By FRANKLIN S. EDMONDS, Author of “A Century’s Progress in Education.” 12mo. Cloth. With portrait. $1.25 net A careful study of the great general, furnishing some interesting information heretofore unknown. MORE ABOUT COLLECTING By JAMES YOXALL, Author of “The A B C About Collecting.” 8vo. Cloth. One hundred and nine illustrations. $2.00 net Gives detailed information for the amateur and semi-amateur collector of furniture, earthenware, glassware, porcelain, pictures, books, autographs, etc. _For sale by all booksellers or by the publishers_ GEORGE W. JACOBS & CO., Philadelphia _Many possibilities for gift selecting offered in_ The Rare Book Department In a room set quite apart from our general stocks are housed the precious jewels of bookdom—thousands of rare volumes, finely bound and extra-illustrated, beautiful books such as collectors love to possess. Continuously new book treasures are coming in to take the places of those which are going out into private hands. Knowing that the books in this little corner of the book world are usually but one of a kind, book-lovers make a point of dropping in often to assure themselves that nothing desirable slips by them. We invite you to be our guest at your early convenience—to make use of not only the Rare Book Department, but the whole McClurg store, whether you have any purchase in mind or not. McClurg’s is more than a book store, it is a public institution. at McClurg’s on Wabash Avenue, between Adams and Jackson _The New Poetry_ SWORD BLADES _and_ POPPY SEED _By_ AMY LOWELL Author of “A DOME OF MANY-COLOURED GLASS,” Etc. _In “The Boston Herald” Josephine Preston Peabody writes of this unusual book_: