These Birthday Books are of a high order of excellence. The most striking and beautiful passages in the poems and prose works of these five illustrious writers are arranged on the left-hand pages. On the right-hand pages are given the names of distinguished persons born and the record of memorable events occurring on the same day. A blank space is left under each date. Each of the books has a portrait of the author and twelve illustrations.
The price of the Birthday Books in cloth is $1.00 each, in flexible sealskin, $2.50.
⁂ For sale by all Booksellers. Sent by mail, post-paid, on receipt of price by the Publishers,
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY,
Boston and New York.
Beckonings for Every Day.
A Calendar of Thought. Arranged by Lucy Larcom, editor of “Breathings of the Better Life,” etc. 16mo, $1.00.
It aims to give some of the most awakening and inspiring words of the great and good of all ages, and contains quotations from Browning and Phillips Brooks, from Robertson and Channing and Fénelon. The writer is catholic enough to include selections from James Martineau and Newman, and has been especially happy in finding new quotations both in prose and verse for her little volume.— Boston Transcript.
A book of devotional thoughts for daily use, of a much higher order than common.— New York Evening Post.
Flowers and Fruit