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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



June, 1 9 13 



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ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. 



" Where the Surf Sings You to Sleep " 



Right at Chelsea's Fashionable Bathing Beach. Here 

 you find rest in abundance. The ocean rolls and 

 surges right up to — and under the hotel piazza, its 

 music is grand and soothing. Distinctly, the Ostend 

 has the finest location on the Beach. Within easy 

 walking distance and roller chair ride to the center of 

 life and gaiety for which Atlantic City is famous. 



The Hotel is equipped with everything necessary for 

 human comfort and caters tojhe best patronage. 



All baths, private and public, have hot and cold running, 

 fresh and sea water. When the temperature is 

 highest and cities hot and grimy the Ostend is the 

 coolest and most comfortable hotel in Atlantic City. 

 Rooms large, airy, and 95 percent of them overlook 

 the ocean. Many of the same guests return to the 

 Ostend each year. 



Rates are reasonable. Write for booklet and reservation 



DAVID B. RAHTER, Proprietor and Manager 



HOTEL OSTEND, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. 



Baby Birds at Home. By Richard Kear- 

 ton, F. Z. S.. London and New York: 

 Cassell and Company, Ltd., '1912. Cloth, 

 8vo. Illustrated. Price, $1.25 net. 

 "Baby Birds at Home" has been prepared 

 by Mr. Richard Kearton, its author, in 

 order to give boys and girls who love the 

 countryside and the wild creatures that 

 dwell therein, two things. First of all, a 

 little gallery of faithful pictures of baby 

 birds at home amidst their natural sur- 

 roundings, and secondly, a short and simple 

 account of the interesting habits of their 

 parents. This little book cannot fail to 

 arouse an interest in boys and girls in our 

 wild birds and their wonderful ways. 



A Naval History of the American 

 Revolution. By Dr. Gardner W. Allen. 

 Boston and New York: Houghton Mif- 

 flin Company, 1913. Cloth, 8vo. ; 2 vols. 

 Illustrated. 752 pages. Price, $3.00 net. 

 "A Naval History of the American Revo- 

 lution" follows closely the course of naval 

 events in our Revolutionary War, giving 

 full details in regard to all the most notable 

 and important fights, both in our own and 

 in European waters, and careful accounts 

 of such expeditions as the one to New 

 Providence early in the war, and the one to 

 the Penobscot River in 1779. An interest- 

 ing chapter is devoted to the subject of 

 Naval Prisoners and another to the battles 

 on Lake Champlain. 



To earlier books "Our Navy and the Bar- 

 bary Corsairs" and "Our Naval War with 

 France" have established for the author. 

 Dr. Gardner W. Allen, his position as an 

 authority. His accuracy and his graphic, 

 entertaining style are everywhere com- 

 mended. He has chosen a field compara- 

 tively unworked. 



The World's Leading Conquerors. By 

 W. L. Bevau. New York : Henry Holt 

 and Company, 1913. Cloth, 16mo. Il- 

 lustrated. 473 pages. Price, $1.75 net. 

 The notable interest in biography has 

 generally been met by two widely different 

 classes of publication — the biographical dic- 

 tionaries, and volumes devoted each to an 

 individual. There is always room and a 

 welcome for such a book as "The World's 

 Leading Conquerors," designed not so much 

 to recount history as to portray the men who 

 have made history. These sketches of 

 Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Charles 

 the Great, the Ottoman Sultans, the Span- 

 ish Conquistadors and Napoleon admirably 

 fit into the scheme of "The World's Lead- 

 ers" series of biographies of which this 

 book is one. 



The Pageant of Summer. By Richard 



Jefferies. Portland, Maine: Thomas B. 



Mosher. Small, 16mo. 52 pages. Price, 



75 cents net. 



This exquisite idyll of Summer from the 

 pen of Richard Jefferies will delight every- 

 one who has a love for the true and beauti- 

 ful of literature, which this old-time writer 

 so well knew how to create. "The Pageant 

 of Summer" is full of the joy and sun- 

 light of fresh country things and if the 

 reader has not yet become acquainted with 

 Richard Jefferies let him hasten to intro- 

 duce in his library this lovable little book, 

 a perfect gem also in the way of book- 

 making. 



