Two Christmas Stories: Sam Franklin's Savings-Bank; A Miserable Christmas and a Happy New YearStretton, Hesba
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Two Christmas Stories: Sam Franklin's Savings-Bank; A Miserable Christmas and a Happy New Year
Stretton, Hesba
Christmas stories; English fiction
‘The stories are exceedingly good.’--_Nonconformist._
‘Capital stories.’--_Hour._
‘This is a very amusing book for children; one of the best books of
the season.’--_Literary World._
=II. SUNNYLAND STORIES.= Fcp. 8vo. Illustrated.
=BRAVE MEN’S FOOTSTEPS.= A Book of Example and Anecdote for
Young People. By the Editor of ‘Men who have Risen.’ With Four
Illustrations by C. DOYLE. Third Edition. Crown 8vo.
The lives have been chosen to represent marked varieties of
character, and their operation under different forms of effort.
Success is here viewed in no narrow or merely commercial sense.
‘The little volume is precisely of the stamp to win the favour of
those who, in choosing a gift for a boy, would consult his moral
development as well as his temporary pleasure.’--_Daily Telegraph._
‘A readable and instructive volume.’--_Examiner._
‘A good book which will, we hope, meet well-deserved
success.’--_Spectator._
Works by CHARLES CAMDEN.
=I. HOITY, TOITY, THE GOOD LITTLE FELLOW.= With Eleven Illustrations.
Crown 8vo.
‘Relates very pleasantly the history of a charming little fellow who
meddles always with a kindly disposition with other people’s
affairs, and helps them to do right. There are many shrewd lessons
to be picked up in this clever little story.’--_Public Opinion._
‘Another of those charming books which Mr. Charles Camden knows so
well how to produce.’--_Leeds Mercury._
‘Original, faithful, and humorous story.’--_Manchester Examiner._
=II. THE TRAVELLING MENAGERIE.= With Ten Illustrations by J. MAHONEY.
Crown 8vo.
‘A capital little book ... deserves a wide circulation among our
boys and girls.’--_Hour._
‘A very attractive story.’--_Public Opinion._
‘A series of admirable tales in which boys will take the deepest
interest.’--_Leeds Mercury._
‘Will be sure to delight young readers; they will get from it much
useful knowledge of natural history. The story is told in a
pleasant, chatty style.’--_Standard._
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=PRETTY LESSONS IN VERSE FOR GOOD CHILDREN=; with some Lessons in
Latin, in Easy Rhyme. By SARA COLERIDGE. A New Edition. Illustrated.
‘Both in English and Latin they will pleasantly help little
folk through what has been called “the bitterness of
learning.”’--_Saturday Review._
‘This is a most delightful, and, let us add, a most sensible book
for children. It teaches us many a good moral, many a good
common-sense lesson, in its rhymes, which are, for the most part,
very musical to the ear.’--_Standard._
=THE DESERT PASTOR, JEAN JAROUSSEAU.= By Colonel E. P. DE L’HOSTE.
Translated from the French of Eugène Pelletan. In fcp. 8vo. with an
Engraved Frontispiece. New Edition.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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