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w of Orange Ribbon," a book for girls. "Black Beauty." E. S. Brooks, "True Story of General Grant." Bulfinch's "Children's Lives of Great Men," "Age of Chivalry," and "Age of Fable." Bullen's "Log of a Sea Waif." Burnett's "Little Lord Fauntleroy," and "Sara Crewe," the latter a book for girls. Butterworth's "Zig-Zag Journeys." Carleton Coffin's, "Boys' of '76." Eva Lovett Carson's "The Making of a Girl." Ralph Connor's "Gwen," a book for girls. Louis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland," and "Through the Looking Glass." Dana's "Two Years Before the Mast." "De Amicin's Cuore," which has sold 200,000 in Italy. DeFoe's "Robinson Crusoe." Mary Mapes Dodge, "Hans Brinker," or "The Silver Skates," "Life in Holland." Eugene Field's "A Little Book of Profitable Tales." It has sold 200,000 copies. Grimm's "Fairy Tales." Habberton's "Helen's Babies." E. E. Hale's "Boy Heroes." Chandler Harris' "Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country; What the Children Saw and Heard There." Fantastic tale interweaving negro animal stories and other Georgia folklore with modern inventions. "Mr. Rabbit At Home"; sequel to "Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country." Animal stories told to children. Charles Kingsley's "Water Babies." Kipling's "Jungle Books," which have sold 175,000 copies. Knox's "Boy Travelers." Lanier's "Boy Froissart," and "Boy's King Arthur." Edward Lear's "Nonsense Books." Mabie's "Norse Stories." Samuel's "From the Forecastle to the Cabin." The experiences of the author who ran away from home and shipped as cabin boy; points out dangers that beset a seafaring life. Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney's "Faith Gartney's Girlhood." Kate Douglas Wiggin's "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm." Not long ago President Eliot of Harvard College aroused widespread controversy over his selection of a library of books, which might be contained on a five-foot shelf. We append his selections as indicative of the choice of a great scholar and educator. The following sixteen titles may be had in Everyman's Library, cloth 350. net per volume; leather 70 c. net per volume: _President Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf_ Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography. Sir Thomas Browne's "Religio Medici." "Confessions of St. Augustine." Shelley's "The Cenci" (contained in volume two of the complete works). Emerson's "English Traits," and "Representative Men." Emerson's Essays. Chaucer'
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