By modern standards this woman of the stone age was low in the scale of humanity—uncouth, ignorant, a heathen, and even brutish in a way.
This tale of an Inuit girl is, however, but a loose leaf from the history of woman, which indicates that the spirit of altruistic devotion is an attribute implanted by God in the primitive races, and not, as some would fain have us believe, the golden fruit of developed humanity.
A century since an American poet paid due homage to a beautiful belle, who later became his wife, in verse that aptly depicts the lovable traits of Mertuk, the daughter of Shung-hu.
"Affections are as thoughts to her,
The measures of her hours;
Her feelings have the fragrancy,
The freshness of the flowers."
THE SCRIBNER SERIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
EACH WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOR
BOOKS FOR BOYS
| THE MODERN VIKINGS | By H. H. Boyesen |
| WILL SHAKESPEARE'S LITTLE LAD | By Imogen Clark |
| THE BOY SCOUT and Other Stories for Boys | |
| STORIES FOR BOYS | By Richard Harding Davis |
| HANS BRINKER, or, The Silver Skates | By Mary Mapes Dodge |
| THE HOOSIER SCHOOL-BOY | By Edward Eggleston |
| TRUE TALES OF ARCTIC HEROISM IN THE NEW WORLD | By Adolphus W. Greely |
| THE COURT OF KING ARTHUR | By William Henry Frost |
| BY PIKE AND DYKE | |
| WITH LEE IN VIRGINIA | |
| WITH WOLFE IN CANADA | |
| REDSKIN AND COWBOY | By G. A. Henty |
| AT WAR WITH PONTIAC | By Kirk Munroe |
| TOMMY TROT'S VISIT TO SANTA CLAUS and | |
| A CAPTURED SANTA CLAUS | By Thomas Nelson Page |
| BOYS OF ST. TIMOTHY'S | By Arthur Stanwood Pier |
| DAVID BALFOUR | |
| KIDNAPPED | |
| TREASURE ISLAND | |
| BLACK ARROW | By Robert Louis Stevenson |
| AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS | |
| A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH | |
| FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON | |
| TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA | By Jules Verne |
| ON THE OLD KEARSARGE | |
| IN THE WASP'S NEST | By Cyrus Townsend Brady |
| THE BOY SETTLERS | |
| THE BOYS OF FAIRPORT | By Noah Brooks |
| THE CONSCRIPT OF 1813 | By Erckmann-Chatrian |
| THE STEAM-SHOVEL MAN | By Ralph D. Paine |
| THE MOUNTAIN DIVIDE | By Frank H. Spearman |
| THE STRANGE GRAY CANOE | By Paul G. Tomlinson |
| THE ADVENTURES OF A FRESHMAN | By J. L. Williams |
| JACK HALL, or, The School Days of an American Boy | By Robert Grant |