By Mary Bradford Crowninshield. Finely illustrated from photographs and original drawings. An attractive book for boys, giving the account of an actual trip along the coast of Maine by a lighthouse inspector with two wide awake boys in charge. The visits to the numerous lighthouses not only teem with incident, but abound in information that will interest every one. Extra cloth, quarto, $2.50.
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WIDE AWAKE, Volume U.
This beautiful volume is rich in stories, ballads, special illustrated articles, adventures, history and literature and art features representing the recent work of the most popular authors and artists. Among its commanding specialties are the “Popsy Stories” by H. H., the “Virginia Stories” by Mrs. Jessie Benton Frémont, the “Old Colony Stories” by Miss Wilkins, the fine heliotype Memorial Portrait of General Grant, and a complete serial story, “How the Middies Set up Shop,” by Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, etc., etc.
WIDE AWAKE, Volume V.
This magnificent annual is rich in special features: True War Stories, true stories of Perilous Adventure, richly pictorial Ballads, by Mrs. Whitney, Mrs. Thaxter, Mrs. Spofford, Sarah Orne Jewett, Nora Perry and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, two beautiful full pages in colors, together with a charming serial by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford, “A Girl and a Jewel,” largely descriptive of the author’s own childhood adventures and escapades.