A delightful little book of American natural history is Friends Worth Knowing,[5] which takes its young readers in search of snails of all kinds, into the fields and woods to find wild mice and birds, over the plains after buffalo, and tells them many curious things about the habits of different animals. Interesting illustrations and an attractive cover add to the value of this book for a pretty and cheap holiday present.
Another charming book of travel, if a summer excursion may be so called, is Aboard the Mavis,[6] in which a merry party of boys and girls cruise around the eastern end of Long Island Sound in a yacht, making occasional landings, and learning much about the early history of that portion of the country. This book is profusely illustrated and beautifully bound, and is an elegant holiday present for any girl or boy.
For very little children nothing is prettier or more attractive than the Christmas number of Our Little Ones, a monthly magazine edited by "Oliver Optic," and published by the Russell Publishing Company, of Boston.
HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE.
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The Volumes of Harper's Young People commence with the first Number in November of each year.