[Illustration: =WEBSTER’S UNABRIDGED DICTIONARY= =IN VARIOUS STYLES OF BINDING=] Besides many other valuable features, it contains =A Dictionary= of 118,000 Words, 3000 Engravings, =A Gazetteer of the World= locating and describing 25,000 Places, =A Biographical Dictionary= of nearly 10,000 Noted Persons, =All in One Book=. 3000 more Words and nearly 2000 more Illustrations than any other American Dictionary. Sold by all Booksellers. Pamphlet free. =G. & C. MERRIAM & CO.=, Pub’rs, Springfield, Mass. =BIRD MANNA= restores the song of cage birds and keeps them in perfect health. Sent for 15c. in stamps. Sold by Druggists. Bird Food Co., 400 N. 3d St., Phila. TRUE STORIES OF AMERICAN WARS. From Records and Famous Traditions. Ill. Boston: D. Lothrop Company. Price, $1.25. The twelve capital stories that make up this volume will furnish a rich feast for patriotic and venture-loving boys and girls. The statement upon the title-page that they were drawn from old records and family traditions is literally true; each story has its appropriate basis of fact, and some of them are very slightly embellished indeed. In every family of the older States there are legends of the old Indian wars which have never been written; and records of suffering and privation, of deeds of daring and heroism, which to-day seem almost incredible. And fresher and more vivid than these are the tales of the Revolution, the battles, skirmishes and marches in which our ancestors participated, comparatively few of which have been told outside the family circle or the localities where they occurred. There is not a town along the shores of Connecticut and Massachusetts but has its traditions, and something more than traditions, of deeds that took place during the later war of 1812, as stirring, perhaps, as any of those of older times. From this great mass of material the authors represented in the volume have drawn the narratives they have here set down. Among them is the story of the capture of the British General Prescott, in command at Newport, by a picked party of Americans under Colonel Barton, one of the most daring exploits of the Revolution. Another is the narrative of the raid of the Indians upon Royalton, Vt., in 1780, when the village was burned and several of the inhabitants murdered. Other sketches are entitled, “A Revolutionary Turncoat,” “The First Blow for American Liberty,” “Joel Jackson’s Smack,” etc. Most of the stories are illustrated.