Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-29
NEW BDOkS AND MAGAZINES
Very Desirable and Highly Att tic Few
Christmas Volumes,
BRAND NEW EDITIONS OF OLD WORKS
Interesting Array of New Works Of
Fiction-LonR List of Fresh Ju-
Veniles from well Known
Writers of ChiIdren's stories.

This Is the season Of holiday books and
almost every day brings to hand something
new and attractive. The shelves Of the book
sellers are rapidly filling UP with a colec-
tion that must meet the requirements OF
every purchaser. This week some very at
tractive and highly artistic holiday b oks
have been received from the publishing house
OF r. H. Russell Of New York. One of the
most artistic and, in many ways the most
desirable of these volumes, Is the new Glib
son book for 1893. 1t contains the completed
series Of the Pipp drawings, showing Mr..
Gibson's sense OF beauty and his sense OF
humor at their very best. The book Is uni
form with It's predecessors, Drawings by
C. D. Gibson" Pictures of People and
Sketches and Cartoons" but 1t is unique
in that 1t contains large number of un-
published drawings forty new sketches hav-
ing been made especially for the book. 1t
is large folio, 12x1S inches, bound in Japan
velum, with white velum back, the cover
decorated with drawing OF Miss Pipp hold
ing the portrait of her father. Each volume
is enclosed in a box with pictorial cover
design. Price. IS.
In "Kemble'e Sketch Book" by E. W.
Kemble, also published by r. H. Russell, is
carried out the novel idea of reproducing in
facsimile an artists sketch book, cover and
all The book contains drawings Of Cape
Cod types and OF southern white people, as
we'll as a number of the Coon sketches for
which Mr.. Kemble is famous. 1t is bound
in art canvas, 7x10 inches. Price, $1.25
Stll another volume from the same house
is 'Mr. Isolate of Lonelyville," by c. c.
Converse. 1t is a collection of humorous
stories on the promising subject of the
suburban resident. Appropriate illustra-
tions are supplied by r. NJ. Wright 1t Is
a very attractive little volume, 51ax7 inches
Boards, $1.00.
Two calendars have also been received
from r. H. Russell "a Revolutionary Cal
endar," by Ernest C. Peixotto, includes
twelve strong and picturesque drawings of
events in the war of the revolution. The
printing Is in patriotic colors on heavy
paper. 1.-The Zodiac Calendar" by Chester
Loomis presents twelve reproductions in
color of the signs of the zodiac, humorously
treated. 1t might almost be described as
calendar for children. Each calendar ts
9x12 inches and is enclosed in box with
design in color on the cover. The price of
the first mentioned is $1.5O and of the latter
$1.25.
A much less pretentious volume
which might be mentioned at this
time as coming from the same
publishers as the above is THE
Only Way; Tale of Two Cities.' which
is a beautiful edition of Charles Dickens
famous novel containing the cast of the first
production in New York, September, 1899, of
Freeman Wills play, THE Only Way" a
dramatization of the book. Beautifully il
lustrated with numerous scenes from the
play as produced, with Lady Granby's por-
trait of Sidney Carton, and with Frederick
Barnard's striking picture in color of Car
ton mounting the scaffold. Paper, Csc
Another volume gotten out especially for
the holiday trade is "Helen's Babies,'' by
John Habberton, the most lifelike, humorous
and pathetic picture of child-life ever writ
ten. Each scene, incident and climax is
true to nature, and the plot, II it may be
called SUCH Is realistic to a degree Every
child thinks, acts and talks in much the
same way as Bulge and Toddie, and their
childish pranks and sayings are as droll
and spontaneous as could be imagined AL
together the book is a charming one, and
will prove as great pleasure to the readers
of today as it did to those of a score of
years ago. Fifty original full-page and
text illustrations. Alexander Belford G. Co.,
Chicago. Cloth, SAxS1a inches. Price, SIPS.
II. II. Lusk, for a long time member
of the New Zealand Parliament who spent