New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-12-16
on @. p. PUTyAMs SONS LISTS.
LARGE NUMBER OF OFT BOOKS ON THE
SHELVES OF THE FIRM.

The firm OF G. T. Putnams Sons. No. q west
Twenty -third-st, edits little periodical desel'P
tive of us varied stock of publications. the Chtst
mas number OF which calls attention TO lst Vi
new and most attractive books. They cover receh.
editions II work recognized as standard ana
,spdsouev bound new volumes which promise
good reading for heavy hours
The former class is well represented by lrN'As
..r2lsoe bridge Hail; or. The Humorists. whlch ~
brought out In the Surrey Edition. This specimen
of the great authors work Is clothed in style 10
attract the eye. 1t in TWO large octave VOL
,Innes The pages are beautifully printed. on me
paper with gilt tops ana decorated borders p'lh'eu
in green and illustrated with thiriy-two pho'o
grayures from original designs by such artists AS
Sandman Renhart and f. S. Church The cover -
decorated with the figure OF a stately Ifcaoe
stamped In green white and gold. The Mohawk
Edition OF Cooper In thrty-two octave Volumes
each with frontispiece and vigrctte t!ue-page. l.
also piocurHblc now
Prominent among the books ihat are Hhh'Ns
their first bows 10 readers is John DENIES to1no
Of To-la, and Yesterday: The Pagan city In this
work Mr. Donnie has aimed to bring within mod
crate compass the results OF long and caretui
studv OF the ruins OF ancient Rome, to explain their
rneaning- and to link his whole account into d
continuous story Of the city in its pagan days MS
desciptio.s are Illustrated by five maps and NIFTY
eight REPRODUCTIONS Of fine Roman photographs Inc
book comes in one cloth bound octave volume. with
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Ebert Hubbard is the editor OF a new book, SUIT
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the attention. "Iitti. Journeys 10 the Homes oil
American Authors Mr. Hubbard calls Inc
work is a series Of papers on the hom- - ana nome
life Of Emerson. Bryant. Lowell. Whitman Irving,
Prescott Simms. Hawthorne. Audubon. LonSi"'-
low Everett ana Bancroft. These pagers. with
the exception o. that Whitman. which the editor
contributes. were issued by the late G. +. Putnam
I'm 1853 in a series called Homes Of American Al.
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the public then. and now brought OUT IN sulli-
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"Sr Knight Of the Golden PATHWAY Is n charm
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II is bound In pale green cloth handsomely deco
drawings OF Mabel W. Baldwin Camping In the
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publishing two companion volumes by Anna RULER:
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