A notable feature of this attractive annual is the large number of full-page pictures, seventy-four in all, two printed in colors, in addition to nearly two hundred smaller illustrations. The text is designed for the delight and information of youngest readers, including, along with short stories, poems, incidents of travel and curious bits of animal life, a complete serial in twelve chapters, entitled, “Me and My Dolls,” by the popular English writer, L. T. Meade, written expressly for this volume. Quarto, illuminated cover, from water color designs by Miss. C. A. Northam. $1.50; cloth, $2.00. MY LAND AND WATER FRIENDS. By MARY E. BAMFORD. The most novel and entertaining of outdoor books, giving delicious little autobiographic accounts of strange and familiar creatures, their ways of life and possible ways of thinking and talking, together with nearly two hundred original drawings by L. J. Bridgman, accurate enough for a scientific work, yet not lacking in fancy and quaint touches. THE GOLDEN YEAR. A Horn of Plenty sort of book, spilling over with charming family stories of all kinds for all varieties of weathers and moods. A taste for “good short stories” has been growing for the last two years, and this is one of the best of the collections. Every story is original. Illustrated. /# FAMOUS STORIES BY FAVORITE AUTHORS. #/ Representative stories by Mary Hartwell Catherwood, David Ker, Charles R. Talbot and John Preston True. Each story is illustrated by more than twenty-five drawings by American artists. YULE TIDE. Illustrated stories by American and English authors. With a poem by HENRY RANDALL WAITE. It is not often that so much that is varied and choice is brought together in a single collection. Boards, double cover, $1.50; cloth, tinted edges, in box, $2.00. PANSY’S PICTURE BOOK. These delineations of child-life are thoroughly clear and natural; not only their looks, attitudes, costumes, and gestures, but what they do, say, think and feel. Double lithograph cover, $1.50; cloth, $2.00. /# THE LIFE AND HABITS OF WILD ANIMALS, #/ A choice volume of Natural History, giving the traits and habits of wild animals. Illustrated from designs by JOSEPH WOLF. The descriptions include the elephant, tiger, bear, puma, rabbit, wild boar, jaguar, bison or buffalo, ape, wolf, lion, deer, baboon, chamois, lynx, weasel, sea-gull, owl, crow, osprey. /* _Franklin and Hawley Streets, Boston._ */ _PANSY ADVERTISER_ =PROGRESSIVE HOUSEKEEPING.= Good Housekeeping, A SEMI-MONTHLY JOURNAL, _Conducted in the Interests of the Higher Life of the Household_. Volume IV. of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING will have among its other attractions, =A NEW SERIAL—PROGRESSIVE HOUSEKEEPING,= —BY— =CATHERINE OWEN=, entitled “PROGRESSIVE HOUSEKEEPING, or Keeping House without Knowing How, and Knowing How to Keep House Well.” This serial will contain the much-called-for Daily Housekeepers’ Programme. ======