ALLEN (Willis Boyd).
PINE CONES. 12mo, illustrated, 1.00.
“Pine Cones sketches the adventures of a dozen wide-awake boys and
girls in the woods, along the streams and over the mountains. It is
good, wholesome reading that will make boys nobler and girls gentler.
It has nothing of the over-goody flavor, but they are simply honest,
live, healthy young folks, with warm blood in their veins and good
impulses in their hearts, and are out for a good time. It will make
old blood run warmer and revive old times to hear them whoop and see
them scamper. No man or woman has a right to grow too old to enjoy
seeing the young enjoy the spring days of life. It is a breezy, joyous,
entertaining book, and we commend it to our young readers.”—_Chicago
Inter-Ocean._
SILVER RAGS, 12mo, illustrated, 1.00.
“Silver Rags is a continuation of Pine Cones and is quite as delightful
reading as its predecessor. The story describes a jolly vacation in
Maine, and the sayings and doings of the city boys and girls are
varied by short stories, supposed to be told by a good-natured ‘Uncle
Will.’”—_The Watchman_, Boston.
“Mr. Willis Boyd Allen is one of our finest writers of juvenile
fiction. There is an open frankness in Mr. Allen’s characters which
render them quite as novel as they are interesting, and his simplicity
of style makes the whole story as fresh and breezy as the pine woods
themselves.”—_Boston Herald._
THE NORTHERN CROSS. 12mo, illustrated, 1.00.
“The Northern Cross, a story of the Boston Latin School by Willis
Boyd Allen, is a capital book for boys. Beginning with a drill upon
Boston Common, the book continues with many incidents of school life.
There are recitations, with their successes and failures, drills and
exhibitions. Over all is Dr. Francis Gardner, the stern, eccentric,
warm-hearted Head Master, whom once to meet was to remember forever!
The idea of the Northern Cross for young crusaders gives an imaginary
tinge to the healthy realism.”—_Boston Journal._
“Mr. Willis Boyd Allen appeals to a large audience when he tells a
story of the Boston Latin School in the last year of Master Gardner’s
life. And even to those who never had the privilege of studying there
the story is pleasant and lively.”—_Boston Post._
KELP: A Story of the Isle of Shoals. 12mo, illustrated, 1.00.
This is the latest of the Pine Cone Series and introduces the same
characters. Their adventures are now on a lonely little island, one of
the Shoals, where they camp out and have a glorious time not unmarked
by certain perilous episodes which heighten the interest of the story.
It is really the best of a series of which all are delightful reading
for young people.
“It is a healthful, clean, bright book, which will make the blood
course healthfully through the veins of young readers.”—_Chicago
Inter-Ocean._
ANAGNOS (Julia R.).
PHILOSOPHIÆ QUÆSTOR; or, Days at Concord. 12mo, 60 cents.
In this unique book, Mrs. Julia R. Anagnos, one of the accomplished
daughters of Julia Ward Howe, presents, under cover of a pleasing
narrative, a sketch of the Emerson session of the Concord School of
Philosophy. It has for its frontispiece an excellent picture of the
building occupied by this renowned school.
“The seeker of philosophical truth, who is described as the shadowy
figure of a young girl, is throughout very expressive of desire and
appreciation. The impressions she receives are those to which such
a condition are most sensitive—the higher and more refined ones—and
the responsive thoughts concern the nature and character of what is
heard or felt. Mrs. Anagnos has written a prose poem, in which the
last two sessions of the Concord School of Philosophy, which include
that in memory of Emerson, and its lecturers excite her feelings and
inspire her thought. It is sung in lofty strains that resemble those
of the sacred woods and fount, and themselves are communicative of
their spirit. It will be welcomed as an appropriate souvenir.”—_Boston
Globe._
KNIGHT (Charles).