A Partnership In Magic
By CHARLES BATTELL LOOMIS
Author of "Just Rhymes," "The Four Masted Cat Boat," and "Yankee Enchantments." 12mo. Four illustrations. Price, $1.25.
"A Partnership in Magic," by Charles B. Loomis, the widely known humorist, is an extremely original and clever juvenile, Mr. Loomis's first piece of long fiction. It has a fairy-tale motive in an entirely realistic setting. A country boy, who has a marvellous power of plucking fruit from the bare branches of any tree, goes to New York, and with a friend starts in the fruit business, and makes a large sum of money in a couple of weeks of their partnership. There is a cruel stepfather, and his adventures in New York in search of the boy, together with the many city scenes in connection with the hero's experiences, make it a highly amusing and graphic story. It is written in Mr. Loomis's peculiar vein of quiet, but effective fun.
Lothrop Publishing Company, Boston
Defending The Bank
By EDWARD S. VAN ZILE
Author of "With Sword and Crucifix," etc. Four illustrations by I. B. Hazelton. 12 mo. Pictorial cover in color. Price, $1.25.
"Defending the Bank," by Edward S. Van Zile, is a most amusing and interesting detective story for boys and girls, in which a couple of bright boys and girls appoint themselves amateur detectives and are able to run down a couple of bank robbers who are planning to rob the bank of which the father of one of the boys is president. This is at once an exciting and wholesome tale, of which the scene is laid in Troy, N. Y., the former home of the author. It will be widely welcomed.