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BABYLAND FOR 1884. Illustrated. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price $.75.
Anything more delightful for the babies in the way of a picture or story
book cannot possibly be conceived than this bound volume of their
special magazine, which has just made its appearance with the most
attractive of covers and most bewitching table of contents. There are
songs for mamma to sing, and stories for mamma to tell, and pictures
which are better than both, because the little ones can read them for
themselves, and there isn't one but what can be read in twenty different
ways. To sum it all up, it is a regular dollar's worth of delight, and
will go farther towards making the four-year-old heart happy than any
other dollar's worth one can imagine.

CHRISTIE'S CHRISTMAS. By PANSY (Mrs. G. R. Alden). Boston: D. Lothrop &
Co. Price $1.50. This charming story will be heartily welcomed by young
readers, who will find it one of the brightest and most interesting
books of the year. Christie is a purely original character, and what she
said and what she did is faithfully and delightfully chronicled. While
the book is admirably adapted to use in Sunday-school libraries, it is
also exceptionally suitable for general reading, and may well have a
place beside "The Man of the House," "The Hedge Fence," and other
popular stories by the same writer, in the home library.

ALL THE YEAR ROUND By American Authors and Artists. Illustrated. Boston:
D. Lothrop & Co. Price $1.50. Of all the collections of stories for
juvenile readers that have come under our notice the present season we
have seen nothing to compare with this in point of variety, interest and
abundance. In its beautifully printed pages provision is made for every
variety of taste; there are stories for the boys of hunting, and
fishing, and camping out; stories of adventures on land and water;
stories for the girls of school and play; stories of oldtime life of the
days of our grandfathers and grandmothers; stories of eminent men and
women, and mingled with choice poems by popular authors. Altogether it
is one of the most charming compilations of the year.

HOW THEY WENT TO EUROPE. By Margaret Sidney. Illustrated. Boston: D.
Lothrop & Co. Price $1.00. Everything that Margaret Sidney writes is
sure of an audience, and though most of her books are prepared for the
delectation of the young, they have an equal charm for all classes of
readers. Some of her stories, in a household of children, have been
literally "read to pieces," and judging from the frequency with which
the tattered leaves are brought out, some delightful sort of flavor
hangs round them still. The title of the present book might be aptly
extended so as to read _How They went to Europe, and yet didn't, go to
Europe_, for the journey made by the little party of tourists is in plan
something like _The Voyage around My Room_, which everybody has read.
Two or three bright girls, who are disappointed because they can't go
abroad with more fortunate relatives, determine to form a club in which
they shall, to use a common phrase, "go through the motions" of going;
that is, they shall at their regular meetings follow on the map, and by
guide books and accounts of travel, the exact route taken by those who
are really journeying. The idea takes, and the club is organized; other
members are taken in, and before the next season it has so increased in
size as to include the best young people in town and render a change of
place of meeting necessary from private parlors to a large public hall.
Lectures and stereopticon exhibitions are added, and some of the more
enthusiastic members, after a course of French travel, form a
supplementary club for the study of French. The story is brightly and
naturally told and in a way that will be certain to bear fruit in the
way of other clubs of the kind, wherever it is read. Margaret Sidney's
stories have this peculiarity, that aside from their fascinating
qualities of dialogue and narrative they leave something to be
remembered. The aim of the author is not obtruded, but its spirit is
there and the mind is roused to thought and action. What child can ever
forget that most delightful of juvenile stories, _The Five Little
Peppers_, or the entertaining narrative of _What the Seven Did_, or the
author's latest of books for young readers, _Who Told It to Me_, and
what better book for boys is there than _Half Year at Bronckton_, a
story whose moral effect upon young and imaginative readers cannot be
over estimated. _The Pettibone Name_, which appeared a year or two ago
in the V.I.F. series, was an instance of the author's power in appealing
to readers of mature minds, and gave evidence of unusual power in the
line of the better class of fiction. All these books have made a
reputation for the author which will at once give her latest story a
prominent place among the books of the season.--_Boston Transcript_.

WIDE AWAKE "R." Illustrated, Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price $1.75. Of
all the annual WIDE AWAKE issues this is by far the most attractive, and
when this is said it is hard to conceive what, more _can_ be said in the
way of praise. Its illustrations, which are all drawn expressly for its
pages, represent the best work of the most prominent American
draughtsmen, while no stronger show of names in the line of contributors
has ever been presented by an American magazine. Among the strong
features of the volume is Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's serial complete, _A
Brave Girl_; Mr. Brooks' capital wonder-story, _In No-Man's Land_; Mr.
Talbot's _A Double Masquerade_, and Rev. E.E. Hale's _To-Day Papers_.
Either of these would alone be worth the price of the volume, but when
added to them are the additional attractions in the way of brilliant
short stories, breezy sketches of life indoors and out, chapters of
biography and history, bits of description, poems, and essays, the
volume becomes, a treasure-house seemingly inexhaustible in variety and
contents. In turning over its pages the eye falls upon such names as
Mrs. A.D.T. Whitney, Nora Perry, Sarah Orne Jewett, Sophie May, Mrs.
M.H. Catherwood, Margaret Sidney, Mrs. Mulock-Craik, Celia Thaxter, Lucy
Larcom, and others as well known in the annals of magazine literature.
The volume is elegantly printed and beautifully bound.

HOW TO LEARN AND EARN. Illustrated. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price
$1.50. It is not often that one finds between the covers of any single
book so much information so pleasantly given upon a special subject as
in "How to Learn and Earn." The sixteen illustrated essays which make up
the contents are descriptive of as many institutions in this country for
the instruction of children and young people in the useful arts or
professions. Some of them are institutions under the auspices of the
State, like the academy at West Point and the Indian School at Carlisle,
Pa.; one described is a school of reform; but most of them are the
outcome of private benevolence or charitable and religious endeavor.
Among the more notable of these are the Perkins Institution for the
Blind at South Boston, the Boston Chinese Mission School, the cooking
schools in various cities, the blind children's kindergarten, etc. Among
the authors whose contributions are included are Amanda E. Harris, Ella
Farman Pratt, Mrs. John Lillie, May Wager Fisher, Margaret Sidney and
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont.

IMITATIONS OF BABYLAND. The great reputation won during the past eight
years by D. Lothrop & Co.'s unique and charming illustrated magazine and
annual, BABYLAND, has induced certain publishers to attempt imitations
under similar titles. The public should beware of these inferior
imitations. The publishers deem it proper to inform the public that the
only genuine BABYLAND invariably bears the imprint of D. Lothrop & Co.
By noting this fact the dissatisfaction which follows the purchase of
inferior imitations will be avoided.

DEAN STANLEY WITH THE CHILDREN. By Mrs. Frances A. Humphrey. Boston: D.
Lothrop & Co. Price $1.00. In this tastefully printed volume are brought
together five sermons to children, preached by Dean Stanley, prefaced
with a biographical sketch by Mrs. Humphrey and with an introduction by
Canon Farrar. Every reader knows what a charming man Dean Stanley was,
and how ardently he loved children, and devoted himself to pleasing
them. The sermons here given are full of exquisite tenderness, and form
admirable models for discourses of like character. Canon Farrar says
that there was not one sermon ever preached by Dean Stanley which did
not contain at least some one bright, and fresh, and rememberable thing.
His metaphors, his anecdotes, the invariable felicity of his diction,
his historical, literary and biographical illustrations, his invincible
habit of taking men at their best and looking out for the good in
everything, the large catholicity which rose above the mean, squabbling
of religious parties, the calm of spirit which seemed habitually to
breathe in the atmosphere of whatsoever things are true, and pure, and
lovely, and of good report, made him a preacher to whom one would rather
listen than to any other living man. Mrs. Humphrey's sketch not only
gives us an excellent idea of the man himself, but also tells us many
interesting things about the great English public schools. The volume is
well illustrated.

IT IS THE CHRISTMAS TIME. By Miss Mulock, with Twelve Ideal Christmas
Hymns and Poems. Illustrated. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price, $2.50.
Nothing more exquisite in the way of a Christmas presentation book, or
one better adapted to the spirit of the holiday season has yet been
presented to the public than the volume before us. Printed in large,
clear type, on the heaviest of paper, with broad white margins, and a
series of twenty illustrations by famous American and foreign artists,
engraved in the highest style of art, it forms a book of exceptional
beauty, and one of which the publishers may well be proud. The opening
poem, Miss Mulock's "Hymn for Christmas Morning," is followed by Naham
Tate's "While Shepherds watched their Flocks by Night," a hymn which has
held place in the hearts of the people for nearly two hundred years;
Wesley's stirring hymn, "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing;" Herrick's "Star
Song;" Bishop Heber's "Epiphany"--

Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning;

Keble's "Christmas Hymn;" The Rev. E.H. Sears's "Angel's Song;" William
Drummond's "The Angels;" George MacDonald's "Babe Jesus;" James
Montgomery's "Christmas Vision;" Wordsworth's "Christmas Carol," and
Whittier's "Christmas Carmen." All those diverse in form and expression,
breathe the one pure spirit of Christmas tide.

AMERICA. Our National Hymn. With Twelve other Patriotic Poems.
Illustrated. By Rev. S.F. Smith, D.D. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price,
$3.00. For the past two or three years there has been a strong demand
for a new edition of this unique and elegant volume, which was
originally published in 1879. The publishers have responded to the call
by its reissue the present season, the work being extended by the
addition of twelve new poems, all upon patriotic themes. The words of
_America_, were written fifty-two years ago, while the author was a
theological student at Andover. An American gentleman, who had spent
some time in Germany, on returning home brought with him a number of
books used in the German schools, containing both words and music. These
were presented to Lowell Mason, who placed them in the hands of the
young student, asking him to translate anything he might find worthy, or
to furnish original words to such music as might suit him. In the
collection was the air--unknown at that time to Americans--to which Dr.
Smith set the words now so widely known and sung. There was not the
slightest idea on his part that he was producing a national lyric, but
it caught the popular taste at once, and every year has fixed it more
firmly in the hearts of the people as an expression of patriotic
feeling. It was first sung at a children's festival at Park Street
Church, July 4, 1832, and very soon found its way into district schools,
Sabbath-schools, concerts and patriotic gatherings throughout the
country. Some years ago a delegation from the Boston Board of Trade sung
it together at the summit of the Rocky Mountains. It has been used at
the celebration by Americans of the national holiday in nearly every
country on the globe, and served during the war to brace the hearts and
stimulate the courage of our soldiers in camp and hospital and in
prison. The author's college friends for more than fifty years made it
the first song sung at their annual class dinner.

The poems which are added in the present edition include among others,
"The Pilgrims," written some years ago for Forefathers' Day; "The Flag;"
"Washington;" "The Student Soldiers;" "The Sleep of the Brave;"
"Decoration Day;" "Abraham Lincoln," and "My Native Land." They are all
imbued with the fervent spirit of patriotism and represent a high poetic
standard. The volume is splendidly illustrated by Harry Fenn, Robert
Lewis, and other artists of reputation.

MY CURIOSITY SHOP. Illustrated. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price, $1.25.
The little boy or girl who finds this book by the bedside Christmas
morning, ought to be supremely happy. From cover to cover it is filled
with the most delightful stories and rhymes and pictures, all written
and drawn expressly for little readers, and by those who love them, and
understand their likes and dislikes.

WIDE AWAKE. Bound volume for 1884 Boston: D. Lathrop & Co. Price 4.00.
Newspapers all parts of the country have repeatedly given the first
place in American periodical literature for the young to WIDE AWAKE.
Among its contributors are the very best and brightest writers in
America and England, and many of its articles are the same that give
reputation to _Harper's_ and the _Century_. Indeed, nothing better has
ever appeared in either of these periodicals than some of the full page
illustrations which have found place in WIDE AWAKE within the past two
or three years. The list of writers who are regularly employed include
the best names in our literature. It is by the liberal outlay of money
on the part of the publishers, coupled with the determination to have
the best at any price, that WIDE AWAKE has reached its present high
position. The present volume, which includes the twelve numbers of the
present year, is, in general excellence, an improvement upon all
preceding issues. It is a library in itself, and will be a source of
perennial pleasure to readers of all ages.

OUR LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN. 1884. Illustrated. Boston. D. Lothrop & Co.
Price $1.50. This beautiful annual comprises the twelve numbers of the
year just closing, and will make an admirable present for the little
members of the household. Its stories are just such as they will read
with delight, while the illustrations make them double attractive.

A ROMANCE IN SONG. Heine's Lyrical Interlude. Translated by Franklin
Johnson, Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price $3.00. The best of the modern
German song-writers is unquestionably Heine, and thousands who know and
sing his verses even in their translated form can testify to their
exceeding sweetness and to their strange insight into the passions and
emotions that stir the human heart. Especially is this true of the sixty
brief poems which he published in 1823 under the somewhat singular title
of "A Lyrical Interlude." What gives them special interest is the fact
that they are genuine records of his own feelings and experiences. Heine
was engaged to be married to his cousin, whom he loved deeply and
ardently. She broke her vows and married another, and Heine carried
through life an unhealed spiritual wound. In the translation of these
songs Mr. Johnson has been peculiarly successful, while in all cases
retaining the original measure of the songs, he has endeavored to make
an exact rendering of the thought rather than to be literal. And yet in
some cases he is both, as for instance in the much quoted _Die Rose, die
Lilie, die Taube, die Sonne_, and _Nacht lag auf meinen Augen_. The
publishers have done their part to make the volume outwardly attractive.
It is printed on heavy paper, is beautifully illustrated and handsomely
bound. Coming at this season it makes an appropriate gift book.

ANNA MARIA'S HOUSEKEEPING. By Mrs. S.D. Power. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co.
Price $1.00. Of all the books that have been written about housekeeping
there have been few that have treated the subject in a practical, common
sense manner, and this is decidedly one of the best of the few. The
suggestions and directions contained in its pages are given in a
pointed, straightforward manner, and appeal at once to the good sense of
all housekeepers who will save themselves an infinity of trouble and
worry and fret by giving them the consideration they deserve. The
twenty-four chapters of the book deal with different subjects, the
all-important one, "How to make Housework Easier," properly taking the
lead. Other chapters which we especially commend to housekeepers are
those headed "A Good Breakfast," "A Bill of Waste," "A Comfortable
Kitchen," "Blue Mondays," "Over the Mending Basket," and "Helps that are
Helps." There is not a chapter, however, but contains advice which, if
heeded, would save ten times the cost of the book in a year, to say
nothing of the time and trouble saved.

MATTHEW ARNOLD BIRTHDAY BOOK. Edited by his daughters, Miss L. and K.
Arnold. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price $1.00. This beautiful little
volume resembles in its general plan other birthday books, the usual
blanks being left for autographs. The selections have been made with
great care, and under the direct supervision of Mr. Arnold himself, who
contributes besides, an introductory poem, which is reproduced in _fac
simile_.

A DOUBLE MASQUERADE. By Charles R. Talbot. Illustrated. Boston: D.
Lothrop & Co. Price $1.25. Mr. Talbot's reputation as a writer of
brilliant stories for young readers is well established. Few have been
more successful in striking the popular vein. The Juvenile libraries are
rare that do not contain some one or other of his books, and happy the
boy or girl who possesses them all. "A Double Masquerade" is a romance
of old Revolutionary times in Boston, in which historical characters
take part. It is a careful study of the events of those days, and the
young reader will get a clearer idea from its pages of the struggle
between the colonies and Great Britain, and of the men on both sides who
were leaders in the Revolutionary movement, than from mere statistical
and documentary history. One of the features of the volume is a
description of the battle of Bunker Hill, which a critic has pronounced
to be "one of the most graphic and telling accounts ever written of that
famous conflict." It is splendidly illustrated by Share, Merrill and
Taylor.

YOUNG DAYS. Illustrated. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price $.75. This very
attractive volume is made up of instructive stories for children,
entertaining rhymes and verses, and most delightful pictures.

CAMBRIDGE SERMONS.

Few publications of like character have ever been received with a
greater degree of favor, than the volume of sermons by Rev. Alexander
McKenzie, D.D., of Shepard Memorial Church, Cambridge, Mass., published
under the above title by D. Lothrop & Co. The following expressions of
opinion in letters to the publishers, are indicative of the general
sentiment concerning them.

Rev. Geo. L. Prentiss, D.D., Professor of Sacred Rhetoric in Union
Theological Seminary, New York City, says:

"The _Cambridge Sermons_ have both refreshed and edified me in a high
degree. They are full of spiritual power and light and sweetness. I have
read them with real delight."

Rev. Edward B. Coe, D.D., pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church, New
York City, writes:

"It is a volume which it will do any man good to read, as a broad,
fresh, eminently spiritual presentation of Christian truth. Coming from
under the shadow of a great university, these sermons are not
scholastic, but in the best sense popular and practical. They show
unusual felicity of statement and illustration, and are thoroughly
_alive_, with a keen sensibility to the thoughts and the wants of living
men. Quickening and suggestive to the mind, they have the rarer power of
touching chords of feeling which few preachers reach."

Rev. Cephas B. Crane, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Boston, says:

"The excellence of these sermons is manifold. They are such sermons as
the distinguished preacher is in the habit of giving to his people,
sermons for instruction and help, and not exceptional sermons for
conspicuous occasions.

"They are structural; but the beams and braces are out of sight. They
are living things supported and shaped by their skeletons, not caged in
them. Remarkable for scope and freedom and boldness, they are guided in
all their movement by the spirit of the Sacred Word. They both stimulate
thought and invigorate faith. Fresh and fragrant and breezy, one
delights himself in them as in a garden in a June morning. From their
exquisite diction one might almost infer the graceful elocution of their
author. They are sermons to which the reader will often return." (12mo,
$1.50.)

A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

The following brief extracts from the large number of favorable notices
of this valuable book show the great cordiality with which it has been
received.

"We have nothing as good."--_N.Y. Independent._

"The most attractive."--_Boston Literary World._

"Nothing better."--_Boston Transcript._

"Valuable as a book of reference."--_Pittsfield Eagle._

"Its accuracy will stand."--_Boston Transcript._

"Easy and readable style."--_Boston Journal._

"Graceful style ... Marvellously full ... Animation of the book is a
still greater marvel."--_N.Y. Independent._

"Will be read in all sections of the country with equal interest and
esteem."--_The South._

"The author writes with entire candor in regard to the history of the
secession movement, and yet there is nothing in his history that can
properly give offence to the readers in any section of the
country."--_The Capitol_, Washington.

"The tone of the book is candid and impartial."--_Boston Journal of
Education._

"Probably the most intensely national of American histories."--_The
Star_, N.Y.

"The style is cultured, and therefore simple and expressive."--_Detroit
Post and Tribune_.

"The chapters form pleasing and finished pictures."--_The Standard_,
Chicago.

"Interesting and instructive."--_The Gazette_, Barre, Mass.

"Admirably written."--_Boston Herald_.

"In the front rank." _Star_, N.Y.

"His [the author's] name is a household word."--_The Globe_, Portland,
Me.

"Enough incident and romance."--_Chicago Inter-Ocean_.

"Sustains the already established reputation of the
author."--_Pittsfield Eagle_.

"A book of rare interest and value."--_Herald and Presbyter_.

"A noble picture of the grand American movement."--_N.Y. Home Journal_.

"The cream of the complete history."--_Inter-Ocean_.

"A good book and very readable."--_Morning Star_.

"An interesting volume."--_Sabbath Recorder_.

"Concise, authentic and thoroughly impartial."--_Ansonia Sentinel_.

"Worthy of all commendation."--_Golden Rule_.

"It has a backbone."--_Boston Herald_.

"Pleasing in style, judicious in selection of material, thorough in his
investigations, impartial in spirit, the author wins the reader's
sustained attention and cordial approval."--_Golden Rule_, Boston.
Boston, D. Lothrop & Co., Publishers. 12mo, cloth, $1.50; crown 8vo,
cloth, gilt top, $2.50.

D. Lothrop & Co. are publishing some excellent juvenile books at low
rates. They are written by the best authors, and are intended to
supplant the dime novel and Buffalo Bill style of juvenile books. These
publishers deserve the thanks of parents and guardians.--_Buck's County
Intelligencer_, Doylestown, Pa.

THE GOLDEN TREASURY SERIES. No collections of modern poetry have
obtained or held public favor so securely as those included in the
Golden Treasury Series, a new edition of which has just been issued by
the house of D. Lothrop & Co. These various volumes made their
appearance in England at intervals, the first--which gave the series its
name--having been compiled by Francis Turner Palgrave, an English author
of exquisite taste and judgment. _The Ballad Book_, compiled and edited
by the poet, William Allingham, followed. Later appeared _The Book of
Praise_, edited by Roundell Palmer, made up of selections from the best
English hymn writers, and about the same time a fourth volume,
_Religious Poems_, an admirable selection of poems of religious life and
sentiment, was added to the series. For a time the English edition only
was obtainable in this country. Later the Messrs. Lothrop issued an
American edition from new English plates, and have since added to the
series _Marmion, The Lady of the Lake, Tennyson's Poems, Lays of Ancient
Rome, Pilgrim's Progress_, and _Minds and Words of Jesus_. These words
which were originally issued at $3.00 a volume are now brought out in
popular form, elegantly printed on the best paper, beautifully
illustrated and handsomely bound, the price reduced from $3.00 to $1.25
a volume. The series contains the very cream of English poetical
literature, no writer of note from the time of Shakespeare to the
present being unrepresented. For a choice holiday present to a lady,
nothing is more fitting or acceptable.

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