The compiler has culled from works of prose and poetry both well-known and obscure these brief quotations chosen because they are helpful and cheering.

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Bacheller, Irving A. [Eben Holden’s last day a-fishing.] †50c. Harper.

7–29429.

Two pictures of an old favorite are presented in this slight volume; one of fishing on a June day and the other of Christmas-time in Eben Holden’s old-fashioned country home. He is still the kind, wise, humorous companion of earlier days.


N. Y. Times. 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
+ −N. Y. Times. 12: 702. N. 2, ’07 200w.

Bacon, Edwin Munroe. Connecticut river, and the valley of the Connecticut. **$3.50. Putnam.

6–27342.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.