_Edition de luxe._ This unique folio volume holds twenty-four picturesque drawings of youthful race types and national costumes of both sexes, from Egyptian 1500 B. C., Chinese 500 B. C., Greek, Roman—taking the various peoples at their eminence down through the centuries to the French of Louis XIV., to the colonial of our own land. These very striking pictures are reproduced in fac-simile by photogravure hand prints, in twelve tones; and the pictures are accompanied by twenty-four character poems by M. E. B. The book is printed on the finest plate paper made expressly for this volume, gilt top, rough edges, and the binding is likely to be the novelty of the year—the base being an imported vellum cloth, entirely covered by a rich and mystic design, over-printed in photogravure by hand in several tones, with lettering in dead gold, $10.00. In superb silk canvas (special manufacture of the Tiffany Associated Artists, New York) and emerald calf, price, $20.00. HEROINES OF THE POETS. _Edition de luxe._ This magnificent folio is unique among holiday volumes. The text consists of twelve poems by the most famous poets from Chaucer to Browning, and the heroines of these poems, in characteristic situations, are the subjects of a superb series of pictures by F. H. Lungren. In addition to the twelve “heroines,” the book has a beautiful frontispiece, vignettes, etc. But the notable feature of the book is the remarkable reproduction of the original drawings, which are masterpieces of photogravure, printed by hand on the finest imported India paper, mounted on the best American plate paper, no two pictures in the whole volume of the same color or tone. Very handsomely bound in cloth, gilt top, rough edges, with an exquisite inset in color and lettering in gold, $12.00. Leather binding, $15.00. WONDERFUL CHRISTMASES OF OLD. In this special holiday volume Mr. Butterworth describes in graphic prose ten famous historic events that have fallen on Christmas Day, which are the subjects of ten beautiful and dramatic pictures, by F. H. Lungren, who has also furnished the frontispiece, title and vignettes. Each volume is in a unique box; cloth, gilt edges, price, $1.75. In leather binding, $2.00. BYE-O-BABY BALLADS. The little folks have in this superb “color book” a volume as perfect in taste as the costly adult gift books of this and previous years. The ballads, by Charles Stuart Pratt (editor of WIDE AWAKE and BABYLAND), are for children, not simply about them, and, between the songs of good-morning and good-night, cover the range of a child’s day and a child’s year. The pictures, by F. Childe Hassam, the popular water color painter, include many charming full pages and hundreds smaller, reproduced in exquisite colors by the eminent art lithographers, G. H. Buek & Co. Withal, the book is distinctively modern and American. In beautiful binding of colors and gold, price, $2.00. SONNETS: From the Portuguese.