A Dream-story as droll as Alice in Wonderland. Not like Alice; and yet can there be two sorts of dream-nonsense so witty and wild, so mixed up and yet not muddy a whit? The plays on nursery rhymes are enough to make the fortune of almost a dull book. And “there isn’t a dull line in it.”
Dilly and the Captain.
By Margaret Sidney.
A bicycle-tricycle story of pioneers and explorers in search of the place where children should be seen and heard too. A very jolly story.
Nelly Marlow in Washington.
By Laura D. Nichols. Square, 8vo, boards, $1.25; cloth, $1.50.
Nelly sees the Capitol and the Capital. There are wonderful things to be seen there; too many to think of out of the book. It’s a story besides. Nelly brings up in the Adirondacks before her play-time is over.
Overhead: or what Harry and Nelly discovered in the heavens. By Annie Moore and Laura D. Nichols. Introduction by Leonard Waldo, of Harvard College Observatory. Square 8vo, boards, 1.25; cloth, 1.50.
A trip to the moon, Saturn, the sun, and various other stations, in great big letters and pictures, with a little bit of easy astronomy sprinkled in.
Underfoot, or what Harry and Nelly learned of the earth’s treasures. By Laura D. Nichols. Square 8vo, boards, 1.25; cloth, 1.50.