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any a happy reading hour and grow into memory companions for later life, enriching all the years. The type is large and plain, the books are exceptionally illustrated--most of them having a hundred or more illustrations which add keen zest to the stories. LITTLE WOMEN--_Alcott_ LITTLE MEN--_Alcott_ AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL--_Alcott_ HEIDI--_Spyri_ A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES--_Stevenson_ CORNELLI, HER CHILDHOOD--_Spyri_ MAXA'S CHILDREN--_Spyri_ UNCLE TITUS IN THE COUNTRY--_Spyri_ A LITTLE SWISS BOY--_Spyri_ EVERY DAY BIBLE STORIES--_Pollard_ ARABIAN NIGHTS GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND--_Carroll_ Bound in boards, frontispiece in colors, cover and jacket in colors, size 6-3/4 x 9 inches. THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING CO. AKRON, OHIO John Newbery Series Early in the 18th century John Newbery was born in a little Berkshire village in England, and became a bookman in the old St. Paul's churchyard. It was he who first believed children needed books of their own, and he set about to supply that need. Many of the old stories, quaint jingles and nursery rhymes we have today are due to him. It is therefore peculiarly fitting this series, comprising the best written for childhood, should bear his name. THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN--_Robert Browning_ THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER--_John Ruskin_ MONI, THE GOAT BOY--_Johanna Spyri_ FAIRY TALE GIANTS FAIRY TALE PRINCES FAIRY TALE PRINCESSES A DOG OF FLANDERS--_Louisa de la Ramee_ (_Ouida_) THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW--_Washington Irving_ RIP VAN WINKLE--_Washington Irving_ THE NURNBERG STOVE--_Louisa de la Ramee_ (_Ouida_) THE ADVENTURES OF A BROWNIE--_Miss Mulock_ CHILD VERSES--_Eugene Field_ These books are well bound in cloth, are profusely illustrated, have a colored frontispiece and a colored jacket, and contain 92 pages each. THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING CO. AKRON, OHIO The Billy Whiskers Series * * * * * As Originated by FRANCES TREGO MONTGOMERY Mrs. Montgomery has the happy faculty of knowing just what the small boy and his sister like in stories, and the added ability of giving it to them. Her id
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