He mused at the great richness not only in Bohemia's real historic past but in her legendary lore; how everything about the city has its story. On the hills towards which he was turned, Vlasta, the leader of an Amazon band, made her stand in the early days against Prince Premysl; near him was the tower of Daliborka, where a noble was once imprisoned and said to have found solace in a violin. Since then ghostly music is said to haunt the place. Of the alchemists who lived near by in the Street of Gold, a street of the tiniest, most brightly-hued houses imaginable, he recalled the strange tales told. In the very courts of the palace, legends mingled with history. A peculiar feeling that he had never experienced before came over him. To live in Praha, he felt, was not the prosaic, everyday life he had always known; it was living a brightly colored romance too disturbing for him to get used to now. His own dear Slovakia, with its quiet, simple life, was better for him. The next day the new President arrived from abroad, and was installed in office. That was the greatest day of all in Praha. The feeling of the multitude was expressed by one old man who said, "I shall weep no more for my dead, since they helped make the fairy tale come true that brutal force no longer rules, that a proud, deserving nation is freed at last from a bondage to which so long the world was indifferent." THE END Selections from The Page Company's Books for Young People THE BLUE BONNET SERIES _Each large 12mo, cloth decorative, illustrated, per volume_ $1.50 =A TEXAS BLUE BONNET= By CAROLINE E. JACOBS. "The book's heroine, Blue Bonnet, has the very finest kind of wholesome, honest, lively girlishness."--_Chicago Inter-Ocean._ =BLUE BONNET'S RANCH PARTY= By CAROLINE E. JACOBS AND EDYTH ELLERBECK READ. "A healthy, natural atmosphere breathes from every chapter."--_Boston Transcript._ =BLUE BONNET IN BOSTON;= OR, BOARDING-SCHOOL DAYS AT MISS NORTH'S. By CAROLINE E. JACOBS AND LELA HORN RICHARDS. "It is bound to become popular because of its wholesomeness and its many human touches."--_Boston Globe._ =BLUE BONNET KEEPS HOUSE;= OR, THE NEW HOME IN THE EAST. By CAROLINE E. JACOBS AND LELA HORN RICHARDS. "It cannot fail to prove fascinating to girls in their teens."--_New York Sun._ =BLUE BONNET--DÉBUTANTE= By LELA HORN RICHARDS. An interesting picture of the unfolding of life for Blue Bonnet. THE YOUNG PIONEER SERIES By HARRISON ADAMS _Each 12mo, cloth decorative, illustrated, per volume_ $1.50 =THE PIONEER BOYS OF THE OHIO;= OR, CLEARING THE WILDERNESS. "Such books as this are an admirable means of stimulating among the young Americans of to-day interest in the story of their pioneer ancestors and the early days of the Republic."--_Boston Globe._ =THE PIONEER BOYS ON THE GREAT LAKES;= OR, ON THE TRAIL OF THE IROQUOIS.