The Republican journal., 1898-02-24
The Belfast Free Library.

ing, and the most wholesome reading. Mr.
WV. Stetson, State Supt. of Schools, says
that he wishes the Riverside School Lib
rary might be placed in every school
room in the State of Maine.
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, The.
BY Oliver Wendell Holmes. With
Biographical Sketch and Portrait.
S. H 10
Dr. Holmes lived to see The Autocrat
read 10y the grand children of those
who read it when it first appeared, and
age does not diminish the charms OF
the iuiciest book in American literature.
1t is ike overhearing the witty talk of a
brilliant conversationalist to read this
book, and the imaginary characters who
listen to the Autocrat and occasionally
put i'll a word come to be as well known
to readers as many more loquacious per-
sons. A sketch gives the outlines of the
author career.
Bird Ways. BY Olive Thorne Miller. With
Sketch and Portrait of the Author,
5. NJ 81 b
In fourteen sketches of the American
Robin, Wood Thrush, European Song
Thrush, Cat Bird, Redwing Black bird,
Baltimore Oriole, and House Sparrow,
Mis-. Miller gives the habits and ways of
birds that she herself watched. The spec
ial value of her studies is in their consid-
Grafton of particular birds.
Christmas Carol, A, and the Cricket on
the Hearth. BY Charles Dickens. With
IA Sketch of the life of Dickens, and a
Portrait. S. d 30 C
These two stories are the most famous
and delightful of the celebrated Christ
mas books by Dickens, which fifty years
ago made a new folm in English Litera-
ture.
Evangeline, Hiawatha, and The Courtship
of Miles Standsh. With Sketch of the
Life and Writings of Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow, ''Longfellow in Home Life
by Alice NJ. Longfellow, Explanatory
Notes, Portrait, Map, and illustrations.
5. l. So e
The three long narrative poems by
which the poet is best known are brought
together in a single volume, and fully
equipped with the needful history of the
poet and his works, and such aids as the
interested reader desires.
German Household Tales By Jacob and
Wilhelm Grimm. Told again in Eng
lish With an Introduction. S. G IS G
The German collection is a large one,
and much of it is of interest only to stu
dents OF folklore. The forty stories here
selected are the best, and most sure to be
liked by the young. Some of them are
curiously like well known English house
hold tales. They are all told in a simple,
direct English which makes it possible for
young people of seven or eight to read
them.
Grandfather's Chair, or, True Stories
from New England History; and Bio
graphical Stories. By Nathaniel Haw-
thorne. With a Biographical Sketch
and Portrait, Notes and illustrations.
S. Il 81 g
This is one of the most delightful books
for beginners in history in our literature.
The great romancer never was so happy
as when he was Whiting for the young, and
the book has been enliched by many pic
lures and a map. In addition also to
Grandfather Chain, the volume contains
halt dozen biographical stories by Haw-
tholne in the same vein.
Grandmother Story of Bunker Hill Bat
tie, and Other Verse and Prose. BY
Oliver Wendell Holmes. With Bio
graphical sketch, Notes, Portrait, and
ILLUSTRATORS. >. ii - g
The spirited ballads and humorous
poems of Dr. Holmes, together with his
animated narrative of My Hunt after the
Captain, and other prose papers.
Gullivers Travels. TIE Voyages to
Lilliput and Brobdingnag. BY iona
than Swift. With Introductory Sketch,
Notes, Portrait, and two Maps. S. Sw
These famous Voyages give one the en-
tertainment caused by looking first
through one enc, then through the other,
OF a spy-glass, and the glass is always
turned on men and women SO that we see
them first as pygmies, and afterward as
giants The Introductory Sketch gives an
account of Dean Swift and his writings,
and there are TWO curiously fanciful maps
copied from IN early edition.
lvanhoe. By Sir Waller Scott. With
Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Por-
trait and otbel illustrations. 151.23
One of the great Waverley novels 1t
is hard to say which is the most popular
of Scott's novels. Every reader has his
favorite, but the fact that Ivanhoe has
been selected as a book to be read by
students preparing for college shows the
estimate in which it is held by teachers
Pilgrims Progress, The. By John Bun
yam. With an Introduction, Notes, and
Portrait. Edited byWilliam Vaughn
Moody. s. B So p
This is the famous first part of the
great classic. The editor has shown clear
ly how interesting and valuable the book
is as an illustration of English life in the
Puritan period, and how mastery it is as
piece of English idiomatic prose. Bun
yam interprets the homely England of his
day as Milton did the English state and
the scholars attitude. 1t would be a
mistake to regard the book as exclusively
religious 1t would he a mistake also to
deny its religious inspiration.
Shakespeare, Tales from. By Charles
and Mary Lamb. With an Introduc-
tory Sketch and Portraits of the au
thors. S. l. lot
There is story behind every great
play, and it is only after one has got at
the story that one thoroughly under
stands and enjoys the play. Charles and
Mary Lamb were themselves delightful
writers, and to read their Tales from
Shakespeare is not only to have a capital
introduction to the great dramatist' S
works, but to hear fine stories finely told
This volume contains, besides, an &C
count of the brother and sister, whose
life together is one of the most touching
tales IN English Literature.
Sketch Book, Essays from the. By
Washington Irving. With Biographical
n md Il.