We copy the following from _The American Bookseller_, New York:
Few people can have failed to notice the great enterprise, if they have
not observed the scrupulous care with which Messrs. D. Lothrop & Co.
have published a class of books adapted to the highest culture of the
people.
It is only ten years since they commenced the work of publishing, and
their list now numbers more than six hundred volumes.
We are glad to make record, that brave and persistent following of a
high ideal has been successful.
Messrs. D. Lothrop & Co. have given special attention to the publication
of books for children and youths, rightly considering that in no
department is _the best_, as regards literary excellence and purity of
moral and religious reading, of so great importance. Yet the names of
works by such authors as Austin Phelps, D.D., Francis Wayland, and Dr.
Nehemiah Adams on their catalogue, will show that maturer readers have
not been uncared for.
Of their work projected for the coming season, we have not room to speak
in detail; it will suffice for the present to say that it is wide in
range, including substantial and elegantly illustrated books, all in the
line of the practical and useful, and fresh in character and treatment.
Their two juvenile magazines, _Wide Awake_ and _Babyland_, are warmly
welcomed in every part of the English-speaking world.
We advise any of our readers who desire to know more about these
publications, to send to D. Lothrop & Co., Boston, for an illustrated
catalogue.
All who visit their establishment, corner of Franklin and Hawley
streets, will not only be courteously welcomed and entertained, but will
have the pleasure of seeing one of the most spacious and attractive
bookstores in the country.
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BABY BUNTING. Short Stories with Bright Pictures. By the Best American
Authors. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price, $1.00.
_Baby Bunting_ is a beautiful quarto with one of the most attractive
outsides we have seen for a long time. It is made up of choice stories
adapted to the reading of children from four to eight years of age. They
are all short, few of them being over a page in length, and each is
accompanied by a full page engraving. It is just the kind of book that
ought to be popular, and undoubtedly will be.
YOUNG FOLKS' HISTORY OF GERMANY. By Charlotte M. Yonge. Boston: D.
Lothrop & Co. Price, $1.50.
This handsome volume is the first of a series, which will include the
principal countries of Europe, the succeeding numbers of which will
appear at brief intervals. Miss Yonge, whose talents have been exerted
in various directions for the benefit of young readers, has been
peculiarly successful in this series, which has had a very large sale in
Europe, and deserves a like popularity here. It covers not only the
entire period of German civilization down to the present time, but it
gives an account of ancient Germany and its inhabitants in times which
might almost be called pre-historic. The first chapters are explanatory
of the German mythology, and of the ancient methods of worship. The
Nibelungen Lied is described and its story told. The real history begins
about the year 496 A.D., at a time when the Franks were the victorious
race in Europe. From that time down to the beginning of the present year
the record is continuous. The volume is profusely illustrated.
HAPPY MOODS OF HAPPY CHILDREN. Original Poems. By favorite American
authors. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price $1.00.
We venture to say that no publishing house in the country will issue
this season anything choicer in the way of a presentation book of poems
than this charming volume. The poems it contains were written expressly
for Mr. Lothrop, and have never before been brought together in
collected form. Among the authors represented are Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps, Clara Doty Bates, Margaret G. Preston, Ella Farman, Mrs. Platt,
Harriet McEwen Kimball, Mary A. Lathbury, Nora Perry, Mrs. L. C. Whiton,
Celia Thaxter, Edgar Fawcett, and many others. Although the volume is
ostensibly preferred for children, it is one which grown-up people will
equally enjoy. There are a score or more of illustrations, most of them
full-page, exquisitely drawn and engraved.
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