Fourteen Years of Age

"God gives thee youth but once. Keep thou The Childlike heart that will His kingdom be; The soul pure-eyed that, wisdom-led, e'en now His blessed face shall see."

Amusements And Handicraft

Let them freely feast, sing and dance, have their puppet-plays, hobby-horses, tabors, crowds, bagpipes, etc., play at ball, and barley-breaks, and what sports and recreations they like best.

Burton's Anatomy Of Melancholy.

Adams, J. H.

Harper's Indoor Book for Boys. Harper. 1.75

This volume contains directions for work much of which is beyond the capacity of a boy of fourteen, but it is well for him to have something to which he can look forward. Instructions are given in wood-carving, metal-work, clay-modelling, bookbinding, and other occupations. The making of simple household articles and the use of paints are taught. There are many working diagrams.

Adams, J. H.

, and Others.

Harper's Outdoor Book for Boys. Harper. 1.75

An excellent handybook which provides the necessary information for making many worthwhile articles in which boys delight, such as windmills, water-wheels, aeroplanes, boats, rafts, toboggans, and snow-shoes; illustrated with working diagrams. There are also directions for camping out. The compiler of this List hopes that the article on trapping small animals may be passed over, as the little creatures so often suffer in boyish attempts to catch them.

Black, Alexander.

Photography Indoors and Out. Houghton. .75

This book is addressed particularly to those amateurs who, while they acquire their chief pleasure from the pictures as pictures, have sufficient respect for the study and a strong enough purpose toward good work to seek real knowledge of the elements of photography.--Preface.

Mr. Black gives a brief history of the development of the art, and much thorough information for those ambitious to learn. The text is perhaps somewhat advanced for young people of fourteen.

Biography, History, And Government

Land of our Birth, we pledge to thee

Our love and toil in the years to be,

When we are grown and take our place,

As men and women with our race.

Father in Heaven who lovest all,

Oh help Thy children when they call;

That they may build from age to age,

An undefiled heritage!

. . . . . . .

Teach us the strength that cannot seek,

By deed or thought, to hurt the weak;

That, under Thee, we may possess

Man's strength to comfort man's distress.

Teach us Delight in simple things,

And Mirth that has no bitter springs;

Forgiveness free of evil done,

And Love to all men 'neath the sun!

Land of our Birth, our Faith our Pride,

For whose dear sake our fathers died;

O Motherland, we pledge to thee,

Head, heart, and hand through the years to be!

Kipling.

Baring-gould, Sabine,

and

Arthur Gilman.

The Story of Germany. Putnam. 1.50

The present volume traces the life of this powerful nation from the time when imperial Rome was baffled by her valiant Hermann down to the hour when France fell before her, and the idea of Empire ... became, under William the First, a power making for peace and strength.... The story of such a people as the Germans could not fail to possess intense interest for anyone; but for us of another branch of the Teutonic family, it has the additional charm that it is the history of our blood-relations.

Arthur Gilman.

While not intended primarily for children, this book will be both enjoyed and appreciated by many boys and girls of fourteen. The illustrations are taken, to a great extent, from old sources.

Bolton, S.E.

(K.).

Famous American Authors. Crowell. .75

The careers of eighteen well-known men of letters are described. Among the number are Emerson, Prescott, Hawthorne, Higginson, Gilder, and Clemens.

Champlin, J. D.

Young Folks' History of the War for the Union. Holt. 2.50

It is, in short, a well-written and entertaining history of the War of the Rebellion, very fair and impartial in tone.--The Nation.

A mature boy or girl of fourteen will find this reliable work useful. The larger part of the illustrations are taken from contemporary drawings, and there are many maps.

Chapin, A.A.

Masters of Music; Their Lives and Works. Dodd 1.50

Twenty famous musicians are very interestingly characterized; among them Palestrina, Mozart, Rossini, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, and Wagner.

Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes Of The Civil War.

Century. 1.50

The War Diary of a Union Woman in the South, edited by G. W. Cable, relates experiences of the Siege of Vicksburg. Among other accounts there is a description of Mosby's guerillas, and the tunnel escape from Libby Prison is told by one of the Union officers who got away and was retaken.

Franklin, Benjamin.

Autobiography. Houghton. .60

Notwithstanding its brevity, this autobiography has doubtless been a greater incentive to ambitious boys than any other. It is perhaps worth noting that a prominent Japanese merchant of Boston, when a boy in his native land, after reading the book, determined to seek his fortune in Franklin's country, and testifies to it as one of the chief factors in his successful career. This useful edition contains a sketch of the great man's life from the point where his own writing ends, drawn chiefly from his letters. There are notes and a chronological historical table.

Hart, A. B.

, and

Elizabeth Stevens

(Editors).

The Romance of the Civil War. Macmillan. .60

This fourth volume of Source Readers attempts to put before teachers and children the actualities of the Civil War period. It contains something of the spirit of North and South at the beginning of the war, and much about the life of the soldier and the citizen while it was going on, with some of the battle smoke and dust.... In this book the fathers are speaking to their children.--Preface.

Larcom, Lucy.

A New England Girlhood. Houghton. .60

An account of Miss Larcom's youth up to the age of twenty-nine, which includes her experiences as a Lowell mill-hand. It is not only a record of the efforts of an aspiring young woman, but a picture of one phase of New England life.

Lossing, B.J.

The Story of the United States Navy, for Boys. Harper. 1.75

This little work was prepared at the suggestion of Captain S. B. Luce, U. S. N., the commander of the training-ship Minnesota. Desirous of having it correct in every particular, I submitted the manuscript to the Navy Department. It was returned to me with a letter from Commodore Earl English, U. S. N., Chief of the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, to whom it was referred, in which he wrote: I am much pleased with your beautiful and instructive Story of the Navy, and I congratulate you on having performed a labor which will contribute so much to the pleasure and instruction of the youth of our country. Such a bright-spirited work will refresh the memory of the noble deeds of our departed naval heroes in the minds of the people.--Preface.

The illustrations are satisfactory.

Myers, P.V.N.

General History. Ginn. 1.50

One of the best world histories for young people.

In the present issue the book contains several fresh chapters, an entirely new series of colored maps, many new illustrations, and carefully selected lists of books for further reading at the end of each chapter, together with suggested topics for special study. The new text brings the narration of events down to the Peace of Portsmouth and the elections to the first Russian Parliament, and aims to include all the latest important results of discovery and scholarly research in the different historical fields and periods.--Preface.

Nicolay, Helen.

The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln. Century. 1.50

This biography, condensed from Nicolay and Hay's Short Life of Lincoln, in part rewritten, is the best of the many prepared for young readers.

Van Bergen, Robert.

The Story of Russia. American Book. .65

The compiler knows of no altogether satisfactory history of this country for young people. The present volume, prepared for school use, is very informing and will serve. It ends with the humiliation of a great people, and the Treaty of Peace made at Portsmouth in 1905. There are maps and illustrations.

Washington, George.

Rules of Conduct, Diary of Adventure, Letters, and Farewell Addresses. Houghton. .25

Comprises the best of what Washington has left to us in written form.

Drama

Then to the well-trod stage anon,

If

Jonsons

learned Sock be on,

Or sweetest Shakespear fancies childe,

Warble his native Wood-notes wilde.

Milton

Shakespeare, William.

Julius Cæsar. Edited by W. J. Rolfe. American Book. .56

The Tragedie of Julius Cæsar was first published in the Folio of 1623.... The date at which the drama was written has been variously fixed by the critics....Halliwell has shown that it was written "in or before the year 1601." ... The only source from which Shakespeare appears to have derived his materials was Sir Thomas North's version of Plutarch's Lives.... Shakespeare has in this play and elsewhere shown the same penetration into political character and the springs of public events as into those of every-day life.--Introduction.

The merit I see in Mr. Rolfe's school editions of Shakspere's Plays over those most widely used in England is that Mr. Rolfe edits the plays as works of a poet, and not only as productions in Tudor English.

F.J. Furnivall.

Shakespeare, William.

Macbeth. Edited by W. J. Rolfe. American Book. .56

Macbeth was first printed in the folio of 1623.... It was written between 1604 and 1610.... Dr. Simon Forman ... saw the play performed "at the Globe, 1610, the 20th of April, Saturday." It may then have been a new play, but it is more probable, as nearly all the critics agree, that it was written in 1605 or 1606. The accession of James made Scottish subjects popular in England, and the tale of Macbeth and Banquo would be one of the first to be brought forward, as Banquo was held to be an ancestor of the new king. Shakespeare drew the materials for the plot of Macbeth from Holinshed's Chronicles of Englande, Scotlande, and Ireland.... The story of the drama is almost wholly apocryphal. The more authentic history is thus summarized by Sir Walter Scott: ... As a king, the tyrant so much exclaimed against was, in reality, a firm, just, and equitable prince.--Introduction.

No one can examine these volumes and fail to be impressed with the conscientious accuracy and scholarly completeness with which they are edited.

H.H. Furness.

Shakespeare, William.

The Merchant of Venice. Edited by W.J. Rolfe. American Book. .56

The plot of The Merchant of Venice is composed of two distinct stories: that of the bond, and that of the caskets. Both these fables are found in the Gesta Romanorum, a Latin compilation of allegorical tales, which had been translated into English as early as the time of Henry VI.... The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare's most perfect works: popular to an extraordinary degree.... Shylock the Jew is one of the inimitable masterpieces of characterization which are to be found only in Shakespeare.--Introduction.

Shakespeare. William.

A Midsummer-Night's Dream. Doubleday. 5.00

The Midsummer-Night's Dream is the first play which exhibits the imagination of Shakespeare in all its fervid and creative power; for though ... it may be pronounced the offspring of youth and inexperience, it will ever in point of fancy be considered as equal to any subsequent drama of the poet.

Drake.

To the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer's Night's dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.

Pepys' Diary.

Some people feel sure that it is a mistake to interfere with the play of a child's imagination by giving him illustrated editions of great works. This opinion would be shaken by seeing these wonderful pictures, by means of which we are indeed wafted to dreamland. There are forty plates in color, and other illustrations.

Fine Arts

Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.

Pope.

Hurll, E.M.

Greek Sculpture. Houghton. .75

The Riverside Art Series contains twelve small volumes on Ancient and Modern Art, of which four only are included in this limited list. The very satisfactory illustrations are taken from photographs, and the major part of each book is devoted to interpretations of the pictures. This volume contains sixteen examples of Greek marbles, with an introduction, which includes other information, on some characteristics of Greek sculpture.

Greek sculpture can be sympathetically understood only by catching something of the spirit which produced it. One must shake off the centuries and regard life with the childlike simplicity of the young world: one must give imagination free rein.--Introduction.

Hurll, E.M.

Michelangelo. Houghton. .75

We are given fifteen pictures by this great man, and his portrait. There is an introduction on Michelangelo's character as an artist, an outline table of the principal events in his life, and a list of some of his famous Italian contemporaries, with other information.

This is the rugged face

Of him who won a place

Above all kings and lords;

Whose various skill and power

Left Italy a dower

No numbers can compute, no tongue translate in words.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

So stood this Angelo

Four hundred years ago;

So grandly still he stands,

Mid lesser worlds of art,

Colossal and apart,

Like Memnon breathing songs across the desert sands.

Christopher P. Cranch.

Hurll, E.M.

Raphael. Houghton. .75

This volume contains a collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of himself by the master, an introduction on Raphael's character as an artist, an outline table of the principal events in his life, and a list of some of his famous contemporaries, as well as other information.

All confessed the influence of his sweet and gracious nature, which was so replete with excellence and so perfect in all the charities, that not only was he honored by men, but even by the very animals, who would constantly follow his steps, and always loved him.

Vasari.

Hurll, E. M.

Tuscan Sculpture. Houghton. .75

This book comprises sixteen examples of fifteenth-century work, with an introduction, also containing other information, on some characteristics of Tuscan sculpture of this period.

The Italian sculptors of the earlier half of the fifteenth century are more than mere forerunners of the great masters of its close, and often reach perfection within the narrow limits which they chose to impose on their work. Their sculpture shares with the paintings of Botticelli and the churches of Brunelleschi that profound expressiveness, that intimate impress of an indwelling soul, which is the peculiar fascination of the art of Italy in that century.

Walter Pater.

Geography, Travel, And Description

As the Spanish proverb says: "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in travelling: A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.

Dr. Johnson.

Brassey, A. (A.).

A Voyage in the Sunbeam. Longmans. .75

This abridgment of the original book tells in pleasant narrative style of the Sunbeam's voyage around the world, which lasted from July first, 1876, to May twenty-sixth, 1877.

Finnemore, John.

Italy. Illustrated by Alberto Pisa and Others. Macmillan. .75

We travel over the Alps, and through the country to Naples and Sicily. The wonderful cities of this historic land are described, and a brief account given of its many poor but happy people. There are twelve illustrations in color.

Higginson, T. W.

(Editor).

Young Folks' Book of American Explorers. Longmans. 1.20

It has always seemed to me that the narratives of the early discoverers and explorers of the American coast were as interesting as Robinson Crusoe, and were, indeed, very much like it. This has led me to make a series of extracts from these narratives, selecting what appeared to me the most interesting parts, and altering only the spelling.... One great thing which I have wished my readers to learn is the charm of an original narrative.... The explorers of various nations are represented in this book. There are Northmen, Italians, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Spaniards, and Dutchmen.--Preface.

These original accounts cover the field of American exploration from the discovery of the country by the Northmen in 985 to the settlement of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629.

King, C. F.

Roundabout Rambles in Northern Europe. Lothrop. 1.25

This very fully illustrated volume gives a conversational account of a trip through Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Russia. It is an excellent book for children to use while travelling. Mr. King has also prepared several about our own country.

Lummis, C.F.

Some Strange Corners of Our Country. Century. 1.50

Mr. Lummis describes the wonders of the Southwest,--the Grand Canon, the Petrified Forest of Arizona, and the Desert. He tells of the Moquis in their seven seldom visited Pueblo cities, of the Navajos and other Indian tribes, with their strange customs, dances, and magic.

Hygiene

Life is not mere living, but the enjoyment of health.

Martial.

Wood-allen, M. (S.).

The Man Wonderful, or The Marvels of Our Bodily Dwelling. Educational. 1.00

The author in this volume has united metaphor with scientific facts.... She has laid under contribution the latest scientific authorities, and believes that this book will be found abreast of the science of to-day, holding ever to truth as it now presents itself, and never sacrificing facts to the allegory.--Preface.

Dr. Wood-Allen uses the simile of a house in explaining in a clear and interesting manner much about our body and its functions. Part Second is devoted to the articles we make use of: those which are beneficial, and especially those which are more or less harmful; as tea, coffee, tobacco, and alcohol.

Mythology, Folk-lore, Legends, And Fairy Tales

"I, Phœbus, sang those songs that gained so much renown, I, Phœbus, sang them; Homer only wrote them down."

Bulfinch, Thomas.

The Age of Fable. Edited by E.E. Hale. Lothrop. 1.25

This book is an enlarged and revised edition of a book published, with the same title, by the late Thomas Bulfinch, of Boston, in the year 1855.... What Mr. Bulfinch wanted to do, and succeeded in doing, was to connect the old stories with modern literature. His book, therefore, not only interests young people in the classical authors, but it turns their attention to many of the best authors of their own language and of our time.--Preface.

In the revision the list of poets cited has been increased from forty to sixty-three, and the portion treating of Northern, Oriental, and Egyptian mythologies, rewritten. The illustrations are from classical sources.

Poetry, Collections Of Poetry And Prose, And Stories Adapted From Great Authors

And, as imagination bodies forth

The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen

Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing

A local habitation and a name.

Shakspere.

Norton, C.E.

(Editor).

Heart of Oak Books. Volume VII. Masterpieces of Literature. Heath. .60

The youth who shall become acquainted with the contents of these volumes will share in the common stock of the intellectual life of the race to which he belongs; and will have the door opened to him of all the vast and noble resources of that life.--Preface.

Scott, Walter.

The Lady of the Lake. Edited by W.J. Rolfe. Houghton. .75

The ancient manners, the habits and customs of the aboriginal race by whom the Highlands of Scotland were inhabited, had always appeared to me peculiarly adapted to poetry. The change in their manners, too, had taken place almost within my own time, or at least I had learned many particulars concerning the ancient state of the Highlands from the old men of the last generation. I had always thought the old Scottish Gael highly adapted for poetical composition.... I had also read a great deal, seen much, and heard more, of that romantic country where I was in the habit of spending some time every Autumn; and the scenery of Loch Katrine was connected with the recollection of many a dear friend and merry expedition of former days. This poem, the action of which lay among scenes so beautiful and so deeply imprinted on my recollections, was a labor of love, and it was no less so to recall the manners and incidents introduced. The frequent custom of James IV, and particularly of James V, to walk through their kingdom in disguise, afforded me the hint of an incident which never fails to be interesting if managed with the slightest address or dexterity.--Introduction to the Edition of 1830.

The Lady of the Lake was first published in 1810. This edition has many notes by Mr. Rolfe.

Scott, Walter.

The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Edited by W.J. Rolfe. Houghton. .75

The Poem, now offered to the Public, is intended to illustrate the customs and manners which anciently prevailed on the Borders of England and Scotland.... The date of the Tale itself is about the middle of the sixteenth century, when most of the personages actually flourished. The time occupied by the action is Three Nights and Three Days.--Original Preface.

The Lay of the Last Minstrel was first published in 1805. This edition has many notes by Mr. Rolfe.

Scott, Walter.

Marmion. Edited by W.J. Rolfe. Houghton. .75

The present story turns upon the private adventures of a fictitious character, but is called a Tale of Flodden Field, because the hero's fate is connected with that memorable defeat and the causes which led to it.... The poem opens about the commencement of August, and concludes with the defeat of Flodden, 9th September, 1513.--Original Preface.

Marmion was first published in 1818. This edition has many notes by Mr. Rolfe.

Scudder, H. E.

(Editor).

American Poems. Houghton. 1.00

Longfellow, Whittier, Bryant, Holmes, Lowell, and Emerson, are represented in this collection by poems with which every American boy and girl should be familiar. The volume, which has biographical sketches and notes by Mr. Scudder, was prepared in the interests of young people, to encourage in them a taste for the best literature. Evangeline, Snow-Bound, Sella, Grandmother's Story, The Vision of Sir Launfal, and The Adirondacks, are included in the contents.

Religion And Ethics

Hearing thy Master, or likewise the Preacher, wriggle not thyself, as seeming unable to contain thyself within thy skin.--Youth's Behaviour. 1643.

Hale, E. E.

How to Do It. Little. 1.00

Brimful of well-balanced advice on making life helpful and pleasant to those around us and to ourselves by the avoidance of common errors and the encouraging of agreeable virtues. The familiar friendly style renders this book, which could so easily be made dull, really delightful to young people. How to Talk, How to Go into Society, How to Travel, Life in Vacation, and Habits of Reading, are some of the chapter headings.

Science, Out-of-door Books, And Stories Of Animals

To know that which before us lies in daily life is the prime of wisdom.

Milton.

Adams, J.H.

Harper's Electricity Book for Boys. Harper. 1.75

A large part of this volume is somewhat beyond the grasp of the average boy of fourteen, and parents should look it over carefully before letting their children carry out the instructions, though we are told that "there need be no concern whatever as to possible danger if the book is read with reasonable intelligence. Mr. Adams has taken pains to place danger-signals wherever special precautions are advisable, and, as a father of boys who are constantly working with electricity in his laboratory, he may be relied upon as a safe and sure counsellor and guide."

Directions are given for making, among other things, push-buttons, switches, annunciators, dynamos, simple telephones, and line and wireless telegraphs. There is a chapter on electroplating. At the end of the volume is an article explaining electric light, heat, power, and traction, by J. B. Baker, technical editor, United States Geological Survey; also a dictionary of electrical terms. Many working diagrams are included.

Bailey, F.M.

Handbook of Birds of the Western United States. Illustrated by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Houghton. 3.50

Systematically arranged. Descriptions technical but simplified, and illustrated with cuts in the text, which explain the technical terms and make it available for students. It has no color key, but field keys, fully illustrated in the text. Biographies popularly treated. Intended for students of the life and habits of the birds of our Western States. The only book of its character for that region.

Audubon Society.

There are thirty-three full-page plates by Mr. Fuertes, and over six hundred small illustrations. For the use of beginners a brief field color key to genera of some of the common Passerine birds is given in an appendix.

Burroughs, JOHN.

Wake-Robin. Houghton. 1.25

This is mainly a book about the birds, or more properly an invitation to the study of Ornithology.... I have reaped my harvest more in the woods than in the study; what I offer, in fact, is a careful and conscientious record of actual observations and experiences, and is true as it stands written, every word of it.... A more specific title for the volume would have suited me better, but not being able to satisfy myself in this direction, I cast about for a word thoroughly in the atmosphere and spirit of the book, which I hope I have found in "Wake-Robin"--the common name of the white Trillium, which blooms in all our woods, and which marks the arrival of all the birds.--Preface.

The titles of some of the different articles are: In the Hemlocks, The Adirondacks, Spring at the Capital, and The Bluebird.

Chapman, E. M.

Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America. Appleton. 3.00

Illustrated with full-page plates from photographs, and many cuts in the text. Systematically arranged; non-technical descriptions; both field and color keys. A very complete book for general use, treating all the birds of the section named, with some account of habits, etc. It has introductory chapters on Ornithology, Methods of Study, List of Dates of Spring and Fall migration, and a color chart to help in identification.

Audubon Society.

Ditmars, R. L.

The Reptile Book. Doubleday. 4.00

Mr. Ditmars, Curator of Reptiles in the New York Zoölogical Park, gives us a comprehensive treatise on the structure and habits of the turtles, tortoises, crocodilians, lizards, and snakes, of the United States and Northern Mexico. There are eight pages of plates in color and one hundred and twenty-eight in black and white, from photographs from life, taken (with six exceptions) by the Author.

In the present work the writer has sought to compile a popular review of a great fauna--the Reptiles of North America. He has excluded technical phraseology and tried to produce two results: 1. A popular book, that may be comprehended by the beginner and, 2. A book valuable in its details to the technical worker.--Preface.

Gibson, W.H.

Sharp Eyes. Harper. 2.50

This rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds, and flowers, is made attractive to young children by the unusual quality of the many illustrations.

Greene, Homer.

Coal and the Coal Mines. Houghton. .75

It has been the aim of the author to give reliable information free from minute details and technicalities. That information has been, for the most part, gathered through personal experience in the mines.--Preface.

The composition and formation of coal, its discovery and introduction, are dealt with, and a description of the mine and its dangers, and the life of the workers therein, is given in this thoroughly satisfactory little volume.

Harrington, M.W.

About the Weather. Appleton. .65

Treated from a broad scientific standpoint, much interesting information is conveyed about the laws which, discovered comparatively recently, have proved of vital importance and utility to mankind. The humidity and pressure of the air, the velocity of the wind, rain and snow, sleet and hail-storms, tornadoes and cyclones, are among the many topics discussed.

Holland, W. J.

The Moth Book. Doubleday. 4.00

An intelligent boy or girl of fourteen, with a real interest in the subject, will enjoy this fine work on the moths of North America north of Mexico, though it is written more from the standpoint of the student than are most of the series to which it belongs. There are fifteen hundred figures in the forty-eight colored plates, and three hundred black and white text figures, illustrating a majority of the larger species.

Jordan, D. S.,

and

B. W. Evermann.

American Food and Game Fishes. Doubleday. 4.00

These two distinguished scientists have given in this treatise on ichthyology a popular account of the species found in America north of the Equator, with keys for ready identification, life-histories, and methods of capture. There are ten lithographed plates in color, and sixty-four in black and white from photographs from life taken by Mr. Dugmore, these being the first really successful photographs of live fish ever secured.

Keeler, H. L.

Our Native Trees, and How to Identify Them. Scribner. 2.00

A guide to the identification of the trees of the United States, with three hundred and forty illustrations, more than half of them from photographs. The book is the work of one who is a tree-lover as well as a botanist, and besides being scientifically accurate the book has a distinct literary flavor. Invaluable as an aid to firsthand acquaintance with the trees.--Prentice and Power.

The volume is not too large to be easily carried while walking.

Lucas, F. A.

Animals of the Past. Illustrated by C. R. Knight and Others. Doubleday. 2.00

The object of this book is to tell some of the interesting facts concerning a few of the better known or more remarkable of these extinct inhabitants of the ancient world.--Introduction.

"Mr. Knight ... is the one modern artist who can picture prehistoric animals with artistic charm of presentation as well as with full scientific accuracy."

While Mr. Lucas did not, in this instance, write for children, they greatly enjoy his descriptions, and are captivated by Mr. Knight's pictures of the strange creatures. There is a very interesting chapter on The Ancestry of the Horse.

"Said the little Eohippus I am going to be a horse And on my middle finger-nails To run my earthly course."

Newcomb, Simon.

Astronomy for Everybody. Doubleday. 2.00

When a work, by an authority as eminent as Professor Newcomb, is interesting to young people, and is to a sufficient degree within their comprehension, it should certainly be put into their hands, even if, as in the present case, it was not specially prepared for them.

Parsons, F.T.

(S.) (formerly

Mrs. W.S. Dana

).

How to Know the Ferns. Scribner. 1.50

This companion to How to Know the Wild Flowers gives in convenient form a great deal of pleasantly told information as to the names, haunts, and habits, of our common ferns. They are arranged in six groups, the classification being based on the frond differences. In almost all cases the nomenclature of Gray's Manual has been followed, and in parentheses, that used in the Illustrated Flora of Britton and Brown is given. Indices to the Latin and English names and to technical terms are included. The many illustrations are helpful.

Rogers, J.E.

The Shell Book. Doubleday. 4.00

Every person interested in shells has felt the need of a manual of the shell-bearing animals of sea and land, comparable to the comprehensive manuals provided for those who wish to study birds or insects or trees.... The plan and nomenclature of this book follow the accepted standard, The Manual of Conchology, by Tryon and Pilsbry.--Preface.

Miss Rogers has made an extensive study of conchology on the east and west coasts of North America. The result is this popular guide to a knowledge of the families of living mollusks, which is also an aid to the identification of shells native and foreign. There is a chapter on the maintenance of aquariums and snaileries. Eight of the plates are in color, and ninety-six in black and white for the most part from photographs by A.R. Dugmore.

Rogers, J.E.

The Tree Book. Doubleday. 4.00

Most of this volume is devoted to teaching us in an interesting manner how to know the trees of North America. There are, in addition, articles on Forestry, The Uses of Wood, and The Life of the Trees. Sixteen of the plates are in color and one hundred and sixty in black and white from photographs by Mr. Dugmore.

St. John, T.M.

Wireless Telegraphy. St. John. 1.00

Theoretical and practical information, together with complete directions for performing numerous experiments on wireless telegraphy with simple home-made apparatus.--Title-page.

Sharp, D.L.

A Watcher in the Woods. Illustrated by Bruce Horsfall. Century. .84

These talks about our small animal neighbors are full of descriptive interest, and the accompanying black and white illustrations are beautiful.

Mr. Burroughs says: Of all the nature books of recent years, I look upon Mr. Sharp's as the best.

Voogt, Gosewinus De.

Our Domestic Animals. Translated by Katharine P. Wormeley. Ginn. 3.50

While this large volume gives much information in regard to the habits, intelligence, and usefulness, of those animals which have helped man's civilization forward, the text is not nearly as interesting as it might have been made. The many illustrations, however, are very satisfactory.

Stories

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,

Are a substantial world, both pure and good:

Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,

Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

Wordsworth.

Bullen, F.T.

The Cruise of the Cachalot. Appleton. 1.50

I've never read anything that equals it in its deep-sea wonder and mystery; nor do I think that any book before has so completely covered the whole business of whale-fishing, and at the same time given such real and new sea pictures.

Rudyard Kipling.

In the following pages an attempt has been made--it is believed for the first time--to give an account of the cruise of a South Sea whaler from the seaman's standpoint.--Preface.

A strong nor'wester's blowing, Bill!

Hark! don't ye hear it roar now?

Lord help 'em, how I pities them

Unhappy folks on shore now!

William Pitt.

Charles, E. (R.).

Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family. Burt. .75

This diary of Reformation days is fictitious, but it serves to bring most vividly before us Luther and the men of his time.

Garland, Hamlin.

The Long Trail. Harper. 1.25

Develops from a conventional and unpromising opening into a vivid realistic story of an ambitious youth's perilous journey to the Klondike. Author writes from personal experience of the overland route, and principal characters reveal qualities of unselfishness, perseverance, and pluck.

New York State Library.

Gaskell, E.C.

(S.).

Cranford. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Macmillan. 1.50

Mrs. Gaskell's masterpiece, which Lord Houghton described as "the finest piece of humoristic description that has been added to British literature since Charles Lamb."

Calm and composure breathe from every page of this picture of life in a small English town during the first half of the nineteenth century. Have we not all in imagination visited Miss Jenkyns and Miss Matty, played preference at Miss Betty Barker's, and helped the Honorable Mrs. Jamieson into her sedan chair? Many girls of fourteen are quite able to appreciate the book's charm.

Irving, Washington.

The Alhambra. Illustrated by Joseph Pennell. Macmillan. 1.50

It will be strange indeed if these fascinating and romantic tales fail to stir the imagination of any young person who reads them and to arouse in him the laudable ambition of some day seeing for himself the three palaces, the mosque, the chapel, and the halls, of the marvellous Alhambra.

The work was the amusement of his leisure moments, filling the interval between the completion of one serious, and now all but unknown, history and the beginning of the next.... And thus his name has become so closely associated with the place that, just as Diedrich Knickerbocker will be remembered while New York stands, so Washington Irving cannot be forgotten so long as the Red Palace looks down upon the Vega and the tradition of the Moor lingers in Granada.

E. R. Pennell.

Irving, Washington.

Bracebridge Hall. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott. Macmillan. 1.50

"The reader, if he has perused the volume of the Sketch Book, will probably recollect something of the Bracebridge family, with which I once passed a Christmas. I am now on another visit at the Hall, having been invited to a wedding which is shortly to take place.... The family mansion is an old manor-house, standing in a retired and beautiful part of Yorkshire. Its inhabitants have been always regarded through the surrounding country as 'the great ones of the earth,' and the little village near the hall looks up to the squire with almost feudal homage.... While sojourning in this stronghold of old fashions, it is my intention to make occasional sketches of the scenes and characters before me." The success of Old Christmas has suggested the republication of its sequel Bracebridge Hall, illustrated by the same able pencil, but condensed so as to bring it within reasonable size and price.--Preface.

Irving, Washington.

Old Christmas. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott. Macmillan. 1.50

No one could be better fitted to depict the old customs of an English Christmas than Mr. Caldecott, and his pictures are a perfect accompaniment to this portion of Washington Irving's Sketch Book.

A man might then behold

At Christmas, in each hall

Good fires to curb the cold,

And meat for great and small.

The neighbors were friendly bidden,

And all had welcome true,

The poor from the gates were not chidden,

When this old cap was new.

Old Song.

Irving, Washington.

Rip Van Winkle, and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Illustrated by G. H. Boughton. Macmillan. 1.50

Irving's two most popular sketches, in which young people delight.

The spirits of this region must have met Washington Irving more than half way, and the rest was like play to him. How real and living are all the people of his fancy! Of all the author's work--serious and humorous ... Rip Van Winkle took the most immediate and lasting grip of his public.

G. H. Boughton.

Irving, Washington.

Rip Van Winkle. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Doubleday. 5.00

Five dollars seems to most of us a large sum to pay for a child's book, but after seeing Mr. Rackham's remarkable work I think we shall all agree that there can be no better way of spending our book-money than in purchasing this fine edition of the famous tale, with its fifty full-page pictures in color.

King, Charles.

Cadet Days. Harper. 1.25

Boys, especially those with military tendencies, will enjoy Captain King's description of life at West Point.

Kingsley, Charles.

Westward Ho! Illustrated by C. E. Brock. Macmillan. 1.50

A glorious tale of the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, a Devon knight of Elizabethan days.

Oh, where be these gay Spaniards,

Which make so great a boast O?

Oh, they shall eat the grey-goose feather,

And we shall eat the roast O!

Cornish Song.

Scott, Walter.

Ivanhoe. Macmillan. 1.25

Scott's masterpiece contains, within the compass of a single volume, sufficient material for five or six books of romance. Incident follows upon incident, and holds the reader, young or old, with entranced attention. The period is that of King Richard I.

Scott, Walter.

Kenilworth. Macmillan. 1.25

The tragic Elizabethan story of Leicester and Amy Robsart. It is not beyond the comprehension of most young people of fourteen.

Scott, Walter.

The Talisman. Macmillan. 1.25

The scene of The Talisman is in Palestine with Richard Cœur de Lion and his allies of the Third Crusade. From the contest on the desert between the Saracen cavalier and the Knight of the Sleeping Leopard to the final Battle of the Standard it is full of interest.

Carnegie Library Of Pittsburgh.

Stevenson, R. L.

Kidnapped. Scribner. 1.50

Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: How he was Kidnapped and Cast away; his Sufferings in a Desert Isle; his Journey in the Wild Highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he Suffered at the hands of his Uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so-called.--Title-page.

Vaile, C.M.

Sue Orcutt. Wilde. 1.50

In this sequel to The Orcutt Girls Sue continues her education, doing a little literary work meanwhile. Instead of writing, however, as she had planned, her happy marriage opens the way for home occupations. The thread of pleasant romance will, of course, add to the book's attraction for girl readers.

Wallace, Dillon.

Ungava Bob. Revell. 1.50

The thrilling adventures of a young trapper in the Labrador and Ungava regions. Incidentally much information is given in an interesting way. Mr. Wallace is well qualified from personal experience to write of this Northern country.

Wiggin, K.D. (S.).

°The Birds' Christmas Carol. Houghton. .50

It is only partially true to call this story a sad one, for it is filled from cover to cover with the Christ-like spirit of love and helpfulness. It tells of little Carol Bird, a patient crippled child, who brought sunshine to all those about her, and who touches every heart. The account of the Christmas dinner which Carol herself gave for the nine little Ruggles children is very amusing. After the happy day, while Christmas hymns were sounding, the dear little girl slipped away to her "ain countree."

Yonge, C.M.

The Dove in the Eagle's Nest. Macmillan. 1.25

Life in the rude days of the Emperor Maximilian I, with scenes in burgh and castle. Under a woman's influence, Schloss Adlerstein is changed from a robber stronghold to an abode of peace.