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BOARD OF LIBRARY COMMISSIONERS.
N. Y., Macmillan Co., 1899 $1.50
From the first page to the wild night ride at the end, an intensely interesting-adventure story and an unequaled romance.
Bost., Estes & Lauriat, n. d. $1.50
N. Y., White & Allen, 1891 $1.50
Based upon facts surrounding the founding of the Messiah's House in New York city. The Witch Winnie series consists of nine volumes attractively bound and illustrated; the above mentioned volume is the first of the series.
Il.N. Y., Putnam's Sons, 1893 $1.25
A tale of the departure of the Romans from Britian.
N. Y., Putnam's Sons, 1892 $1.25
Mr. Church is an accomplished restorer of the antique and has a keen discrimination for points appealing to child-like magnetism.
Il.N. Y., Putnam's Sons, 1892 $1.25
A tale of the early christians in Rome during the second century.
N. Y., Putnam's Sons, 1892 $1.25
The narrative abounds in local color, and the character of Alexander, in both its strength and weakness, is admirably portrayed.
Il.N. Y., Macmillan Co., 1899 $1.50
Richard Carvel is built on broad, ambitious lines. It is a book of honest, painstaking workmanship, constructed to endure—an absorbing historical novel.
Il.N. Y., C. L. Webster, 1891 $1
This book contains many passages of the most striking beauty put into the dialect spoken on the Mississippi in the days before the war.
——— (Mark Twain, pseud.) Adventures of Tom Sawyer. 
N. Y., Harper & Bros., 1895 $1.75
Mr. Clemens says: "Most of the adventures recorded in this book were experiences of my own, the rest, those of boys who were schoolmates."