By Fergus Hume. “Fully as interesting as his former books, and keeps one guessing to the end. The story begins with the murder of an old lady, with no apparent cause for the crime, and in unraveling the mystery the author is very clever in hiding the real criminal. A pleasing romance runs through the book, which adds to the interest.”—Albany Evening Journal. 12mo, cloth bound, $1.25.
THE SILLY SYCLOPEDIA
By Noah Lott. “A terrible thing in the form of a literary torpedo which is launched for hilarious purposes only, inaccurate in every particular, containing copious etymological derivations and other useless things. It is one of the cleverest, most scintillating little bunches of foolishness that has appeared in many moons. There is not a dull page in the book.”—New Orleans Picayune. Illustrated, 12mo, cloth bound, 75 cents.
THE PEARL AND THE PUMPKIN
By Paul West and W. W. Denslow. “Belongs to the same class of books for children with ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and ‘The Wizard of Oz.’ Get the big, handsome book, where Paul West tells all about it, and W. W. Denslow has illustrated the story with a whole book full of the funniest colored pictures that will keep the eyes big and round with surprise and the sides shaking with laughter.”—Cleveland Plaindealer. Illustrated, 4to, cloth bound, $1.50.
DENSLOW’S NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS. (30th Thousand)
The old classic story, illustrated by W. W. Denslow. Here is the best Christmas story ever told. The man is yet to be born who can write anything to supersede what has made St. Nicholas and his tiny reindeer living and breathing realities to millions of children throughout the world.
Embellished, as it is, with the whimsical humor of Mr. Denslow’s inimitable drawings, produced in colors by the most beautiful printing, it will eclipse all other juvenile picture books of the year. A large quarto, handsomely bound in cloth or illuminated board cover, $1.50.
DENSLOW’S ONE RING CIRCUS, and Other Stories, containing:
One Ring Circus,