St. Nicholas/Volume 32/Number 2/Advertisements/Back/Century Co. Books

BOOKS

Make Books Your Christmas Gift

A New Brownie Book

THE BROWNIES
IN THE PHILIPPINES

Verse and Pictures by PALMER COX

“The funniest, the most ludicrous and jolliest of all the Brownie books.” Newark Advertiser. “A more pleasing holiday gift for children cannot be found.”—Boston Herald. “It is likely that the substratum of truth that underlies all fun and fancy in this

book will be valuable, and to many give more actual information than reading long magazine articles.” Philadelphia Inquirer. “Two new figures are added to the Brownies, the Rough Rider and a Fisherman, whose figures are mischievously suggestive.”—Christian Advocate.

A large square book, in boards, $1.50

Two Delightful Books for Little Girls

MARY’S GARDEN
AND HOW IT GREW

MARJORIE
AND HER PAPA

By FRANCES DUNCAN

Here is a book which mothers will want to give to little daughters who have shown a desire to learn something about gardening. In the form of a charming story for little children, telling of the friendship of little Mary and her “Switzer” neighbor, a retired gardener, the reader of this book will obtain a practical treatise on making flower-gardens.

Illustrated by L. W. Ziegler.
In beautiful binding, cloth, $1.25

By Captain
ROBERT H. FLETCHER

This is a book which has been a favorite for a number of years end is now issued in new form and in very beautiful binding. It is a sweet and tender story of a father’s friendship for his dear little daughter. The illustrations are by Reginald Birch, whose pictures of children are so well known and popular.

New edition in handsome binding, $1.00

“Makes Bible Reading a Delight”

THE BIBLE FOR CHILDREN

Recommended by Bishop Henry C- Potter, D.D. Bishop Edward G. Andrews, D.D. Rev. Theodore T. Munger D.D. Rev. Josiah Strong, D.D. Rey. Donald Sage Mackay, D.D. Rev. Charles E. Jefferson, D.D. Rev. S. Parkes Cadman, D.D. Rev. James M. Ludlow, D.D. Rev. Teunis S. Hamlin, D.D. Rev. Minot J. Savage, D.D.	Here is a book which tells the sweet, simple stories of the Bible in the Bible language, omitting genealogies and doctrines, and whatever we regard as unprofitable to the young listeners or readers, Chapters and verses are disregarded, and the book has been so divided into subjects, forming complete stories, that the child will be interested in every part. The life of Jesus is nicely put together in a continuous account taken from the four Evangelists. In beautiful binding, richly illustrated. printed in black and red. $3.00	Recommended by President Daniel C. Gilman President L. Clark Seelye President Charles F. Thwing President W. H. P. Faunce President J. G. Schurman Hezekiah Butterworth John Willis Baer Josephine Shaw Lowell Clara Barton “Susan Coolidge”
By the Editor of St. Nicholas POEMS AND VERSES By MARY MAPES DODGE A new collection of the poems of Mrs. Dodge, gathering together into one book old favorites and Mrs. Dodge’s latest verse and poems—the entire collection being representative of her choicest and ripest work. 12mo, 250 pp, $1.20 net, Postage 8c.

BOOKS

Make Books Your Christmas Gift

“This is a book to put into the hands of all boys.”—Christian Observer, Louisville, Ky.

BABY ELTON,
QUARTERBACK

An Athletic Story for Boys (and Girls as well)
By LESLIE W. QUIRK

“The story of a_college boy that every boy of any age will like. ‘Baby’ plays football, baseball, and is an all-round athlete. The book presents a faithful picture of the athletic side of college life.”—Courier Journal, Louisvilie, Ky.

“The best of the story, though, is the standard it quietly sets up of physical and moral manhood. A good book for boys to read and a better one to profit by.”—Cleveland Leader.

“Every boy with warm blood in his veins will enjoy reading ‘Baby Elton, Quarterback.’—Newark Advertiser.

Very richly illustrated, handsome binding, 200 pp. $1.25.

CAPTAIN
JOHN SMITH

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
net, postage 11c.

LUCY AND THEIR
MAJESTIES

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
George Varian, cloth, 350 pp., $1.50.

ELINOR ARDEN,
ROYALIST

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,
cloth, 283 pp.. $1 50.

By the Author of “The Call of the Wild,” and “The Sea-Wolf.”

THE CRUISE OF THE DAZZLER

By JACK LONDON

“This isa rattling good story for boys. A story of an adventure on the Pacific coast and one which a will not willingly lay down until the last page is read.”—Past Express, Rochester, New York. “It is a wholesome as well as an attractive book, making it very suitable for the average boy.”—Standard Union, Brooklyn, New York,

“The sea adventures are wonderfully well done and the moral lesson tells itself with no preaching.”—Evening Sun, New York. “A more wholesome, manly, inspiring story for the young is not to be found in the entire autumn list.”—Boston Beacon.

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:

About Animals Cat Stories Stories of Brave Dogs

Lion and Tiger Stories Panther Stories Bear Stories

Each book richly illustrated, cloth, 65¢. each net.

BOOKS

A practical treatise on flower culture for young
people told in the form of a story

MARY’S GARDEN
AND HOW IT GREW

By Frances Duncan

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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.

THE CENTURY CO., UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK

BOOKS

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:

I.	Design
II.	Thin Wood-working
III.	Pyrogeaphy
IV.	Sheet-Metal Work
V.	Leather Work
VI.	Bookbinding
VII.	Simple Pottery
VIII.	Basketry
IX.	Bead Work

By FRANK G. SANFORD
Director of Department Arts and
Crafts, Chautauqua University

Examples of Sheet-Metal Work
Designed and Executed by Amateurs)

Price $1.20
Net,
Postage 9 cts.

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.

AMONG OTHER THINGS DE- SCRIBED MAY BE MENTIONED

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How to Make a Sun-Dial How to Make a Brass Candle-Shade How to Make an Embossed Leather Card-Case How to Make Copies of Simple Arizona Indian Pottery How to Make a Fruit Basket of Cattail Leaves How to Make a Bead Chain, etc., etc.

“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).

THE CENTURY CO., UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK