The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-12-22
SOME HOLIDAY BOOKS.

III n couhpy toWhs hoiiasea Wtsh tHS same deiieacy and simplicity of style that rendered "A spinster's Leafiets~ 80 enjoyable. The romance. the trage- dy. the comedy. that enters into life, in even the most retired of New England villages. requires a chronicler who has both insight and sympathy-the ten- derness Of the poet. and the quick. firm touch Of the artist. Such chronicier had these quaint folk of Hilltop. The little volume Is beautifully printed and neatly bound. and many appropriate half-toned illustrations are set into the text with decorative effect. Lee & Shepard. Boston. For sale by the E. F. Judd company.
 "The Century Magazine" offers in its program for 1895 a new and magnif- gently illustrated Life of Napoleon" written by Professor William M. Sloane of Princeton. Never in its history has it projected a greater serial than this. which will be a concentration of all the
 
 tiny" reliable. impartial and based up- on the laws of historical criticism. New portraits will be printed, great histori- cal paintings reproduced, and striking scenes have been drawn anew by fa- nous modern artists. A powerful novel of Italian life. by Marion r. Crawford, Is also promised; a novelette, by Mrs. Burton Harrison. Illustrated articles on Washington in Lincoln's Time," by Noah Brooks; stories by Rudyard Kip ling, etc, etc., literary banquet, in fact, which will be amply satisfying to all tastes. Bound volumes of the Gen. tury for 1894 are now ready, and are among the choicest books to be found at this holiday season. The beautiful bindings, the wealth of illustration and the varied, well-balanced reading mat ter by the best of the writers of to-day make the Century most acceptable as holiday gift. The Century company, New York. For sale by all booksellers.
 Christmas and New Years cards are perhaps not so much in vogue as they were few years ago, but there is still demand for them, and those publish ed by Raphael Tuck & Sons are attrac- tive to create an increased demand. Many of the folded cards are unique in shape, and all are artistic in design and dainty and harmonious in coloring. They are designed at the studios in England and printed at the Fine Art works in Saxony for the publishers, Raphael Tuck & Sons, London, Paris and New York.
 "When All the Woods Are Green" By S. Weir Mitchell, M. D., author of Characteristics" Doctor and Pa tient," etc. A tale of the primeval Canadian forests, in which the leading characters (persons of more than or dinary culture) are thrown in contact with the sturdy but uncouth back woodsmen. The story is brisk in ac- tion, and strong in its delineation of character. There are vivid descriptions of adventures with rod and gun, and the beauty and mystery of the deep woods is painted with masterly touches. A fine portrait of the author forms an appropriate frontispiece. The Century Co.,, New York. For sale by the E. P. Judd Co.
 "The Man Who Married the Moon, and other Pueblo Indian Folk-Stories." By Charles F. Lummis, author of "Some Strange Corners of Our Coun- try" etc. The author of this book has lived for five years among the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, learning their language and customs, and in the long winter evenings listening to the tales the old men tell to the boys gathered about them-wonderful stories of "The Antelope Boy," "The Ants That Push- ed on the Sky" "The Man Who Wouldn't Keep Sunday" 1.-The Town of the Snake Girls" etc. These stories MT. Lummis has written out for the boys and girls of America just as the old Indians told them. There are thirty stories altogether, not including the one which gives title to the book, and there are many pictures of the strange people and animals about which these stories are told. Illustrated from drawings by George Wharton Edwards, after photographs by the author. The Century Co.,, New York. For sale by the B. P. Judd Co.
 Mother Goose in the Kindergarten" By Fannie Sheldon Bolton. A revision of some of the old rhymes by mother who believes, with many other thought full people, that the time-honored jin- gles in their original shape are hardly suited to the children of this age of enlightenment. Little minds should not be shocked, or tender hearts har- dened, by the needless recital of crimes and ,cruelties. In this revision all that is objectionable has been left out with | manifest benefit both to the rhymes and to those who read or hear them read. The illustrations, many of which are very graceful, were drawn by Mrs. Bolton, editor of the Mothers Jour nal," which is published in this city. Kindergarten Literature Co.,, Chicago. For sale by all booksellers.
 "sirs, Only Seventeen! By vir- ginia F. Townsend. author of "A Bos- ton Girls Ambitions" etc. Miss Town | sends stories are always pure, bright and cheery. She has brilliant descrip- tive and imaginative powers, which | are displayed at their best in this new l story. In it she pictures the lives of 1 some very interesting people, promi- nent among whom are Dorothy Draw