Mr. Smith’s pictures need no commendation, but he seems to have treated these stories with unusual skill and sympathy.
HALF A HUNDRED HERO TALES
Of Ulysses and the Men of Old. By various authors, including Nathaniel Hawthorne. Illustrated. Special library binding. $1.35 net.
The Greek and Roman mythological heroes whose stories are here collected are not covered in any other one volume. The arrangement gives the interest of connected narrative to the account of the fall of Troy, the Æneas stories, and the Adventures of Ulysses.
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK
BOOKS FOR YOUNG FOLKS
MAGIC PICTURES OF THE LONG AGO
By Anna Curtis Chandler
With some forty illustrations. $1.30 net
These stories grew out of Miss Chandler’s popular Story Hours for Children at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Each recounts the youth and something of the later life of some striking character in art, history, or literature, and is made very vivid by reproductions of famous pictures, etc.
THE DOGS OF BOYTOWN
By Walter A. Dyer
Author of “Pierrot, Dog of Belgium,” etc.
Illustrated. $1.50 net
New York Sun: “It takes the cake—in this case, of course, a dog biscuit.... It is the most unusual book of its kind.... Dyer enters a new field for boys ... all boys will want to know about Dogs—their ways and habits, their histories and origins.... Threaded through this wonderful textbook on dogs is the story of adventures of two boys ... shows the reader where to find out about everything from bench shows and the care of puppies to fleas ... illustrated with photographs and excellent pen sketches....”