Houghton, Mifflin & Co.'s Holiday Bulletin choice of subjects and a simplicity of treatment which make them both intelligible and engaging to children, while they have a touch of imagination and a literary quality which make them interesting to older readers. Miss Katharine Pyle, sister of Mr. Howard Pyle the famous illustrator, has made several very charming designs for the book, which render it more engaging and especially available for Holiday purposes, and the binding is peculiarly attractive. Cot COUNTLESS books are written for young children, but comparatively few are at once really interesting and of noteworthy literary excellence. One of them is When Molly was Six, by Miss Eliza Orne When Molly White, au AS HE PASSED BY THE DOOR. By George Wharton Edwards. From Dr. Holmes's" The Last Leaf." TH was Six thor of the delightful novel Winterborough, who tells twelve stories, one for each month of Molly's new year, and weaves into these incidents of special interest to small girls, going to the seashore and the country, having a new doll and a cat, a fine Thanksgiving, and an outdoor Christmas. The stories are told with charming simplicity, yet with decided literary skill; and the book is made additionally attractive by illustrations from the cunning pencil of Miss Katharine Pyle. HE new Holiday octavo editions of Childe Harold, Geraldine, Lucile, Marmion, The Lady of the Lake, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, and The Princess, are far the most attractive inexHoliday pensive editions yet produced of these famous poems. 8vo Paper and printing are excellent; each volume has an engraved frontispiece and titlepage, with many artistic illustrations; and they are bound in a very tasteful style. Editions THE HE new Holiday 16mo editions of Childe Harold, Lucile, Marmion, The Lady of the Lake, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, The Princess, and Enoch Arden, are very inviting little vol Houghton, Mifflin & Co.'s Holiday Bulletin umes, carefully printed, equipped Holiday with illus- 16mo trations, in Editions CHESTERTOWN SANDFORD REEDVILLE BINGHAM SKAGGSTOWN volume has FROM MISS THOMAS'S "IN SUNSHINE LAND." Illustrated by ESBURK SCRATCH CORNER HILLSIDE MOUNTAIN VIEW EDGEWOOD PLEASANT RIVER New Books of Poetry ONE NE of the best volumes of verse the season has brought is Mr. Aldrich's Unguarded Gates and Other Aldrich's Poems. It is a handsome From Mrs. Wiggin's "Timothy's Quest." crown oc Unguarded tavo, containing most of the poetry written by Mr. Aldrich in the last six years. He is not a prolific poet, few poets are prolific whose poems the world remembers long after they are published, if indeed it reads them at all. But Mr. Aldrich's poetry is always marked by the most scrupulous literary conscientiousness as well as the finest fancy. It is perfectly finished, but not at the cost of perfect naturalness; and the result is that lovers of poetry welcome his work, in which nature and art coöperate to produce perfection. Poems, Cambridge Whittier's The Cambridge Edition of Longfel low's Complete PoEdition etical Works in a single volume, which was published last year, has proved so thoroughly acceptable and so increasingly popular, that the Complete Poetical Works of Mr. Whittier have now been brought out in the same form. The large type, the opaque paper, the portrait of the poet, and the equipment of notes, index of first lines, etc., make it an ideal inexpensive one-volume edition of Whittier's poems. Agnes Repplier. A Handy-Volume Edition of Whittier's Poetical Works, in four volumes, has been issued in the same style as the Handy-Volume THE SUNDAY DINNER. By Marcia O. Woodbury. From Miss Jewett's "Deephaven." Houghton, Mifflin & Co.'s Holiday Bulletin Edition of Longfel low's Poet ical Works, published Handy Volume Whittier last year in five volumes, which have proved peculiarly satisfactory to the lovers of artistic books. The beautiful type, paper chosen for its opacity and with special reference to printing well, and a tasteful binding which presents the delightful volumes with a quiet dignity suited to their contents, — these give this edition a very just popularity. Whittier's Poems contain four portraits, representing the poet at different stages of his literary career. Miss Miss Caroline Hazard, favorably known by her memoir of Professor Diman, and by her recently published book, College Tom, a sketch of life in Narragansett in the eighteenth Hazard's century, has gathered into a pretty volume some note- Narragansett worthy poems which she calls Narragansett Ballads, with WHITTIER HOMESTEAD KITCHEN, DESCRIBED IN SNOW-BOUND." of the United States for Schools," by John Fiske. Ballads Songs and Ly rics. Mr. William Roscoe Thayer, author of The Dawn of Italian Independence, and editor of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine, has brought out a tasteful volume of Poems New and Old, including "Echoes from a Garden,' From "A History and other lyrics. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.'s Holiday Bulletin A volume of poetry of great and varied interest is A Victorian Stedman's Anthology, comprising representative selections by Mr. Victorian E. C. Stedman from the works of the authors discussed Anthology in his admirable volume on Victorian Poets. It is a volume uniform in size and style with the Cambridge Edition of Longfellow and Whittier, and Mr. Stedman's judgment and taste are ample guarantee of its excellence. Biography and History One of the most important works of biography issued this season is the Life and Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier, by Mr. S. T. THE TROTTING MATCH. From Dr. Holmes's "Autocrat." Illustratea by Howard Pyle. Whittier Pickard, whom Mr. Whittier chose for his biographer. It is in two volumes, with several portraits and views, and contains a generous selection from his letters to friends and to eminent literary men, statesmen, and reformers. It gives new views of Whittier's character, notably his activity and influence in politics, but without lessening the reader's respect for his high integrity. The work will be most acceptable to the multitude who have been charmed and uplifted by his poetry. Fortunately, at the same time with a bio Lucy graphy of Whittier appears the Life, Letters, and Diary of Lucy Larcom, his intimate friend and the one most closely associated with him in much of the literary work of his later years, on Child-Life, Songs of Three Centuries, etc. Miss Larcom's Life is written by Rev. D. D. Addison, of Beverly, Mass., who knew her well, and who has told the story of her life in an interesting way, incorporating in it many letters and passages from her diary. The Life of George William Curtis is added to the series of |