ILLUSTRATED JUVENILE STORIES.
Fifty-two Stories for Girls.
Edited by ALFRED H. MILES. Illustrated. 12mo. Ornamental Cloth, $1.50.
A story for every week in the year. The very best present a girlcould have. A constant reminder of the giver. Fifty-two stories bythe best English writers, inculcating the love of honor, truth, andloyalty. These are such stories as it will do little girls good toread. They teach the love of home and many lovable qualities. Among thecontributors are Margaret Watson, Jennie Chapman, Lucy Hardy, Alfred H.Miles, Lucie E. Jackson, and Thomas Archer.
Fifty-two Stories for Boys.
Edited by ALFRED H. MILES. Illustrated. 12mo. Ornamental Cloth, $1.50.
A story for every week in the year. The very best present a boy couldhave. A constant reminder of the giver. Fifty-two stories by the bestEnglish writers, inculcating the love of honor, manhood, truth, andpatriotism. These are stories which stir the imagination and stimulatethe reader to try to become a great man himself. Among the contributorsare Alfred H. Miles, Robert Overton, Lieut.-Col. A. J. Macpherson, G.A. Henty, F. M. Holmes, and Grace Stebbing.
Fifty-two More Stories for Boys.
Fifty-two More Stories for Girls.
Edited by ALFRED H. MILES. Illustrated. 12mo. Each $1.50.
These two volumes are companions to the two "Fifty-two Stories" bookspublished last fall. Each book will contain a story for every week inthe year, particularly suited to the tastes of young boys and girls.The stories are by the best writers and cover a wide range of subjects.
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK.
APPLETONS' SUPPLEMENTARY READERS.
Uncle Robert's Geography.
By the late FRANCIS W. PARKER and NELLIE L. HELM. A Series ofGeographical Readers for Supplementary Use. Four volumes. Illustrated.12mo. Cloth.
1. Playtime and Seedtime 32 cents. 2. On the Farm 42 " 3. Uncle Robert's Visit 50 " 4. A River Journey 60 "
Uncle Robert teaches children how to read aright the great book ofNature. He makes study a pleasure. He teaches geography in the rightway. He makes rural life and occupations attractive. He has a deep andloving sympathy with child-life. He believes in the education thatstrengthens the body as well as the mind. He tells children instructivestories to arouse their imaginations and stimulate their observingpowers. He believes that every normal child may be made useful inthe world. He has a boundless faith in human progress, and finds hisgreatest hopes in childhood and its possibilities.
=These extraordinarily suggestive little books by the late ColonelParker--one of the most far-sighted students of child-life of ourday--have approved themselves to thousands of primary teachers. Theyform one of the few successful attempts to incorporate that which isclose by nature to child perception into the very warp and woof of thechild mind. They give an intelligible meaning and vitality to the roundof experiences that come to all normal children in our land.=
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK.
Transcriber's Notes:
--Text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_); text in bold by "equal" signs (=bold=).
--Except for the frontispiece, illustrations have been moved to follow the text that they illustrate, so the page number of the illustration may not match the page number in the List of Illustrations.
--Printer, punctuation and spelling inaccuracies were silently corrected.
--Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved.
--Variations in hyphenation and compound words have been preserved.
--The Author's em-dash and long dash styles have been retained.
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