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$1.50.
A family story of city life. Lightened by humor and an airship.
"Among the very best of books for young folks. Appeals especially to girls."--Wisconsin List for Township Libraries.
"Promises to be perennially popular. A family of happy, healthy, inventive, bright children make the best of restricted conditions and prove themselves masters of circumstances."--Christian Register.
"Sparkles with cleverness and humor."--Brooklyn Eagle.
COCK-A-DOODLE HILL A sequel to the above. Illustrated by Francis Day. 296 pp., 12mo. $1.50.
"Cockle-a-doodle Hill" is where the Dudley Graham family went to livewhen they left New York, and here Ernie started her chicken-farm, withone solitary fowl, "Hennerietta." The pictures of country scenes and theadventures and experiences of this household of young people are verylife-like.
"No better book for young people than 'The Luck of the Dudley Grahams' was offered last year. 'Cock-a-Doodle Hill' is another of similar qualities."--Philadelphia Press.
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COMPANION STORIES OF COUNTRY LIFE FOR BOYS By CHARLES P. BURTON
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THE BOYS OF BOB'S HILL Illustrated by George A. Williams. 12mo. $1.25.
A lively story of a party of boys in a small New England town.
"A first-rate juvenile ... a real story for the live human boy--any boy will read it eagerly to the end ... quite thrilling adventures." --Chicago Record-Herald.
"Tom Sawyer would have been a worthy member of the Bob's Hill crowd and shared their good times and thrilling adventures with uncommon relish.... A jolly group of youngsters as nearly true to the real thing in boy nature as one can ever expect to find between covers."--Christian Register.
THE BOB'S CAVE BOYS Illustrated by Victor Perard. $1.50.
"It would be hard to find anything better in the literature of New England boy life. Healthy, red-blooded, human boys, full of fun, into trouble and out again, but frank, honest, and clean." --The Congregationalist.
THE BOB'S HILL BRAVES Illustrated by H. S. DeLay. 12mo. $1.50.
The "Bob's Hill" band spend a vacation in Illinois, where they play atbeing Indians, hear thrilling tales of real Indians, and learn muchfrontier history. A history of especial interest to "Boy Scouts."
"Merry youngsters. Capital. Thrilling tales of the red men and explorers. These healthy red-blooded, New England boys." --Philadelphia Press.
THE BOY SCOUTS OF BOB'S HILL Illustrated by Gordon Grant. 12mo. $1.25 net.
The "Bob's Hill" band organizes a Boy Scouts band and have manyadventures. Mr. Burton brings in tales told around a camp-fire of LaSalle, Joliet, the Louisiana Purchase, and the Northwestern Reservation.
CAMP BOB'S HILL Illustrated by Gordon Grant. $1.25 net.
A tale of Boy Scouts on their summer vacation.
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SHORT PLAYS ABOUT FAMOUS AUTHORS
(Goldsmith, Dickens, Heine, Fannie Burney, Shakespeare)
By Maude Morrison Frank. $1.00 net.
The Mistake at the Manor shows the fifteen-year-old Goldsmith in themidst of the humorous incident in his life which later formed the basisof "She Stoops to Conquer."
A Christmas Eve With Charles Dickens reveals the author as a poorfactory boy in a lodging-house, dreaming of an old-time familyChristmas.
When Heine was Twenty-one dramatizes the early disobedience of theauthor in writing poetry against his uncle's orders.
Miss Burney at Court deals with an interesting incident in the life ofthe author of "Evelina" when she was at the Court of George III.
The Fairies' Plea, which is an adaptation of Thomas Hood's poem, showsShakespeare intervening to save the fairies from the scythe of Time.
Designed in general for young people near enough to the college age tofeel an interest in the personal and human aspects of literature, butthe last two could easily be handled by younger actors. They cansuccessfully be given by groups or societies of young people without theaid of a professional coach.
LITTLE PLAYS FROM AMERICAN HISTORY FOR YOUNG FOLKS
By Alice Johnstone Walker. $1.00 net.
Hiding the Regicides, a number of brief and stirring episodes,concerning the pursuit of Colonels Whalley and Goff by the officers ofCharles II at New Haven in old colony days.
Mrs. Murray's Dinner Party, in three acts, is a lively comedy about aPatriot hostess and British Officers in Revolutionary Days.
Scenes from Lincoln's Time; the martyred President does not himselfappear. They cover Lincoln's helping a little girl with her trunk, womenpreparing lint for the wounded, a visit to the White House of animportant delegation from New York, and of the mother of a soldier boysentenced to death--and the coming of the army of liberation to thedarkies.
Tho big events are touched upon, the mounting of all these little playsis simplicity itself, and they have stood the test of frequent schoolperformance.
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