The Girl's Own Book of Amusements, Studies, and Employments. By Mrs. L. Valentine and others.

The Girl's Own Treasury ; specially designed for the Amusement and Instruction of Young Ladies.

Every Girl's Book. A Compendium of Entertaining Amusements for Recreation in Home Circles. By Louisa Lawford.

The Home Book for Young Ladies. Edited by Mrs. Valentine.

Every Girl's Annual. Edited by Miss Alicia A. Leith.

The Girl's Own Annual.

Evening Amusements; or, Merry Hours for Many People.

Footlight Frolics. Entertainments for Home and School; comprising School Opera, Charades, Plays, Christmas Capers, etc. By Mrs. Charles F. Fernald.

Dick's Parlor Exhibitions.

How to Amuse an Evening Party. A Complete Collection of Home Recreations. Illustrated.

The Ladies' Guide to Needlework, Embroidery, etc. By S. Annie Frost.

Household Elegancies. By Henry T. Williams and Mrs. C. S. Jones.

Ladies' Fancy Work.

A Sewing-Primer. By Mrs. Louise J. Kirkwood of the Wilson Industrial School, New York.

Amateur Work. Illustrated.

Money-Making for Ladies. By Ella Rodman Church.

Villages and Village Life. With Hints for their Improvement By Nathaniel Hillyer Egleston.

Wood-working Tools. How to use them.

The Young Mechanic : Containing Directions for the Use of All Kinds of Tools, and for the Construction of Steam-Engines and Mechanical Models, including the Art of Turning in Wood and Metal. By the Author of"The Lathe and its Uses,"etc. From the English edition with Corrections, etc.

The Family Aquarium; or, Aqua Vivarium. A New Pleasure for the Domestic Circle. By Henry D. Butler.

The Illustrated Natural History. By the Rev. J. G. Wood. 3 vols., 1,500 Illustrations.

gymnastics and physical culture.

Moral, Intellectual, and Physical Culture. Professor F. G. Welch.

The New Gymnastics. Dr. Dio Lewis.

Our Girls. Dr. Dio Lewis.

A Military System of Gymnastic Exercises, and a System oF Swimming. By Edward S. Farrow, United-States Military Academy.

The Witchery of Archery. By Maurice Thompson.

For Girls. A Special Physiology; being a Supplement to the Study of General Physiology. By Mrs. E. R. Shepherd.

What our Girls ought to Know. By Dr. Mary J. STUDLEY.

rearing and training of the canary.

Manual of Cage-Birds. Canary-Birds. Pamphlet Book of Household Pets.

silk-culture.

Manual of Instruction, Books, and Pamphlets to be procured at the office of the Woman's Silk-Culture Association of the United States, 1328 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Penn.

bee-keeping.

The A B C of Bee-Culture : a Cyclopaedia of Every Thing pertain-ing to the Care of the Honey-Bee. By A. I. Root. The Blessed Bees. By John Allen.

Quinby's New Bee-keeping.

The New Bee-Keeper's Text-Book. A. J. King. Langstroth on the Honey-Bee. Manual of the Apiary. Professor Cook.

poultry.

Wright's Practical Poultry-Keeper. L. Wright. Tegetmeier's Poultry-Book. W. B. Tegetmeier. Geyelin's Poultry-Breeding in a Commercial Point of View. George Kennedy Geyelin.

strawberries and small fruits.

Success with Small Fruits. E. P. Roe.                                     

Gardening for Profit. Peter Henderson.

Cole's American Fruit-Book.

Barnard's Gardening for Money. Charles Barnard.

The Small Fruit Culturist. Andrew S. Fuller.

canned fruit, preserves, and pickles.

Common Sense in the Household. Marion Harland. The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking. Helen Campbell.

drawing and designing.

Series of Drawing-Books. By Walter Smith.

Elements of Art-Criticism. G. W. Samson.

A Handbook of Art-Culture. Rev. W. H. Platt. Selections from Ruskin.

Great Lights in Sculpture and Painting. S. D. Doremus.

Books on Art, by Mrs. Susan N. Carter; and The Art Interchange, a Household Journal, New-York City.

Art Education applied to Industry. George Ward Nichols.

window-gardening and floriculture.

Gardening for Pleasure: A Guide to the Amateur in the Fruit, Vegetable, and Flower Garden, with full Directions for the Greenhouse, Conservatory, and Window-Garden. Peter Henderson.

The New Book of Flowers. Joseph Breck.

Winter Greeneries at Home. Rev. E. A. Johnson.

BURST's Flower-Garden Directory.

Tales of the Heroic Ages.

BOOKS by ZeinaIde A. Ragozin, author of"Chaldea," "Vedic India,"etc. No I. - Siegfried the Hero of the North, and Beowulf, the Hero of the Anglo-Saxons. Illustrated. 120 . . . $1.25 No. II.-Frithjof, the Viking of Norway, and Roland, the Paladin of France. Illustrated. 12° .... $1.25 No. III.-Salammbo, the Maid of Carthage. Illustrated. 120 . $1.25

"The author is one who knows her subject as a scholar, and has the skill and imagination to construct her stories admirably. Her style is terse and vivid, well adapted to interest the young in these dignified and thrilling tales."-Dial.

Plutarch for Boys and Girls.

Selected and Edited by John S. White. Illustrated. 8°. $1.75

Library Edition. 2 vols. 160......$2.50

"It is a pleasure to see in so beautiful and elegant a form one of the great books of the world. The best Plutarch for young readers." - Literary World.

"Shows admirable scholarship and judgment." - Critic.

Pliny for Boys and Girls,

The Natural History of Pliny the Elder. Edited by John S. White

With 52 illustrations. 40......$2.00

"Mr. White's selections are admirably made. He has gleaned in all directions for his notes, and the result is one which reflects on him great credit, and adds another to the number of juvenile books which may be commended without reservation." - Independent.

"For the libraries of the young - and every boy and girl in the land should collect a library of their own - these superb books have a special adaptation; they open the classics to them." - Boston"Journal of Education.

Herodotus for Boys and Girls.

Edited by John S. White. With 50 illustrations. 8° . $1.75 Library Edition. 2 vols. l6°......$2.50

"The book really contains those parts of Herodotus which a judicious parent would most likely have his boys and girls acquainted with, and Mr. White has succeeded in condensing these by omitting multitudes of phrases inserted in the Greek text. The print is so large and clear that no one need fear that it will foster a tendency to near-sightedness on the part of boy or girl." - Nation.

The Travels of Marco Polo.

Edited for Boys and Girls, with explanatory notes and comments, by Thomas W. Knox. With over 200 illustrations. 8°. $1.75

"To the student of geography Marco Polo needs no introduction. He is revered as the greatest of all travellers in the Middle Ages, and by more than one careful geographer his work is believed to have led to the discovery of the New World by the Hardy Mariner of Genoa. . . . The story of his travels was received with incredulity, and he died while Europe was gravely doubting its truth. It has remained for later generations to establish the correctness of his narrative and accord him the praise he so richly deserves."

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, New York and London

By ELBRIDQE S. BROOKS historic JBOYS." Their Endeavcis, Their Achievements and Their Times. With 29 full-page illustrations. 8°, pp iii

+ 259.........$1.25

"Told with a spirit that makes them capital reading for boys. Mr. Brooks writes in a clear and vivacious English, and has caught the art of throwing into high relief the salient point of his stories." - Christian Union.

historic Girls. Stories of Girls Who Have Influenced the History of Their Times. 8°, illustrated, pp. viii + 225. $1.25

"The stories are worth telling on their own account, and will serve at once to give their young readers some knowledge, and to quicken the historical imagination." - N. Y. Evening Post.

CbivalriC Days and Youthful Deeds. Stirring Stories, pre. senting faithful pictures of historic times. Illustrated, 8°..........$1.25

"The historic episodes upon which these stories are based are well chosen, and handled with considerable skill and picturesqueness." - Mail and Express.

heroic happenings. Told in Verse and Story. Illustrated. 8°........$1.25

"Told in a manner to elicit and hold the attention of both younger and older readers. . . . The book possesses the fascination of fiction, while imparting the facts of history." - Chautauquan.

Great Men's Sons. Stories of the Sons of Great Men from Socrates to Napoleon. Fully illustrated, 8° .            $1.25

Including the Sons of Socrates, Alexander, Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, Mahomet, Charlemagne, Alfred, William the Conqueror, Saladin, Dante, Tamerlane, Columbus, Luther, Shakespeare, Cromwell, Peter the Great, Napoleon.

"Mr. Brooks has performed his task faithfully, and made a book which every thoughtful man ought to read. It is very charming." - N. Y. Herald.

(The Long Walls. An American Boy's Adventures in Greece. A Story of Digging and Discovery, Temples and Treasures. By E. S. Brooks and John Alden. Illustrated by George Foster Barnes. 8°.......$1.25

"The characters in the book are clearly drawn . . . the picturesque and exciting adventures are told with vivacity." - Philadelphia Press.

New York - G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS - London

By MAUD BALLINQTON BOOTH

Sleepy=Ti me Stories

With introduction by Chauncey M. Depew. With 17 full-page illustrations by Maud Humphrey. 8vo. (By mail, $1.40.) Net, $1.25.

"Sleepy-Time Stories" is one of the most charming books for little children. It is dainty and fascinating, and those who can read it, or have it read to them, will want sleepy-time to come very often." - The Congregationalist,

Lights of Childland

With 11 full-page illustrations by Alice Farns-worth-Drew. 8vo. (By mail, $1.40.) Net, $1.25.

"Mrs. Booth's genial talent is put to use for the little ones in stories so full of gentle mother-love that they carry the older readers back to the days when they, too, were soothed to sleep by little tales like these." - The Churchman.

Twilight Fairy Tales

With 16 full-page colored illustrations and 16 ornamental half-titles, by Amy C. Rand. 8vo. (By mail, $1.40.) Net, $1.25.

Mrs. Booth's earliest books won for herself so many appreciative readers that her new book will be sure of a hearty welcome. These stories are for the rainy afternoon, for the fireside, and for bedtime. They are an evidence of the familiarity of the author with the hearts of children.

Q. P. Putnam's Sons

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