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PKEVIOUS numbers of this LIBRARY were known by the name STANDARD SERIES. 

 A list of these 79 books will be found on the 3d page of the cover of this volume. They 

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COLIN CLOUT'S CALENDAR. 



A RECORD OF A SUMMER. 



By GRAN.T ALLEN. 



We present our readers with some wonderful lessons, read to us by the charming 

 naturalist, Grant Allen, from Nature's great book of secrets. At this season of the 

 year, when Nature puts on her genial glow, and comes to us with a smiling face and a 

 light heart, this great lover of flowers, birds, and thousands of other objects, tells in 

 beautiful language the facts which by close communion he has drawn from them the 

 strategy of flowers,the plots, plans,and guileless cunning of plants. The primrose is much 

 more than a primrose to him, and our author demonstrates that the " unknown far 

 transcends the known." Lovers of flowers, birds, plants, etc., etc., will prize this book 

 most highly. 



WHAT THE ENGLISH PRESS SAYS: 



The Leeds Mercury, speaking of Mr. Allen's books, declares them to be " the best 

 specimens of popular scientific expositions that we have ever had the good fortune to fall 

 in with.' 1 '' 



The Edinburgh Scotsman says of the author : "There can be no doubt of Mr. Grant 

 Allen's competence as a writer o"n natural history subjects." 



The Manchester Examiner says : " Mr. Allen's method of treatment gives a sort of 

 personality and human character to the trout or strawberry blossom which invests them 

 Avith additional charm, and makes many of his pages read more like a fanciful fairy tale 

 than a scientific work. . . . Mr. Allen's essays ought to open many a half-closed eye. 

 . . . Mr. Allen possesses that genuine feeling for Nature which makes a man find 

 unfailing delight not merely in a survey from th6 mountain tops and a walk over the 

 breezy moorland, but in the weeds by the roadside and hedge-bank." 



The Glasgow Herald remarks : "In some of Mr. Allen's sketches he almost gives 

 the idea that he is playing at being a naturalist, but he is ever an easy, graceful, and 

 ligbt-hearted observer of nature. . . . His varying moods will serve to interest 

 and enchanr, the reader who, while disdaining more solid fare in popular science, will 

 yet listen to the teachings of so skilled a mentor as Mr. Allen proves himself to be." 



NUMBERS. 



PAXTON HOOD'S LIFE OP CROMWELL. No. 80, STANDARD LIBRARY <N T o. 1, 

 1883 Series). Price, 25 cents. 



SCIENCE IN SHORT CHAPTERS. Br W. MATTIKU WILLIAMS, F.R.S.A., 

 F.C.S. No. 81, STANDARD LIBRARY (No. 2, 1883 Series). Price, 25 cenis. 



AMERICAN HUMORISTS. Br R. H. HAWEIS. No. 82, STANDARD LIBRA ir 

 (No. 3, 1883 Series). Price, 15 cents. 



LIVES OF ILLUSTRIOUS SHOEMAKERS. BY WILLIAM EDWARD WINKS. 

 No. 83, STANDARD LIBRARY (No. 4, 1883 Series). Price, 25 cents. 



FLOTSAM AND JETSAM. BY THOMAS GIBSON BOWLES. No. 84, STANDARD 

 LIBRARY (No. 5, 1883 Series). Price, 25 cents. 



THE HIGHWAYS OF LITERATURE; OR, WHAT TO READ AND How TO READ. 

 BY DAVID PRYDE, M.A.. LL.D., F.R.S.E., F.S.A., ETC. No. 85, STANDARD LIBRARY 

 (No. 6, 1883 Series). Brice, 15 cents. 



From hundreds of periodicals in all sections of the country we have received the most 

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" Had there been an Act of Congress empowering FUNK d; WA ON ALLS, the Ne>" 

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 AMERICAN HUMORIST, the lu.t issue, printed in dear, but not staring type, onfit-.> 

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