BOOK ARTS 1892 THE MIDNIGHT WARNING And Other Stories. By EDWARD H. HOUSE

Cloth binding, clean copy, intricate silver-stamped floral and scrollwork borders, with entwined nautical artifacts, against a pitch green background. Art Nouveau influence with echoes of the Japonisme movement— fitting given Edward H. House’s connection to Japan—having lived there and written extensively about Japanese culture.

. Quoting from a contemporary review: A book that the children will enjoy is a collection of short illustrated stories by Edward H. House, The Midnight Warning and Other Stories (Harpers, 12mo, $1.25). Among them is a tale of the civil war, and also one about a conjurer and his black art. There is another telling how a little girl saved a street Arab from becoming a thief, and still another with a bull terrier for its hero, but none is more interesting than “A Friend in Need.”