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*FOR YOUNG PEOPLE*
*ROYAL ROGUES*
By ALBERTA BANCROFT. With Illustrations by Louis Betts. 12mo. $1.25
There are few healthy-minded folk, whatever their time of life, who willnot confess to a fondness for fairy tales of the right sort. "RoyalRogues" has that quality which makes a children's book win the hearts ofgrown-ups. The heroes are merry twin rogues, king's sons of course, butwith a strain of fairy blood in their veins. Wildly strange anddelightful are their explorations in the realms of fairyland.
"A charming story ... must be accounted one of the prettiest andcleverest of modern fairy stories."--_Worcester Spy_.
*ON BOARD A WHALER*
An Adventurous Cruise through Southern Seas. By THOMAS WEST HAMMOND.With 16 full-page illustrations by HARRY GEORGE BURGESS. 12mo. $1.25
"Thrilling throughout.... In the name of American youth, we thank Mr.Hammond for resuscitating a memory that had slumbered so long."--_Com.Advertiser_.
"The yarn he spins of that and other trips in search of oil is one ofthe best I ever read. It is indeed a thrilling, exciting, dangerousstory of the sea, a tale of personal experience put into book form by asbrave a sailor as ever chased whales, and it is full of that local colorwhich makes a fellow's blood tingle as he turns the pages. Theillustrations are excellent."--HENRY HAYNIE in _The Boston Times_.
*Tales of the Heroic Ages.*
By ZENAIDE A. RAGOZIN, author of "Chaldea," "Vedic India," etc.
No. I.--Siegfried the Hero of the North, and Beowulf, the Hero of theAnglo-Saxons. Illustrated. 12mo. $1.50
No. II.--Frithjof, the Viking of Norway, and Roland, the Paladin ofFrance. Illustrated. 12mo. $1.50
No. III.--Salammbo the Maid of Carthage. Illustrated. 12mo. $1.50
"The author is one who knows her subject as a scholar, and has the skilland imagination to construct her stories admirably. Her style is terseand vivid, well adapted to interest the young in these dignified andthrilling tales."--_Dial_.
*Plutarch for Boys and Girls.*
Selected and Edited by JOHN S. WHITE. Illustrated. 8vo. $1.75
Library edition. 2 vols. 16vo. $2.50
"It is a pleasure to see in so beautiful and elegant a form one of thegreat books of the world. The best Plutarch for youngreaders."--_Literary World_.
"Shows admirable scholarship and judgment."--Critic.
*Pliny for Boys and Girls.*
The Natural History of Pliny the Elder.
Edited by JOHN S. WHITE.
With 52 illustrations. 4to. $2.00
"Mr. White's selections are admirably made. He has gleaned in alldirections for his notes, and the result is one which reflects on himgreat credit, and adds another to the number of juvenile books which maybe commended without reservation."--_Independent_.
"For the libraries of the young--and every boy and girl in the landshould collect a library of their own--these superb books have a specialadaptation; they open the classics to them."--_Boston Journal ofEducation_.
*Herodotus for Boys and Girls.*
Edited by JOHN S. WHITE. With 50 illustrations. 8vo. $1.75
Library edition. 2 vols. 16vo. $2.50
"The book really contains those parts of Herodotus which a judiciousparent would most likely have his boys and girls acquainted with, andMr. White has succeeded in condensing these by omitting multitudes ofphrases inserted in the Greek text. The print is so large and clearthat no one need fear that it will foster a tendency to near-sightednesson the part of boy or girl.--_Nation_.
*The Travels of Marco Polo.*
Edited for Boys and Girls, with explanatory notes and comments, byTHOMAS W. KNOX. With over 200 illustrations. 8vo. $1.75
"To the student of geography Marco Polo needs no introduction. He isrevered as the greatest of all travellers in the Middle Ages, and bymore than one careful geographer his work is believed to have led to thediscovery of the New World by the Hardy Mariner of Genoa.... The storyof his travels was received with incredulity, and he died while Europewas gravely doubting its truth. It has remained for later generationsto establish the correctness of his narrative and accord him the praisehe so richly deserves."
*G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, NEW YORK AND LONDON*