The record-union., 1895-11-23
RBCORD-UNION BOOK TABLE.
Something About Some Recent Pub
locations.
A Sherburne ROmance-BOOkS for Chill
dren-California Wild Flowers
Fairy Tales-Etc.

Raphael Tuck & Sons Gondon, Paris
and New York; are with us once more
with a beautiful collection of holiday
books for the very smallest folk who can
be interested by large, beautiful pict-
ureS in rich colOrS and odd designs.
Tuck & Sons are publishers to the Eng
lish Queen, and enjoy on both sides the
water the well-deserVed reputation of
putting out some of the most original,
charmingly illustrated and attractive
books for children ever designed or
printed. Here is a quartO: Three Lit
tie Kittens" with full-page colored
plates in the best of chrome photography
and a score of lesser pictures, and with
type so large that it is a pleasure to any
eyes. In the same style we have the
story of Little Red Riding Hood" only
the lesser pictures are in tintS, and the
colored ones are of a higher order of art.
| Then comes a third Quarto, like all the
others, in stiff Illuminated covers, and
this is the story of Beauty and the
Beast" Next we have an odd conceit,
Who's There?" A door, seeming to be
printed on the cover, really opens and
diSclOSeS the broad, jOvial features of
Santa Claus, and we know what the
book is about, and find our speculation
true when we open it, only the text is
wholly new and a rhyme full of charm
for young ears. The fifth quarto is
humorous lesson in numbers by which
little ones are taught to count without
suspicion that they are going over
useful lesson. Next we have Father
Tuck's Little A B c Lessons" and such
capitals never before were printed.
Then we have Jack and the Bean
stalk" and last Father Tuck'S Animal
a b c." which, while teaching the little
ones the alphabet, introduces them to
many useful natural history examples.
Still larger and still richer in color type
and illustration is a double quarto My
Lady's Carriage" Illustrated by Helen
Jackson in exquisite designs, and done
in the sOftest tints and choicest colors.
A second double quarto, equally brill
liant in color and print is From A to
T. 1t is, like all the others, for the holi-
day season. They are the best of books
for presents to little toddlers, and will
more take eye and fancy than any we
have ever seen having in view the same
purpose.
Napoleon ILL.," from the French Of
Bierre De Lano, by Helen Hunt John
/ son, with portrait; 12mo; cloth, 81 -
/ DOdd, Mead & Co, New York; This
! is the second volume of the Secret Of
an Empire" series, the first of which,
The Empress Eugenie," was publish
! ed last year and met with instant sue
cess. 1t is seldom that such historical
! studies come to US SO bathed in the
! light of romance as do these me-
moirs from the pen of NJ. De Lano, w;lo
! however, declares that the romantic
/ element lies in the strangeness and
arecdOtal interest of the materials
which have helped him to compose his
story. He claims to have faithfully
presented the events of period which
has all the charm, all the sustained in
tereSt of a long romance; which has
too, all the terrors, all the commissions
. of an interminable drama" Historic
/ ally, this volume is of greater interest
than the first, for an attempt is made
/ To explain the curious and engmatical
! personality of the Emperor by facts
now brought to light by his biographer
That these further confirm the general
| impression that Napoleon Ill bore q
/ striking resemblance to the hero OF a
novel, or the actor in a leading role
! hightens the dramatic interest of his
story as told by NJ. De Lano. These
/ pages offer also an interesting psyche
logical Study-the study of q character
which was unconsciously forced to play
q part in the destiny of nations, which
/ according to NJ. De LanO, makes US
/ feel in the presence of one of the great
I est heroes of romance or of the drama
/ History has oftentimeS strange truths
/ to offer, and these truths regarding the
! Emperor Napoleon III. are among the
( strangest. Slowly anG tragically they
| reveal themselves in these pages with
aWe-compelling emotion until the En-
peror's sun sets, and gloom, darker
/ than the perpetual gloom of his bearing
| overtakes his untoward career.
The Review of Reviews for November
! CNew York; is a very full and interest
/ ing number. Foreign affairs naturally
/ have more than usual prominence. In
! the Progress of the World. the de-
partment in which the editor rapidly re-
views the events of the preceding
month, the possibilities of war in the
/ Far East are pointedly set forth An
other theme is the progress of Christian
missions in the Orient. The prospects
| OF Japan and Russia as Eastern Powers
! are terSely discussed. The editor also
makes comments briefly on the rela-
| tions Of Russia and France, the Italian
celebrations the French victory in
! Madagascar. the Cuban situation and
! British policy in Venezuela. Among
| home topics of the month. the coming
elections, the condition OF New York
politics, the anti DrZe-fight campaign
| in the Southwest and the educational
outlook are selected for treatment. The
number contains q half-doZen interest
! ing portraits of Pasteur. and presents
On. account of the illuStriOuS French
chemists life work, given by Professor
! Percy Frankl2nd in his address before
! the British Association. together with
/ the late Professor Tyndalrs estimate of
! Pasteurs discoveries-the whole form
| Ing a unique contribution to popular
| knowledge of the great scientists per-
sonality and public services. 1t pub
| fishes for the first time a curious pen
! sketch Of the late Professor Huxley
drawn by himself in 1918 The face is
said TO be an excellent likeness 1t was
drawn by Huxley in Sydney, New South
| Wales when he was surgeon to H NJ S
| Rattlesnake. The recent progress of
Italian cities is ably described by Albert
Shaw. An illustrated account of the re-
| cent General Convention of the Protest
ant Episcopal Church at Minneapolis