PLEASANT AUTHORS FOR YOUNG FOLKS. By Amanda B. Harris. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price, $1.00. This volume embraces a dozen papers upon English authors, whose writings are to be recommended to the young, and which are of themselves delightful reading for the young and the old alike. Their hearty appreciation of the subjects written upon give them the charm of sincere feeling. The writer is in perfect sympathy with the authors she discusses. She gives enough of personal anecdote and gossip to put young people on the footing of familiar acquaintance with those whose works she would have them read. There are delicious bits of criticism made simply by telling what she has herself found to admire or enjoy in their books. One sees just how she has come to have her favorites. Older readers may learn from her how they can form a refined and discriminating taste, and what pleasure this will give them. The young cannot fail of cultivating such a taste unconsciously if they read what is here recommended. Some of the "pleasant authors" mentioned in this book would be thought too heavy for young folks at the present day; but our ideas of juvenile literature have been formed upon too low a standard. This little work on authors is an admirable example of what such literature ought to be--a book that any boy or girl of ten can read with profit, and can keep ready at hand for reference and for reperusal through the many years of a long life. The list includes such names as Scott and Lamb and Jane Austen and Kingsley and Ruskin and Miss Mitford, some of which have been honored now many generations. The book will do good service for the young by pointing out to them good sources of pure and elevated entertainment. YULE-TIDE. Illustrated stories by favorite American and English Authors. Edited by Ella Farman, with a Proem by Henry Randall Waite, Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price, $2.00. The contents of this charming volume no less than its beautiful outside, make a strong and direct appeal to the buyer of books. It is not often that so much that is varied and choice is brought together in a single collection. There are short stories by Rose Terry Cooke, George Cary Eggleston, Arthur Gilman, Susan Coolidge, Margaret Sidney, Mrs. A. M. Diaz, and others; poems by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Mrs. A.D.T. Whitney, Clara Doty Bates, Mary D. Brine, Celia Thaxter, Mary E. Blake, Christina Rossetti, A. Mary F. Robinson, and Mrs. Mulock-Craik, with long stories originally published in serial form in WIDE AWAKE,--"The Silver City," by Fred A. Ober, and "Old Caravan Days," by Mary Hartwell Catherwood. All these are profusely and beautifully illustrated. The binding is exceedingly tasteful. The volume is put up in a neat paper box, and makes a handsome and fitting present for the holidays.