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BOARD OF LIBRARY COMMISSIONERS.
Il.N. Y., Harper & Bros., 1881 $1
A unique and desirable book containing comprehensive hints on camp shelter and food, directions for the construction of traps of all kinds, recipes for the curing and tanning of fur skins, etc.
N. Y., Forest and Stream Pub. Co., 1897 $2.50
This volume has devoted much more space to the natural history side of our large animals than the former publications of the club.
Il.N. Y., Warne & Co., 1893 $1.50
Contains over 400 puzzles of every conceivable variety. Puzzles with cubes, wire and ingenious ideas of all sorts fully explained.
Phila., Lippincott, 1890 $1.75
The subjects in which the boys naturally feel peculiar interest are skilfully treated by writers of proved capacity and aptitude for the task.
Il.N. Y., Century Co., 1886 $2
A volume full of healthful amusement as well as useful instruction.


800. LITERATURE.

Poetry.

Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1886 $1.25
Refined fancy, graceful imagination, and true poetic feeling crop out on every page.
Il.Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1893 $1.50
None of our New England poets can rival Mr. Aldrich in delicate fancy and airy rhyme.
N. Y., Dodd, Mead & Co., 1894 $1.25
Irish stories and legends in rhyme, which depict with quiet force, the hard fate of the poor in Ireland.
N. Y., Putnam's Sons, 1894 $1.25
A collection of poems which have borne the test of time and whose right to a place in the domain of art has been conceded.