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HOLIDAY BOOKS.

Cassell q Co. Qimlted) publish a se-
lection OF Critical studles'' by the ir-
repressible and always engaging "ouida.''
These studies cover wide range OF SUBJ
jects. as a rule OF contemperaneous kind.
There Is for instance an appreciatve
study OF that delicate product, Gabrie!e
D'Annunzis. invested with all ouida' $
most sympathetic analysis and there is a
sketch Of Joe Chamberlain that is like
cartoon In its engaging vindictivehess
With one exception the essays have ap-
peared In English periodicals, the Fort
nightly, Nineteenth Century, e>c. They
are representa- tives OF our Ouida as she is
today In habit of thought and taste of
expression and are all decidedly stimulat-
ing. Not all OF them have to do with
personages. Ouida, BIZ the way, was in
sense the discoverer OF D'Annunzio and
her republished essay was written before
the English speaking world had known
much OF this existence. The book is hand
somely put up and the price Is s2
A collection of fancies in poetry and
pictures by Oliver Herford constitute n
charming holiday book called overheard
ners Sons). The let Cetera" are grouped
under the titles mot In the Garden, %
Bubbles" and Curtain Calls" In the
little collection which gives the chic
title TO the book the flowers talk many
things queer for flowers, but that fnd
their analogy In concerns human. The
balance OF the verse Is not less dainty,
though the subjects are grestly varied
The pictures are exquisite little sketches
in the familiar Herford style. There is
n brightly coored frontisplecc and a
gorgeous cover that is enticins. lFor sale
by Preston a Rounds Price s.25y
At the holiday season the column In the
What Is Worth While series comes in
with particular aptrfess and hardness.
They contain short articles. sermons. ad-
dresses of a timely and thoroughly prac-
teal nature by writer's. as a rule of the
present day we should say, ministers,
college professors. For example. we
have at hand an address. Glowing NY
Neighbor." by Rev. Or. j. r. Miller, OF
philadelphia: straight Shots at Young
Men" by DR.. Washington GLADDEN.: "The
Supernatural and Salvation from SIM"
by DR.. Lyman Abbott. Each OF these
articles nakes's book OF thirty or thirty
FIVE pages. The volumes OF the series
are bound exquisitely In white, crushed
effect, with ornamentation In gold, red
and green. They are very attractive. The
cost is only S cents apiece and there
must be, to date. more than one hundred
subjects 10 choose from for Christmas
gift making.
In Literary Rambles at Home and
Abroad" DR.. Theodore Wolfe adds an
other to the several little volumes OF
literary sketches. Biographies and tid-bits
generally previously from his pen. The
new volume Is. book Of the home life
OF our favorite authors. the reader accom-
psnying the writer through graceful and
sympathetic chapters 10 the abidinj;
places OF the men and women whose
names are on tho library shelf 10 their
everyday haunts ana watches them at
their work ana at play, too, There ara
a number OF. exquisite pictures. The
volume. Is Uniform In size and binding
with Or. wolfe's "Pngrima &C." "Shrines'
and "Haunts and Homes" published by
J. B. Lippincott a Co. Price s125)
'I Go A-Markcting" H. the appropriate
and engaging titleof q new sort OF COOK
book by Henrietta Sowle, the Henri
ette' Of the esteemed Boston Transcript.
in the columns of which valued contem-
porary her contributions Oh culinary sub
jects appear under the titl4 reclaimed
for this book. The book is written In a
catchy gossipy fashion. interesting of It.
self AS well as to he valued for tho In
struction and suggestion II affords. II
IS a jolly cook book TO sit down with
and read, as we'll MS 10 cock by Indeed
IL is OF the nature of a postgraduate
course or supplementary reading" in
the pursuit OF a cooking education AS
your up 10 date book on table msnera
nerlects 10 advise you not 20 eat with
your knife, but. beginning at higher
level. proceeds 10 the elegancies OF its
subjects. so these articles presume tina
tho housskeeper knows how 70 arrange
for proper Gre in her stove and has
been thoroughly schooled In the rudlnents
OF the disposition OF steak and q ness
OF spuds There IN much Of household
economy impaired In practical way
and altogether the book In reiishabls in
the things Il introduces and the way
they are introduced and made familiar
published BY Little. Brown & Co. For
ssls by Gregory. Price S1-5O)
A new book by Lillian whiting will
be appreciated by her admirers, Little.
Brown A. co. have. iust published 'The
Spiritual Significance or Death as an
Evont in Lfe," in which rs indicated by
argument ard example how narrow "a
the line between the Seen and the Tn
seen, and how simple Is the faith that
the two exlstsncss proceed ore after
the other without break. the future life
being but the continuation and develop
ment OF the present existence. The DEM
onstratlon inevitably indicates such a
manner of living IN the brief present as
shall ht for the higher and greater and
longer period % existence In the spiritual
life. The essays are comprised under
the caption The Spiritual Significance .
Vision and Achievement" "xevwecn the
seen ana the Unseen" Psychic Com
rnunicstlon" and The Gates ot the New
life" The next 20 trs last chapter is