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THUMB-NAIL sERIEs-wASHINGT
a Compilation of the Principal State
Papers Of George Washington. New
York: The Century Company.
A treat to book appreciators and also to
collectors Of Washingtonia in this dainty
edition of state papers. bound in the artistic
style Of the series, the embossed leather
covers following design by Mrs. Blanche
McManus Mansfield. The little volume
brings together: The chapter on The Char
acter OF Washington, from w. e. H.
Lecky's "A History of England in the
Eighteenth Century" Washington's fare
well address to the people of the United
States his address to his officers, March,
1885, his circular letter to the governors OF
all the states on disbanding the army; his
farewell address to the armies of the United
States. and hds inaugural address to both
houses of Congress.
REFERENCE INDEX SERIES-HAND-
BOOK OF UNITED STATES POLITI-
CAL HISTORY, for Readers and Stu
dents. Compiled by Malcolm Town
send. Illustrated Boston: Lothrop,
Lee & Shepard Company.
Mr.. Townsend. who is well qualified to
gather and present information concerning
the civil history of this country, some years
ago produced work Of reference entitled
United States Curious Facts" When the
time came to revise this for a second edi-
ton Mr.. Townsend had gathered so much
more material that he made an entirely new
book, now ready under the title. Hand
book of United States Political History
This Is a carefully compiled and up-to-date
presentation of every important event in the
political development of the United States.
exhibiting the origin, process and compile
ton Of the standard national laws.
The book Is dedicated to the sons Of the
author, acknowledging that their inquiries
have prompted him to the work, and any
profit stimulate the desire for valuable
knowledge Of our country, and at the same
time provide answers for many important
and vexatious questions by furnishing the
children with this book.
THE ONE-HOss SHAY; With it's Com
panion Poems. By Oliver Wendell
Holmes. Illustrated in color by How
ard Pyle. Boston: Houghton Mifflin &
Co. Washington: Woodward & 10th
rop.
In 1891 Dr. Holmes publishers issued three
Of his best-known poems in single vol
ume, the ''One-Hoss Shay" How the Old
Horse Won the Bet and 1.-THE Broom
Stick Train" For this edition Mr.. Howard
Pyle made a series of drawings which gave
the work a special attractiveness. This
1901 edition has now been ressued in a
new FORM with Mr. Pyle's Illustrations.
practically redrawn, reproduced in color,
and with binding of exceptional appro-
priateness. The book serves as beautiful
holiday Offering. as Mr.. Pyle has repr oduced
with all his characteristic fidelity to his
subject the quaint quality of the Olden
days of which DR.. Holmes wrote SO charm
ingiy.
THE LOVES OF GREAT COMPOSERS.
By Gustav kobbe. Illustrated New
York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
II the music OF the great composers was
inspired in any part by the women who in
fiuenced their lives 1t is important to every
student of music to know something of the
loves of the men who have left rich Iega-
cies In tone to the world. In this handsome
volume prepared with evident thought for
its availability holiday gift book, are
told briefly but effectively the stories of
Mozart and his Constance, Beethoven and
his Immortal Beloved Mendelssohn and
his Cecile Chopin and the Countess Del
phine Potocka. Robert and Clara Schu-
mann, Franz Liszt and his Carolyne and
Wagner and Frau Cosima. Some of the
incidents related are cleaned from hitherto
untranslated materials. The portraits and
other illustrations effectively set Off the
text, which Is printed in heavy-faced type
POPULAR ART SERIES-THE APPRE-
CITATION OF PICTURES. By Russell
Sturgis. AM, Ph.D., author of The
Appreciation of Sculpture" &c. Illus
trated New York: The Baker & Tay
lor Company.
This is the fourth volume In the Popular
Art Series. 1t supplements the two vol
umes on architecture and sculpture by Mr..
Sturgis, In that 1t deals historically with
pictures ana furnishes basis for a thor
ough understanding Of them. and differs
from the Pictorial Composition" Of Mr..
Henry r. Poore in that Mr.. Poore treats
OF pictures as artist and not as a critic.
The large number Of paintings reproduced
in this volume many of them rare and un-
usual. add greatly to its value, making 1t
one of the most important Of the popular
art books issued In many years. Mr.. Sfur-
gis' claim upon the pubIics attention IN the
treatment of a subject of this sort Is based
on years of careful research and enthus'-
astic study not only Of architecture, scua2-
ture and pictures. but OF all of the minor
arts. and probably no man Is better eQuir-
ped than Mr.. Sturgis to deal with the sub
jects. He Is undoubtedly Americas fora
most critic OF the arts. The books them
of about eighty weil-printed Illustrations.
broad margins and good paper. The bind
ings are plain brown linen and are thor
oughly in keeping with the nature OF the
books.
AT THE EMPEROR's WIsHJ Tale OF
tho New Japan. BY Oscar King Davis.
Illustrated. New York: d. Appleton &
Co.
Something Of the reason why the Japa-
nesA won the war with Russta fs to be
learned from this novelette,. In it IL told q
tale which discioses the undying love of
the native Of Nippon for the tituiar ruler Of
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