# St. Nicholas/Volume 32/Number 2/Advertisements/Front/Dodd, Mead & Co.

BOOKS
New Books For Children
¶ New fiction for the little folks by some widely known authors of juveniles. The stories are wholesome and interesting—the kind all boys and girls will like to read,
¶ Especial attention is called to the Goldenrod Fairy-Book, which is perhaps the most elaborate fairy-book that has been issued. A more suitable gift-book for a child could scarcely be imagined.
The Goldenrod Fairy-Book
Compiled by ESTHER SINGLETON
Author of “A Guide to the Opera,” “Romantic Castles and Palaces,” etc. 8vo, cloth, illustrated. Net, $1.60
Elaborately illustrated throughout in color
A collection of the most charming fairy tales that could be gleaned from all countries and all Brass Care has been taken to select those which appeal with special force to children, and at the same time are not too well known. The publishers have taken great pains to make this a most beautiful book in every respect. It is printed throughout in colors, in addition to the sixteen full-page illustrations, each page is decorated. The book has been beautifully bound. :
| Elsie And Her Namesakes By MARTHA FINLEY Author of “Elsie Dinsmore,” “Elsie‘s Holidays,” etc, etc. 12mo, cloth, $1.25 Elsie still continues to be the most widely-read-about little girl in America, In spite of the fact that there are 27 volumes of Elsie books, the first of which were read by the mothers of the present generation of readers, there never were more Elsie books sold than to-day, and a new Elsie book is assured of a hearty welcome. | Patty at Home By CAROLYN WELLS Author of “Idle Idyls,” “Patty Fairfield,” etc. Illustrated, 12mo, cloth, $1.25 Patty Fairfield, who made her début three years ago, won a great many friends who would like to know more about her. In response to their interest Miss Wells has written a second volume, in which she tells how Patty and her father came to live in the North, and of the many novel experiences that befell the young Southern girl there, both at school and at home, as an inexperienced housekeeper and as a débutante. Honor Sherburne By AMANDA M. DOUGLAS Author of “The Sherburne Girls,” “A Little Girl in Old New York,” etc. 12mo, cloth, $1.25 This book follows the fortunes of Honor Sherbume during her early married-life. She goes with her husband to Washington, where, in the whirl of society, she encounters the gravest crisis of her life, and in the end surmounts it happily. | Patty at Home By CAROLYN WELLS Author of “Idle Idyls,” “Patty Fairfield,” etc. Illustrated, 12mo, cloth, $1.25 Patty Fairfield, who made her début three years ago, won a great many friends who would like to know more about her. In response to their interest Miss Wells has written a second volume, in which she tells how Patty and her father came to live in the North, and of the many novel experiences that befell the young Southern girl there, both at school and at home, as an inexperienced housekeeper and as a débutante. Honor Sherburne By AMANDA M. DOUGLAS Author of “The Sherburne Girls,” “A Little Girl in Old New York,” etc. 12mo, cloth, $1.25 This book follows the fortunes of Honor Sherbume during her early married-life. She goes with her husband to Washington, where, in the whirl of society, she encounters the gravest crisis of her life, and in the end surmounts it happily. |
| Wilby’s Dan By WILLIAM WALLACE COOK With full-page illustrations in color. 12mo, cloth, $1.50 A rattling good boys’ story, with plenty of adventure thrown in yet the adventure is of a wholesome kind, and the sum of all the adventures goes to point the lesson that true manliness in a boy’s character will prevail against a very unfavorable environment. Moreover, the real literary merit of the book will appeal to older readers. Minnows and Tritons By B. A. CLARKE Illustrated, 12mo, cloth, $1.50 The Tyrrell boys ate the kind that every real boy would like to know. How their friend, “the Rabbit,” mended his pants with a sailor collar cut’ off another boy’s suit; the great fight between the Rabbit and Claude Tyrrell that was quenched by bread pudding: and many other things go to make a bright, wholesome boys’ story, brimful of adventures and fun. | Wilby’s Dan By WILLIAM WALLACE COOK With full-page illustrations in color. 12mo, cloth, $1.50 A rattling good boys’ story, with plenty of adventure thrown in yet the adventure is of a wholesome kind, and the sum of all the adventures goes to point the lesson that true manliness in a boy’s character will prevail against a very unfavorable environment. Moreover, the real literary merit of the book will appeal to older readers. Minnows and Tritons By B. A. CLARKE Illustrated, 12mo, cloth, $1.50 The Tyrrell boys ate the kind that every real boy would like to know. How their friend, “the Rabbit,” mended his pants with a sailor collar cut’ off another boy’s suit; the great fight between the Rabbit and Claude Tyrrell that was quenched by bread pudding: and many other things go to make a bright, wholesome boys’ story, brimful of adventures and fun. | A Little Girl in Old Chicago By AMANDA M. DOUGLAS Author of “A Little Girl in Old New York,” “The Sherburne Books,” etc. 12mo, cloth, $1.50 It will suprise a great many little girls who are studying American history to learn that Chicago, which is usually considered to be a very young city, has passed its one-hundredth birthday. One of Miss Douglas’s charming Little Girl books, telling the story of a little girl who lived in Chicago when it was very young and small, will be interesting to a great many young Americans, and. particularly so to young Chicagoans. |
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