Allie Bertram.

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BOOKS RECEIVED.

Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag, Vol. IV. (My Girls, etc.), published by Messrs.
Roberts Brothers, Boston, is the fourth book in this deservedly popular
series of short stories by Miss Louisa M. Alcott. The tales are full of
freshness, humor, and wholesome thought, with inimitable touches of
playful fancy and tenderness such as have established Miss Alcott's
loving rule over the hearts of her readers. Boys as well as girls will
find plenty to enjoy in these twelve delightful scraps from Aunt Jo's
bag, and,--but readers of ST. NICHOLAS need no recommendation to them
of anything that Miss Alcott has written. There are some pretty
illustrations to the book, and the price is one dollar.

From the same publishers we have received also: TOM, A HOME-STORY, by
George L. Chaney, illustrated, $1.25; A GREAT EMERGENCY, AND OTHER
TALES, by Juliana Horatia Ewing, illustrated, $1.25; JOLLY GOOD TIMES AT
SCHOOL--ALSO SOME TIMES NOT QUITE SO JOLLY, by P. Thorne, illustrated,
$1.25.

A new book by the author of "Helen's Babies" is now to be obtained. It
is called BUDGE AND TODDIE, THEIR HAPS AND MISHAPS, and is an
illustrated edition of "Other People's Children." The designs are by
Lucy G. Morse.

Boys will be glad to hear of a good book, EVERY-DAY EXPERIENCES AT ETON,
by a present Eton boy, published by George R. Lockwood, of New York. It
is a hearty and amusing story, giving, with very slight exaggeration, a
faithful account of life in the English public-school at Eton.

SPENSER FOR CHILDREN, published by Chatto & Windus, of London; Scribner,
Armstrong & Co., New York. A beautiful book, illustrated with several
fine colored plates, and relating in simple prose the chief incidents of
Spenser's great poem.

From Messrs. Baker, Pratt & Co., New York, we have LILLIPUT LAND; OR,
THE CHILDREN'S PEEP-SHOW. This is a collection of serials, short
stories, poems, music, and pictures, adapted to interest and instruct
young folks. It is edited by the author of "Lilliput Levee." Price,
$1.25.

Messrs. Porter & Coates, Philadelphia, send us HAPPY DAYS, a very
pleasant book, full of pictures, tales and verses, for boys and girls.
Several of the articles are by well-known writers, and the contents, as
a whole, are bright, wholesome, and entertaining.

From the American Tract Society, New York, we have received DOLLY'S NEW
SHOES, AND SOME OF THE PLACES THEY WENT TO, price 30