Story-like descriptions, illustrated by pictures of life in
far-away and unknown lands, certain to appeal to a child’s vivid
imagination.
CHILDREN’S BOOK OF STARS
By G. E. MITTON.
With 11 full-page illustrations in color and other illustrations.
Dec. cloth, 8vo, $2.00 net; by mail $2.15.
A capital introduction to astronomy written in a most pleasing
manner for children’s comprehension and interest and well
illustrated.
CHILDREN’S BOOK OF GARDENING
MRS. ALFRED SIDGWICK and MRS. PAYNTER.
With 12 full-page illustrations in color by Mrs. Cayley-Robinson.
Dec. cloth, 12mo, $2.00 net; by mail $2.15.
Tells the juvenile reader how to make his garden grow. It is
written from a child’s point of view and supplies the information a
child can use.
CHILDREN’S BOOK OF CELTIC STORIES
By ELIZABETH W. GRIERSON.
With 12 full-page illustrations in color by Allan Stewart.
Dec. cloth, 8vo, $2.00 net; by mail $2.15.
A collection of stories, some of them strange and weird, but quite
as fascinating as any of the better known fairy tales. They are
retold in words as near the original as possible.
CHILDREN’S TALES FROM SCOTTISH BALLADS
By ELIZABETH W. GRIERSON.
With 12 full-page illustrations in color by Allan Stewart.
Dec. cloth, 8vo, $2.00 net; by mail $2.15.
Seventeen of the most famous Scottish ballads retold in simple
English for children.
CHILDREN’S TALES OF ENGLISH MINSTERS
By ELIZABETH W. GRIERSON.
With 12 full-page illustrations in color by various artists.
Dec. cloth, 8vo, $2.00 net; by mail, $2.15. Also separately:
Canterbury, Durham, Ely, Lincoln, St. Albans, St. Paul’s, York. Each
with a colored illustration, 50 cents net; by mail 55 cents.
Stories of saints, monarchs, statesmen and warriors connected with
the founding of ten of the best known English cathedrals.
CHILDREN’S BOOK OF LONDON
By G. E. MITTON.
With 12 full-page illustrations in color by John Williamson.
Dec. cloth, 8vo, $2.00 net; by mail $2.15.
“A book as thoroughly charming as it is variously instructive ...
fitted to kindle in the imagination of a child a lively sense
of what great London is, as also of what it has been.”—_Chicago
Tribune._
CHILDREN’S BOOK OF EDINBURGH
By ELIZABETH W. GRIERSON.
With 12 full-page illustrations in color by Allan Stewart.
Dec. cloth, 12mo, $2.00 net; by mail $2.15.
In simple language Miss Grierson writes about the modern interests
of the city.
THE BOOK OF THE RAILWAY
By G. E. MITTON.
With 12 full-page illustrations in color by Allan Stewart.
Dec. cloth, 8vo, $2.00; by mail $2.15.
There is nothing technical in it; it is written so clearly that a
young child can understand it and yet grown up children will find a
great deal that is entirely new to them.
THE ADVENTURES OF PUNCH
By ASCOTT R. HOPE.
With 12 full-page illustrations in color by Stephen Baghot De La
Bere.
Dec. cloth, 12mo, $2.00 net; by mail $2.15.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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