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The Stories Polly Pepper Told
One volume. 12mo. Illustrated by Jessie McDermott and Etheldred B.Barry, $1.50
A charming "addenda" to the famous "Five Little Pepper Stories." It isa unique plan of introducing old friends anew. Wherever there exists achild or a "grown-up" to whom the Pepper family has become dear, therewill be a loving and vociferous welcome for these charming,characteristic, and delightful "Stories Polly Pepper Told."
The Judges' Cave
A Romance of the New Haven Colony in the days of the Regicides
By MARGARET SIDNEY, author of "A Little Maid of Concord-town," "FiveLittle Peppers," etc. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, $1.50
There are few more fascinating phases of colonial history than thatwhich tells the wanderings and adventures of the two judges who,because they sat in judgment over that royal criminal, Charles theFirst of England, were hunted out of England into hiding in New Englandand there remained, a mystery and fugitives, in their celebrated cavein New Haven Colony. Margaret Sidney has made her careful andexhaustive research into their story a labor of love and has, in thisbook, woven about them a romance of rare power and great beauty.Marcia, the heroine, is a strong and delightful character, and the bookwill easily take high rank among the most effective and absorbingstories based upon a dramatic phase of American history.
A Little Maid of Concord Town
A Romance of the American Revolution
By MARGARET SIDNEY. One volume, 12mo, illustrated by F. T. Merrill,$1.50
A delightful Revolutionary romance of life, love and adventure in oldConcord. The author lived for fifteen years in the home of Hawthorne,in Concord, and knows the interesting town thoroughly. Debby Parlin,the heroine, lived in a little house on the Lexington Road, stillstanding, and was surrounded by all the stir and excitement of themonths of preparation and the days of action at the beginning of ourstruggle for freedom.
By Way of the Wilderness
By "PANSY" (Mrs. G. R. Alden) and MRS. C. M. LIVINGSTON. 12mo, cloth,illustrated by Charlotte Harding, $1.50
This story of Wayne Pierson and how he evaded or met the tests ofmisunderstanding, environment, false position, opportunity andself-pride; how he lost his father and found him again, almost lost hishome and found it again, almost lost himself and found alike hismanhood, his conscience and his heart is told us in Pansy's best vein,ably supplemented by Mrs. Livingston's collaboration.
As Talked in the Sanctum
By ROUNSEVELLE WILDMAN, U.S. Consul-General at Hong Kong; author of"Tales of the Malayan Coast," etc. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.00.
Mr. Wildman was at one time editor of a prominent magazine on thePacific coast. He here presents, in a charming and attractive volume,the talks on men and things that occupied himself and his friends--theContributor, the Poet, the Reader, the Parson, the Office Boy andothers as, day by day, they met to discuss, dissect and talk over theworld and its happenings as these appeared to the "Senate" of theeditor's sanctum. It is a book that will be found at onceentertaining, amusing, suggestive, philosophic and delightfully real.
Tales of the Malayan Coast
By ROUNSEVELLE WILDMAN, Consul-General of the United States at HongKong. One volume, 12mo, illustrated by Henry Sandham, $1.00
A notable collection of Malayan stories and sketches reproducing boththe atmosphere and flavor of the Orient, and emphasized also by a dashof American earnestness and vigor. The book is dedicated by permissionto Admiral George Dewey, Mr. Wildman's "friend and hero."
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