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Other Beautiful Illustrated Books.

Excellent poetry wedded to artistic pictures produces "a thing of beauty," which is not merely the attraction of a single season, but is "a joy forever." Such is the book of Dr. Holmes's Illustrated Poems published last year, containing twenty-nine of his best and most popular poems, with seventy large and small pictures and an admirable etched portrait of Dr. Holmes. Such is the volume of Twenty Poems from Longfellow, enriched with fiftyone designs and a noble portrait of the poet by his son, Ernest W. Long

fellow. Certainly such is Longfellow's dramatic poem "Michael Angelo," superbly illustrated and brought out in a princely style worthy of the lofty and beautiful genius of the man it celebrates. Other books that must not pass unnoticed are Aldrich's Poems, with admirable pictures, and embellished with a fine steel portrait of the author, and his "Baby Bell" in a pretty volume; "Christmastide," a beautiful book, illustrating poems by Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, and Aldrich; Darley's notable outline illustrations to Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" and to Longfellow's "Evangeline," both standard gift volumes; Dickens's world-famous "Christmas Carol," with thirty excellent pictures; "Forest Scenes," from Bryant, Longfellow, Halleck, and Street, illustrated with exquisite beauty; Hawthorne's wonder

ful romance, "The Scarlet Letter," with designs of rare spirit and effectiveness by Mary Hallock Foote; Dr. Holmes's poem "The School-Boy," finely illustrated; Longfellow's "Hanging of the Crane," a beautiful book, in great request as a wedding gift, - also his "Skeleton in Armor," admirably interpreted in pictures by Mary Hallock Foote, and smaller books, "Excelsior, "The Building of the Ship," and "Evangeline;" Lowell's noble "Vision of Sir Launfal," and tender poem "The Rose," both fitly illustrated; Abby Sage Richardson's "Songs from the Old Dramatists," with designs by La Farge; Mrs. Stowe's remarkable story, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," with over a hundred pictures; Bayard Taylor's admirable "Home Ballads," finely illustrated; Tennyson's "Locksley Hall" and "Enoch Arden," both with appropriate designs; "The Twenty-Third Psalm," with Hopkins's "Three Kings of Orient," strikingly illuminated; Wallace Bruce's picturesque poem, "The Hudson," with spirited designs by Fredericks; Warner's humorous "My Summer in a Garden," with pictures by Darley; Mrs. Whitney's entertaining "Mother Goose for Grown Folks," illustrated by Hoppin; Whittier's unequaled winter idyl "Snow-Bound," his sweet, pathetic "Maud Muller," his notable "Ballads of New England," and "The River Path," all fully and attractively illustrated; and "Winter Poems," by Whittier, Longfellow, Bryant, Lowell, and Emerson, with beautiful designs. Special mention should be made of the superb Subscription Edition of Longfellow's Complete Poems and Prose Works, in three magnificent quarto volumes, with over seven hundred designs by the best American artists; and of Vedder's stupendous work published last year, including fifty-six designs of remarkable majesty and beauty for the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.

Houghton, Mifflin & Co.'s Catalogue includes most of the poets who have made American literature famous in the domain of poetry, and not a few eminent English poets. The Illustrated Library Editions of the Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary, Holmes, Longfellow, Lowell, Owen Meredith, Tennyson, Whittier, with Emerson's "Parnassus" and Whittier's "Songs of Three Centuries," are excellent books for gifts and for the library, each handsome volume containing thirty-two or more full-page illustrations, and the original volumes having portraits of the authors. In the popular and compact Household Edition are published, in addition to the poems above named, those of Aldrich, Emerson, Bret Harte, Lucy Larcom, Saxe, Stedman, Bayard Taylor, and Longfellow's "Christus," Parton's "French Parnassus," and Taylor's Dramatic Poems. These volumes are duodecimo, and very comprehensive. The new Full-Gilt Household Edition is an improved Household Edition, put in crown octavo volumes, many of them containing the authors' portraits and eleven illustrations each, and the full-gilt binding is at once tasteful and attractive. Many of the above-named poets are represented also in Red-Line Editions, with portraits and twelve to sixteen fullpage illustrations, each page having a red-line border; and likewise in Diamond Editions, the smallest and least expensive form. The volumes of these various editions can be had in cloth, tastefully stamped, half calf, full tree

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Literary and Critical Essays.

Books of this class, if of a high order, are excellent for gifts or for the library. Mr. Stedman's book, " Poets of America," is certainly of this order. The New York Tribune pronounces its appearance "a notable event in American letters," and adds that "no such thorough and conscientious study

From Longfellow's Poems, Illustrated Subscription Edition.

of the tendencies and qualities of our poetry has been attempted before, nor has any volume of purely literary criticism been written in this country upon so broad and noble a plan and with such ample power."

Richard Grant White's "Studies in Shakespeare," just published, are of great interest not only to Shakespeare students, but to all who appreciate keen insight, large knowledge, and vigorous literary expression. Readers and gift-seekers should not overlook Stedman's "Victorian Poets," which is an admirable study of the poets who have made English literature illustrious