Helpful Books for Young Folks.
=Danger Signals.= By Rev. F. E. Clark, President of the United Societyof Christian Endeavor. 12mo, cloth, 75 cts.
The enemies of youth from the business man's standpoint. The substanceof a series of addresses delivered two or three years ago in one of theBoston churches.
=Marion Harland's Cookery for Beginners.= 12mo, vellum cloth, 75 cts.
The untrained housekeeper needs such directions as will not confuseand discourage her. Marion Harland makes her book simple and practicalenough to meet this demand.
=Bible Stories.= By Laurie Loring. 4to, boards, 35 cts.
Very short stories with pictures. The Creation, Noah and the Dove,Samuel, Joseph, Elijah, the Christ Child, the Good Shepherd, Peter, etc.
=The Magic Pear.= Oblong, 8vo, boards, 75 cts.
Twelve outline drawing lessons with directions for the amusement oflittle folks. They are genuine pencil puzzles for untaught fingers. Apear gives shape to a dozen animal pictures.
=What O'Clock Jingles.= By Margaret Johnson. Oblong, 8vo, boards, 75cts.
Twelve little counting lessons. Pretty rhymes for small children.Twenty-seven artistic illustrations by the author.
=Ways for Boys to Make and Do Things.= 60 cts.
Eight papers by as many different authors, on subjects that interestboys. A book to delight active boys and to inspire lazy ones.
=Our Young Folks at Home.= 4to, boards, 1.00.
A collection of illustrated prose stories by American authors andartists. It is sure to make friends among children of all ages. Coloredfrontispiece.
=Peep of Day Series.= 3 vols., 1.20 each.
Peep of Day, Line upon Line, Precept upon Precept. Sermonettes for thechildren, so cleverly preached that the children will not grow sleepy.
=Home Primer.= Boards, square, 8vo, 50 cts.
A book for the little ones to learn to read in before they are oldenough to be sent off to school. 100 illustrations.
MONTEAGLE. By Pansy. Boston: D. Lothrop Company. Price 75 cents. Bothgirls and boys will find this story of Pansy's pleasant and profitablereading. Dilly West is a character whom the first will find it anexcellent thing to intimate, and boys will find in Hart Hammond anoble, manly, fellow who walks for a time dangerously near temptation,but escapes through providential influences, not the least of whichis the steady devotion to duty of the young girl, who becomes anunconscious power of good.
A DOZEN OF THEM. By Pansy. Boston: D. Lothrop Company. Price 60 cents.A Sunday-school story, written in Pansy's best vein, and having for itshero a twelve-year-old boy who has been thrown upon the world by thedeath of his parents, and who has no one left to look after him but asister a little older, whose time is fully occupied in the milliner'sshop where she is employed. Joe, for that is the boy's name, finds aplace to work at a farmhouse where there is a small private school.His sister makes him promise to learn by heart a verse of Scriptureevery month. It is a task at first, but he is a boy of his word, and hefulfills his promise, with what results the reader of the story willfind out. It is an excellent book for the Sunday-school.
AT HOME AND ABROAD. Stories from _The Pansy_ Boston: D. LothropCompany. Price, $1.00. A score of short stories which originallyappeared in the delightful magazine, _The Pansy_, have been herebrought together in collected form with the illustrations whichoriginally accompanied them. They are from the pens of various authors,and are bright, instructive and entertaining.
ABOUT GIANTS. By Isabel Smithson. Boston: D. Lothrop Company. Price60 cents. In this little volume Miss Smithson has gathered togethermany curious and interesting facts relating to real giants, or peoplewho have grown to an extraordinary size. She does not believe thatthere was ever a race of giants, but that those who are so-called areexceptional cases, due to some freak of nature. Among those describedare Cutter, the Irish giant, who was eight feet tall, Tony Payne, whoseheight exceeded seven feet, and Chang, the Chinese giant, who was onexhibition in this country a few years ago. The volume contains notonly accounts of giants, but also of dwarfs, and is illustrated.
AMERICAN AUTHORS. By Amanda B. Harris. Boston: D. Lothrop Company.Price $1.00. This is one of the books we can heartily commend toyoung readers, not only for its interest, but for the informationit contains. All lovers of books have a natural curiosity to knowsomething about their writers, and the better the books, the keenerthe curiosity. Miss Harris has written the various chapters of thevolume with a full appreciation of this fact. She tells us about theearlier group of American writers, Irving, Cooper, Prescott, Emerson,and Hawthorne, all of whom are gone, and also of some of those whocame later, among them the Cary sisters, Thoreau, Lowell, Helen Hunt,Donald G. Mitchell and others. Miss Harris has a happy way of impartinginformation, and the boys and girls into whose hands this little bookmay fall will find it pleasant reading.
TILTING AT WINDMILLS: A Story of the Blue Grass Country. By Emma M.Connelly. Boston: D. Lothrop Company. 12mo, $1.50.
Not since the days of "A Fool's Errand" has so strong and socharacteristic a "border novel" been brought to the attention of thepublic as is now presented by Miss Connelly in this book which she soaptly terms "Tilting at Windmills." Indeed, it is questionable whetherJudge Tourgee's famous book touched so deftly and yet so practicallythe real phases of the reconstruction period and the interminableantagonisms of race and section.
The self-sufficient Boston man, a capital fellow at heart, but tingedwith the traditions and environments of his Puritan ancestry andconditions, coming into his strange heritage in Kentucky at the closeof the civil war, seeks to change by instant manipulation all theequally strong and deep-rooted traditions and environments of BlueGrass society.
His ruthless conscience will allow of no compromise, and the peoplewhom he seeks to proselyte alike misunderstand his motives and spurnhis proffered assistance.
Presumed errors are materialized and partial evils are magnified.Allerton tilts at windmills and with the customary Quixotic results. Heis, seemingly, unhorsed in every encounter.
Miss Connelly's work in this, her first novel, will make readersanxious to hear from her again and it will certainly create, both inher own and other States, a strong desire to see her next forthcomingwork announced by the same publishers in one of their new series--her"Story of the State of Kentucky."
THE ART OF LIVING. From the Writings of Samuel Smiles. WithIntroduction by the venerable Dr. Peabody of Harvard University, andBiographical Sketch by the editor, Carrie Adelaide Cooke. Boston: D.Lothrop Company. Price $1.00.
Samuel Smiles is the Benjamin Franklin of England. His sayings have asimilar terseness, aptness and force; they are directed to practicalends, like Franklin's; they have the advantage of being nearer our timeand therefore more directly related to subjects upon which practicalwisdom is of practical use.
Success in life is his subject all through, The Art of Living; andhe confesses on the very first page that "happiness consists in theenjoyment of little pleasures scattered along the common path of life,which in the eager search for some great and exciting joy we are aptto overlook. It finds delight in the performance of common dutiesfaithfully and honorably fulfilled."
Let the reader go back to that quotation again and consider howcontrary it is to the spirit that underlies the businesses that arenowadays tempting men to sudden fortune, torturing with disappointmentsnearly all who yield, and burdening the successful beyond theirendurance, shortening lives and making them weary and most of themempty.
Is it worth while to join the mad rush for the lottery; or to take theold road to slow success?
This book of the chosen thoughts of a rare philosopher leads tocontentment as well as wisdom; for, when we choose the less brilliantcourse because we are sure it is the best one, we have the mostcomplete and lasting repose from anxiety.
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Transcriber's Notes:
Punctuation errors repaired.
First book list page, "Eaoh"
changed to "Each" (Each volume 16mo)
Page 4, "208" changed to "226" to reflect actual first page of ChapterXII.
Page 4, "230" changed to "304" to reflect actual first page of ChapterXVII.
Page 4 and 5, each page number reference increased by two to matchactual location of remaining chapters. (_i.e._ 318 is now 320 toreflect location of Chapter XVIII)
Page 29, "botton" changed to "bottom" (for in the bottom of)
Page 69, "nowdays" changed to "nowadays" (the pennies nowadays)
Page 88, "keees" changed to "knees" (soon on her knees)
Page 200, "think" changed to "thing" (thing that I should)
Page 202, "interruped" changed to "interrupted" (of her had interrupted)
Page 212, "sat" changed to "set" (he set the table)
Page 269, "unsual" changed to "unusual" (unusual toilet having)
Page 385, extra word "the" removed from text. Original read (have atthe the windows)
Page 407, "pealed" changed to "peeled" (turnips half-peeled)
Page 437, "esson" changed to "lesson" (lesson is the joy)
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