The youthful hero, and a genuine hero he proves to be, starts from home, loses his way, meets with startling adventures, finds friends, kind and many, and grows to be a manly man. It is a wholesome and vigorous book, that boys and girls, and parents as well, will read and enjoy.
The Young Gunbearer. By G. Waldo Browne.
This is the second volume of “The Woodranger Tales.” The new story, while complete in itself, continues the fortunes and adventures of “The Woodranger’s” young companions.
A Bad Penny. By John T. Wheelright.
A dashing story of the New England of 1812. In the climax of the story the scene is laid during the well-known sea-fight between the Chesapeake and Shannon, and the contest is vividly portrayed.
The Fairy Folk of Blue Hill: A Story of Folk-lore. By Lily F. Wesselhoeft.
A new volume by Mrs. Wesselhoeft, well known as one of our best writers for the young, and who has made a host of friends among the young people who have read her delightful books. This book ought to interest and appeal to every child who has read her earlier works.
Selections from
L. C. Page & Company’s
Books for Young People
Old Father Gander; or, The Better-Half of Mother Goose. Rhymes, Chimes, and Jingles scratched from his own goose-quill for American Goslings. Illustrated with impossible Geese, hatched and raised by Walter Scott Howard.