Charles Scribner's Sons' Books for the Holidays. From The Art of The man or woman, who desires to make the most of lifeto live as near as possible to the opportunities of our civilization, without running into its extravagancies-has a genuine friend in Mr. Robert Grant, who takes up, in his new book, "The Art of Living," such practical problems as income, the dwelling, living expenses, education, amusements, etc., and discusses them with that rare intelligence and wit that distinguishes all of his work. The book is profusely and charmingly embellished with 135 illustrations by C. D. Gibson, B. W. Clinedinst, and W. H. Hyde. (12mo, $2.50.) Dr. Henry Van Dyke's new book, "Little Rivers," appeals alike to the literary man and the lover of out-door life and sport. The reader who combines both tastes will find the book rarely delightful. It consists of essays in profitable idleness, embodying the reflections. of a cultivated, keen, and sympathetic observer of nature, in his rambles through the woods and fields in various climes, on foot and in canoes. full of unconventional observations of nature and life, and cheerful, blue-sky philosophy, and are fully and attractively illustrated. (12mo, $2.00.) The pages are No more happy co-operation of author and artist upon a congenial subject could have been planned. than that of Mr. Marion Crawford, and the artist Edwin L. Weeks, in the former's new and beautiful book, "Constantinople." The Philadelphia Telegraph says: "It gives a very charming description of Turkish life, and depicts sights and scenes in the Sultan's capital. It is well illustrated by Mr. Weeks, an artist well acquainted with Oriental subjects." (Square 12mo, $1.50.) From "The Art of Living," reduced. Mr. Eugene and Mr. Roswell Martin Field's translations from Horace, which appear under the happy title of "Echoes from the Sabine Farm," are described by the Boston Transcript as "free from pedantry and mere literalness, and while some are singularly perfect From The Art of Living," reduced. reproductions of the originals, others are free adaptations to the spirit, the forms, and the speech of to-day." The charm of the book is enhanced by many beautiful illustrations by Edmund H. Garrett. (Square 12mo. $2.00.) Bunner, M. H. Spielmann, Arséne Alexan- From "Little Rivers." Charles Scribner's Sons' Books for the Holidays. Poodles. From "Domesticated Animals " Everyone who knows Prof. N. S. Shaler's remarkable talent for the popular and interesting explanation of Nature can imagine how the author deals with Domesticated Animals in his new book of that title. It treats of the horse, the dog, the familiar beasts of burden and domesticated birds. and it would be hard to find a volume fuller of apt illustration, anecdote, ingenious clearing up of difficult points, and otherwise entertaining reading on a topic so full of attraction. It will be read with continual surprise at the breadth of its observation and the ingenuity and probability of the theories advanced. The pictures are the work of master-hands, and admirably illustrate the text. (8vo, $2.50.) "Dr. Charles A. Stoddard's new book of travel, 'Cruising Among the Caribbees,' is a comely book, handsomely and profusely illustrated," says the Philadel phia Press. "It is written in just the familiarly instructive style which lends to works of travel their chief charm." The book will give new pleasure to the many readers who know Dr. Stoddard so agreeably by his former charming illustrated books of travel, "Spanish Cities," "Across Russia," and "Beyond the Rockies." (Each, 12mo, $1.50.) N New Books of Historical Interest. EW Napoleon Memoirs are always of interest, and in all Napoleonic literature there is nothing of greater personal interest than the Memoirs of the Emperor's first valet de chambre, Constant, now for the first time presented to the public in English. No man ever had so near a view of the Emperor as Constant, and his memoirs, which are entitled "The Private Life of Napoleon," give a more definite portrait of the Emperor as a man than any other work that has yet appeared. Constant also gives vivid descriptions of the many notable characters that surrounded the Emperor, and enlivens his pages with many interesting anecdotes and incidents. The work has an introduction by Imbert de Saint-Amand. (4 vols. 12mo, $5 00.) Theodor Mommsen's great "History of Rome," which the London Times characterizes as "A work of the very highest merit; the best history of the decline and fall of VOLUME VOLUME VOLLE VOLUME the Roman Commonwealth," is now issued in a new edition from new plates, revised throughout and embodying recent additions. It is published now in five volumes, with maps. (Crown 8vo, $10.00.) Charles Scribner's Sons' Books for the Holidays. WOMEN OF CO Under the general title of "Women of Còlonial and Revolutionary Times" appears an important new historical series, the aim of which is not only to present carefully studied portraits of the most distinguished women of the Colonial and Revolutionary times, but to offer as a background to these portraits, pictures of the domestic and social life of the people. Of this series, the first volume, now ready, is on Margaret Winthrop and is written by Mrs. Alice Morse Earle. "It is history, romance, and biography combined," says the Boston Advertiser. "Mrs. Earle has done some excellent work, but her 'Margaret Winthrop' is her best and can hardly fail to become a classic." The series is made up in attractive cloth binding, with flat back, gilt top, and rough edges. (Each vol., $1.25.) MARGARET In connection with the above series might be mentioned another new work on a special period of American history. It is by Frank Samuel Child, and is entitled "An Old New England Town." In it the author pictures the early life of Fairfield, a town that has played a conspicuous part in the beginnings of New England, and the book is a setting forth of the important relations that the New England towns have borne to the progress and triumph of the American people. The volume is handsomely illustrated (12mo, $2.00), and there is an edition de luxe limited to 300 copies. ($5.00.) Mr. Stanley Weyman in a recent interview says: "Do you know Prof. Baird's work on the Huguenots? He has done what no one else that I happen to know has succeeded in doing-brought the facts of the history of the Huguenots together and related them in a way that makes them as interesting as a story." Two new volumes have just been issued, entitled "The Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes." (8vo, $7.50.) This completes the work begun in "The Rise of the Huguenots in France" (2 vols., 8vo, $5.00), and continued in "The Huguenots and Henry of Navarre" (2 vols., 8vo, $5.00); and the full set now consists of six volumes. (Price, per set, $15.00.) French history finds no more interesting narrator than Imbert de Saint-Amand, whose charming series on the "Famous Women of the French Court" has made his name widely and favorably known. Nineteen volumes have appeared in this series, covering French history from the time of Francis I. down to 1830, and they have been described by the Nation as "Attractive in their arrangement, never dull, with much variety of scene and incident, and admirably translated." A new volume is now ready on the Revolution of 1848, of which the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette says: "It is a vivid picture of those stirring times, and the author conveys his impressions in that vivid and lucid style which has made the previous works so justly popular." (12mo, with portraits, $1.25.) Louis Philippe. Charles Scribner's Sons' Books for the Holidays. Queen Anne and the Georges is the period covered by Donald G. Mitchell in his third volume of "English Lands, Letters, and Kings," which the Congregationalist describes as "a series of charming Talks on English men and women, beginning with Bishop Berkeley and ending with Wordsworth. Each follows the other in easy, brilliant, sparkling succession, a rosary of sparkling crystal on a thread of gold." The preceding two volumes treat respectively of the periods "From Celt to Tudor" and "From Elizabeth to Anne." (Each vol. 12mo, $1.50.) An interesting compilation of historical and descriptive matter, relative to the Great Moguls of India, is Prof. Holden's new book "The Mogul Emperors of Hindustan." The author has worked over the great mass of materials contained in the original chronicles most successfully, and, without losing any of their spirit, he has presented their substance in a form acceptable and interesting to Western readers. The book is fully and attractively illustrated. (Crown 8vo, $2.00.) Social and Political. A book of incalculable value to all interested in the cause of humanity is "The Poor in the Great Cities," which brings together the best experience in dealing with the problems of the poor. The authors contributing to the volume are Walter Besant, Oscar Craig, W. T. Elsing, Joseph Kirkland, J. W. "Hunger." From "The Poor in Great Cities," reduced. Mario, J. A. Riis, E. R. Spearman, Willard Parsons, W. J. Tucker, Robert A. Woods, all well-known students of the great social problems, and they have written, not a mere statistical compilation, but a book of the most human character, based upon personal knowledge and experience. The work is fully illustrated and contains an appendix on tenement house building by Ernest Flagg. (8vo, $3.00.) In connection with the above, mention should be made of Jacob A. Riis' two books, "The Children of the Poor" and "How the Other Half Lives" (each, 12mo, $1.25 net), of which Dr. Schauffler says: "Let all who are interested in the welfare of humanity read at once." Both books are the fruit of personal experience, and are fully illustrated from photographs. Under the title of "Reflections and Comments (1865-1895), Mr. E. L. Godkin issues a volume of essays in social and political philosophy of the highest interest-selected from his work during thirty years of editorial experience with the Nation and Evening Post. The book deals with permanent rather than transitory themes and is literature rather than journalism. (8vo, $2.00.) A notably instructive record of four years' travel and study is Mr. Henry Norman's great work, "The Peoples and Politics of the Far East," covering French, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies, Siberia, China, Japan and Korea, Siam and Malaya. "It is a remarkable book," says the New York Times. "For a general story of conditions in Asia there really is no work published which gives, with an English coloring, anything so thorough." It is fully illustrated and contains 4 maps. (8vo, $4.00.) ! 1 Charles Scribner's Sons' Books for the Holidays. New Novels and Short Stories. "One of the handsomest volumes of the year, in its bright red and gold cover, gilt top, rough edges, and sympathetic illustrations by C. D. Gibson, Irving R. Wiles, and Clifford Carleton, is Robert Grant's 'The Bachelor's Christmas, and Other Stories.'" So writes a reviewer in the Boston Times, and he goes on to say: "Mr. Grant is cheerful, original, witty, and kindly satirical. His stories are entertaining, clever, and more than satisfactory in the afterglow they cause." The Boston Journal says: "They are representative stories by Mr. Grant, and show the reader by what art this clever author has taken a foremost position among writers of short stories." (12mo, $1.50.) From "The Bachelor's Christmas," reduced. Those who place George Meredith at the head of the English fiction of his time will find a great confirmation in his new novel, The Amazing Marriage." Its characters have the kind of vividness and individuality that is the one unmistakable mark of genius in the novelist, and the story is full of youth and vigor and joy of living that stir the lightest reader, while it is worth noting that in it Mr. Meredith returns more closely to the simpler manner of his earlier books than in any recent work of his. (2 vols., 12mo, $2.50.) Readers should remember also Mr. Meredith's recent novel, "Lord Ormont and his Aminta," which the Literary World says "is among Mr. Meredith's very best novels. The author has a story to tell, and tells it with the novelist's skill, the essayist's wit, and the poet's beauty of style. Never has Mr. Meredith's genius been more evident than in this latest novel. It is artistic, dramatic, absolutely original, and it makes an ineffaceable impression on the mind." (12mo, $1.50.) "Under the attractive title of 'College Girls,' Abbe Carter Goodloe has published a volume of most entertaining stories founded on the life of college girls," says the Boston Journal. "The stories are all of high order of excellence, and possess the essential quality of engaging and holding the reader's attention. Though differing in subject they all possess the same pleasing qualities." The book is charmingly illustrated by C. D. Gibson. (12mo, $1.25.) Mr. Arthur T. Quiller-Couch, known under the pen name of "Q" as one of the cleverest and most individual of the young English writers, offers three new books to the public. One, entitled "Wandering Heath," is a volume of short stories, sketchy and effective, Cornwall in scene, and dealing largely with the sea-coast and characters (16m0, 75 cents); while the others are a volume of essays entitled 66 Adventures in Criticism," and a novel called "Ia," a strong story of love and life by the sea, the romance of a fisher girl, the theme of which is the constancy of woman. (Each, 16mo. In press.) |