St. Nicholas/Volume 32/Number 1/Advertisements/Front/McClure, Phillips & Co.

BOOKS

Frances Hodgson Burnett’s
Own Fairy Book—

“Granny’s Wonderful Chair”

“This is really my fairy book,” says the author of Little Lord Fauntleroy in the introduction. She tells how she got it, lost it, and found it again. Then the part by Frances Browne begins:

“In an old time, long ago, when fairies were in the world—”

There you are! like Snowflower, your cheek is on Granny’s chair, and the wonderful clear voice from under the cushion is telling of King Winwealth, and Princess Greedalind, and the many curious people of this delightful magic land.

The book costs $1.50, with 8 pictures in colors by Edith Truman, in a handsome red and gold cover.

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In the Closed Room

is a child-story by Mrs, Burnett herself—the first in ten years.

It is a fairy-ghost story about Judith, a janitor’s little daughter, strangely different from her plain father and mother.

The family moves to a Big House, where there is a Closed Room, which the others cannot enter. But it opens to Judith. In it wonders await her.

Grown people—especially those who have children of their own—will read with throbs this story of the borderland between the spitit-world and ours.

Jessie Willcox Smith has made 8 beautiful color-picrures for the book, It is on toned paper, with wide margins, decorated in color. $1.50.

The Little Grey House by Marion Ames Taggart, is about a girl named “Rob” Grey, ever so much like Mrs. Alcott’s “Jo,” who is plucky and cheerful in spite of trouble; and about her family and friends. She is lovely. One of the friends (a boy) thinks so too. “The book is tender and pathetic and true—a story par excellence for girls, and for older people as well,” says the Philadelphia Inquirer. Frontispiece in color by Ethel F. Bets. $1.25

Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith have collected the best examples of classic English verse in Golden Numbers: for Youth; sufficient until the study of literature in college. Introduction and poetry-study interleaves by Mrs. Wiggin. “An admirable collection” (Louisville Times} of the work of over 175 poets, inclucing Addison, Browning, Burns, Byron, Coleridge, Dryden, Eugene Field, Goldsmith, Hemans, Holmes, Keats, Kingsley, Kipling, Longfellow, Lowell, Macaulay, Milton, Poe, Rossetti, Scott, Shakespeare, Shelley, Spenser, Swinburne, Tennyson, Whitman, Whitder, Wordsworth. $2.00 net; $2.17 postpaid. The Posy Ring: for Children; just the simplest short classics that even a young child will appreciate. $1.25 net; $1.37 postpaid. The two in a box, $3.25 net; $3.50 postpaid; half morocco, net, $6.50.

McClure’s Children’s Annual for 1905 Here are Toto and the bear, who had to dance for pennics. Many more such color-pictures in this big bright book of stories and verses. Edited by T. W. H. Crossland, as were our other two annuals—both sold out now. 4to, decorated cretonne cover, $1.50.

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McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO., Publishers, N. Y.