LATEST PUBLICATIONS OF 

 D. APPLETON AND COMPANY. 



NEW YORK, FEBRUARY, 1899. 



Fuerto Rico and its Resources. 



A book for Travelers, Investors, and others, containing full accounts of Natural Features and 

 Resources, Products, People, Opportunities for Business, etc. By Frederick A. Oker, author 

 of "Camps in the Caribbees," "Crusoe's Island," etc. With Map and Illustrations. i2mo. 

 Cloth, $1.50. 

 The aim has been to produce a work that will answer all questions likely to arise in connection with the 

 acquisition and occupation of this new tropical possession of ours, and to this end Mr. Ober has availed himself 

 of every opportunity of adding to his stock of information acquired during the past eighteen years. His book 

 is not a sketch for the casual visitor, or impressions of a traveler in search of the picturesque, but it is a com- 

 prehensive, informing, and interesting account of the people, land, and products, with the full explanations of 

 the actual conditions and opportunities which are needed by visitors and intending investors. 



Nunez's Spanish Readers. 



With Vocabulary, and Questions in English on the Text. By J. Abelardo Nunez. Illustrated. 

 i2mo. Cloth. Two Volumes. Volume I, 65 cents; Volume II, 85 cents. 



Standard elementary readers. Progressive. Carefully graded on the most approved plan employed in the 

 leading American schools. Indorsed by prominent Spanish and American scholars. The outgrowth of years 

 of experience on the part of the author, the most prominent educator of Spanish America. Universally 

 adopted for school use. 



" Nunez's series of readers has had a great educational influence in our schools, and continues to be unsur- 

 passed. Mr. Nunez has made a notable addition to the readers since the first edition, namely, the introduction 

 of standard poetry, with the result that this series of readers has no rival in Spanish America. "—.£7 Educador, 

 Santiago de Chile. 



Correspondence relative to the adoption of these books is solicited by the publishers. 



Playtime and Seedtime. 



By Francis W. Parker and Nellie L. Helm. Illustrated. Appletons' Home-Reading 



Books. i2mo. Cloth, 32 cents net. 

 This is the first volume of Uncle Robert's Geography, consisting of six books, graded for school use as well 

 as for the home. Colonel Parker begins his lessons in geography and the phenomena of Nature by relating the 

 experiences of a family of children upon a farm. He gives them free scope to extend their observations and in- 

 vestigations with the aid of their parents and " Uncle Robert," whose visit is described in the third book. Dr. 

 Harris says, " If these books are read by the school children, they will suggest a great variety of ways in which 

 real mental growth and increase of practical power may be obtained." 



Cannon and Camera. 



Sea and Land Battles of the Spanish-American War in Cuba, Camp Life, and the Return of the 

 Soldiers. Described and illustrated by J. C. HEMMENT. With over one hundred full-page 

 pictures taken by the Author, and an Index. Large 121110. Cloth, $2.00. 



" The most interesting book about the war so far is ' Cannon and Camera.' It is also the best considered 

 purely as a narrative. Air. Hemment was at the right places at the right times. . . . No series of pictures as 

 good as this on the scenes and events of the war has been made by any other man." —Boston Herald. 



Recollections of the Civil War. 



By Charles A. Dana. With Portrait. Targe i2mo. Cloth, gilt top, uncut, $2.00. 



"Out of his rich material Mr. Dana has woven a marvelous narrative. . . . Written, as the book is, in Mr. 

 Dana's inimitable English, it is worth}- to rank with the autobiography of Grant in the list of the really great 

 works which will bear down to posterity the true story of the great war for freedom and for the Union." — Boston 

 Journal. 



"A most remarkable volume of historical, political, and personal reminiscences." — Buffalo Commercial. 



The History of the World, 



From the Earliest Historical Time to the Year iSgS. By Edgar Sanderson, M. A., sometime 

 scholar of Clare College, Cambridge, author of "A History of the British Empire," "The British 

 Empire in the Nineteenth Century," "Outlines of the World's History," etc. Uniform with 

 "Natural History," " Astronomy," and "The Historical Reference-Book." Small Svo. Half 

 leather, $2.00. 



The thoroughness and compactness of this well-digested and comprehensive work render it invaluable as a 

 convenient book of reference. The American edition has brought the history of our own country down to the 

 close of the war with Spain. 



" A wonderfully comprehensive work, ably written, and industriously and accurately compiled." — St. James's 

 Gazette. 



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