BOYDEN (Anna L.).
ECHOES FROM HOSPITAL AND WHITE HOUSE. 12mo, 1.00. (=4=)
"Anna L. Boyden has undertaken to commemorate the services of Mrs. Rebecca R. Pomroy in the hospitals of the army and in the family of President Lincoln during the Rebellion. The book is a well-written, earnest account of Mrs. Pomroy's valuable work as a nurse, and, as such, an addition which all will be glad to have to the bibliography of the late War."--_Chicago Tribune._
BOYESEN (Hjalmar Hjorth).
VAGABOND TALES. Square 12mo, 1.25.
A collection of characteristic novellettes by one of the mostentertaining and most popular of modern story-tellers. No writerliving--scarcely excepting even the great Bjornstein--so thoroughlyunderstands the Norse character and when into this is infused theAmerican element, the success of Prof. Boyesen's tales is easilyunderstood. There is a breeziness, a vigor and a manliness about hischaracters that captivate the reader at once and combine dramaticforce with literary skill. The stories included in this volume are:Crooked John; A Child of the Age; Monk Tellenbach's Exile; A DisastrousPartnership; Liberty's Victim; A Perilous Incognito; Charity.
BOY'S WORKSHOP (A).
By a Boy and his Friends. With an introduction by Henry Randall Waite.Illustrated, 12mo, 1.00.
"Written by 'a boy and his friends,' and takes you right into _A Boy's Workshop_; tells you how to make and to use a saw-horse and a work-bench; how to use tools and to care for them; lets you into the secret of book-rests, foot-rests, tables, cabinets, catch-alls, etc.; shows you how to build wooden tents, make a fernery, construct a railway and train, bind magazines, take photographs, tie knots, and do a great many other things. It is a book that every boy would like to have, and that he ought to have."--_Advance_, Chicago.
"Next to actual service with an intelligent carpenter or cabinet-maker this book is to be valued for its instruction in the art and mystery of tools."--_Christian Advocate_, New York.
BRAVE GIRLS.
12mo, illustrated, 1.50.
When young people see the name of Nora Perry, Mary Hartwell Catherwoodor Frank H. Converse appended to a story, they prick up their ears atonce, for they have learned to expect something of unusual interest.They will not be disappointed when they open this book and read aboutGlen Hastings, Kate Oxford, Sharly Raymond and Bessy May--brave girlsevery one, but in divers ways. Other writers almost as well known asthese favorites have helped in no slight degree to swell this tributeto the girls.
FAITH AND ACTION.
Selections from the writings of F. D. Maurice. With preface by Rev.Phillips Brooks, D. D. 12mo, 1.00.
Few English clergymen are better known in this country than FredericD. Maurice, whose untimely death, some years ago, deprived not onlyEngland, but the Christian world, of one of its ablest religiousteachers. He devoted a great deal of his time to the social andreligious needs of the common people.
Maurice was a dear friend of Tennyson. The following lines in one ofthe poet's best-known pieces refer to his friend:
"How best to help the slender store, How mend the dwellings of the poor, How gain in life as life advances, Valor and charity more and more."
FARMAN (Ella). (Mrs. C. S. Pratt.)
Ella Farman is the editor of WIDE AWAKE, and her books are full ofsympathy with girl-life, always sunshiny and hopeful, always pointingout new ways to do things and unexpected causes for happiness andgladness.
THE COOKING-CLUB OF TU-WHIT HOLLOW. 12mo, illustrated, 1.25.
The practical instructions in housewifery, which are abundant, areset in the midst of a bright wholesome story. Girls who read thisbook will not be able to keep house at once, but they will learn todo some things, and they will have an hour or two of genuine pleasurein discovering how there came to be a cooking-club and in tracing itshistory.
GOOD-FOR-NOTHING POLLY. 12mo, illustrated, 1.00.
Polly is not a girl at all, but a boy, a slangy, school-hating,fun-loving, wilful, big-hearted boy. "Nagged" continually at home, hewastes his time upon the streets and finally runs away. The book tellsof his adventures. Mrs. Pratt has a keen insight into the joys andsorrows of the little appreciated boy-life. Like Robert J. Burdette,she is a master of humor and often touches a tender chord of pathos.Every boy will be delighted with this book and every mother ought toread it who is, all unwittingly perhaps, "freezing" her own noisy boyout of the home.
"'Good-for-Nothing Polly' will doubtless gain the admiration and win the graces of as large a circle of readers in England as it has already done in the United States."--_Bookseller_, London.
HOW TWO GIRLS TRIED FARMING. 12mo, illustrated, 1.00.
A narrative of an actual experience.
"The two girls who tried farming solved a problem by taking the bull by the horns, and that is often as effectual a means as can be resorted to. They had for capital one thousand dollars. With this they bought thirty-five acres of scraggy farm land. Then they hired out as lady help for the winter and laid by enough money to buy clover seed, and a horse and a few other necessities. Dolly had learned to plough and harrow and make hay, and even to cut wood. Both girls worked hard and it is pleasant to chronicle their success. Now they have a prosperous farm, and raise cows, sheep, pigs and chickens, and as they do everything to the best of their ability, their products are in constant demand."--_St. Louis Post Despatch._
"We recommend it to those girls who are wearing out their lives at the sewing-machine, behind counters or even at the teacher's desk."--_New York Herald._
"The success of the farm is almost surpassed by the charm of the record. It shows a touch of refinement and a degree of literary skill no less uncommon than the enterprise which has converted a bleak hill-top of Michigan into a smiling garden."--_New York Tribune._
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