The special Holiday Book list of Messrs. D. Lothrop & Co. and their general Booklist for the season embrace volumes of fresh beauty, and also sterling works fully abreast with the growing demand for attractive books of some educational value. Their array of costly illustrated volumes includes seven Fine-Art issues. Foremost is the magnificent folio, IDYLS AND PASTORALS, comprising twenty-four poems by Celia Thaxter written expressly for this work, accompanied by twenty-four superb fac-simile photogravures from paintings, water colors and line drawings by eminent American and foreign artists, including Kate Greenaway, Howard Pyle, Wm. T. Smedley, Edmund H. Garrett, F. Childe Hassam, Jessie Curtis Shepherd, Miss L. B. Humphrey, W. L. Taylor, Joseph Pennell, Thomas Hovenden, F. H. Lungren, T. W. Wood, N. A., Charles Volkmar, Hy. Sandham, F. T. Merrill and Henry Bacon. These photogravures are printed by hand, in colors, on the finest imported India paper. The book is bound in vellum cloth with designs in two metals, also in white calf embossed in imitation of antique carved ivory. A Popular Edition, octavo, with a selection, and fine wood engravings is bound both in cloth and embossed leather. YOUTH IN TWELVE CENTURIES is another _de luxe_ folio, holding twenty-four bold picturesque drawings by Hassam of youthful race-types of both sexes, ranging from Egyptian, 1500 B. C., down through Chinese, Greek, Roman, Scandinavian, Gaul, to the Renaissance of the Medici and the American Colonial. These drawings are in hand-printed photogravures in twelve tones, and are accompanied by twenty-four poems by “M. E. B.” The book is in two styles of binding: in rich silk canvas from the New York Associated Artists’ art-fabrics with emerald calf corners and back, and in linen fabric overprinted in photogravure with a rich and mystic design. A POPULAR EDITION of the same, with wood engravings, is bound in fine cloth. THE MINUTE MAN, by Margaret Sidney, is a Ballad of “the shot heard round the world;” it has drawings by Sandham printed with the text, also a strong water-color and three historic Concord views in toned photogravures. Beautiful binding. In BYE-O-BABY BALLADS, the “color-book” of the House, the little folks have a volume as perfect in taste as the costly adult gift-books; the ballads are by Charles Stuart Pratt (editor of WIDE AWAKE and BABYLAND), and the pictures, by Hassam, the popular water-color painter, include many strong charming full-pages and hundreds smaller, reproduced in exquisite colors by Buek & Co.; withal, the book is distinctively fresh and American. SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE. The immortal love-sonnets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning are so richly printed and bound as to become a standard presentation volume. New editions of recent favorite gift-books group with these new ones, notably IDEAL POEMS, HEROINES OF THE POETS and STABAT MATER.