Life — December 3, 1908 — page 47: what you’re looking at

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BOOKS FOR GROWN-UPS WHAT is generally coftsidered the handsomest gift book of many years is The Book of the Pearl, a splendid volume pre- pared by Dr. Kung, the gem expert of Tiffany & Co., and Dr. Stevenson of the United States Bureau of Fisheries. In addition to contain- ing everything there is to know about pearls (including how to care for them),—and the story of the pearl is as full of romance as a novel,it has a hundred pictures, photogra- vures, colored pictares, etc., including por: traits of many famous women wearing pearl ornaments,— the Empress of Russia, the Queen Dowager of Italy, the present Duchess of Marlborough, Mrs. George Gould, and others. You could not select a finer gift than this. Itis at once a work of art, a piece of literature, and a valuable contribution to scientific knowledge. EGYPT JAND 11S MONUMENTS PEOPLE who have been to Egypt and those who want to go (and these two classes cover about everybody) will enjoy getting as a Christmas gift Egypt and Its Monuments which been running in, The Century ne under the title of ‘The il of Egypt,” the text by Robert Hichens, author of ‘The Garden of Allah,” and the pictures in color by Jules Giérin, A great number of full page photographs have been add- ed, and the book makes a magnificent git SPEAKING OF TRAVEL, if you have a friend who has been to Europe during the past year, give him one of Anne Warner's spicy stories of sight-seeing anc fun,— Seeing England with Uncle John or See- ing France with Uncle John. READERS of this paper are sure- ly familiar with Meury Hutt’s work. As frequently as it has been seen, and as many pictures as Mr. Huts Sas made, it is odd that they have never befo.e becn gathered into book form. But the sumptuousness of the new Henry Hutt Picture Book makes up for the fact that it is a first production. ‘This will be one of the most popular olferings among young people. Fifty of its eighty-two pictures are in color and all are the full size of the origi- nal reproductions in Zéfe and other periodicals. THERE are two notable biog: r phies among the Christmas books— ‘The Reminiscences of Lady Ran- Golph Churchill, personal recollec- tions of English social and political life during the last thirty years, autifully printed and splendidly illustrated; and Helen Keller's The World I Live In, a unique and rarely interesting record, which will be- \ome an enduring piece of literature. AN ART BOOK which lovers of Whistier will enjoy is Otto H. cher’s With Whistler in Venice. Its reproductions of Whistler chings, Whistler lithographs, and Whistler letters make it invaluable to collector. To give this beautiful Look is to compliment the recipient his appreciation of good art. ADMIRAL DEWEY has written a letter to the publishers of Three Years Behind the Guns expressing his great delight in that hook. It tells with absorbing interest the story of a lad who ran away {rom home in time to enlist on’ the Olympia and to take part in the Battle of Manila Bay. Admiral Dewey says the story of the battle is particularly well done. No-such intimate record of life aboard an American man-o'-war has ever been penned. Boys from eight to eighty ought to find it in their Christmas stockings. It is one of the few really worth-while books of the year. : WHY NOT THIS? IF YOU want fiction, try Dr. Mitchell's The Red City, a fine historical novel of old Philadelphia in the time of President Washington, Or get_a copy of a new author's great success, Edward C, Booth's The Post Girl, whose heroine, Pam, has bewitched the critics and the public alike. BOOKS FOR YOUNG FOLKS THERE are many books for children offered this season and among the best of them are these: Harry’s Island, a new story by that popular writer, Ralph Henry Barbour, just the kind of a book boys like,—all about a Robinson Crasoe camping-party on a civilized island; Mrs. Frances Hodgson Bumett’s new story for little folks, The Spring Cleaning, whimsical and charming, with illustrations is color by Harrison Cady; Major-General Howard's Famous Indian Chiefs | Have Known, a capital book to give to boys; the first Brownie book’ in color, Brownie Clown of Brownietown, with amus- ing pictures and verse by Palmer Cox; a sweet and tender story for girls, Fritzi, by Agnes McClelland Daul- ton; The Mappychaps, a book about a new kind of Brownie,—verses by Carolyn Wells and pictures by Harrison Cady. TFe- , HENRY HUTT ® PICTURE SUBSCRIPTIONS TO TWO GREAT MAGAZINES IT WOULD be hard to find a better gift or one more compliment ary to the recipient than a year’s sub- scription to The Century Magazine. Next year there will be much about Lincoin, celebrating the centenary. The autobiography of the sculptor Saint-Gaudens is coming, with inter- esting articles on Grover Cleveland, interviews with famous masicians, beautifully illustrated articles on some romantic German cities; and in fiction, a capital serial story, “Mr. Opp,” by the author of “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch,”"—and Mr. Opp himself is clever enough to have been thought of by Dickens; and a serial story of a silver fox by Emest Thomp- son Seton, having some things in it about fox monogamy that will be new to most people. ‘There is no room here for the complete prospectus, but one will be sent by the publishers for the asking. Keep in mind the gift of a year’s subscription to The Century. FOR BOYS AND GIRLS, be they your own children or nephews or nieces or the children of your friends, nothing will give more pleasure than a year’s BOOKS Raines manny o aver sub- scrip: tom tion to St. Nicholas, unquestionably “the — |Gfis fer Tratel ant for 09 Good Gila | best of children’s magazines.” There is no }-- THE CENTURY CO.-" need here to go into.particulars about the |Ysnseee 1 Neve y coming year of that magazine; trust its editors 4 to make good. For thirty years they have been doing this, and the new generation of children can be just as sure of receiving the right kind of help and fun from St. Nicholas as we were when we were their age. If you will send for a booklet recently issued by us, called ‘Books to Buy,” you will find in it not only a list of. good books (with delightful marginal pictures by John Wolcott Adams) but a classified list of books for children, invaluable at Christmas time. The Century Co., Union Square, Rew Work comicbooks.com