Hours at Home Volume 6 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ...of dullness in business circles, an unusually large number of new books has been laid upon our table since our last issue. We regret that our space will only admit of the briefest notice of most of them, while of others we shall not be able so much as to give the titles. Fewer Holiday books than usual have been prepared, and of this class none to compare, in costliness and magnificence, with some issued in former years. Chief among those of the present season we note The Farles Of Jesop, illustrated by Stephens, and published by C. Scribner & Co. This is really a superb book, quarto in form, printed on heavy snow-white paper, and with type so clear and beautiful as to do one's eyes good to read it; while the illustrations are above all praise. Mr. Stephens has no superior in this line of art, and he has outdone himself in this work. So spirited and appropriate are the various pictures, that one scarcely needs the text to understand and appreciate the artist's work. There are seventy-three full-page illustrations, lithographed by Julius Bien. iEsop never dreamed of such an immortality as artistic skill has here given him. Scribner, Welford & Co. have imported, and are the sole agents of, several exquisite English Holiday books, the most beautiful of which are Golden Thoughts Prom Golden Fountains; The Story Without An End; and Christian Lyrics. The first named is a gem of rare beauty. It is a royal octavo of nearly 300 pages, and crowded with colored illustrations by the most eminent artists. Nothing is wanting in the way of artistic finish to make the book attractive. The matter of the book is arranged into fifty-two divisions, containing choice selections in prose and verse from such writers as Jeremy Taylor, Bishops Hall and Butler, Baxter, George...