The story has nothing to do with the question whether it pays to know one’s work and do it and “be,” as the phrase goes, “a gentleman”; but, if the reader chooses to think of them, he will find plenty of stimulant. =Storied Holidays.= By ELBRIDGE S. BROOKS, author of The American Indian, In Leisler’s Times, In No-Man’s Land, and others. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. An historic tale connected with a holiday in every month of the year. There is the snapdragon Christmas quarrel of James I. of England with his sons about the release of Sir Walter Raleigh; a New Year’s meeting of Margery More with Henry VIII; how William Penn got his motto “Be true, be leal, be constant,” on St. Valentine’s Day; how the Earl of Kildare kept St. Patrick’s; the wise men of Gotham fool King John on the first of April; and so on through the months. These stories out of history practise one in the times they take him back to. =Eighty-Seven.= By MRS. G. R. ALDEN (Pansy, author of the hundred Pansy books and editor of _The Pansy_ magazine). 12mo, cloth, 1.50. What is very widely known, but to many obscurely known as the Chautauqua movement is told with a fulness that people would lack the patience to read, if the tale began there and stopped there. Begins with a little civilized girl and a runaway—actually a tramp. But trust Pansy for making good company. A novel with the distinctly double purpose of showing how the Reading Circles gather together for self-improvement the most impossible people young and old, and of recommending religious life. =Honor Bright Series.= 12 mo, cloth, illustrated, each, 1.25. Four Boy Stories. By CHARLES R. TALBOT. Brisk and unconventional, bright as boy stories can be. Girl stories, too. STORY OF HONOR BRIGHT. ROYAL LOWRIE: A GENERAL MISUNDERSTANDING. ROYAL LOWRIE’S LAST YEAR AT ST. OLAVES. A DOUBLE MASQUERADE: A ROMANCE OF THE REVOLUTION. =Our Adventure Library.= 12mo, cloth, illustrated, each, 1.25. Four books of disconnected short stories. =In City and Camp.= Thirteen boys’ stories. By JAMES OTIS, KATE FOOTE, MARY HARTWELL CATHERWOOD, J. E. COTTIN, ERNEST INGERSOLL, FLORA HAINES APPONZI, C. E. S. WOOD, F. L. STEALEY, ELLEN OLNEY KIRK, HELEN E. SWETT, ALICE WELLINGTON ROLLINS and ANNA LEACH. =Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories.= By JOAQUIN MILLER, MARION HARLAND, MARY CATHERINE LEE, H. F. MARSH, KATE GANETT WELLS, GEORGE F. HEBARD, A. M. GRIFFIN, JAMES OTIS, JOHN PRESTON TRUE, GEORGE VARNEY and MARY B. CLAFLIN. =Foreign Facts and Fancies.= Stories of Travel. By ANNIE SAWYER DOWNS, CHARLOTTE S. FURSDON, MARY GAY HUMPHREYS, CULLING CLIVER EARDLEY, ROSE G. KINGSLEY, S. W. DUFFIELD, ARTHUR GILMAN, JULIAN B. ARNOLD, DAVID KER, LUCY C. LILLIE, MRS. RAYMOND BLATHWAYTE, ARTHUR F. J. CRANDALL and C. E. ANDREWS. =Stories of Danger and Adventure.=