco
de Quevedo Illustrated with over 100
drawings by Daniel Verge
The Ariel Shakespeare. Each play
in a separate volume. pocket size.
large type, complete and accurate text,
illustrated with the celebrated designs
of Frank Howard.
Chinese Nights Entertainments.
Forty stories told by almond-eyed folk,
actors in the romance of 1.-The Strayed
Arrow BY Adele M. Fielde.
Forty Tales from TIE Arabian Nights
Pictured by John d. Batten-
Woman in France During the Eight
zenith Century. BY Julia kayanagh-
| 2 vols, illustrated.
celebrated Moorish palace, the Al
hambra, . with the historical and ro-
mantle legends connected with us
history By Washington Irving.
Tanagra BY Gottfried Kinl1le.
Translated from the German by
Frances Hellman.
| Scenes from the Life of Christ. Plc-
tured in holy word and sacred art
Edited by Jessica Gone. With 64 illus
| tratiens from celebrated paintings
| Celtic Fairy Tales. Collected by
Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by john
| d. Batten.
| The Little Mermaid, and Other
Fairy Tales. BY Hans Andersen.
The Legend of the White Canoe. by
William Trumbull.
Voodoo Tales as Told Among the
Negroes of the Southwest.
| Sunshine in Life. Poems for the
Kings Daughters, collected and ar
ranged by Florence Pohlman Lee.
! Knickerbocker Nuggets" selection
lof some of the worlds classics. en-
bracing AZ different volumes, conpris-
ling among the list Lays of Ancient
Rome Tales from Irving Stories
from the Italian Poets. "Gulliver' S
Travels "Wit and Wisdom of Sydney
Smith, and various other choice Sc
| Literary Gems-A series of produc-
ltions, complete in small compass.
(which have been accepted as classics
of their kind, and which are entitled
| to the most attractive form that can be
given to them. There are five series
| of the above. comprising six volumes,
each of the very choicest reading by
such authors as Sheridan, Irving,
Goldsmith. Ruskin, Drake, Arnold,
Milton, Gray, Thackeray and others.
| Heroes of the National series of
biographical studies of the lives and
works of certain representative his
ltoricaI characters, about whom have
lgathered the great traditions of. the
Nations to which they belonged, and
who have been accepted, In many IN
Istances, as types of the several Ma
ltional ideals. Edited by Evelyn Abb
bolt, M. A, Fellow of Balliol college
The Stories of the Nations-A SER
lies of graphic historical studies, in
tended to present to the readers the
lstories of the different nations that
have attained prominence in history.
In the story form the current of each
I.-ftr Of w
| and it's picturesque and noteworthy
lperiods and episodes are presented in
Their philosophical relations to each
lother as well as to universal history.
Each work in the series is complete
lin one 12mo volume, with map and IL
Illustrations.
Putnam's list includes many others
of biography, travel, poetry. fiction
and representative novels.
choice list of excellent literature for
1.-THE holidays, among them being the
! following: 1.-THE Cloister and the
| Hearth.p Charles Reade; Masters
land Masterpiece of Engraving Will
lis o. Chaplin; 1.-THE Christ Child in
| Art" Henry Van Dyke; Italian Car
idens," Charles a. Platt; 'Prue and |,
George William Curtis; The Reiu-
gees" A. Conan Doyle: The Prince
I5f India Lew Wallace; "Old
Songs with drawings by Abb
lbey & Parsons; The War
wicksbire Avon,s' A. T. Quiller-Couch;
Nv Hamilton Gibson's works, Bos-
IweH's life of Johnson Home
| FAIRIES and Heart Flowers" Frank
French; George William Curtis work;
art and CRITICISM. Theodore Child;
london Walter Besant;' Howard
PvIe's works; christmas in Song.
"Sketch and Story Poets Of the
Nineteenth Century. standard his
torical works of Macaulay, Hume,
lGibbon and Motley Among the inter
testing and attractive fiction are the
best works of Howells, Besant, Fuller,
Pool, Black. A. Conan Doyle, James,
lStuart and other we'll known writers.
We will endeavor in the next weeks
literary notes to present a further
lselection from such publishers as
Crowell, Seribners, Houghton-Mif-
fin, Dodd, Mead & Co, McClurg and
iothers. mentioning such books as are
Imost suitable for the holidays, Never
before has there been so choice col
Election of masterpieces and gems of
lfered to the reading public. The bind
tings and illustrations of the books
mentioned above are most superb and
for a beautiful gift cannot be excelled.
lSOME OF THE EARLIER NOVEL,
lists.
There are many whose most real
most vivid existence is passed among
their books; and these are they who
scan with eagerness the pages of book
notices to see what treat the new
month may have in store for them :;
| who haunt the counters of new books
| at the shops of the book sellers; who
make the life of a librarian a burden
| to him by reason of their demands.
| n Of
forced to turn away, baffled and Bit
terly disappointed-so many books
there are, yet so few that can afford
even an hour of keen enjoyment. And
| in this oeaSeleSS quest they forget
sometimes that there are certain books
always at hand, to which one can turn
again and again with a sense of abso-
| lutte security in their power to charm
! and attract; books to whose value
our fathers and their fathers before
| them have borne willing testimony;
books which have come down to us
with their freshness unimpaired, their
charms only heightened by our knowl-
ledge of the thousands to whom they
have given tinalloyed delight Is it
merely prejudice that makes it impos-
sible to find in the flood of modern
novels pouring daily from the press,
creations to match with Tom Jones
and his divine Sophia, with Amelia and
with Parson Adams? Is it only a love
flor by-gone days with their duaintness
| and elaborate simplicity. that renders
| Evelina and Cecilia so infinitely su-
period to the throng of debutantes
that dance lightly through the society
novel of our day? Can Jane Eyre,
and Shirley, and those pathetic Gather
matched in interest by many of our
imodern heroines? And where in litera-