Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-11-24

WHY ~ SCAto'
WIDE AWAKE 1SS9.-Inge, the Boy
King. Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen's new
dramatic ballad will appear in the Christ
mas number. illustrated by Howard
Pyle. Right thing for readings and re-
citations. A great serial by F. I. Trow-
bridge. The adventures of David Vane
and David Crane. A splendid story,
Yankee Folk. Opens in beautiful old
''sugar bush,n where the two remarka-
BILE way, and crisp little Huldah takes
them both in hand. A first-rate serial to
read aloud in the family. The best of
serial home stories by Margaret Sidney.
Five Little Peppers Midway. The fam
Gus Pepper family again. All about
what Polly did when he was fifteen, and
what Ben did, together with the happen
ings to Joel, David and Phronsie, old
Mr.. King, Jasper and the Whitneys, and
many new friends. A brilliant series by
Margaret Sidney. Early Days in the
Wild West. Travelling stories, mining
stories, climbing and coaching and horse
back and mule-train steries, of riots and
deadly perils-of all of which Mrs. FIRE.
mont herself was part. A serial story
for the times by Susan Coolidge. A Lit
Vic AlShb VI IdOOks 4hC hlotO1y VI q 3
who set fourth to seek her fortune. And
she found it, and SO can more girls in the
same and similar ways. A Thousand
Jack-knives. By Prof. Otis T. Mason,
of the Smithsonian Institution. A muse
UNI of illustrations of curious knives.
Dolls of Noted Women. By Miss Risley
Seward. A symposium of famous wo-
men, with their views ON the utility of
dolls. The Celestial Bear. Captured
through instantaneous photography by
Baldwin Coolidge. Miss Risley Seward 8
True Stories. The Naughtiest Boy !
ever Met. III. My Grandfather with
Commodore Perry. III. Tom, the Star
Boy. A Famous Baltimore Dining.
Room. By Mrs. Burton Harrison. With
eighteen portrait-plaques of the young
society women of Washington time.
Children of the White House. The Inn
portant National Series about the child
rem of the Presidential families, includ.
ing the family histories and contempora.
ry American history, will be continued.
Superbly illustrated. Sybil Fairs Fair.
ness. By Charles Remington Talbot. A
A serial story of washtubs and steam
boats, four gay young people, and a
marine crisis. An amusing pictorial
novelty. The Court Calender. By L.
]. Bridgman. Extracts touching Two
Little Royal Highnesses. Daisy's Let.
tiers to Patty. By Mrs. William B. Olaf.
lin. Short letters on social matters.
Fresh Worthwhile Literary Articles.
1. The Boy John Burroughs. A crisp
piece of autobiography with portrait
of Mr.. Burroughs at twenty. ii. III
H. Personal "reminiscences of Mrs.
Helen Hunt Jackson and of her little
boy, by her intimate friend, Susan Cool.
| idge. Full of anecdotes. Portrait OF
H. H." from the charcoal by Miss Bar
toll, III. Pet Marjorie. Written by
Mrs. Frances A. Humphrey in the home
of Sir Walter Scott's famous little pet
With portrait of Pet Marjorie from a
water-color by her sister.
Sports, Games and Pleasures. l Fish
ing in the Tweed and Yarrow. By An
drew Lang. III. Christmas and Easter
Wild-Flower Books. III. A Cascaron
Dance: An Easter amusement. ~
The art of Swimming. v. Catching
Fish with bottle.
| Cookery in the Public Schools. By
Mrs. Sallie Joy White. Twelve papers.
Introduces Mrs. Hemenway's successful
experiment in Boston, to the parents and
public school children everywhere else.
The Stories of the Famous Preciou!
Stones. By Mrs. Goddard Orpen
Twelve romantic true tales: The
Great Mogul,n 1.-The Regent" The
French Blue 1.-THE Black Prince,
Ruby" etc.
| Good Stories, Good Articles, Coco
Poems. Yum-Yum, by John Strang'
Winter; How many Indians in thu
United States? by Major General o. 0
| Howard The Toodlethwaite Prize, b,
Elizabeth Stuart Phelphs. Stories b.
Sidney Luska and Noah Brooks article
| by Rose &. Kingsley, Mrs Alphonst
Bernhard niece of General Grant, ant
Elbridge s. Brooks Who ate the Queen
Luncheon ? by Susan Coolidge The
Silver Hen, by Mary E. Wilkens Bin
| by Grnce DEMO Litchfield Ballads anc
| Poems by Jean Ingelow. Harriet Pres
colt Spofford, Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
Clinton Scotland, NJ. E. B., Mrs. Wilton
Stone, Marian Douglas. etc.
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well for this work.
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