Volume XVII. With 1276 Pages, and about 1200 Illustrations. 4to, Cloth, Ornamental, $3.50. It is doubtful if any other book issued at this holiday season contains so many stories for young readers as this volume.--_San Francisco Chronicle._ The book is one which is sure to delight all the children.--_Detroit Free Press._ A pronounced success as an educational means of great value.--_Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph._ A Virginia Cavalier A Story of the Boyhood of George Washington. By MOLLY ELLIOT SEAWELL. Illustrated. Post 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1.50. An absorbing tale.--_Philadelphia Bulletin._ Rick Dale A Story of the Northwest Coast. By KIRK MUNROE. Illustrated by W. A. ROGERS. Post 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1.25. A "capital story."--_Book Buyer_, N. Y. Naval Actions of the War of 1812 By JAMES BARNES. With 21 Full-page Illustrations by CARLTON T. CHAPMAN, printed in color, and 12 Reproductions of Medals. 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, Deckel Edges and Gilt Top, $4.50. Brimful of adventure, hardihood, and patriotism.--_Philadelphia Ledger._ The Ship's Company And Other Sea People. By J. D. JERROLD KELLEY, Lieutenant-Commander U.S.N. Copiously Illustrated. 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $2.50. A great storehouse of charm.--_Boston Transcript._ The Dwarfs' Tailor And Other Fairy Tales. Collected by ZOE DANA UNDERHILL. With 12 Illustrations. Post 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1.75. The twenty-two tales form a cosmopolitan array that cannot fail to delight young readers.--_Chicago Tribune._ For King or Country A Story of the American Revolution. By JAMES BARNES. Illustrated. Post 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1.50. A manly, straightaway narrative, with the adventures of a reasonable, practicable kind.--_Life_, N. Y. Tommy Toddles By ALBERT LEE. Illustrated by PETER S. NEWELL. Square 16mo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1.25. Every child in the land should have this book.--_Interior_, Chicago. Shakespeare the Boy With Sketches of the Home and School Life, the Games and Sports, the Manners, Customs, and Folk-lore of the Time. By WILLIAM J. ROLFE, Litt.D., Editor of "Rolfe's English Classics," etc. Illustrated. Post 8vo, Cloth, $1.25. At once fascinating and instructive, and will be found as readable by the elders as by the youth.--_Watchman_, Boston. * * * * * HARPER & BROTHERS, Publishers, New York [Illustration: MY LITTLE POET] My little poet one spring day Walked out along the country way; His heart was light and merry. He wisely said, "'Twere best I bring Along with me, prepared to sing, My rhyming dictionary." [Illustration] My little poet's arm I took, And asked if he'd within his book A word to rhyme with _notions_; He shook his little curly head, And arched his brows, and laughed, and said: "Oh yes, indeed! There's _oceans_!" J. R. CONNER.