sult he has achieved by his own work and the aid of the artists and publishers must be most satisfactory to him and them. The artists represented are A. B. Frost, R. Swain Gifford, J. C. Beard, Henry Sandham and Fannie E. Gifford. The designs of the large game are drawn directly from the heads of the animals, shot by the author, and now in his possession; and in the landscape views the artists have had the advantage of original photographs taken by Mr. Roosevelt on the spot. The head and tail-pieces are appropriate and beautiful. This issue is to be known as the Medora edition, and is limited to five hundred numbered copies. "Medora" is the name of the little town nearest Mr. Roosevelt's two Western ranches, so named in honor of the wife of the Marquis de Mores, one of the first stock

men to settle in those parts. The volume is uniquely bound in a kind of smooth, coarse tentcloth, and has no ornamentation but a rustic gilt title and a little vignette of an animal's head. The publishers may be justly proud of these two books.

A. D. F. RANDOLPH & Co. have prepared a number of new books most suitable for holiday gift-books, all remarkable for the very tasteful book-making in which the house has so admirably distinguished itself during the past years. There is a beautiful companion to the "Easter Tide," published in the spring, in the exquisite edition of "Christmas Tide in Song and Story," a collection of religious and secular writings relating to the world's great festival of

the birth of a Saviour. The religious selections occupy the first fifty pages, and include some of the most beautiful Christian hymns and poems. The introduction is St. Luke's version of the nativity. The second half of the book is secular and is admirably selected, including papers from the Spectator; "Tiny Tim's Christmas Dinner;" three cantos of In Memoriam ;""Christmas at Bracebridge Hall," from Washington Irving's Sketch-Book ;" a translation of a German fairy-tale about Christmas, etc. Another most tempting-looking and feeling book is "The Celestial Country," from the rhythm of St. Bernard of Cluny, translated by Rev. John Mason Neale, D.D., with four illustrations by J. H. Gratacap. There is a new ed.tion also of the "Lady of La Garaye," by Mrs. Norton, gotten up with the same chaste, rich simplicity, with uncut edges, rubricated lettering, and beautiful type. All these three volumes are published in a new style of binding known as Japanese leatherette, which comes in a large and small pattern, the small one having fac-simile impressions of Japanese coins. Besides these they have a limited edition of The Laird of Lag: a Life Sketch," by Alexander Fergusson, author of "Mrs. Calderwood's Letters;" "Letters of Miss Frances Ridley Havergal," edited by her sister, M. V. G. Havergal; a new revised and enlarged edition of "Evenings with the Sacred Poets," by Frederick Saunders, author of "Salad for the Solitary;" "Honoria, or, the Gospel of a Life," a story for Christians, by Rose Porter; "A Year of Blessing and a Blessed Year," a little textbook similar to "Kindly Light;" "Peaceful Thoughts," a little lithograph-covered volume containing sixteen illustrations in color, and a Scripture text for every day in the month; "A Lesson of Faith, Arranged from Mrs. Gatly's 'Parables from Nature,' by Elenore T. Smith, an artistically gotten-up volume, with a lithographed cover; Friendship's Diary," a unique volume which may be used as a birthday or autograph book, each page having an ornamental border and a quotation from some poet, bound in a cloth cover with a most artistic side-stamp; and "The Baby's Journal," designed and compiled by S. Alice Bray, which has been entirely redrawn and rearranged, and handsomely printed in L. Prang & Co.'s best style. They have also a unique edition of the Havergal devotional books, in six volumes, bound in exquisitely lithographed covers; a series of booklets printed on cardboard and tied with ribbon, similar in style to the Sometime Series, so popular last year, comprising "Margaret Brown;""My Ships;""How, When, Where, Why," and "The Master is so Fair;" also a series of sixteen new volumes bound in alligator paper, with an original etching on the front cover, including "Holy Night;" Happy Christmas Time;" Culprit Fay" "My Wells;" Changed Cross;" The Old, Old Story;""Compensation," and "Bells Across the Snow," all put up in a heavy envelope, with an appropriate stamp on the tongue in raised gold letters. They call attention to a few remaining copies of the "Poetical Works of Thomas Gray," with numerous head and tailpieces, and eight illustrations by Birket Foster, printed on India paper; and to their novelties in binding-moiré antique and fancy pattern silks, and imitation alligator. Their long series of devotional books, beginning with the beautiful collection known as "The Changed Cross," in almost every Christian family, can all be had this year in all the new and fashionable bindings.

ROBERTS BROTHERS' leading holiday gift-book, "The Sermon on the Mount," will be found fully described and illustrated on our front pages. It ranks artistically with the finest works issued this season, and has as a religious gift-book no superior. The only other illustrated works to which this house calls attention are "Favorite Poems," by Jean Ingelow, being a binding together of three favorite gift-books of former seasons, namely, "The Songs of Seven," "The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire," and "The Shepherd Lady;" and a charming little volume of semi-religious poems of unusual grace and refinement by Mary Bradley, “Hidden Sweetness," which is illustrated from drawings by Dorothy Holroyd. For any one seeking a work of real merit at a very moderate price this volume should not be overlooked. Favorite Poems" appears in a unique binding that is very striking. In the cloth cover is inserted a relief design that may be had in gold, bronze or silver, of St. Botolph Church. A work that is not exactly a holiday book, but one that many would prefer to the conventional book of the season, is the Rev. J. G. Wood's “Nature's Teachings." The new library edition of Philip Gilbert Hamerton's Paris" is an excellent issue of a most desirable work. All the many woodcuts of the original edition have been retained, and though the page has been made smaller, the mechanical perfection of the type and binding and the richness of the paper make it a most attractive volume. The new translations of Balzac's novels that Roberts Bros. are issuing are notable examples of book-making. The volumes appear in what is termed the "French" style of binding, and have a very refined appearance, both inside and outside. "Père Goriot" and "The Duchesse de Langeais," the two novels that have been published so far, are the best translations into English ever yet made of the great French writer's works. No library should be without them, for to understand the present large school of realistic fiction a study should be made of the ways and methods of the master of realism.

GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS offer in the Abbé Prévost's "Manon Lescaut" one of the most superbly illustrated works issued this season. It is illustrated in the same style as their edition of Sterne's "Sentimental Journey" of last year, the same artist, Maurice Leloir, having done the work. A full description of this superb work will be found in our front pages. “Idyls of the Months," by Mary A. Lathbury, is more in the line of the conventional holiday gift-book. Miss Lathbury will be remembered best through "The Seven Little Maids" of last season, one of the daintiest of dainty books. Her designs are again figure studies printed in colors, aiming to be em blematical of the twelve months of the year. She has a pretty conceit of each month having its sympathetic precious stone, that is carried out in the pictures and the accompanying poems. There are, with the title-pages, twenty-six plates in all, half in bright colors, the other thirteen in tints,-altogether a very bright and pretty volume. The quaint old English ballad of "King John and the Abbot of Canterbury" is set forth by William Hinscliff in true mediæval style, in a large folio volume. It is printed in old English text, with red initial letters, each page having ornamental frieze borders, while large and small pictures interpret graphically the jolly humor of the old story. A fine new edition of Bacon's

"Essays," edited by Professor Morley, and printed on hand-made paper, which this house publishes, will be welcomed heartily by every true booklover. They also get out a new edition, revised and largely re-written, of Horne's "Life of Napoleon Bonaparte," by S. R. Townshend Mayer. This was always a favorite history of Napoleon, its numerous cuts by Raffet and Horace Vernet making it very attractive. In its improved condition it should have a new life.

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS bring out for the holiday trade a new illustrated edition of Frank R. Stockton's "Rudder Grange." Whoever has laughed over this clever bit of drollery (and who has not?) will laugh anew at its humorous points and funny situations, as seen through the medium of Mr. A. B. Frost's characteristic illustrations. There is nothing at all conventional in the way Mr. Frost has done his work. Some of the pictures are full-page, some are scattered through the text, and again, quaint little fancies adorn the beginning and ending of chapters and embellish the title-page. They are all in Frost's most humorous mood, and do full justice to "Pomona," the "boarder," Euphemia and I," and other cherished friends. This little book

bids fair to be a great favorite. Considering the popularity of the story and the artistic quality of the designs, it should sell immensely. The discoveries made by Dr. Henry Schliemann through his excavations on the plains of Argos in 1884-85 are embodied in a work entitled "Tiryns, a Pre-historic Palace of Kings of Argos." A preface by Prof. F. Adler and contributions by Dr. William Dörpfeld, eminent archæologists, are among the attractions of this important and valuable work. To students of the past it appeals both through the wonderful story it tells of an ancient palace buried for thousands of years, and through its magnificent art treasures-drawings made on the spot of the various discoveries, with plans, and so on, in colored lithograph and fine wood-cuts. This work will rank in interest beyond any we have yet had from the great archæologist, and should be on every library shelf, private or public. "Two Years in the Jungle," by William T. Hornaday, published also by the Messrs. Scribner's Sons, while not offered as a holiday gift-book, is of so much value and interest that it should not be overlooked. It is a work that appeals to the naturalist as well as to lovers of sport, and travel, and adventure. Mr. Hornaday, who is at pres

ent the chief taxidermist of the United States National Museum, records in it the details of a journey made by him several years ago through India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo, in search of specimens of all kinds of vertebrates for a private collection. He tells his adventures in a concise, humorous style that is very readable, and imparts a great deal of useful information relative to hunting and preserving specimens. While the work is generously illustrated with cuts of a very excellent quality, its chief value lies in its text. Another work of a somewhat similar character, but referring to another division of the animal kingdom, is Marvels of Animal Life," by Charles Frederick Holder, Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences. Mr. Holder devoted his studies to the habits of the dwellers of the "vasty deep" that are found in tropical waters. His observations are given in simple, untechnical language that young and old may enjoy, and are illustrated by many plates of sea-shells, sea-plants and fishes. Either of the two last-mentioned works would make a valuable addition to a library.

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SCRIBNER, WELFORD & Co. have ready one of the most interesting autobiographical documents that can be imagined in the "Journal of Dick Doyle," which was begun in 1840, and is probably the earliest work of this artist in caricature, who is still almost as popular as he was twenty years ago. It is reproduced in fac-simile, and, remembering the boy was but fourteen years old when he wrote and illustrated these pages, it must be judged extraordinarily clever work. It is written in a neat, prim hand, and on every page are drawings which would not disgrace his reputation when at its height. An elegant and choicely illustrated edition of "Gulliver's Travels" is also ready, which would have been appreciated by Dean Swift. It has a prefa

tory memoir by George Saintsbury, and one hundred and eighty colored and sixty plain illustrations, and has been produced at great expense, the colored as well as plain illustrations having been produced and printed at the Quantin press in Paris, and the letter-press at the Ballantyne press in Edinburgh. As a mere specimen of book-making "Izaak Walton: His Wallet Booke" will rank among the quaintest and most to be coveted. It is composed of the songs of the "Compleat Angler," newly set forth and illustrated by Joseph Crawhall, the numerous illustrations all separately hand-colored, and the size not too large for slipping into a coat-pocket. The binding is quaint, solid vellum, lined inside at both ends with a number of silk-sewn and curiously lettered pockets; it is a book to make the connoisseur happy if he gets it, miserable if he does not. A very happy thought for collectors of editions of the "Compleat Angler" is an extra illustrated edition of this famous classic issued unbound, but folded and collated, to enable them either to take from or add to the illustrations, which now consist of fifty steel plates designed by T. Stothard, James Inskip, Edward Hassell, Delamotte, Binkenboom, W. Hixon, Sir Francis Sykes, Pine, etc., engraved by well-known engravers; and also of six original etchings and two portraits, as well as seventy-four engravings on wood, by various eminent artists. To this is added a practical treatise on flies and fly-hooks, by the late John Jackson, of Tanfield Mill, with ten steel plates, colored, representing one hundred and twenty flies, natural and artificial. "Bairn's Annual for 1885-'86," edited by Alice Corkran, makes a handsome book, with elaborate frontispiece engraved in aquatint. There are ready new editions of Bourienne's "Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte" and "Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson," by his widow, edited by Firth, with an accurate index, much new material, and ten newly