Don’t Give Up the Ship
By C. S. Wood. Frontispiece in colors and half-tone plates by Frank Merrill.
Decorated cloth, 12mo, $1.25 net
With Perry’s famous victory on Lake Erie as the center of interest Mr. Wood has written a stirring story of the War of 1812. Beginning just before the outbreak of hostilities, he follows the career of a vigorous young fellow who attaches himself to Perry and renders no little service to the government in the campaign. Incidentally a splendid pen picture of the Commander of the Lakes is given. The book is one which should strike home to the hearts of the American youth to-day, one hundred years after the events so vividly described.
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Peggy Stewart at Home
By Gabrielle E. Jackson. New edition with frontispiece.
Cloth, 12mo. $1.25 net.
An interesting companion story to Mrs. Jackson’s Peggy Stewart at School is this new edition, with frontispiece, of a book published last year under the title of Peggy Stewart. Those who read the later chronicles of Peggy will most certainly want to see their adorable heroine at Severndale, the broad green fields of which the reader catches but few glimpses of in Peggy Stewart at School. Though the content of the tale is of necessity far different from its sequel, there is in Peggy Stewart at Home a fascinating wealth of adventure and a circle of young people quite as pleasing as those who flutter around Peggy away from home. Moreover, while a reading of Peggy Stewart at Home isn’t necessary to an understanding of Peggy Stewart at School, it will be found a distinctly pleasant introduction to it.
Peggy Stewart at School
By Gabrielle E. Jackson, author of “Peggy Stewart at Home.” With illustrations by Alice Beard.
Decorated cloth, 12mo. $1.25 net.
In this book Peggy leaves the broad expanses of Severndale, the estate which has been her home all her life, and goes away to Columbia Heights boarding school. Of course Polly goes with her, for any chronicle of Peggy would be incomplete without her companion. The new friends which the two girls make, the pranks which they indulge in, and more, the good times which Polly’s lively aunt, Mrs. Harold, gives them, comprise a book which is fully as interesting and perhaps even more entertaining than Peggy Stewart at Home—which is saying a good deal. As in that former book a not inconsiderable part of the interest was supplied by Peggy’s animal friends, so in this, Shashai and Star, the horses which Peggy and Polly bring with them to the school, and Tzaritza, Peggy’s dog, play parts of some importance in the development of the plot.