So in her books. She enters into their smallest experiences. The boys and girls of her books, the children of her brain, are just like her readers, natural flesh and blood; not life-like but real, just as real as you are yourself. They live in their world with the rest of us; have their ups and downs, perplexities, such as come to us all; and they win. So shall we who read! That is inspiration. The reader becomes the actor, the hero, the heroine. Happy the writer who uses such power as that for helping, guiding, building up. There are more than a hundred “Pansy books,” mostly by Pansy herself, a few by one or two helpers, a few by others altogether. They constitute, we may fairly say, the very highest class of traditional Sunday School books. They belong to the highest order of Sunday School work. D. Lothrop Company, Boston, is just now getting out these lists of religious and secular Sunday School books, arranged with a view of marking their relative popularity. The Pansy books are at the top of the religious list, and Arthur Gilman’s History of the American People heads the secular list. Send for the primer—sent free by the publishers. * * * * * BABYLAND is so good a diversion for baby and help for the mother that it ought to be in every baby family. Pictures and jingles and laughter. Baby will study in spite of you. PREMIUM LIST The Things you are going to have your choice of—you who look about among your neighbors and help them pick out their reading and pictures. It is a neighborly act. And the time to begin to be careful of reading and pictures is when the baby can understand them. Let them come in the following order: _Babyland_: nurse-help for the mother, and baby-joy for the little one; $0.50 a year. _Our Little Men and Women_: delightful hours and years for beginning readers; $1. _Pansy_: the Sunday School age is the time for Pansy; $1. _Chautauqua Young Folks’ Journal_: for studious young folks; $1. _Wide Awake_: library, study, play-house, life at home and abroad, companionship of the wise and good; $2.40. Think of a life not only unhurt by wrong reading and pictures, but helped by right reading and pictures all the way through! It _is_ a neighborly act! We make such Terms as you never heard of—for work. D LOTHROP COMPANY PUBLISHERS OF BOOKS AND MAGAZINES BOSTON Who Skips This Page Will Please Skip All [Sidenote: What premiums are and to whom they are due] Premiums are pay for work and nothing else. That work is getting new subscriptions. It is done when you send the names, addresses and money. Then you take your choice of the things in the List. [Sidenote: Why we pay so much]