It is wholly a piece of good fortune for young folks that brings this book to market in such ample season for the selection of holiday gifts.—Denver Republican.
The story teaches a good moral without any preaching, in fact it is as good in a way as Miss Alcott’s books, which is high but deserved praise.—Chronicle.
THE M. M. C. A Story of the Great Rockies. By Charlotte M. Vaile. 232 pp. Cloth, $1.25.
The pluck of the little school teacher, struggling against adverse circumstances, to hold for her friend the promising claim, which he has secured after years of misfortune in other ventures, is well brought out. The almost resistless bad luck which has made “Old Hopefull’s” nickname a hollow mockery still followed him when a fortune was almost within his grasp. The little school teacher was, however, a new element in “Old Hopefull’s” experience, and the result, as the story shows, was most satisfactory.
THE ROMANCE OF DISCOVERY; or, a Thousand Years of Exploration, etc. By William Elliot Griffis. 305 pp. Cloth, $1.50.
It is a book of profit and interest involving a variety of correlated instances and influences which impart the flavor of the unexpected.—Philadelphia Presbyterian.
An intensely interesting narrative following well-authenticated history.—Telescope.
Boys will read it for the romance in it and be delighted, and when they get through, behold! they have read a history of America.—Awakener.
THE ROMANCE OF AMERICAN COLONIZATION; or, How the Foundations of Our Country Were Laid. By William Elliot Griffis. 295 pp. Cloth, $1.50.
To this continent, across a great ocean, came two distinct streams of humanity and two rival civilizations,—the one Latin, led and typified by the Spanish, with Portuguese and French also, and the other Germanic, or Anglo-Saxon, led and typified by the English and reinforced by Dutch, German, and British people.