Governesses -- Fiction; Love stories; New England -- Fiction; Young women -- Fiction
By MRS. E. P. MILLER. A kindergarten of the most useful knowledge for
children, 450 illustrations. “Every lover of children and of truth
will be interested in this charming book; every house in the land
should have a copy; it will entertain and instruct more truly and
more sensibly than any other book. It is made up of simple stories
in verse, the jingle of which may be music in the children’s ears,
and the pictures a delight to little eyes; made in a form to attract
the attention of the smallest children, and one to readily fix in
their memory the stories told.” Cloth bound.
1.50
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY COOK BOOK.
By MRS. C. F. MORITZ and ADELE KAHN. A modern and complete household
cook book such as this is, since cooking has come to be a science no
less than an art must find a welcome and become the most popular
cook book of all the many now published.
“It can hardly be realized that there is anything worth eating
that its receipt cannot be found in this volume. This volume has
been carefully compiled and contains not only the receipts for
an elaborate menu, but also the modest ones have been
considered.”—_Bookseller and Newsman._ Bound in oil cloth, for
kitchen use.
1.50
THE WHITE DEVIL OF VERDE.
By LUCIE FRANCE PIERCE. This is a story of pure love and stirring
action. It is crisp, bright, often thrilling and is exceptionally
well-written, the style is clear, and the plot distinctly life-like.
There is not a character introduced that does not make an immediate
and successful appeal to the imagination of the reader. It is a
delightful tale of Western life. Cloth bound.
1.25
TRUE DETECTIVE STORIES.
From the Pinkerton Archives. By CLEVELAND MOFFETT. The absorbing
stories told here by Mr. Moffett are statements of actual facts
repeated without exaggeration or false coloring. The author, by the
help of the Pinkerton Agency, has given the inside history of famous
cases which the general public only know of through newspaper
accounts. Cloth bound.
.75
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ARTEMUS WARD.
(CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE.)
With a biographical sketch of the author by MELVILLE D. LANDON. The
present edition is of a work which has been for more than thirty
years prominently before the public, and which may justly be said to
have maintained a standard character. It is issued because of a
demand for a _better edition_ than has ever been published.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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