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proportion of ill-deserving books is larger 

 among juvenile publications than in those pre- 

 pared for maturer minds. The standard of 

 excellence in this department of literature has 

 been noticeably raised within the last few 

 years. Colonel Higgin son's "Young Folks' 

 History of the United States " (Lee & Shepard) 

 is better than folks of any age had, not so 

 many years ago. Miss L. M. Alcott is at her 

 best in "Eight Cousins; or, the Aunthill " 

 (Roberts), and her best is second to none. Mr. 

 Trowbridge completes his "Jack Hazard" 

 series in "The Young Surveyor;" the dog 

 " Lion " comes near being the real hero of all 

 the books, which, however, are wholesomely 

 entertaining throughout. Mrs. A. M. Diaz, 

 whose " William Henry" is a genuine creation 

 of genius, favors the youngsters with such "A 

 Story-Book for Children " (Osgood) as nobody 

 else could write. The lady who writes under 

 the name of " Susan Coolidge," in her " Nine 

 Little Goslings " (Roberts), skillfully links her 

 stories to the nursery legends of "Mother 

 Goose." "The Catskill Fairies," with its 

 wealth of illustrations (Harpers), opens indeed 

 a fairy world. And of kindred excellence are 

 the following : 



Doings of the Bodley Family in Town and 

 Country. 77 Illustrations. (Kurd.) 



Jolly Good Times ; or, Child Life on a Farm. By 

 P. Thome. (Eoberts.) 



The Big Brother. A Story of Indian War. By 

 George Gary Eggleston. (Putnams.) 



Mice at Flay. A Story for the Whole Family. 

 By Neil Forrest. (Eoberts.) 



Tales out of School. By Frank E. Stockton. 

 (Scribner.) 



The Asbury Twins. By Sophie May. (Lee & 

 Shepard.) 



Stories. By Mrs. L. C. Moulton, E. Stuart Phelps, 

 Ella Farman, Eossiter Johnson, and other Story- 

 Tellers. (Lothrop.) 



There's no Place like Home. By Amanda M. 

 Douglas. (Gill, Boston.) 



The Horn of Plenty of Home Poems and Home 

 Pictures. By Sophie May. (Gill.) 



Frisk and his Flock. By Mrs. D. P. Sanford. 

 (Dutton.) 



A useful and entertaining form of juvenile 

 literature is compends of history, biography, 

 travel, and adventure, descriptive zoology, and 

 the like : 



The Island of Fire [Iceland] ; or, A Thousand 

 Years of the Old Northern Home, 874-1874. By 

 Eev. P. C. Headley. (Lee & Shepard.) 



The Adventures of the Chevalier de La Salle and. 



Forests, Lakes, and Eivers of the New World, ant 

 their Interviews with the SavageTribes Two Hundred 

 Years ago [series of " American Pioneers and Pa- 

 triots"]. By John S. C. Abbott. (Dodd.) Also in 

 the same series : 



Life of Christopher Columbus. By John S. C. 

 Abbott. (Dodd.) 



Life of George Washington. By John S. C. Ab- 

 bott. (Dodd.) 



Arctic Heroes ; Facts and Incidents of Arctic Ex- 

 ploration, from the Earliest Voyages to the Dis- 

 covery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin. By. Eev. 

 Z. A. Mudge. (Nelson.) 



African Adventure and Adventurers. Edited by 

 Rev. G. T. Day, D. D. New Edition, enlarged by 



Extracts from Dr. Livingstone's Last Journal. 

 (Lothrop.) 



Uncrowned Kings; or, Sketches of some Men of 

 Mark, who rose from Obscurity to Eenown. By 

 Eev. Daniel Wise, D. D. (Hitchcock, Cincinnati.) 



John Winthrop and the Great Colony. By Charles 

 K. True, D. D. (Nelson & Phillips.) 



Hoofs and Claws. By Eev. Sidney Dyer, A. M. 

 (American Baptist Publication Society.) 



Summer Days on the Hudson. The Story of a 

 Pleasure Tour, from Sandy Hook to the Saranac 

 Lakes, including Incidents of Travel, Legends, His- 

 torical Anecdotes, Sketches of Scenery, etc. By 

 Daniel Wise, D. D. (Nelson & Phillips.) 



Life of Benjamin Franklin. By Eev. J. Chaplin. 

 (Lothrop.) 



Of the different grades of fiction, moral or 

 otherwise, and books designed to inform, to 

 instruct, or to entertain, there is the usual 

 variety. 



Parlor Amusements for the Young Folks. By G. 

 B. Bartlett. (Osgood.) 



Wedding-Garments; or, Bessie Morris's Diary. 

 By Mary W. McLain, Author of " Lifting the Veil," 

 etc. (Scribner.) 



The Old House on Briar Hill. By Isabella Grant 

 Meredith. (Dodd.) 



The Three Bank Notes. From the German of 

 Franz Hoffmann. By Miss E. H. Shively. (Luther- 

 an Board of Publication.) 



Chauncey Judd ; or, The Stolen Boy. A Story of 

 the Eevolution. By Israel P. Warren. (Warren & 

 Wyman, Boston.) 



The Dawn of Light. A Story of the Zenana Mis- 

 sion. (Presbyterian Board of Publication.) 



The Eoyal Eoad to Fortune. By Emily Hunting- 

 ton Miller. (Nelson & Phillips.) 



The Bible for the Young ^being the Precepts and 

 Narratives of the Holy Scriptures, presented with 

 Comments in Simple and Attractive Language for the 

 Young, from the Writings of the Eev. Ingham Cob- 

 bin, the Eev. Matthew Henry, and others. Edited 

 and partly rewritten by the Eev. George Alexander 

 Crooke, D. D., D. C. L. (Ashmead, Philadelphia.) 



Jesus of Nazareth, His Life, for the Young. By 

 Joseph P. Thompson, D. D. (Osgood.) 



Our Three Boys. By Sarah E. Chester. (Ameri- 

 can Tract Society.) 



The Young Outlaw. A Story of Street- Life in 

 New York. By Horatio Alger, Jr. (Loring, Boston.) 



Little Folks at Eedbow. By Mary A. Denison. 

 (Young, Boston.) 



A Spirit in Prison. By Clara F. Guernsey. 

 (Young.) 



Ocean-Born ; or, The Cruise of the Yachts (com- 

 pleting the "Yacht Series"). By Oliver Optic. 

 (Lee & Shepard.) 



Wolf Eun ; or, The Boys of the Wilderness. By 

 Elijah Kellogg. (Lee & Shepard.) 



The Old Mill. By Mary Dwinell Chellis. (Con- 

 gregational Publication Society.) 



Grandmother Brown's School Days ; or, Educa- 

 tion as it was Seventy Years ago. By Lucy Ellen 

 Guernsey. (American Sunday-School Union.) 



Barbara. By the Author of " Silent Tom." (Lo- 

 throp.) 



Bread and Oranges. By the Author of " The Wide, 

 Wide World." (Carters.) 



The Eapids of Niagara. (Same author and pub- 

 lishers.) 



Gipsy's Adventures. By Josephine Pollard. 

 (Nelson & Phillips.) 



How Tiptoe Grew. By Katharine Williams. 

 (American Tract Society.) 



Eugene and his Friends. From the French of 

 Mme. E. de Prepense". By Mrs. Julia Goodfellow. 

 (American Baptist Publication Society.) 



Wide-A wake Pleasure-Book. By the Best Ameri- 

 can Authors. (Lothrop.) 



