St. Nicholas/Volume 32/Number 2/Advertisements/Back/Century Co. Books
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Make Books Your Christmas Gift
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Make Books Your Christmas Gift
“This is a book to put into the hands of all boys.”—Christian Observer, Louisville, Ky. BABY ELTON, An Athletic Story for Boys (and Girls as well)
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CAPTAIN By TUDOR JENKS “It is as good as a novel to read of Smith’s doings. The average boy only knows him from the Pocahontas episode.”—Cleveland Leader. “Intended for young people, but older readers also will find this an instructive and entertaining book.”—The Outlook. Illustrated, cloth, 259 pp. $1.20 |
LUCY AND THEIR By B. L. FARJEON “One of the most original and most ludicrous stories ever written for children”—Newark Advertiser. “Classic entertainment is here for small folks somewhat familiar with English history who would like to know at closer range Queen Bess, Cromwell, and other notebles,”—The Outlook. Illustrated by Fanny Y. Cory and |
ELINOR ARDEN, By MARY CONSTANCE DU ROIS “Among the winsome maidens of modern fiction Elinor Arden must take a high place. She is the daughter of a royalist in the days of Charles I and the Roundheads. . . .The story js well told and the plot most cleverly conceived.”—Sunday Sentinel, Indianapolis, Ind. “Elinor Arden is a heroine whom every reader will love.”—Baltimore News. Illustrated by Benda, | |||||
By the Author of “The Call of the Wild,” and “The Sea-Wolf.” THE CRUISE OF THE DAZZLER By JACK LONDON
Illustrated by Burns, cloth, 250 pp. $1.00. | |||||||
KIBUN DAIZIN Or “From Shark-Boy to Merchant Prince” “A unique juvenile is this story of a Japanese boy by a popular Japanese author.”—Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. “A story for children by a famous Japanese novelist, A fair idea of the spirit that has suddenly placed the island empire in the forefront of civilization may be got from reading this little book.”—Herald, Baltimore. Illustrated by George Varian, cloth, 175 pp., $1.25. |
ANIMAL STORIES Retold from St. Nicholas Magazine A series of six little books containing choice material about animals culled from thirty years of St. Nicholas. Books that boys and girls will love. The titles are as follows:
Each book richly illustrated, cloth, 65¢. each net. | ||||||
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A practical treatise on flower culture for young
people told in the form of a story
MARY’S GARDEN
AND HOW IT GREW
It is evidently the design of the author of this charming book to lure little girls into delving in the brown earth, raising flowers, healthy appetites, and rosy cheeks.
This volume will prove invaluable to older people also, because Miss Duncan takes nothing for granted in the matter of horticultural knowledge and gives all those little details which amateur gardeners so sadly need.
“Mary’s” garden experience starts with January, and runs through the whole twelve months.
For winter there is window-gardening; in spring there is seed-planting. Later, Mary is initiated into the mysteries of setting out a hedge, pruning, budding, rose-growing, the transplanting of perennials, the setting out of bulbs, and many other interesting and delightful phases of flowerdom, Many drawings illuminate the text.
Mr. S. B. Parsons, the veteran horticulturist, writes to the author: “The book is admirable,
and I think it could hardly be better. The personality you have thrown over
it all is a very great charm. All the children will want to know lite Mary,
and it will sell like hot-cakes at Christmas.”
“The idea upon which it is based is a very happy one, and the book
is also technically sound.”—Dick J. Crosby (in charge of Chil-
drens Garden Work, Agricultural Deparment, U. S. A.).
“It should be hung on every Christmas tree this
year.”—Charles N. Chadwick (Brooklyn Board
of Education).
12mo, 261 pages. $1.25.
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A source of inspiration to the youth or the older person who likes to “make things”
Over 200 photographs and working draawings by the author
The Art Crafts for Beginners
Contents:
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By FRANK G. SANFORD Examples of Sheet-Metal Work |
Price $1.20 The author describes in detail how to make over forty useful and ornamental articles in the various mediums described, together with suggestions for endless other varieties of similar objects. |
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“A most excellent lite book, valuable for beginners and invaluable for manual training teachers. I have spent a pleasant afternoon reading, or rather devouring, its contents.”
Robert G. Weyh, Jr. (Dept. Manual Training, Public School 27, New York).
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