APPLETONS' HOME-READING BOOKS* 



Edited by W. T. HARRIS, A M., LL. D., U. S. Commissioner of Education. 



The purposs of the Home-Reading Books is to provide whole- 

 some, instructive, and entertaining- reading for yonng people dur- 

 ing- the early educative period, and more especially through such 

 msans to bring the home and the school into closer relations and 

 into more thorough cooperation. They furnish a great variety of 

 recreative reading for the home, stimulating a desire in the young 

 pupil for further knowledge and research, and cultivating a taste 

 for good literature that will be of permanent benefit to him. 



Net 

 The Story of the Birds. J. N. Baskett .... $0.65 



The Story of the Fishes. J. N. Baskett 75 



The Plant World. Frank Vincent .60 



The Animal World. Frank Vincent .... .60 



The Insect World. C. M. Weed " .60 



The Story of Oliver Twist. Ella B. Kirk 60 



The Story of Rob Roy. Edith T. Harris 60 



In Brook and Bayou. Clara Kern Bayliss 60 



Curious Homes and their Tenants. James Carter Beard. .65 



Crusoe's Island. F. A. Ober , 65 



Uncle Sam's Secrets. O. P. Austin 7S 



The Hall of Shells. Mrs. A. S. Hardy 60 



Nature Study Readers. J. W. Troeger 



Harold's First Discoveries. Book I 25 



Harold's Rambles. Book II .40 



Harold's Quests. Book III ! .50 



Harold's Explorations. Book IV 60 



Harold's Discussions. Book V ,72 



Uncle Robert's Geography. Francis W. Parker and 

 Nellie L. Helm. 

 Playtime and Seedtime. Book I . . . , * .32 



On the Farm. Book II .42 



Uncle Robert's Visit. Book III 50 



News from the Birds. Leander S. Keyser 60 



Historic Boston and its Neighborhood. Edward E. Hale! .50 

 The Earth and Sky. Edward S. Holden . . . . .28 



The Family of the Sun Edward S. Holdkn . . . .50 



Stories of the Great Astronomers. Edward S. Holden . .75 



About the Weather. Mark W. Harrington 65 



Stories from the Arabian Nights. Adam Singleton . . .65 

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



Edward S. Holden 80 



Our Navy in Time of War. Franklin Matthews . . .75 

 The Chronicles of Sir John Froissart. Adam Singleton . .65 



The Storied West Indies. F. A. Ober 75 



Uncle Sam's Soldiers. O. P. Aitstin 75 



Marco Polo, the Great Traveler. Edward Atherton . .60 



Others in prcparatioti. 



D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK. 



