RILEY’S POPULARITY

Riley’s poetry is popular because it goes right to the feelings of the people. He could not have written as he does, but for the schooling of that wandering life, which gave him an insight into the struggle for existence among the great unnumbered multitude of his fellow-men. He learned in his travels and journeys, in his hard experience as a strolling sign-painter and patent-medicine peddler the freemasonry of poverty. His poems are natural; they are those of a man who feels as he writes. As Thoreau painted nature in the woods, and streams, and lakes, so Riley depicts the incidents of everyday life, and brightens each familiar lineament with that touch that makes all the world akin.

SUCCESS BOOKS

By DR. ORISON SWETT MARDEN

STEPPING STONES

12mo. Red Cloth. Decorative Cover. Illustrated. Price, $1.25

Dr. Marden’s new volume of essays, “Stepping Stones,” has the attractive qualities made familiar to a large audience of readers by his earlier books. At the same time it is entirely new in contents and most helpful and entertaining in character. It contains talks to young people of both sexes full of practical value, happy sketches of great characters, salient suggestions on deportment and conduct, and shrewd advice of all kinds touching everyday living. The author’s wide knowledge of history and literature is used to give the essays atmosphere and quality, and no success book of the series is more engaging and wholesome than “Stepping Stones.”

HOW THEY SUCCEEDED

Life Stories of Successful Men told by Themselves

12mo. Red Cloth. Decorative Cover. Illustrated. Price, $1.50

The author in this book has set down the story of successful men and women told by themselves, either in a series of interviews or by semi-autobiographical sketches. They make a most entertaining and inspiring series of life stories, full of incentive to ambitious youth.

The Boston Transcript says: “To the young man who is determined to succeed in life, no matter in what direction his aim may lie, this volume will be a direct source of inspiration. It shows that the people ‘who have got there’ have invariably done so through pluck, perseverance, and principle, and not through ‘pull’ or social position. It emphasizes the fact that success depends wholly and entirely upon the person himself.”

WINNING OUT

A Book about Success

12mo. Red Cloth. Decorative Cover. Gilt Top. Illustrated. Price, $1.00

Dr. Marden has made for himself a wide reputation by his earlier volumes, “Architects of Fate” and “Pushing to the Front.” But “Winning Out,” while constructed along somewhat the same lines, is his first book designed especially for young readers. Its theme is “Character Building by Habit Forming.”

The Louisville Courier-Journal says: “Pleasant teaching Dr. Marden’s anecdotes make. They are of men and things that have actually been and happened. The moral is often an epigram, always apropos. Through the pages of the small volume pass a procession of figures that have aspired, struggled, and achieved. Such work is good for the world, good for the youth in it, and for more experienced and serious middle age.”

Defending The Bank

By EDWARD S. VAN ZILE

Author of “With Sword and Crucifix,” etc. Four illustrations by I. B. Hazelton. 12mo. Pictorial cover in color. Price, $1.25.

“Defending the Bank,” by Edward S. Van Zile, is a most amusing and interesting detective story for boys and girls, in which a couple of bright boys and girls appoint themselves amateur detectives and are able to run down a couple of bank robbers who are planning to rob the bank of which the father of one of the boys is president. This is at once an exciting and wholesome tale, of which the scene is laid in Troy, N.Y., the former home of the author. It will be widely welcomed.

The Mutineers

By EUSTACE L. WILLIAMS

Author of “The Substitute Quarterback.” 12mo. Four illustrations by I. B. Hazelton. Pictorial cover in color. Price, $1.25.

“The Mutineers” is a rattling boys’ story by Mr. Eustace L. Williams of the Louisville Courier-Journal. It gives a picture of life in a large boarding-school, where a certain set of boys control the athletics, and shows how their unjust power was broken by the hero of the tale, who forms a rival baseball nine and manages to defeat his opponents, thus bringing a better state of things in the school socially and as to sports. The story is full of lively action, and deals with baseball and general athletic interests in a large school in a manner which shows that the author is thoroughly acquainted with and sympathetic to his subject.

Lothrop Publishing Company, Boston