The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-07
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS.
New Editions Brief Notices Of Recent
eooks.

Macmillans new illustrated edition
Of Crawford" would be a most de-
lightful specimen of bool1-making, even
without the forty colored illustrations
and sixty pen-and-in6 sketches by
Hugh Thomson. AS an experiment in
printing in colOrs, the former are al
ways interesting, in a majority Of cases
they are distinctly satisfactory. Often
they suggest old-fashioned water col
ors in their refined lines and delicate
coloring-such water-colors as Miss
Matte might have done Mrs. Gas
kelps classic--is preceded by a sketch
in which Anne Thackeray Richie, i'll
the happieSt vein, recalls her early
memoirs of Crawford" and its author,
of Knutsford and Sandlebridge, so in
timately associated with the Gaskells
and Crawford" and Of seeing her ia
Their reading the chapter on the cap
tain.
Mr.. James Lane Allen and the Mac
milan Company alike are to be con-
graduated on the success of the new IL
lustrated edition of THE Choir InvIs-
fble." Binding, typography and prints
combine to form an ideal setting for
this lovely story, of which at last ac-
counts 100000 copies had been sold.
Little. Brown & Co have published
for the holiday trade a beautiful new
decorated edition of THE Complete
Angler" with James Russell LowelTs
memorable Introductory essay. The
authors dedication and address to his
readers, with Charles Cottons letter to
Izaac Walton, Walton's answer, with
CottOn's part II and the various YER
SEES and other addenda of the original
volume, are all there. The presence of
"A wood engravings of scenes connected
with Walton and THE Complete Ang-
ler," autographs, portraits, and the
like, many Of which are from private or
ancient sources lend value and charm
to the text of this beloved old classic.
The Capitol Cook Book is the name
of large new publication by the Wer-
ner Company, adapted from their great
kitchen encyclopedia, THE White
House Cook Book" and containing
nearly 1900 choice, tested household re-
cipes. Hugo Ziemann, steward of the
White House during the Harrison ad-
ministration, and at one time caterer
for Prince Napoleon, is responsible in
large part for the compilation, which
boxes the entire gastronomic compass,
and is dedicated to the wives Of the
presidents
From day to day" is the title of a
selection Of Scripture verses, one for
each day in the year, arranged by The
odore w. Wolsey and published by Lit
tie, Brown & Co. The texts, which
have been well chosen, are printed in
French, German and Italian as well as
in the familiar English of King James
translation Of the Bible. On each page
a blank space invites the pencilling of
the readers private thought. As no
dates are affixed to the days of the
month, the book viii answer as well
for one year as another.
The most prominent points about GAS
Told by the Typewriter Grip are the
frivolity of the girl, the commonplace
ness of the style, and the persistent
misuse of the auxiliary will" There
are upwards Of 80 short stories in the
book, which is enclosed in a preposter-
Gus poster cover and is the work of
Mabel Clare Erwin These stories first
'7a9red in the Chicago Chronicle
They should have been permitted to
nave renamed there AS an index to
the assignments of the Chicago news
paper woman, these tales of matrimon-
ial agencies, spiritualistic seances,
drinking soda with strang men, and
answering matrimonial advertisements
in the daily papers are more illumin-
ating than agreeable. Published by
Il. r. Herrick & Co.
"F'olly's Bells is a German legend
of Christmas treated rhythmically by
Anne Gardner Hale and published by
the Peter Paul Book Company of Buff
falo. The story is told in blank verse.
There are four illustrations, the bind
ing is pretty and the volume makes a
welcome addition to the number of
small gifts suitable for Christmas
Crowell e Co. have just published a
superb edition of "Vingt Ans Apres."
in two volumes, with IS beautiful il
Illustrations prepared especially for it.
The translation, which is from the la
test French edition, has been carefully
made, with an eye to the removal OF
those absurdities which have beeu so
fragrant in some previous editions.
This edition, which is uniform in style
and binding with the translation of
Les Trois Mousquetaires" published
with Leloir's illustrations, may be con-
tidently recommended rs in every re-
spect satisfactory to all lovers Of Du-
mas.