CHILDREN OF OTHER LANDS SERIES
When I Was a Boy in Japan
By Sakae Shioya Illustrated from photographs
12mo Cloth $.75
| The author was born fifty miles from Tokio, and at the age of twelve began the study of English at a Methodist school. Later he studied Natural Science in the First Imperial College at Tokio, after which he taught English and Mathematics. He came to America in 1901, received the degree of Master of Arts at the University of Chicago, and took a two years’ post-graduate course at Yale before returning to Japan. No one could be better qualified to introduce the Japanese to those in America, and he has done it in a way that will delight both children and parents. |
When I Was a Girl in Italy
By Marietta Ambrosi 12 mo Cloth Illustrated $.75
The author, Marietta Ambrosi, was born in Tyrol, having an American-born mother of Italian descent, and a Veronese father. Her entire girlhood was spent in Brescia and other cities of Northern Italy, and in early womanhood she came with her family to America. Her story gives a most graphic account of the industries, social customs, dress, pleasures, and religious observances of the Italian common people.
When I Was a Boy in China
By Yan Phou Lee 12mo Cloth Illustrated
from photographs $.75
New York Independent says: “Yan Phou Lee was one of the young men sent to this country to be educated here, and finally matriculated at Yale, where he graduated with honor. ‘When I was a Boy in China’ embodies his recollections of his native country. It is certainly attractive, with more room for nature to operate and play in freely than is generally attributed to Chinese life.”
For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt
of price by the publishers
LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO., BOSTON
ELBRIDGE S. BROOKS’S
Books for Young Americans
The True Story of Christopher Columbus, called the Admiral. Revised edition. New cover $1.50
“With its thorough historical research and its novelty of treatment, it is the Columbus book of its time.”—The Interior, Chicago.
The True Story of George Washington, called the Father of His Country. 4to, cloth $1.50
“Although many excellent biographies of our first President have been prepared for the young, we think that Mr. Brooks has presented the best, and has sustained well if not added to his reputation gained by his previous efforts in historical fields for young readers.”—S. S. Library Bulletin.
The True Story of Abraham Lincoln, the American. Fully illustrated, 4to, cloth $1.50
“His life reads like a romance, the best romance that ever was printed, and Mr. Brooks has done an admirable work.... The story of Lincoln was never more ably told.”—Evening Post, Chicago.
The True Story of U. S. Grant, the American soldier. Fully illustrated, 4to, cloth $1.50
“Carefully written in that style which makes Mr. Brooks so popular a writer with his young readers.”—The Pilgrim Teacher.
The True Story of Benjamin Franklin, the American statesman. Profusely illustrated, 4to $1.50
The only popular life of the great Franklin written from a human standpoint for the boys and girls of America.
These seven books are now in wide and acceptable use in American homes, schools, and libraries. They are real stories, true stories, that interest young readers in and out of school, and imperceptibly pave the way for their becoming students of America’s story and readers of the bulkier books of American history and biography.
“An entertaining and instructive series.”—Christian Endeavor World.
The True Story of Lafayette, the friend of America. One vol., illustrated, 4to $1.50
This volume, the seventh in the series of “Children’s Lives of Great Men,” will appeal to all young Americans, and older ones as well, to whom the name of Lafayette is ever dear. It is an absorbing, simply told, and stirring story of a remarkable character in American history, and is the “whole story” from the boyhood of the great Frenchman to the close of his long, dramatic, and romantic career.