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THE STORY OF MANKIND

"Masters of Music," by Anna Alice Chapin.

"Story Lives of Men of Science," by F. J. Rowbotham.

"All About Treasures of the Earth," by Frederick A. Talbot.

A book that tells many interesting things about coal, salt, iron, rare metals and precious stones.

"The Boys' Book of New Inventions," by Harry E. Maule.

An account of the machines and mechancial processes that are making the history of our time more dramatic than that of any other age since the world began.

"Masters of Space," by Walter Kellogg Towers.

Stories of the wonders of telegraphing through the air and beneath the sea with signals, and of speaking across continents.

"All About Railways," by F. S. Hartnell.

"The Man-of-War, What She Has Done and What She Is Doing," by Commander E. Hamilton Currey.

True stories about galleys and pirate ships, about the Spanish Main and famous frigates, and about slave-hunting expeditions in the days of old.

The Democracy of To-Day.

"The Land of Fair Play," by Geoffrey Parsons.

"This book aims to make clear the great, unseen services that America renders each of us, and the active devotion each of us must yield in return for America to endure." An excellent book on our government for boys and girls.

"The American Idea as Expounded by American Statesmen," compiled by Joseph B. Gilder.

A good collection, including The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of the United States, the Monroe Doctrine, and the famous speeches of Washington, Lincoln, Webster and Roosevelt.

"The Making of an American," by Jacob A. Riis.

The true story of a Danish boy who became one of America's finest citizens.

"The Promised Land," by Mary Antin.

A true story about a little immigrant. "Before we came, the New World knew not the Old; but since we have begun to come, the Young World has taken the Old by the hand, and the two are learning to march side by side, seeking a common destiny."