GOOD BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS.
CHRISTINE'S CAREER. A Story for Girls. By Pauline King. Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, specially bound, $1.50.
The heroine of Miss King's charming story shares artist life in rural France and in Paris before she returns to her native country, where her time is divided between New York and Boston and the seashore. The story is fresh and modern, relieved by incidents and constant humor, and the lessons which are suggested are most beneficial.
JOHN BOYD'S ADVENTURES. By Thomas W. Knox, author of "The Boy Travelers," etc. With 12 full-page Illustrations. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"The hero is alternately merchant, sailor, man-o'-war's-man, privateer's-man, pirate, and Algerine slave. The bombardment of Tripoli is a brilliant chapter of a narrative of heroic deeds."—Philadelphia Ledger.
ALONG THE FLORIDA REEF. By Charles F. Holder, joint author of "Elements of Zoölogy." With numerous Illustrations. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"The reader will be entertained with a series of adventures, but when he is done he will find that he has learned a good deal about dancing cranes, corals, waterspouts, sharks, talking fish, disappearing islands, hurricanes, turtles, and all sorts of wonders of the earth and sea and air."—New York Sun.
ENGLISHMAN'S HAVEN. By W. J. Gordon, author of "The Captain-General," etc. With 8 full-page Illustrations. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"The story of Louisbourg, which because of its position and the consequences of its fall is justly held one of the most notable of the world's dead cities. The story is admirably told."—Detroit Free Press.
WE ALL. A Story of Outdoor Life and Adventure in Arkansas. By Octave Thanet. With 12 full-page Illustrations by E. J. Austen and others. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"A story which every boy will read with unalloyed pleasure. . . . The adventures of the two cousins are full of exciting interest. The characters, both white and black, are sketched directly from Nature, for the author is thoroughly familiar with the customs and habits of the different types of Southerners that she has so effectively reproduced."—Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.
KING TOM AND THE RUNAWAYS. By Louis Pendleton. The experiences of two boys in the forests of Georgia. With 6 Illustrations by E. W. Kemble. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"The doings of 'King' Tom, Albert, and the happy-go-lucky boy Jim on the swamp island, are as entertaining in their way as the old sagas embodied in Scandinavian story."—Philadelphia Ledger.
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