There is a great deal to know about our neighbors, worth knowing, too; and the surest way to begin learning is to like it. That is why such books as this are made, to make young people like the beginnings of learning. =Little Polly Blatchley.= By FRANCES C. SPARHAWK. 4to, boards, 1.00. Delightful stories out of little Polly’s life. Polly is what elderly people call an “old” little girl. She is continually thinking of things that little people are apt to skip; and she keeps her thoughts to herself so wisely and lets them out so in the nick of time, she delights her good papa and mamma in the book and the little girl who reads it. It is a rare book for pleasure and wholesome suggestion. =Playfellows and Their Pets.= 4to, boards, 1.00. Short stories about children, animals and birds, with a great many pictures. Not a page but is full of entertainment, instruction and means of growth for pretty good readers of six or eight or ten—Do little folks go by ages nowadays? =After Play Stories for the Little Ones.= 4to, boards, 1.00. Beginning stories for little readers, or to be read to people too little to read for themselves. There is one about the Puzzled Baby, which begins in this way: “I am a baby. But I don’t want you to think I am one of these little bits of things who know nothing at all. I am an _old_ baby. I am almost ten months old! “I have a cousin who is only nine weeks old. The little goose don’t know how to get his toes in his mouth!” =Some Things Abroad.= By ALEXANDER MCKENZIE, D. D. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. A chatty going over the events of day after day of a journey through northern and southern Europe into Asia, the Holy Land especially. Dr. McKenzie’s name is enough in New England. Outside also. =Russian Novelists.= From the French of M. de Vogüé by JANE LORING EDMANDS. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. An exposition of life and feeling in Russia through an examination of the most characteristic Russian writers; also a critical and general estimate of current Russian literature. =Life Among the Germans.= By EMMA LOUISE PARRY. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. A very near and intimate view of German home and social life, with a sympathetic account of the Luther Centennial. A book of rare fullness and delicacy. =Common Sense Science.= By GRANT ALLEN. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. Practical applications of many results of recent advances in science. Not a schoolbook; a means of intelligence suited to busy people. =Royal Girls and Royal Courts.= By M. E. W. SHERWOOD. 12mo, cloth, $1.25. A book of twelve chapters on nearly as many European courts with special regard to the local etiquette, by a peculiarly competent person. =Souvenirs of My Time.= BY JESSIE BENTON FRÉMONT. 12mo, cloth, $1.50.