/* Jan. _In the Evergreens._ Chickadee. Feb. _In the Thorn-Thicket._ Blue Jay. Mar. _On the Bare Bough._ Song-Sparrow. Apr. _In Open Fields._ Crow, Robin. May {_Hid in the Lilac._ Cat-bird. {_On a Grass-Head._ Bobolink. June {_In the Ash-Tree._ Vireo. {_Under the Laurel Bush._ Oven-bird. July {_In the Cherry-Trees._ Tanager. {_In the Birch Hollow._ Savanna Sparrow. Aug. _In Deep Woods._ {Small Fly-Catcher. {Hermit Thrush. Sept. _In the Stubble._ Quail. Oct. _Among Falling Leaves._ Tree-Sparrow. Nov. _In Early Snow._ Goldfinch. Dec. _From the Old Barn Gable._ Screech Owl. */ In War-Times at La Rose Blanche. By _Mrs. M. E. M. Davis_. Twelve stories, written by a prominent New Orleans lady, the wife of a Confederate cavalry officer. They relate the adventures of a great Southern sugar-plantation household, whose men were in the army from the beginning to the end of the Civil War. The author was a little girl at the time—the “Miss Ma’y” of the stories—and was concerned in many little dramas, some humorous and some pathetic, in which both “Blue-coats” and “Gray-coats” were actors. “The Letter from the Front,” describing the Battle of the Wilderness, in which her brother of fifteen was a color-bearer in Hood’s Brigade, is said by both Union and Confederate officers to be one of the best descriptions ever written of what one soldier sees and feels in a battle. Some hundreds of “house and field hands” belonged to La Rose Blanche plantation, and the “dialect” is not one of the least of the charms of these stories. Illustrations by E. W. Kemble. Ballads about Old-Time Authors. By _Harriet Prescott Spofford_. In twelve picturesque ballads Mrs. Spofford will relate some tender stories from the lives of the masters of the earlier English literature—that one of “Goldsmith’s Whistle,” and that one of Johnson doing penance in Uttoxeter Market, and of Milton blind, and of Lamb and his sister—and many another beautiful literary story with which young people ought to be made familiar. These ballads will be richly and authentically illustrated by Edmund H. Garrett.