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Edited by W. T. HARRIS, A.M., LL D., 
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A comprehensive series of books presenting upon a symmetrital plan the 
best available literature in the various fields of human learning, selected 
with a view to the needs of students of all grades in supplementing their 
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fully solve the long standing problem as to what kind of reading shall be 
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7 HE STORY OF THE BIRDS. By James New- 
TON BASKETT. 65 cents et. 
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HE PLANT WORLD: Jts Romances and Realt- 
ties. Compiled and edited by FRANK VINCENT, M.A., author 
of ‘Actual Africa,” etc. 60 cents ze¢. 
““Tts interest will extend to every member of the family, to every one who loves 
Nature, for its information regarding the plant world will make the mysteries of spring- 
time the more significant, the more beautiful.” —ABostonx Times. 
HE STORY OF OLIVER TWIST. By CHaruzs 
DICKENS. Condensed for home and school reading by ELLA 
Boyce KIRK. 60 cents wet. 
** The language is unchanged, expressions are not modified, but everything a child 
would be likely to skip has been elided. The action is thus accelerated to suit the 
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N. BROOK AND. BAYOU ; or, Life in the Sill 
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In this volume the author introduces her readers to some of the interesting inhabit- 
ants of the microscopic world by the aid of numerous plates and full descriptive text. 
The account of the evolution of these minute creatures and their struggle for existence 
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CURIOUS HOMES AND THEIR TENANTS. By JAMES CARTER 
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NATURAL HISTORY READERS, 5 vols. By J. F. TROEGER. 
THE FPALLE.OF SHELLS, By, Mis:°A. S. HARDY. 
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