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 real additions.
The publishers hope to have the active coöperation of parents, teachers, superintendents, and all who are interested in the formation of good taste in reading among young people.
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY,
4 Park Street, Boston; 11 East 17th Street, New York.