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ATTRACTIVE NEW BOOKS.
FINDING IMPROVES AND so DOES IL
LUSTRATION.
HENRY HOLT co.'s FALL LIST INCLUDES MANI

HENRY HOLT & CO.'S FALL LIST INCLUDES MANI
rsprc1,1IY SUITED FOR HOLIDAY GIFTS.
,t. 90 tho publishing house Of Henry Holt a
20 No % West wenty-thlrd-st.. would incline one
"a think that the heavy weak backed picture oooA'
specially designed for Christmas Is prooaoiy pas
ING away and that books generally nave oeen
much improved in binding and iilusuauohS' ,''
even the textbook Of to-day looks more AT" 49,
than tho novel OF Yesterday This is well illustrated
-. tIo1 G. cas- classroom edition OF Leasing
.eynna Won Barnheim" in Its neat red covers ana
with its twelve reproductions OF quaint etcmhss'
This firm is known both publisher OF text
books and OF works In general literature.
The only thing approaching picture doom INC.
II has issued this year Is Vicar Thompson's Me-
n,o,r Of Dean Liddell" the great photographer Mt
COMPANION to its finely illustrated RAGS "Rich-
ard Brinsley Sheridan" The Tribune has reviewed
Vicar Thompsons book at length, reprouucihs
some OF the full page illustrations. when lnciuue
notable portraits by Cruikshank. Watts and Herko-
mer views Of oxford and reproductions OF some OF
Dean Liddells blotting paper sketches.
PRoFUsELY ILLUSTRATED.
profusely illustrated book which the publish
ers think peculiarly ut for the holidays Is La
vienacs Music and Musicians" now in its sec
ond edition edited for Americans by H. Il. hreh-
bel OF The Tribune staff Vyng with IL III 'He
number of Illustrations is revised edition OF
Champlin e. Bostwick's Young Folks Cyclop@uia
OF Games and Sports. Another DUNN S''"'e''
festive in its get up" is Lucas's anthology from
some eighty authors. "A Book OF verses TOT Ch"-
dren." Of which the firm has issued new and re-
vIsed edition .
Books Of verse for children OF an older growth
are Pancoast's STANDARD English Poems and It's
COMPANION volumes Canheld's French Lyrics I'm
FRENCH and Won Klenzes volume OF pe e.
verse entitled "Deutsche Gedichte the last issueu
a few years ago. There is also an American eoi,
ton Of "Cyrano de Bergerac TN trehonJ, WIN an
English Introduction and notes. ueaung oi wa
first night OF the author. the real Cyrano, ah1
his works and the historical originals or many OIL
the characters.
IN BELLIES LETTREs.
In bellies lettres Henry Holt Co.'S chief book OF
the wear is Beers's English Romantcism In the
Eighteenth Century" which he Is to follow with a
volume on the nineteenth century. II Is already
in its second impression. and has been reprinted IN
England. book which carries this subject INTO
our own century is Mr.. Hancocks monograph OF
THE French Revolution and the English foets.
In the year Just closing Professor Franckes so
cial Forces in German Literature. despite Its for
mdable title, reached its third impression. BOOKS
especially suitable for gifts. because OF their TAX
ing binding and gravure portraits are 6rlineg
Johnson's two volumes Of Eighteenth Century
Letters" covering Swift, Addison and Steele. with
Stanley L. Poole as associate editor, and covering
Johnson and Lord Chesterfield, with Birbeck Hlii
There has been a lively demand for James $
Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to students
"The Hoolgan Nights" Professor Jamess Talks
is already I'm its fifth edition. He is brother OF
Henry James. The Hooigap Nights" ,s Is quite t
LESSONS OF a London burglar Other books are
Gods Prisoner" whose hero Is also criminal;
thetic story about some French artists and Dow
son and Moore's adrian Rome. tale about an
English artist who has brother artist Il, in the
Nature" which has been steadily gaining in pup
lie favor.