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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 14, 1883)
- CHRISTIAN cations, we present the following inter esting items called from the American I/ooA'serter, and other sourees. - ■ __ - _____ jjLnjntfvitci , Poets' Homes. A beautiful holiday book, edited by R. H. stoddard, Arthur Gilman, and others, with illustrated sketches of Longfellow, .Whittier, Lowell, Bayard Taylor, and all other leading American Poets. (8 vo cloth, gilt edges, $4.00.) • In The Poet and /he Children, for which John G. Whittier contributes the choicest poetry for young folks any where to be found. The volume has a profusion of choico illustrations from "araw t n g y t yy g B T njHraiii, W.Paikei Bod1 fish, Miss L. B. Humphrey,-Miss Nor- tham, Jessie Curtis Shepherd, and a score of other artists equally deserving of mention. ' In The Kingdom of Home, with its BOOK TABLE. 1 be pleased to give editorial reviews of all books and tracts of inter est that may be sent to this office.] T he B est R eading .—Every family that desires to provide for Its young people wholesome and instructive read ing matter should send for specimen copies of the Youth Companion, of Bos ton. It is the brightest and best of pa pers for young people. Its columns give mere than two hundred stories yearly by the most noted authors, in- WiUiftia Bfa wity Harriet Beecher Stowe, Thomas iiartty, M-s. Oliphant and many others, besides r scientific articles by eminent specialists, tales of adventure by noted travellers, papers of encouragement and advice by men and women of ability and expe- HERALD. binding, justifies the publishers iu re garding it as one of the most superb il- lufitrM^dgiflbqgksofJthe^easoo- .. “ K K. BrowrCH ~t.ifevfHtircr--Wrtt4ell Holmes is an authentic and charming biography, published with the sanction of Dr. Holmes, who has aided the au thor with valuable data. (12mo, illus trated, $1.50.) JI7io Told it to Me, is Margaret Sid ney’s newest holiday book, and is very pharming. Beautiful Women are made pallid and unattractive by , faaGliQMl..toKlUa.Uli.g.gj— infallibly cure. Thousands of testimo nials. By druggists. . Have the courage to give occas ionally that which you can ill-af- 4'ord to tare, Giving whaXyuu-xla. not want or value neither brings of famous people. With a circulation rapidly approaching .350,000 copies a judgment, has gathered the best of ths nor deserves thanks in return. week, the Youth's Companion can well poems that relate to the ‘'Kingdom” afford to spread such a feast before its which he has in mind ; and since the frotta spreading- eueh a fe a st, i g .'. t /i W rrtrn nmn an i t - t . dtu ,— ita /. w »Tifi».» is no wonder it has such a tremendous circulation. A F amous G alaxy .—People who de light in beautiful and good books will be astonished when they see, if Jhey have not already seen, the announce ments of the “ Caxton Illustrated” and other editions of standard authors, is sued this season. The typography, anil- rthroij ‘‘“lïîïIïîïîaT'7JïïaîîtîéS“ôr I>rifiTllTg"TfBd‘" binding are simply superb, and the prices u veritable marvel to the old- time book-buyer.“ The list includes the - works, complete, of Dickens, 15 vol umes, reduced in price from $22.50 to $9.00 net ; Ihackery’s from $16.50 to $6.75 ; George Eliot’s, from $12 to $3.- —75.; Washington Irving’s Works from -- -£2U To ^ §30 to $7.50 ; Hawihorne’» Works, from $21 to $6.50 ; J. Fenimore Cooper’s, from $35 to $12.50 ; Bulwer’s, from $32 25 to $8.50 ; Wm. Black’s, from $15 to $1 ; Do Quincy’s, from $18 to $6 50, The publisher sends them to any one for examination before requiring any payment, on reasonable evidence of good faith, and Will send a large cata logue of these and other works free up on application. John B. Alden, Pub- lisner, 18 Fesey St., New York. > • • A 1 riumpb For Good Literature. Among publishers who Lave carried iuto their woik serious convictions as io their duty to the public in the mat ter of supplying good literature, and who have resolutely resisted all temp tations in the more lucrative direction of thut which is simply sensational, an honorable place may be claimed for D. Lothrop & Co., Boston, who have ac complished in the United States a work second to that of no publishing house, in the elevation of the popular senti ment, and fhe creation of a demand for wholesome books. In a general way, the public are fam iliar with the «¡ms of this house, '.^nd have come to regard its imprint upon a book as a guarantee of excellence in all essential qualities. Concerning some of its recent publi royal nwa Cured of S|Htsins. “ T am well and happy again ” says our fair correspondent, Miss Jennie P. Warren, 740 W. Van Buren St., Ill., “ Your Samaritan Nervine cured me of spasms.” Absolutely Pure. This powder never varies. A marvel pui inugxLuuul wWuautuuuebs, X f-nl thnn the ordinary kiwi». ami mo MMMM in competition with the multitude of low tent short w < ight, alum or phosphate powders. Sold indu in can's. R oyal B aking P owdeb C o ., " 12-8-ly 106 Wall St., New York, DISEASE CURE WITHOUT MJEDICINK. TOLD IN TWO LETTERS. Co», anil repuLlüihed in Eng- land, those who have read it in manu- j script say. “it is a work of genuine power, with characters pleasant to know, and an indescribable moral quality pen-’ etrating the whole.” (12mo, $1.50.) Of A Family Flight through Spain, it is sufficient to say that it possesses all the rare charm of description, the pi quant style, the novelty anti freshness which characterize the Flight thro ugh France, Germany, Norway, and Switzer land, and the Flight over Egypt and Sy. ria. By Edward Everett Hale, and Miss Susan Hale. Like the books last named, its illustrations are happily chosen and well executed. (Quarto, • gilt, $2.50 ). Lutbera Whitney has appreciated the need of a book which sbonld serve as a mirror of early New England times, and b£S supplied it in a delightful little volume, entitled Old Times, Days and Ways ; and to make the book complete, W. Parker Bodfish has contributed six ty-two capital homestead drawings. Carrie A. Cook, in Blossoms by the J ray, presents a collection of poetry for young folks, which, with its dainty binding, its artistic colored border de signs by Sweeney, and its choice con tents, is sure to please the boys and girls of ten and over. Its seven hun dred pages are brightened by many fine engravings, and the selection of the subjects foas been most happy. (4to, decorated cover, gilt edges, $3.00. Under the title of Ideal Poems, are presented twelve poems, selected from those which are the acknowledged mas ter peices in the English language. 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