mission of that wonderful
thing called life in both the plant and animal existence. The difficult
subject is treated with such intelligence and charm of manner that
children may read it with interest, and parents need have no fear of its
influence."--_The Chicago Times._

"Something of flower life, something of fish life, of frogs, and of
birds, and a chapter on human life, form the subjects of this book,--all
told in the graceful manner of a womanly woman, whose love for nature
has given her a keener insight into nature's secrets, and a greater
ability to impart those secrets to others with the ease of face-to-face
talks than is vouchsafed to many people."--_The Boston Times._

=SPECIAL--25 copies of this exquisite book at 75 cents each.=

WILLIAM BEVERLEY HARISON, 5 West 18th Street.
New York

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FOUR TRUE STORIES OF LIFE AND ADVENTURE. By Jessie
R. Smith. New York: William Beverley Harison.
Price 36 cents, postpaid.

"Four True Stories of Life and Adventure," by Jessie R. Smith. This is a
book to be read by children, not to them. A child during the years of
seven and nine is usually hungering for true stories, and some mothers
and teachers try to meet the demand by reading and telling "true"
stories to them. This is well and good, but it is clear that if this
inborn craving could be met by books framed in language of such limited
vocabulary and construction that so young a child would constantly be
invited to the story, how valuable it would be. This book is designated
to meet this end. Less than 750 different words are used in the entire
series, and these, excepting the necessary geographical names, are all
in the commonest use among children. The stories are of Columbus,
Captain John Smith, Miles Standish, Benjamin Franklin. Mothers and
teachers with children of from seven to nine years of age will give this
book a hearty welcome--the teachers because the market supply is so
painfully deficient in this line, and the mothers because it will so
admirably solve the oft-repeated query of "Mother, what can I do next?"
It is so well gotten out and still so cheap that it should have a large
sale.--_Mother's Journal, March, 1898._

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'TIS THE SMALL THINGS OF LIFE THAT GIVE PLEASURE

That's why the
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