New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-27
Mem Civilizations
CHARLES SORIBNER'S SONS

CHARLES sCRIBNERs SONS
PUBLISH TO-DAY:
SOCIAL LIFE IN OLD VIRGINIA
BEFORE THE WAR.
BY THOMAS NELSON PAGE. With IL
Illustrations by the Misses Cowles-
12mo, S150
A vivid picture, in Mr.. Pages usual fascinating
style, of tho conditions ard manners that existed
among the ante-belum gentlefolk OF Virginia.
which Is admirably supplemented by the illustra-
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help one greatly in obtaining idea Of the people
and things described
LULLABY LAND.
Songs Of Childhood. BY EUGENE
FIELD. Selected and with an intro
duction by Kenneth Grahame. With
about two hundred illustrations by
Charles Robinson. limo. $1.5O.
This charming volume Is uniform with Robert
Louis Stevenson's "Child's Garden OF Verses,
published last year. Eugene Fields work Is most
Irresistible when he Is singing Of and TO the chill
dren he knew and loved so well. and Mr.. Robinson
has surpassed himself In the quaint yet altogether
appropriate drawings with which nearly every
page OF the volume Is adorned.
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GLORIA VICTIS.
BY J. A. MITCHELL editor Of "Life').
12mo. Sl.25.
new book by the author Of the popular Amos
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THIS COUNTRY OF OURS.
BY BENJAMIN HARRISON. ex-Presl-
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$50.
The most lucid and entertaining exposition yet
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-Phila- Evening Bulletin.
HIS GRACE or OSMONDE.
Being the Portion OF that Nobleman's
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~
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Boston Herald
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An Experiment In Reality: The East. BY
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1T has already aroused a very great deal Of in
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LONDOy:
AS SEEN BY c. D. GIBSON.
Second Edition.
Written and illustrated by CHARLES
DANA GIBSON. Large folio. 12x1S
inches, $500.
This handsome volume contains IS of Mr.. Glib
sons drawinss n Of them being full-pase, OF
Characteristic London scenes: Royalties. the celeb
titles OF art and literature and the army. social
functions street types. etc.
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BY HENRY VAN DYKE. with furi-pase
illustrations by Howard Pyle. repro
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EFT will make q appropriate Christmas
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ing hoidays"-sa,urday Evening Gazette.
OLD CREOLE DAYS.
BY GEORGE w CABLE With 8 full
page illustrations and IA head and
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artist, Svo. $500
"a xif. book for the holidays in which a piscs
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that leaves nothing 10 be d-sired"-Brookiyn Life.
THE HISTORY OF OUR NAVY.
From its Origin to the Present Day.
1775-1S87. BY JOHN r. SPEARS. 4
vols, 12mo. with 400 illustrations.
maps and diagrams. $500.
ION the whole. the best history OF the United
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Tho first satisfactory history OF tho United
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