Children -- Books and reading; Children's literature -- Bibliography; Children's literature -- History and criticism
PORTER, JANE--The Scottish Chiefs. Dutton, $2.50. (Ill., T. H.
Robinson. A Story of William Wallace. Miss Aguilar’s book, “In the
Days of Bruce,” is considered a sequel.)
Thaddeus of Warsaw. [Various editions: Coates, Burt, Routledge,
Warne.]
PYLE, HOWARD--Men of Iron. (A 14th-century story.) Harper, $2.00.
SCOTT, SIR WALTER--Ivanhoe. Macmillan, $1.25.
The Talisman. Macmillan, $1.25.
Quentin Durward. Macmillan, $1.25.
Rob Roy. Macmillan, $1.25. [As an introduction, these should lead
the way to others.]
SEAWELL, M. E.--Little Jarvis. Appleton, $1.00.
STOWE, HARRIET B.--Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Houghton, $1.00. (Ill., Kemble,
$4.00.) [This is reluctantly included; many are strongly in favor
of keeping from children such partisan writing; the cause for
sectional feeling has been removed to an extent.]
TOMLINSON, E. T.--Boy Officers of 1812. Lothrop, Lee, $1.25.
Search for Andrew Field. Lothrop, Lee, $1.25.
TWAIN, MARK (pseud, of Samuel L. Clemens)--The Prince and the Pauper.
(16th century.) Harper, $1.75.
WALLACE, LEW--Ben Hur. (A Tale of the Christ.) Harper, $1.50 to $10.00.
YONGE, CHARLOTTE M.--The Lances of Lynwood, Lothrop, Lee, $1.00. [Miss
Yonge on children’s reading is seen to great advantage.]
INDIAN STORIES
BAYLOR, FRANCES C. (Mrs. F. C. [B.] Belger.)--Juan and Juanita.
Houghton, $1.50.
BROOKS, NOAH--The Boy Emigrants. Scribner, $1.25.
The Boy Settlers. (Early times in Kansas.) Scribner, $1.25.
CATHERWOOD, MARY HARTWELL--Heroes of the Middle West. Ginn, $0.50.
COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE--Deerslayer. Houghton, $1.00.
The Spy. Houghton, $1.00; Appleton, $1.50. [The entire
Leatherstocking series should be read.]
The Last of the Mohicans. Houghton, $1.00.
CUSTER, MRS. E. B.--Boots and Saddles. Harper, $1.50. [An account of
life in camp out West, and of her husband’s career. Campaigns
against the Indians are described. A second book is called “Tenting
on the Plains.” Harper, $1.50.]
DEMING, E. W.--Little Indian-Folk. Stokes, $1.25.
Little Red People. Stokes, $1.25. [_Vide_ the same author’s “Indian
Child Life.” Stokes, $2.00.]
DRAKE, F. S.--Indian History for Young Folks. Harper, $3.00.
EASTMAN, CHARLES A.--Indian Boyhood. McClure, $1.60 net.
MUNROE, KIRK--The Flamingo Feather. (A tale of Huguenots and
Spaniards.) Harper, $0.60.
STODDARD, W. O.--Little Smoke. (A tale of the Sioux.) Appleton, $1.50.
Red Mustang. Harper, $0.60.
Two Arrows. Harper, $0.60.
STORIES
ABBOT, ALICE BALCH--A Frigate’s Namesake. Century, $1.00.
ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY--Eight Cousins. Little, Brown, $1.50.
Little Women. _Ibid._
Little Men. _Ibid._
Old Fashioned Girl. _Ibid._
ALDEN, W. L.--Cruise of the Canoe Club. Harper, $0.60.
ANDREWS, JANE--The Seven Little Sisters who Lived on the Round Ball
That Floats in the Air. Lothrop, Lee, $1.00.
Ten Boys who Lived on the Road from Long Ago to Now. Lothrop, Lee,
$1.00.
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