CHAMPLIN'S YOUNG FOLKS' 



Cyclopaedia of Natural History 



By J. D. Champlin and F. A. Lucas 

 With over 800 illustrations. 725 pp. $2.50 



A whole " nature library " about animals prepared by experts. 

 Scientific facts are presented in simple language, and are enlivened 

 by anecdotes, personal experiences, and references to history, art, 

 and literature. 



The illustrations are not only superior as animal pictures, but 

 are genuinely illustrative, since they show the creature in its natural 

 surroundings and characteristic action. 



Extinct animals are fully treated, because these strange forms 

 are fascinating to children, and because they illustrate the derivation 

 of such familiar living animals as birds, horses, and dogs. 



*'A full menagerie of all sorts of animals, with a multitude of pictures. 

 ... A wonderful exhibition, and the story of each individual is interesting 

 and calculated to stimulate the youthful mind in research. . . . Pictures care- 

 fully reproduced, 50 that they represent the creatures in their real forms and 

 proportions." — Brooklyn Eagle, 



CHAMPLIN'S YOUNG FOLKS' 



Cyclopaedia of Literature and Art 



With 270 illustrations. 604 pp. 8vo. $2.50 



Brief accounts of the great books, buildings, statues, pictures, 

 operas, symphonies, etc. 



'* Few poems, plays, novels, pictures, statues, or fictitious characters that 

 children — or most of their parents — of our day are likely to inquire about will 

 be missed here. . . . Mr. Champlin's judgment seems unusually sound — will 

 be welcome and useful," — Nation. 



" Every schoolboy should have it on his study table. . . . The range of 

 the volume is very wide, for besides those items of classical knowledge which 

 constitute the average school encyclopaedia, we have brief descriptions given 

 of modern books, poems, inventions, pictures, and persons about which the 

 lad of the period should be actiuainted. . . . The pictures in the volume are 

 varied and truly illustrative. Old pictures and sculpture are presented in the 

 usual line of drawings, but modern scenes and buildings are pictured through 

 excellent half-tone reproductions of photographs." — N. V. Times Saturday 

 Review. 



Earlier Volumes of Champlin's Young Folks' Cyclopaedia. 



With numerous illustrations. 8vo. $2,50 each. 



COMMON THINGS. PERSONS and PLACES. 



GAMES and SPORTS. 



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