Cloth, ornamental, handsomely illustrated, 50 cents
HENRY ALTEMUS CO., PHILADELPHIA
A GOURD FIDDLE
By Grace MacGowan Cooke
A little colored boy, the sole orphaned remainder of a long line of masters of the violin, alone of the army of negroes who had borne the family name, is left to wait upon the old mistress and Miss Patrice at the "Great House."
Miss Patrice teaches Orphy to sing the chants and anthems in the service of the little church where he was baptized, and with her voice new airs for his violin. Plantation songs he knew and rendered with a pleasing coloring.
After the death of his teacher Orphy falls upon hard times, but eventually his talent is recognized by a professor of music who takes him to Europe, and there, under peculiar circumstances, he plays on his home-made gourd fiddle before no less a personage than Her Majesty, Queen Victoria.
Cloth, ornamental, handsomely illustrated, 50 cents
BUMPER AND BABY JOHN
By Anna Chapin Ray
PICTURES BY CURTIS WAGER-SMITH
An irresistibly humorous relation of the haps and mishaps of the homeliest, yet most dependable dog in the world, and a delightful red-haired and freckled child, whose united ages did not exceed seven years.
But apart from the humor of the book, it is alive with human interest, and there is pathos as well. And this is not to forget the artist in praise of the author; the illustrations could not have been confided to a better hand.