Well may they ask, for what so brightly burns
As a dry creed that nothing ever learns?
Thus link by link is knit the flaming chain
Lit by the torch of Harvard's hallowed plain.

Thy son, thy servant, dearest Mother mine,
Lays this poor offering on thy holy shrine,
An autumn leaflet to the wild winds tost,
Touched by the finger of November's frost,
With sweet, sad memories of that earlier day,
And all that listened to my first-born lay.
With grateful heart this glorious morn I see,
Would that my tribute worthier were of thee!

A

With Phototype Illustrations.

The Book of the Tile Club.

HOLIDAY VOLUME, containing twenty-five full-page phototypes of paintings by members of THE TILE CLUB of New York, with numerous illustrations in the text. With Sketch of the Club and descriptions of the Pictures, by F. HOPKINSON SMITH and EDWARD STRAHAN. Beautifully bound from designs by STANFORD WHITE. Folio, $25.00.

Many of the most eminent artists of the country are represented in it by some of their most successful works, and each artist has selected his own pictures. The artists represented are:

Well-Worn Roads of Spain, Holland, and Italy.

Traveled by a Painter in search of the Picturesque. Containing sixteen full-page Phototypes and many smaller pen and ink sketches. By F. HOPKINSON SMITH, author of "Old Lines in New Black and White," etc. With descriptive letter-press by the Artist. Tastefully bound. Folio, gilt top, $15.00.

Sixteen water-color drawings admirably reproduced in phototypes in different tints. These with the numerous pen-and-ink sketches and humorous descriptions, make a very attractive holiday book.

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.

Translated by EDWARD FITZGERALD. Illustrated by ELIHU VEDDER. New, smaller edition, with designs reproduced in phototype. Quarto, tastefully bound, $12.50.

A new edition of these remarkable designs reproduced in the same manner as before, only on a smaller scale, so that they may be afforded at a price which will bring them within the reach of a much larger number of art lovers.

Darley's Evangeline.

SIXTEEN OUTLINE ILLUSTRATIONS to the Evangeline of HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. By F. O. C. DARLEY. New and cheaper edition. Quarto, $7.50. This edition is illustrated not with lithograph prints as heretofore, but with phototypes from Mr. Darley's original designs. The result is very gratifying; the illustrations are exact reproductions of the artist's drawings.

Old Lines in New Black and White.

Twelve Illustrations of Lines from the Poems of HOLMES, LOWELL, and WHITTIER, reproduced by the phototype process from designs in charcoal by F. HOPKINSON SMITH. Large-Paper Edition, in portfolio (measuring about 16 X 22 inches), with the illustrations printed on Japanese paper, mounted on heavy plate paper. Edition limited to one hundred copies. Folio, $25.00 net.

For sale by all Booksellers. Sent by mail post-paid, on receipt of price by the Publishers,

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY,

4 PARK STREET, BOSTON: 11 EAST SEVENTEENTH STREET, NEW YORK.

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11 East 17th Street, NEW YORK.

Christmas, 1886.

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.'S

LITERARY BULLETIN.

Lo, now is come the joyful'st

feast!

Let every man be jolly,

Eache room with yoie leaves is

drest,

And every post with holly.

Without the door let sorrow lie,

And if, for cold, it hap to die, We'll bury 't in a Christmas

pye,

And evermore be merry.
Withers's Juvenilia.

IFT-BOOKS rightly hold a place of special honor as suitable for the pleasant and friendly usages of Christmas

generosity. And among the giftbooks of this season high rank may justly be claimed for "The Book of the Tile Club" and "Well-Worn Roads." Both are, books of great external beauty, and no pains have been spared to secure in them a harmony and perfection of all the details which go to the making of every way artistic volumes. The chief illustrations in both are fac-simile phototypes of the artists' finished work, whether in charcoal, oil, or watercolors; and the results are eminently satisfactory to the artists, and can hardly fail to be equally acceptable to connoisseurs and lovers of beautiful books.

From Well-Worn Roads.

"The Book of the Tile Club" contains forty-one phototype reproductions of paintings chosen for this book by the artists, who are members of the well known Tile Club, of New York, which includes many of the most eminent artists in America. The great variety of these pictures, in both subject. and mode of treatment, no less than their excellence, lends peculiar attrac

From Longfellow's Prose Works, Illustrated Subscription Edition.

tion to the work. The letter-press embraces an account of the Club, and humorous descriptions of its sayings and doings; and through it are scattered many pen-and-ink sketches of all sorts, including portraits of many famous members.

"Well-Worn Roads" is the work of one skillful hand. Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith has selected for it sixteen of the pictures which he painted of interesting and beautiful scenes in Spain, Holland, and Italy; then dropping the brush he has transformed himself into an author, and has described with admirable humor incidents of travel associated with the pictures, and into these descriptions he has cunningly woven pen-and-ink sketches of endless variety. Both of these books are superb and tasteful gift-volumes. Peculiarly rich and princely gift-books are the large-paper editions of "The Book of the Tile Club," and Mr. Hopkinson Smith's "Old Lines in New Black and White," which was published last year and received with great favor. Each is limited to a hundred copies, and is brought out in the most sumptuous style. Aside from their value as works of art, they have what may fitly be called a certain patrician quality which gives them a charm and grace altogether admirable.

Mr. Vedder's remarkable illustrations to the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, which rank unquestionably among the masterpieces of modern art, have been reproduced this season in the same style in which they appeared two years ago, but in a smaller form and at a much less price. The beauty of the book and the wonderful vigor, grace, variety, and imaginative genius of the designs combine to make it a gift-volume of unusual excellence.

Another art work which may well be called a popular classic, and which has been brought out in new attractiveness, is Darley's series of sixteen Illustrations to Longfellow's Evangeline. Heretofore these have been reproduced by lithography, now they are phototyped from the artist's original designs; and though the pictures are smaller than before (and the book less expensive), they are more satisfactory than ever, and the beautiful book may be even more in request for holiday, birthday, and wedding gifts than former editions have been.

"The Last Leaf," which was one of the most acceptable of the gift-books of last year, is by no means antiquated. The triumphal march of Dr. Holmes through social and literary England the past summer may well recall attention to this beautiful volume, which contains the exquisite poem in