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New Juveniles.
THE “CAMPING OUT” SERIES.
BY C. A. STEPHENS.
CAMPING OUT.
Illustrated. $1.50.
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It is bright, breezy, wholesome, instructive; with no weakness or
nonsense about it. It stands above the ordinary boys’ books of the day
by a whole head and shoulders. We venture to predict for the series, of
which this is the first volume, a sure success.”--_The Christian
Register._
LEFT ON LABRADOR.
1 vol. 16mo. Illustrated. $1.50.
“It is a rare book for boys, who will revel in its descriptions of
Arctic scenery, of sports among the regions of cold, of the sights
presented, snowy owls, narwhals, bears, and sea-horses. Then, the perils
of the voyagers, their narrow escapes, their strange expedients, and the
fun and jollity when danger had passed, will cheat young eyes of sleep,
and make boys unconscious of hunger.”--_New Bedford Mercury._
OFF TO THE GEYSERS.
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from first to last. It is difficult to believe that Wade and Raed and
Kit and Wash were not live boys, sailing up Hudson’s Straits, and
reigning temporarily over an Esquimaux tribe; voyaging to Iceland, and
lodging in the village of Reykjalith with a farmer, who read to them in
the evenings out of the ‘Grettir Saga.’ The last half of the volume,
‘Off to the Geysers,’ is chiefly this beautiful and poetic Saga,
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TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST.
By RICHARD H. DANA, JR.
_NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION._
$1.50.
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original work, but we may say that his added chapter, ‘Twenty-four Years
After,’ is of very rare interest.”--_London Spectator._
⁂ For sale by Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, on receipt of price by the
Publishers,
JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO., Boston.
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