Show THOUSANDS OF BEAUTIFUL BOOKS As the holiday season approaches ono one is impressed impressed im im- im- im pressed with the tho number and beauty of the books displayed And examination them thom proves of a ity lly tn in keeping with their appearance There are arc thousands of ot beautiful books There never was as so great creat a number or such perfectly v delightful variety Some Somo of them are probably deficient In merit But Bul these need neetI not deceive are any anyone one There are more that are arc admirable more that will delight a ft i I recipient that will adorn the shelves of a home that will enrich a library library ann and and that will live lIvo in the memory of the read reader r through all of life Ufe Some particularly good things are offered For the tho lighter reading in fiction probably the novels of oC George Georgo Barr Harold McGrath and Meredith Nicholson are aro acceptable J In a class en en- by Itself i 1 Is Mr Booths Booth's Post lost Girl an Eng Ens lish novel of English life Ufo but far tar and away the tho best toM story told in the language for or tho the past past fort forty Not years even een George Eliot or Dickens or Thackeray has excelled It in portraying tho the strength y au and the subtleties of the human soul Bout And we wo are aro J perfectly aware how extravagant that praise may seem to be Besides tho the poetry of or Lanier and Kipling there has been nothing notable lately But Bul there are arc the standard American and Engli h Ii writers of ot verse Longfellow and Holmes and Holland and Tenny Tenn son on In England It Is a pity the poems of E Stein can not bo be procured here for tor they are aro of ot the best yet produced on the continent But there is Joaquin Miller If you want ant social revolution stories get set The Mont Moneychangers or A uA Little Brother of tho the Rich And if Jt you OU are lare are grown up and have thought of pro Jems buy Bernard Shaws Shaw's Man and Superman You need not Dot read the pIn play hut but you will find the preface a preface a passage of some I me hundred pages rather pages rather I. I J p the most literature that can be acquired For the younger people girls Lavender Laven der and Old I Lace ace Is a n delight It is as charming an and helpful for the present generation of oC young people as was the exquisite work of or Louisa May lay Alcott for Cor their mothers And these are arc but bul the merest suggestions The stories are aro full lull of admirable things And nothing so enriches a home or so 50 Influences a child or so se delights a friend as ns good books Besides which the they arc uncommonly cheap |