Life — December 9, 1886 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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THREE SUPERB HOLIDAY BOOKS. JUST PUBLISHED. L SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Illustrated by Abbey. She Stoops to Conquer ; or, The Mistakes of a Night. A Comedy. By Dr.GotpsmituH. With Ten Full-page Photogravur reproductions on separate plates; many process reproductions and wood engravings, from drawings by Epwin A. Appgy, Decorations by ALFRED Parsons. Introduction by Austin Dosson. Folio, illuminated leather, gilt edges, $20.00 (na box) “Since the publication of ‘ Herrick’s Poems,’ illustrated by Mr. Abbey, there has appeared no work of high art and literary interest tg compare with this edition of ‘She Stoops to Conquer.’ Never was the comedy more beautifully set or more charmingly played: the actors as embodied by the artist, have had the rare advantage of walking a stage managed by Mr. Dobson in his Introduction and Envoi, and surrounded by scenes painted by Mr. Parsons in his head pieces, etc. Mr. Abbey, in his branch of his art, stands quite alone; he is the founder of a school of black-and-white drawing, and in his representations of the dramatzs persone of this play he appears at his bes, The correctness and minuteness of detail in costume and in furniture, for which he is so justly famous, are particularly noticeable in My Abbey’s mountings of this play. It may be added that the text of the first printed edition of the comedy has been followed carefully throughout.” 4 fl, HAPPY HUNTING-GROUNDS. By W. Hamilton Gibson. Happy Hunting-Grounds. A Tribute to the Woods and Fields. By W. Hamitton Grsson, author of “Pastoral Days; “Highways and By-ways,” etc. Illustrated by the author. Quarto, illuminated cloth, gilt edges, $7.50. (lu @ box.) To be ready about December roth. “A winter talk with Mr. Gibson, who knows nature so thoroughly well, loves and appreciates it in every season, and has the power to paint it both with pen and brush, cannot fail to delight every one. Mr. Gibson here excels himself in the artistic delicacy of his drawings} and the poetic quality of the accompanying letter-press.” “Mr. Gibson possesses a style that is full of felicities. . . . In his studies of life and country manners he is a very agreeable and amusing companion. Not seldom he reminds us of Thoreau and of Hawthorne.”—Saturday Review, London. lll, HOME FAIRIES AND HEART FLOWERS. Twenty Studies of Children’s Heads. With floral embellishments, head and tail pieces, initial letters, etc., by FRANK Frenci With poems by Marcaret E, SancsTer. Quarto, illuminated cloth, $6.00. (Zn a box.) “Mr. Frank French and Mrs. M. E. Sangster have combined to illustrate by drawings and verses the affectionate relationship between the buds of the fields and the blossoms of the household. Mr. French has succeeded in engraving a series of heads of typical children with rare and delicate skill, each strongly suggestive of the flower it symbolizes. The volume, on its fine paper, with its clear type, its full-pag illustrations of baby faces, and its head pieces and tail pieces of stray blossoms and clinging vines, will make a most valuable contribution the universal language of flowers.” Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. #%s The above works are for sale by all booksellers, or will be sent by Harper & Brorners, postpaid, to any part of the United States and Canada, on receipt of the pri, Harper's CaTaLoGue sent on receipt of Ten Cents in stamps for postage. t/ HRISTMAS is coming, and the time to make up our ‘minds as to what our we gifts shall be is here already. A year’s subscription to a magazine like “The Century” is a very satisfactory present, for it is a reminder of the donor twelve times a year. The programme of “ The Century” for 1887 presents some very attractive features. Everybody is reading “The Life of Lincoln ;” Frank R. Stockton’s new novel, “The Hundredth Man,” is just commencing ; George W. Cable begins a novelette in January, and these are only a few of the attractions, Four dollars pays fora year’s subscription, and for $10, can be had @ year’s subscription and the four bound volumes for the past two years—quite a library in itself. If you know of a household where there are children which is without “Sé N7cholas Magazzne,” no better gift can be thought of than a year’s subscription ($3.00) to this periodical, Or a single copy of the Christmas number (25 cents), isa handsome present in itself. The bound volume (in two parts) of the past year costs $4.00. A very attractive book for old and young is “S¢. Ncholas Songs,” containing original music by leading composers (the words from “S¢#. Nicholas Magazine”), beautifully illustrated, and costing $2.00. “The Boys’ Book of Sports” is just out—a book which every boy should have who loves, of should learn to love, out-door life. We have also a charming volume for little folks, called “Baby World ;”—in the new binding, Japanese paper, it costs $1.00. A magnificent book for a man who js fond of shooting or fishing is “Sport with Gun and Rod,” containing about fifty separate articles by experts, with several hundred illustrations. There are a few copies left of the edztzon de luxe, at from) $10.00 to $18.00, according to binding. The trade edition costs $4.00. We are glad to send oul illustrated 24-page catalogue to all who wish it, and we would suggest that the buyers of Christmas books examine our publications in the stores. Subscriptions for the magazines can be sent to us or to dealers everywhere. The Century Co., 33 East 17th Street, New York Se en ca fe rear et on ad “w comicbooks.com