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LEE & SHEPARD’S NEW BOOKS

FOR THE BOYS AND GIRLS

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AMERICAN BOYS’ LIFE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT. By Edward Stratemeyer. Finely illustrated. $1.25. There has been an urgent demand for Mr, Stratemeyer to write a life of our present President, and this has been done with a care and a faithfulness certain to win immediate appreciation everywhere. THE BOY COURIER OF NAPOLEON. A Story of the Louisiana Purchase. By By William C. Sprague. Illustrated. Large 12mo. $1.50. William C. Sprague, the notably successful editor of The “American Boy,” has given for the first time the history of the Louisiana Purchase in entertaining story form. THE YOUNG VIGILANTES. A Story of California Life in the Fifties. By Samuel Adams Drake. Illustrated. $1.25. Col. Drake has put much of his personal recollection into the story and knows what to tell and how to tell it, ON THE TRAIL OF PONTIAC; Or, The Pioneer Boys of the Ohio. Fourth volume of the “Colonial Series” By Edward Stratemeyer. $1.25. In this volume are related the particulars of the conspiracy of the noted Indian chief Pontiac immediately after the war with France for the possession of Canada. MAKING THE NINE Second volume of the “Philips Exeter Series.” By A. T. Dudley. Illustrated. $1.25. The leading boys’ athletic book of last season was the great football story, “Following the Ball.” Its cordial reception has led to this second book, in which baseball is sufficiently prominent to suggest the title. JACK TENFIELD’S STAR. A Story for Boys and Some Girls. By Martha James. Illustrated. $1.25 That Jack is capable of being his “own star” well expresses the excellent thought of the book, which is remarkable for variety of well-told incidents. TWO YOUNG INVENTORS. The Story of the Flying Boat. By Alvan Milton Kerr, Author of “Young Heroes of Wire and Rail.” Illustrated. $1.25. Here is a rattling good story. Mr. Kerr has written a tale of mystery, mechanism and getting on in the world that will be a boys’ favorite for years. YOUNG EXPLORERS OF THE AMAZON; Or, American Bays in Brazil. Fourth volume of the “Pan-American Series.” By Edward Stratemeyer. Illustrated. $1.25. Five bright youths and their tutor land at Rio de Janeiro, and visit the principal cities along the coast, and from Bahia they journey up the mighty Amazon. LARRY THE WANDERER; Or, The Rise of a Nobody. By Edward Stratemeyer. Illustrated. $1.00. This is a plain tale of every-day life, written especially for boys and girls who do not care particularly for stories with an historical or geographical background. JASON'S QUEST. By D. O. S. Lowell, A.M., M.D., Master in Roxbury Latin School. Illustrated. $1.00. Nothing could be happier than Professor Lowell's way of telling this famous world-story, and the many excellent drawing have lent great spirit to the narrative.

HELEN GRANT'S FRIENDS. Second volume of the “Helen Grant Stories.” By Amanda M. Douglas. Illustrated. &1.25. Although a complete story in itself, this continues the life of the heroine from "Helen Grant's Schooldays.” AN HONOR GIRL. By Evelyn Raymond. Illustrated. $1.25. A bright helpful story of a girl, who, as the valedictorian and “Honor girl” of her class at high school, wins a scholarship which would take her through Wellesley College. A LASS OF DORCHESTER. By Annie M. Barnes. Illustrated. $1.25. The “Lass” is “Miss Elizabeth Blew” of a former book, now grown up and just returned from Boston, where she has been to finish her education. THE LAUREL TOKEN. A Story of the Yamassee Uprising. By Annie M. Barnes. Illustrated. $1.25. The story centers about a beautiful girl left an orphan, as is supposed, in Barbados, who goes to live with her uncle, a leading man in the flourishing “Goose Creek” colony, in the year of the Indian uprising, 1714. RANDY’S GOOD TIMES. By Amy Brooks. Fifth volume of “The Randy Books.” Illustrated. $1.00. All the favorite characters of former books reappear, and the story is full of fun and gaiety, and of love and loyalty as well. DOROTHY DAINTY AT SCHOOL. By Amy Brooks. Third volume of “Dorothy Dainty Series,” Illustrated. $1.00. The school life proves very entertaining, and mostly very pleasant, The rescue of Nancy Ferris, who disappeared in the last story, forms an important and very interesting feature. THE MAKING OF MEENIE. By Edith L. Gilbert. Illustrated. $1.00. “The Frolicsome Four” won immediate favor last year by its bright naturalness, The same entertaining family of two brothers and two sisters appear in this book. THE CHILDREN ON THE TOP FLOOR. By Nina Rhoades. Illustrated. $1.00. No more pleasing books for children have been written in recent years than those by Miss Nina Rhoades. THE TAMING OF BETTY. By Cally Ryland. Illustrated. Large, 12mo, cloth. $1.00. Betty is as bright as can be, but a thorough romp. Love subdues her after sternness fails. HOW A LITTLE GIRL WENT TO AFRICA. Told by Herself. By Leona Mildred Bicknell. Fully illustrated. $1.00. A bright little girl of unusual opportunites in the way of travel has, at the age of ten, written a book to tell other children of a journey of remarkable interest. STORIES OF BRAVE OLD TIMES. Some Pen Pictures of Scenes Which Took Place During the American Revolution. By Helen M. Cleveland. Profusely illustrated. $1.25. A few unsigned articles in “Youth's Companion” first attracted attention to Miss Cleveland as a portrayer of the dramatic in history. The late Daniel Ford said of them, “fresh, vigorous, dramatic, and picturesque.” These words most aptly describe her riper work in this book.

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