SCRIBNER'S BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
Reading edition
Scribner's List of Juvenile Books.
The great legend of the Nibelungen told to boys and girls.
THE STORY OF SIEGFRIED.
BY JAMES BALDWIN
With a series of superb illustrations by Howard Pyle.
Mr. Baldwin has at last given "The Story of Siegfried" in the way in which it most appeals to the boy-reader,—simply and strongly told, with all its fire and action, yet without losing any of that strange charm of the myth, and that heroic pathos, which every previous attempt at a version, even for adult readers, has failed to catch.
THE STORY OF ROLAND.
BY JAMES BALDWIN
With a series of illustrations by R. B. Birch.
This volume is intended as a companion to "The Story of Siegfried." As Siegfried was an adaptation of Northern myths and romances to the wants and the understanding of young readers, so is this story a similar adaptation of the middle-age romances relating to Charlemagne and his paladins. As Siegfried was the greatest of the heroes of the North, so, too, was Roland the most famous among the knights of the Middle Ages.
"We congratulate the boys of the land upon the appearance of this book. We commend it to parents who are selecting literature for their children, assured, as we are, that it will convince them that books may be found which will engage the attention, and stimulate the imagination, of the young, without dissipating the mind, or blunting the moral sensibilities."—Philadelphia Messenger.
THE AMERICAN BOY'S HANDY BOOK;
Or, WHAT TO DO AND HOW TO DO IT.
BY DANIEL C. BEARD.
THE FIRST REALLY PRACTICAL BOY'S BOOK.
With three hundred illustrations by the author. One volume
Mr. Beard's book is the first to tell the active, inventive, and practical American boy the things he really wants to know, the thousand things he wants to do, and the ten thousand ways in which he can do them, with the helps and ingenious contrivances which every boy can either procure or make.
The author divides the book among the sports of the four seasons; and he has made an almost exhaustive collection of the cleverest modern devices, besides himself inventing an immense number of capital and practical ideas.
THE BOY'S Library of Legend and Chivalry.
EDITED BY SIDNEY LANIER, And richly illustrated by Fredericks, Bensell, and Kappes.
KNIGHTLY LEGENDS OF WALES
THE BOY'S PERCY
"Amid all the strange and fanciful scenery of these stories, character and the ideals of character remain at the simplest and the purest. The romantic history transpires in the healthy atmosphere of the open air, on the green earth beneath the open sky.... The figures of Right, Truth, Justice, Honor, Purity, Courage, Reverence for Law, are always in the background; and the grand passion inspired by the book is for strength to do well and nobly in the world."—The Independent.
THE BOY'S MABINOGION.
Being the earliest Welsh tales of King Arthur in the famous Red Book of Hergest. Edited for boys, with an Introduction by Sidney Lanier. With twelve full-page illustrations by Alfred Fredericks.
THE BOY'S KING ARTHUR.
Being Sir Thomas Mallory's History of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. Edited for boys, with an Introduction by Sidney Lanier. With twelve full-page illustrations by Alfred Kappes.
THE BOY'S FROISSART.
Being Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of Adventure, Battle, and Custom in England, France, Spain, etc. Edited for boys, with an Introduction by Sidney Lanier. With twelve full-page illustrations by Alfred Kappes.
THE BOY'S PERCY.
With fifty text and full-page illustrations by E. B. Bensell.
Mr. Lanier's books, which made him the companion and friend of half the boys of the country, and showed his remarkable talent for guiding them into the best parts of this ideal world, fitly close by giving the best of the ballads in their purest and strongest form, from Bishop Percy's famous collection. With "The Boy's Froissart," "The Boy's King Arthur," "The Mabinogion," and "The Boy's Percy," Mr. Lanier's readers have the full circle of heroes.