"An eminently wholesome and good book."--_Zion's Herald._ "An excellent story for boys, inculcating the valuable truth that whether a boy be rich or poor he should learn to work. There is also a good temperance lesson taught; and it is all told in a simple way, that ought to interest young readers."--_Literary World._ RIVERSIDE MUSEUM. "Thoroughly healthy in tone."--_Nation._ "A very charming story for young folks."--_Inter-Ocean._ "In a pleasant, easy style, the writer shows how children aiming at improvement can find around a village the objects in Nature which develop thought and knowledge."--_Christian Intelligencer._ THE FITCH CLUB. "A very interesting and very profitable story."--_Hartford Post._ "The author has a happy way of telling a story in just the style calculated to interest boys."--_Christian Union._ "A pure and interesting story for the boys and girls. Ways and means of doing many useful things are so naturally and pleasantly told that the information does not appear like teaching, but like story-telling." --_Kansas City Times._ PROFESSOR JOHNNY. "An admirable book for teaching boys the science of common things."--_Home Journal._ "Combines scientific information, wise moral instruction, and capital entertainment in good proportions."--_The Congregationalist._ "It is characterized by that uncommon thing--common sense."--_Christian Index._ WHO SAVED THE SHIP. "Good wholesome reading."--_Milwaukee Sentinel._ "One of the brightest books of the season."--_Ohio State Journal._ "Admirable in tone and full of interest."--_Boston Traveller._ THE GIANT DWARF. "Young and old will read the story with pleasure."--_Philadelphia Inquirer._ "The author of 'Birchwood,' 'Prof. Johnny,' and other tales, will always be sure of a welcome among young people, and 'The Giant Dwarf' will be found to rank among his most fascinating work."--_Boston Traveller._ THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO. 13 ASTOR PLACE, NEW YORK. $1500 PRIZE STORY. THE BLIND BROTHER. _A STORY OF THE MINES._ By HOMER GREENE. 12mo, cloth. 230 pp. 14 illustrations. 90 cents. "The recent prize competition for stories, held by the publishers of the _Youth's Companion_, called forth about 5000 aspirants for literary honors, among that multitude, Mr. Homer Greene, of Honesdale, Pa., whose story, the Blind Brother, took the first prize of $1500, probably the largest sum ever paid for a story to a hitherto comparatively unknown writer. The Blind Brother deals with life in the coal-mining region of the Wyoming Valley, and is remarkable for its dramatic intensity, power of characterization, humor and pathos." "There are 4,000,000 boys in the United States from 10 to 16 years of age. This story was written for them. We wish every one of the number to read it. A style of writing more simple, clear, direct, forcible, and attractive could not be desired."--_National Republican_, Washington, D. C.