The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-12-04
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TnE WIDE AWAKE PLEASURE HOOK. IArSl
Quartz, 900 pages. 200 Illustrations. Eegan
cloth So 90. Boards, cloth back, chrome aides
81 50. D. LOthropd Co., Boston, Mas.
In issuing the Vide, Apaks Pleasure
Book, D. Lothrop & Co. meet the popular
taste which demands in . gift.book superb
binding, at once gay, striking, and rein.
ed, fine paper, beautiful engrayingS and
'reading matter which Is really entertain.
ing and valuable. Few books, so
thoroughly first.claSs, are placed in The
market at so low a price. Besides the
Papers on Childrens Etiquette" the
poets Homes series,, the two long
stories, "Young Rick" 1.-THE Cooking
Club Of tn Whit Hollow" "Jessie's
NeighborS,, by Louise Chandler Moulton,
"BelIe Langley's Punishment" by Edgar
Fawcctt, "Bessie's Misshap" by Sophie
May, double Dinks,p BY Mrs. r. H.
stoddard, allow Miss Chatty Earned a
Living" by Ella Farman, &c., &c. 1t is
striking characteristic OF these stories
that they waken all the latent genislity,
hope, courage, helpfulness Of the readers
heart. 1t is this influence emenatipg
from every page, which has made the
Vide Awake Magazine 80 welcome Ia the
household.
Two FoRIUHE.SIntERS, and other stories. A
. colleetisn Of Original stories by our Beat Witt
tTs. u mo. lllintratsd. 81 80. D: Lothrop&
Co, Boston, Publishers. No more chArmtug idoa
Of this volume can be given than by proAentIDg
the tabl9 Of contents: lTH ~
Two Fortune Seekers, by Rossiter
johnson; Tins Partner, by Amanda NJ.
Douglas; The White Chrisauthemums, by
Louise Chandler Moultou; Fayette's
Ride, by Clara F. Gurnsey; The Strangers
from the South, by Ella Farman; Five
Pounds Of Cinnamon, by Holme Maxwell;
A Narrow Escape, by Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps; The Lost Luggage Of a Mermaid,
by Jennie Saunders; An Afternoon With
an Indian Princess, by T. Apoleon
Cheney, IL. D.; The Black and the Grey
Prince, by Laurie Loring; Kims Last
Whipping, by Sophie May; Jessie's
Neighbor, by Louise Chandler MOulton;
A Young Crusader, by Lon Burney; How
They Made 1t Up, by Mary f. Bradley;
How Miss Chatty Earned Living, by
Ella Farman; Pretty and Her Violin, by
Holme Maxwell; Little Club and the
Sky.Window, by Mary D. Brine; Toms
Centennial, by Margaret Eytinge; Jenny,s
Lark, by Nora Perry. U.tT ''.4sl
TnE COOKING CLUE or Tu-warr HoLLow. BY
Ella FdrIaaH. D. LoraR0P 4 Co., Bo5toa, pub.
fishers PiieO 81 49, r.4 ~
Decidedly a wholesome book. Il first
appeared as serial in Wide ApaGu,
where it attracted universal attention,
and WAS gratefully received by thousands
oil readers, who testified to successful
trial OF its Cooking Receipts, while they
wept and laughed alternately with the
members OF the Club. Although its
pages abound with practical instructions
in housewiiery, the story itself Is told in
a particularly fresh and dewy style. its
intere1t never abates from beginning to
end. Tho girls and their mothers are
skctohed with free, hold hand. Brave
jamie Graves, the piquant, black.eyed
Neelie Crane, tho loyable Caddie Golden,
are each good types Of American girl.
hood; There are few books designed for |
young people SO thoroughly healthy as |
this story by Miss Farman, and 1t ahould
find its way into every household IN the
land. -.-.-.---