IN DESPERATION over the hard times they had on account of their many enemies, the Hares came together and, after rehearsing their situation, came to the sad conclusion that nothing was left to them but to drown themselves as the most miserable and unfortunate of creatures. They repaired to a pond to throw themselves off a rock into the water and thus make an end of their troubles. A shoal of frogs were sitting around the edge of the pond, and at the approach of the Hares they were startled, and with the greatest confusion jumped into the water. Whereupon the foremost of the Hares said to his fellows: “Nay, then, friends, our case may not be as desperate as we thought. Here are other creatures more faint-hearted than are we.” THE EAGLE AND THE FOX AN EAGLE and a Fox had lived together as good neighbors, the former on the summit of a high tree, the latter in a hole at the foot of it. One day when the Fox was abroad, the Eagle swooped down and snatched the Fox’s cub and carried it up to her nest, thinking that her high dwelling made her secure from the Fox’s revenge. The Fox returning upbraided the Eagle for such a breach of confidence and begged to have her young one returned to her. Finding that her entreaties availed nothing, the Fox snatched a brand from an altar fire which had been lighted hard by and proceeded to involve the whole tree in flames. The Eagle, to protect her nest and her own young ones, restored the cub to its mother, which she would not do in answer to the most earnest entreaties. ANNOUNCEMENTS CLASSICS FOR CHILDREN THIS popular series of classics is now in process of revision. Distinguishing features of the new volumes are the attractive bindings, the clear and inviting type page, and the many drawings by well-known illustrators of children’s books. The series now includes over fifty volumes of the best in the world’s literature, and the titles have been chosen for their genuine appeal to young people. Æsop: Fables (Stickney). Illustrated by Bull The Herford Æsop. Fifty Fables in Verse. Illustrated by the author Andersen: Fairy Tales. First Series (Stickney). Illustrated by Hart Second Series (Stickney). Illustrated by Hart Arabian Nights’ Entertainments (Lane). Illustrated by Winckler Bunyan: Pilgrim’s Progress. Illustrated by Bennett Burt: Stories from Plato and other Classic Writers Carroll: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Long). Illustrated by Herford Cervantes: Don Quixote (Wheaton) Chamisso: Peter Schlemihl (Alger) Chesterfield: Letters (Ginn) Church: Stories of the Old World. Illustrated by Copeland Cooper: The Spy (Griffin). Illustrated by Bridgman Defoe: Robinson Crusoe (Trent). Illustrated by Copeland Dickens: Tale of Two Cities (Linn) Dodge: Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates (Lowe). Illustrated by Gallagher Epictetus (Ginn) Ewing: Jackanapes (Bryant). Illustrated by Gallagher