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.

BOYS AND GIRLS’ ANNUAL FOR 1885.  Edited by William Blair Perkins.  Boston:  D. Lothrop & Co.  Price, $2.50.  This collection of instructive, and interesting stories, sketches, poems, biographies and papers in natural history constitutes in itself an entire library.  The entire make up is of the most perfect character, and it is evident that no pains or expense has been spared to make this volume every way worthy of the enterprising publisher whose name it bears, and the host of merry, happy children, who are destined to delight in its pages.  It is a fitting prelude to the holiday season, and sets a high mark for other publishers to follow.  It is one of the books that we delight to heartily commend, for its intrinsic value is equal to its exquisite beauty.  It is just the book to head the children’s Christmas list.

AESOP’S FABLES.  Illustrated.  Boston:  D. Lothrop & Co.  Price, $1.00.  These stories, though they were told more than two thousand years ago, and have been printed in hundreds of different editions, still retain their pristine charm, and the children of to-day read them with the same pleasure that they did centuries ago.  The present is a cheap, well-printed edition, profusely illustrated, and the juveniles will find its contents just as enjoyable as if they were enclosed in the costliest covers.

LITTLE FOLKS IN PICTURE AND STORY.  Illustrated.  Boston:  D. Lothrop & Co.  Price, $1.00.  If the little people of the household do not fall in love with this charming collection of stories and pictures they must be very hard to suit.  It would be hard to imagine a more attractive feast than the publishers have here spread for them, or one so thoroughly adapted to their tastes.  There are stories about cats, stories about dogs, stories about pigs, and stories about almost everything that can be thought of to amuse very little readers, and the pictures are every bit as charming as the stories.

CHAUTAUQUA YOUNG FOLKS’ ANNUAL.  The “Chautauqua idea”—­which is to place educational advantages within easy reach of the multitudes so far as the young are concerned—­is happily realized in the annual publications bearing the above title.