New-York tribune., 1899-11-16
BOOKS OF HIGH GRADE.
NEW PUBLICATIONS FOR THE HOLIDAY
BUYER
DopD. MEAD & co. PRESENT AN ENGAGING
LIST. COVERING WIDE FIELD.

DODD, MEAD * CO. PRESENI AN CENpHoA-'N
LIST COVERING A WIDE FIELD.
Among the publishers who put forth new DOCKS
OF the best stamp Oodd, Mead q Co. nod hibh
place and their publications this winter are wen
nm 70 the standard established by themselves IN
former years In their list OF new fiction one OF
the hest perhaps is Paul Leicester Ford's latest
novel Janice Meredith" Predictions are not
lacking that this work will equal In popuiari'y MI
Ford's Honorable Peter Stirling" OF "hicn near
Iy two hundred thousand copies nave oeeh sou
The firm has issued an ordinary edition. ana also
a fine holiday edition. In two Vou'nes' lHus'late'
with ffty-eight drawings by Howard Pyle ana MS
pupils together with fourteen reproductions from
old prints The book is an attempt 10 90 III .ie
North what Thackeray did in the Soutn WIN Inc
Virginians," during the same period' lha' 10 -
cav II Is not a novel whose characters are mace
NJ generals colonels and soldiers and whose scenes
consist Of battleheds skirmishes and sahsulhaiy
adventures II is picture OF the social HE OF the
people Of that time.
BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATIONS.
Turning to the field OF belles-lettres' My otuuy
Fire" by Hamilton W. Mabie. Is to be nlehtio"eu'
II contains upward of sixty ILLUSTRATIONS oy 'iauNe
and Genevieve Cowles. This is Mr.. MaDies Hfs'
and favorlte book. and 1t was felt that ne" eu',
tion illustrate with feeling and imagination "ouiu
anneal 10 many readers. Drawings have peeh aP-
nearing for some time in the larger hdsd~''e'
signed by these artists. in which many thlih d me
feeling for nature and character ana oeiICate
Imagination have been evidenced. and IN theH
treatment Of My Study Fire" the artists nave s"S
tained that reputation among their admirers
Poems of Cabin and Field" by Paul Laurence
Dunbar. author OF Lyrics Of Lowly Lfe' Is "iSo
interesting and attractive The decorations OF TINS
work are by Alice G. Morse. While the degree Oh
success as a poet which Mr.. Dunbar has attained
is not due TO the accident Of his race alone yet
this has undoubtedly entered into It," an admirer
has said This volume further emphasizes the same
interest the illustrations for the selected poems
(au Of them in negro diaecO having been maze
from photographs taken by the Hampton Ca"etd
Club.
A GREAT COMBINATION.
Another striking book is Great Pictures De-
scribed by Great Writer'S" edited by Esther Single
ton The work has numerous illustrations ana Is
a companion TO ''Turrets and Towers. Ihis Is tle
working of new idea In II MISS SlhsIeton
has given in connection with a reproduction or
fifty or sixty masterpieces by the great painters
description Of the several pictures from masters OF
literature For Example, Raphaels "Sistine Ma
donna" Is described by Hans Andersen, Botticellis
Birth Of Venus" by Walter Pater, Guido's "P0r-
tr rn of fr6e be cross BY Sir Joshua Reynolds
Tintorets Paradise by Ruskin, and Paul Potter's
In the province of fiction there is material for
gaSon Tids Ghooe tS podd M ead 3 cos patrons It
enough to say that The orange Girl, with eight
forster" a tale of the eighteenth century, when
debtors prisons were kept teeming with wretched
| humanity and when the laws OF justice decreed
| that men women and children should be
| hanged for trning offences. The heroine is taken
rested toward frustrating the designs Of band Of
| outlaws aud of restoring TO his inheritance the
In ,'''i lone or March Woman Of Fortune. by s; r.
Crockett. author of The Raiders ETC. ustparep ;,ud
| by L. Polak. the author has broken new ground, @
! II is a story of to-day and the heroine Is an
American girl, highly educated, renned ana oeaut-
full but Of Independent spirit She realizes her in
dviduality amid tangle OF ADVERSE crGurnS Gu n nd
| and the story is told in Mr.. Crocketts well known
| style.
IN MORE SERIOUS VEIN.
In the realm Of religious books Dodd, Mead &
! Co. are also strong Hamilton w Mabie in The
Life Of the Spirit" has in series Of snort chapters
endeavored to the great truths OF the religious
life in vital relation to human experience. to bring
out the identity Of those truths with the funda-
mental truths of art and science. to suggest the
universality of religious truth as illustrated IN all
the processes of life. and to indicate not only It's Us
nationality but its ineVtaole reVeduoh 10 s0oi' %
! men begin TO live and work -, all ~
| Travel, history and biography are also wen rep
| raeonted Volume VI. the final volume or James
! schouers History Of the United states Dlrlng h
the Civil War is OF imp0rtaC&g sg an Re van nave been
written too near the event Professor Schouler mas
tion having passed away me anas oI nersnsctve
mentous period can be viewed IN better persPec''e
! and with less bitterness of feeling , sr,au
! Space permits the enumeration of only sIiaii si
proportion OF the new and apactVg poGT1 u bv F.
Pett Ridge the story Of NJ vietorien ssrdou
Pf Pffay the %ight BY Max Pem6erton; The Tory
Maid" by H p stmPs0n Heron9Prd' ora iamin nGU1,
BY s 5S RSiFRRtf68 Re 6ieamef Sirs" by Ne MuhTc hs
Buckingham Letters" by sir FrederiGH h 6Dsrs
bv Esther Singleton; What Is Good English .md
Other Essays by Harry ThGrston peSk by Henry
bFTamSn5Hd bTammond "A History of Wireless TessTaphyy
| WiI:on and "Rosamund Queen of the Lombards
a dramatic poem by Algernon Charles Swinourne'
CHRISTMAS "BOCKMAN."
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| Bookman" will have a handsome ornamental cover
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about to enter upon the sixth year OF It's existence
The first OF a series of articles on the great news
! papers of Continental Europe will appear in the
January number Such influential journals as the
Temps" of Paris the "Kolnische Zeitung,' the
! "Neue Freie Presse' OF Vienna; the "Tribuna,
| of Rome and the "Novoe Vremla, Of ST. Peters
burg will be described from the point OF view OF
acter. The articles which compose this series viii
be written by Contributors IS wh9 have an intimate
shown in the series on fbs edoTs OF
undertake a series dealing with the literary associa
tions OF Boston and OF Philadelphia Ihls series
TO Boston and the third to Philadelphia and the
under the title Of Literary Ironles will appear
a series of articles which will treat OF literary NE
and literary workers In their amiabe and ridculou;
aspects These papers will be written by diferen
contributors, each of whom has mace stqdy dy o.
some particular phase Of the humorous side o.
'copymaking.
rS. S series BE G Sa WFl
the works and personalities of the who brinl
pictorial side Of the Leading WB m2gaSnes to % hEi
main the work OF serious illustrators the caricatur
lists will not be ignored
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