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BOOKS

Make Books Your Christmas Gift

A New Brownie Book

THE BROWNIES
IN THE PHILIPPINES

Verse and Pictures by PALMER COX

“The funniest, the most ludicrous and jolliest of all the Brownie books.”

Newark Advertiser.

“A more pleasing holiday gift for children cannot be found.”—Boston Herald.

“It is likely that the substratum of truth that underlies all fun and fancy in this

book will be valuable, and to many give more actual information than reading long magazine articles.”

Philadelphia Inquirer.

“Two new figures are added to the Brownies, the Rough Rider and a Fisherman, whose figures are mischievously suggestive.”—Christian Advocate.

A large square book, in boards, $1.50

Two Delightful Books for Little Girls

MARY’S GARDEN
AND HOW IT GREW

MARJORIE
AND HER PAPA

By FRANCES DUNCAN

Here is a book which mothers will want to give to little daughters who have shown a desire to learn something about gardening. In the form of a charming story for little children, telling of the friendship of little Mary and her “Switzer” neighbor, a retired gardener, the reader of this book will obtain a practical treatise on making flower-gardens.

Illustrated by L. W. Ziegler.
In beautiful binding, cloth, $1.25

By Captain
ROBERT H. FLETCHER

This is a book which has been a favorite for a number of years end is now issued in new form and in very beautiful binding. It is a sweet and tender story of a father’s friendship for his dear little daughter. The illustrations are by Reginald Birch, whose pictures of children are so well known and popular.

New edition in handsome binding, $1.00

“Makes Bible Reading a Delight”

THE BIBLE FOR CHILDREN

Recommended by Bishop Henry C- Potter, D.D. Bishop Edward G. Andrews, D.D. Rev. Theodore T. Munger D.D. Rev. Josiah Strong, D.D. Rey. Donald Sage Mackay, D.D. Rev. Charles E. Jefferson, D.D. Rev. S. Parkes Cadman, D.D. Rev. James M. Ludlow, D.D. Rev. Teunis S. Hamlin, D.D. Rev. Minot J. Savage, D.D.	Here is a book which tells the sweet, simple stories of the Bible in the Bible language, omitting genealogies and doctrines, and whatever we regard as unprofitable to the young listeners or readers, Chapters and verses are disregarded, and the book has been so divided into subjects, forming complete stories, that the child will be interested in every part. The life of Jesus is nicely put together in a continuous account taken from the four Evangelists. In beautiful binding, richly illustrated. printed in black and red. $3.00	Recommended by President Daniel C. Gilman President L. Clark Seelye President Charles F. Thwing President W. H. P. Faunce President J. G. Schurman Hezekiah Butterworth John Willis Baer Josephine Shaw Lowell Clara Barton “Susan Coolidge”
By the Editor of St. Nicholas POEMS AND VERSES By MARY MAPES DODGE A new collection of the poems of Mrs. Dodge, gathering together into one book old favorites and Mrs. Dodge’s latest verse and poems—the entire collection being representative of her choicest and ripest work. 12mo, 250 pp, $1.20 net, Postage 8c.
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