e immortal souls we hope we are, why
should we not be just as eager to learn at ninety as at nine?

A sensitive woman is sure to have many and many an experience in life
which will make her heart sad and sore; but I think that every brave and
good woman will also feel more and more, as time goes on, that the
kingdom of heaven is within her.

ADVERTISEMENTS

The Riverside Library for Young People.

_A Series of Volumes devoted to History, Biography,
Mechanics, Travel, Natural History, and Adventure. With
Maps, Portraits, etc., where needed for fuller illustration
of the volume. Each, uniform, strongly bound
in cloth, 16mo, 200-250 pages, 75 cents._

1. _The War of Independence._
By JOHN FISKE. With Maps.

2. _George Washington: An Historical Biography._
By HORACE E. SCUDDER. With Portrait and Illustrations.

3. _Birds through an Opera Glass._
By FLORENCE A. MERRIAM. Illustrated.

4. _Up and Down the Brooks._
By MARY E. BAMFORD. Illustrated.

5. _Coal and the Coal Mines._
By HOMER GREENE. Illustrated.

6. _A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory._
By LUCY LARCOM.

7. _Java: The Pearl of the East._
By MRS. S. J. HIGGINSON. With a Map.

8. _Girls and Women._
By E. CHESTER.

(_Others in preparation._)

MESSRS. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY publish, under the above title, a
series of books designed especially for boys and girls who are laying
the foundation of private libraries. The books in this series are not
ephemeral publications, to be read hastily and quickly forgotten, both
the authors and the subjects treated indicate that they are books to
last.

The great subjects of History, Biography, Mechanics, Travel, Natural
History, Adventure, and kindred themes form the principal portion of the
library. The authors engaged are for the most part writers who already
have won attention, but the publishers give a hospitable reception to
all who may have something worth saying to the young, and the power to
say it in good English and in an attractive manner. The books in this
Library are intended particularly for young people, but they will not be
written in what has been well called the _Childese_ dialect.

The books are illustrated whenever the subject treated needs
illustration; history and travel are accompanied by maps; history and
biography by portraits; but the aim is to make the accompaniments to the
text rea