idence.
Everybody is fighting or flying, plotting or baffling plots, doing or
hindering overt wrong. The tale sweeps on to its close with plenty of
elan."
--_The New York Tribune._

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KIDNAPPED.

_Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751._

BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.

_One volume, 12mo, paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00._

=With 16 full-page Illustrations, $1.25.=

"Mr. Stevenson has never appeared to greater advantage than in
'Kidnapped.'"
--_The Nation._

"He brings back old chivalries and piracies, and talks to the boyhood of
to-day of shipwrecks and highwaymen, as if these venerable objects of
worship had not been superseded long ago by mercantile heroes and
dollar-coining newsboys."
--_The Atlantic Monthly._

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A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES.

BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.

_One volume, 12mo, gilt top, $1.00._

"These verses are simply exquisite. They are the child's thought in the
child's language, and yet altogether, poetical. We do not know anything
in the whole range of English literature to equal them in their own
peculiar charm. There is a subtle beauty in them which is indescribable
and unequalled."
--_The Churchman._

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POETRY FOR CHILDREN.

BY MARY AND CHARLES LAMB.

With Prince Dorus and Some Uncollected
Poems by CHARLES LAMB. Edited by
R. H. SHEPHERD. 16mo, $1.00.

"The book will be very welcome to thousands of admirers and lovers of
Charles Lamb. The verses are certainly far superior to most of the poems
written for the young."
--_Springfield Republican._

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SERMONS FOR CHILDREN.

Preached in Westminster Abbey.
By ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY, late Dean of Westminster. 12mo, $1.00.

"They are simple, beautiful, and forcible in the presentation of
practical religious truth, and no intelligent child can begin the
perusal of one of them without finishing it and deriving wholesome and
lasting impressions from it."
--_The Interior._

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