------------------------------------------------------------------------ COMPANION STORIES OF COUNTRY LIFE FOR BOYS By CHARLES P. BURTON ------------------------------------ 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 at being Indians, hear thrilling tales of real Indians, and learn much frontier 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 many adventures. Mr. Burton brings in tales told around a camp-fire of La Salle, 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. HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY PUBLISHERS NEW YORK ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 the midst of the humorous incident in his life which later formed the basis of “She Stoops to Conquer.” A Christmas Eve With Charles Dickens reveals the author as a poor factory boy in a lodging-house, dreaming of an old-time family Christmas. When Heine was Twenty-one dramatizes the early disobedience of the author in writing poetry against his uncle’s orders.