H>. Hppleton an<> Company's publications. 



Playtime and Seedtime. 



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

 Books. 121110. 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. {Ready shortly.) 



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 I2mo. Cloth, $2.00. 



Mr. Hemment is probably the first photographer who has obtained at close range a complete series of pictures 

 illustrating a war from its inception to its close. He was on the wreck of the Maine while the Commission was 

 sitting. He saw the volunteers called into service, and visited Camp Black and Chickamauga. He was at 

 Tampa and with Admiral Sampson's squadron, and he was at Santiago from the beginning to the surrender. 

 Mr. Hemment was under fire with the regulars and Rough Riders at El Caney, San Juan, and elsewhere, and he 

 shared in the dramatic scenes preceding the capitulation. He witnessed the bombardments of the fleet, and saw 

 Cervera's fleet destroyed. Later, Mr. Hemment was present at Camp Wikoff, and saw the return of Colonel 

 Roosevelt and his Rough Riders, and he also witnessed the return of the Seventy-first. It is probable that no 

 other writer or artist had so wide a range of experiences, and the fact that Mr. Hemment has had a military 

 training adds point to his frank accounts of the mismanagement and confusion in the camps, on the transports, 

 and in the field, which he records from actual observation. His comments upon the conduct of the Santiago 

 campaign will be read with peculiar interest. 



This vivid and comprehensive story of the war is accompanied by over one hundred pictures taken by Mr. 

 Hemment, which form a realistic pictorial record of the scenes afloat and ashore. Such a record can not be 

 duplicated, and it is believed that this novel account of a photographer's experiences in war time, illustrated by 

 his own pictures, will hold a unique place in the literature of the war. 



Latitude I9 . {Ready shortly.) 



A Romance Of the West Indies in the Year of our Lord 1820. Being a faithful account and 



true, of the painful adventures of the Skipper, the Bo's'n, the Smith, the Mate, and Cynthia. 



By Mrs. Schuyler Ckovvninshield, author of " Where the Trade Winds Blow." Illustrated. 



i2mo. Cloth, $1.50. 

 Mrs. Crowninshield's first novel is a book which will be read and talked about. The local color is fresh and 

 captivating, and the interest of novelty attaches to the historical background, including as it does the pirates and 

 voodoo worshipers of the earlier part of the century in Haiti, and the strange figure of King Christophe. The 

 unflagging interest of the adventures which are encountered is accompanied by a constant vein of delightful 

 humor. 



The House of Hidden Treasure. 



A Novel. By Maxwell Gray, author of "The Silence of Dean Maitland," etc. i2mo. 



Cloth, $1.50. 

 This novel is regarded by the author as her most important and significant work since " The Silence of Dean 

 Maitland." The scene is laid for the most part in England, and the story opens in the '60s. "There is a 

 strong and pervading charm in this new novel," says the London Chronicle in the course of a long and enthusi- 

 astic review of the book, which is characterized as a picture of " a woman's ideal," and free from morbid thoughts 

 and theories. The London Spectator says, "'The Silence of Dean Maitland ' was a very popular novel, and 

 we can not see why ' The House of Hidden Treasure ' should not rival the success of its forerunner." 



"AN IMMEDIATE SUCCESS." 



David Harum. 



A Story of American Life. By Edward Noyes Westcott. 121110. Cloth, $1.50. 



"Mr. Westcott has done for central New York what Mr. Cable, Mr. Page, and Mr. Harris have done for 

 different parts of the South, and what Miss Jewett and Miss Wilkins are doing for New England, and Mr. 

 Hamlin Garland for the West. . . . David Harum is a masterly delineation of an American type. . . . 1 here 

 is life, with all its joys and sorrows. . . . David Harum lives in these pages as he will live in the mind of the 

 reader. . . . He deserves to be known by all good Americans ; he is one of them in boundless energy, in large- 

 heartedness, in shrewdness, and in humor." — The Critic. 



" Thoroughly a pure, original, and fresh American type. David Harum is a character whose qualities of 

 mind and heart, eccentricities, and dry humor will win for his creator notable distinction. . . . Buoyancy, life, 

 and cheerfulness are dominant notes. In its vividness and force, the story is a strong, fresh picture of Ameri- 

 can life, original and true, which is worth the same distinction which is accorded the genre pictures of peculiar 

 types and places sketched by Mr. George W. Cable, Mr. Joel Chandler Harris, Mr. Thomas Nelson Page, Miss 

 Wilkins, Miss Jewett, Mr. Garland, Miss French, Miss Murfree, Mr. Gilbert Parker, Mr. Owen Wister, and 

 Bret Harte. ... A pretty love' story also adds to the attractiveness of a book that will be appreciated at once 

 by every one who enjoys real humor, strong character, true pictures of life, and work that is ' racy of the soil.' " 

 — Boston Herald. 



