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The Principles of Biology. 



By Herbert Spencer. Volume I. New edition, revised and enlarged. Entirely reset. i2mo. 

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The rapid progress in biology during- the last generation has necessitated a revision of this work. The new 

 chapters, with other additions and three new appendices, have increased the size of the volume to 706 pages. 



Our Country's Flag and the Flags of Foreign Countries. 



By Edward S. Holden. Illustrated. Appletons' Home-Reading Books. i2mo. Cloth, 80 

 cents net. 



This book is intended to give the American child a brief history of our national flag and its significance, with 

 some account of the flags of other countries, and of symbols that have had so much to do with the hopes, aspira- 

 tions, and loyalty of nations. The first part deals with the history of the American flag, and the second part 

 with a short history of flags in general and of the flags of European nations iu particular. It is a book that will 

 help the American boy or girl to a higher conception of duty and patriotism. 



Historic Boston and its Neighborhood. 



By Edward Everett Hale. Illustrated. Appletons' Home-Reading Books. 121110. Cloth, 



50 cents net. 

 This little book will serve as a key or as an introduction to the more elaborate guides to historic Boston and 

 its suburbs, and to a general study of the early history of our country, many dramatic events in which occurred 

 in and around this city. Mr. Hale's charming style, pure diction, and power of description, given here in a 

 conversational form, can not fail to make this an entertaining and instructive book for older as well as young 

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Paleface and Redskin, and Other Stories for Boys and Girls. 



By F. Anstey, author of "Vice Versa," etc. With many Illustrations i2mo. Cloth, $1.50. 

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With the Black Prince. 



A Story of Adventure in the Fourteenth Century. By William O. Stoddard, author of 

 "The Battle of New York," "Chris, the Model-Maker," "Little Smoke," "Crowded Out o' 

 Crofield," "On the Old Frontier; or, The last Raid of the Iroquois," etc. Illustrated by B. 

 West Clinedinst. 121110. Cloth, $1 50. 

 "Aside from the good story Mr. Stoddard tells, he is very clever in mixing history and fiction in judicious 



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Chicago Evening Post. 



Success against Odds; or, How an American Boy made his Way. 



By William O. Stoddard. Illustrated by B. West Clinedinst. Uniform edition. i2mo. 



Cloth, $1.50. 

 "The story is written in a lively manner, and the adventures, while exciting, are not at all improbable."— 

 Minneapolis Tribune. 



" Just the sort of a book to get hold of a boy and help make a man of him." — New York Evangelist. 



The Pilot of the Mayflower. 



By Hezekiah Butterworth, author of " True to his Home," " In the Boyhood of I incoln," 

 " The Zigzag Books," etc. Illustrated by II. Winthrop Pcirce, and Others. 121110. Cloth, $1.50 

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The Hero of Erie {Commodore Perry). 



By Tames Barnes, author of " Midshipman Farragut," "Commodore Bainbridge," etc. A new 



volume in the Young Heroes of our Navy Series. i2mo. Cloth, $1.00. 



"There has been no more picturesque and manly figure in the United States navy than that of Commodore 



Perry the hero of the great naval battle on Lake Erie, and there is no American career more likely than his to 



enlist the sympathy of the boy reader. The story of his life and gallant deeds is well told by Mr. Barnes in a 



style which makes the incidents real. It is a good story, and, besides, it is good history."— Phila. Inquirer. 



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