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Poofes for Christmas (Sifts 
Tell Me Why Stories About 
Animals 
A New Volume in the “Tell Me 
Why ” Series. 
By C. H. CLAUDY 
In this new book for boys and 
girls of inquiring minds, Old Pops 
again answers the eager questions 
of his little son. 
Illustrated. 12mo. 81.25 net. 
Postage, 10 cents. 
Fairy Tales of Eastern 
Europe 
By JEREMIAH CURTIN 
A charming collection of folk 
stories and fairy lore from Hun¬ 
gary, Bohemia, Poland and Rus¬ 
sia which makes a fascinating 
children’s book. Illustrated in 
color and line by George Hood. 
12mo. 81.50 net. Postage, 14 cents. 
Understanding the French 
By ROLLIN LYNDE HARTT 
Mr. Hartt is here concerned more with people than places, and he pictures the enviable 
qualities of the Frenchman at home, the variety and vivacity of street life, social diversions, 
morals, education and national cleverness. 
81.50 net. Postage 14 cents. 
The Love Letters of Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo 
The Record of a Great Devotion 
Edited by LOUIS GIMBAUD. Translated by THEODORA DAVIDSON 
By force of a dominant will Hugo cloistered this beautiful girl in a shabby apartment, and, 
when she complained of ennui, told her to write everything that caused her heart to beat. This 
is the originating idea of the letters out of some twenty thousand of which the editor has selected 
the most witty and eloquent. 
8vo. Illustrated. $2.50 net. Postage 20 cents. 
With the Flowers and Trees in California 
By CHARLES FRANCIS SAUNDERS 
Author of “Under the Sky in CaliforniaIllustrated with pictures in color by Elizabeth H . 
Saunders and from photographs by the author. 
This delightful introduction to the wonders of California plant life is not a scientific treatise, 
but is at once a useful guide to the flower-crowned mesas and ancient forests and a charming 
“taking home” gift for the tourist. He chats informally about old mission gardens; how the 
flowers looked in the days of the padres; of the poppy and its gay cousins, and the trees of the 
desert, wayside and mountains. 
8vo. 82.50 net. Postage, 16 cents. 
The Modernizing of the Orient 
By CLAYTON SEDGWICK COOPER 
In this volume a student of the people of the East has shown side by side the Oriental peoples 
in their primitive state and in contact with advanced Western thought and material progress. 
8vo. Illustrated. 82.00 ?iet. Postage 14 cents. 
The Mother in Education 
By FLORENCE WINTERBURN 
Author of “From the Child's Standpoint," “ The Children’s Health," etc. 
Mrs. Winterburn believes that the intelligent mother can do wonderful things in the mental 
development of her child. She offers a logical and practical plan of home education which is 
flexible enough to meet the needs of a mother with only a limited amount of time at her disposal. 
12mo. SI.50 net. Postage, 10 cents. 
The Subterranean Brotherhood 
By JULIAN HAWTHORNE 
Mr. Hawthorne, the author of many works of fiction and general literature, was sentenced 
to the Federal prison at Atlanta for misuse of the United States mails. His book is a wonder¬ 
fully vivid picture of life inside the walls of a prison. 
8vo. Illustrated. 81.50 net. Postage, 12 cents . 
Christianity and the Social Rage 
By ADOLPH A. BERLE 
Director of the New England Civics Institute. 
In this timely and suggestive volume the author points out that no enduring social advance 
can be made without an underlying moral and spiritual base. 
12mo. S1.50 net. Postage, 12 cents. 
On BoyXScouts’ OfficialSReading List 
Jack Straw in Mexico 
How the Engineers Defended the Great Hydro Plant 
By^IRVINGiCRUMP 
The adventures of Jack Strawbridge, a New England boy, who is intrusted with a valuable 
set of blue prints to deliver to an American engineer in charge of the great power plant that 
supplies electricity to Mexico City. 
12mo. 81.00 net. Postage, 8 cents. 
Boy’s Book of Famous Regiments 
PfBy H. A. OGDEN__ f '"'■T 
With”the collaboration of H. A. Hitchcock 
A spirited narrative of the history and exploits of world 
famous fighting corps like those in the Continental Army 
and the Civil War; the Highland and Guard Regiments 
of England; the Imperial Guard and Cuirassiers of France 
the Giant Guard of Prussia and Frederick the Great’s 
Grenadiers of Germany; the Cossacks and Preobrajinsky 
of Russia; the Dragoons and Jagers of Austria; the 
Alpine Infantry and Bersaglieri of Italy; Gordon’s 
Chinese Regiment; the Swiss Guard; the Garde Civique 
of Belgium, Canadian Dragoons, and the Army of India, 
etc. Illustrated in color and line by H. A. Ogden. SI.50 
net. Postage, 14 cents. 
Life of King George 
of Greece 
By CAPTAIN WALTER 
CHRISTMAS 
This romantic life story of the 
Northern Prince who became a 
Southern King is written from 
intimate knowledge gained from 
frequent visits to Greece. The 
author also makes clear the posi¬ 
tion of Greece in European poli¬ 
tics, her national ideals and ambi¬ 
tions, the obstacles in the way and 
how King George was determined 
to overcome them. 
Photogravure frontispiece and other 
pictures from the collection of II. M. 
Queen Alexandra. 8vo. S4-00 net. 
Postage, 20 cents. 
Thirty Years 
in the 
Manchu Capital 
In and Around Moukden in 
Peace and War 
By Dr. DOUGALD CHRISTIE 
Edited by His Wife 
A picture by a sympathetic and 
skilled observer of the Changeless 
East and the rapid progress of 
events that have given rise to the 
Changed East. Dr. Christie, who 
is one of the quiet heroes of peace, 
went to Moukden in 1882 as a 
medical missionary. 
8vo. Illustrated. 
82.75 net. Postage 20 cents 
An Idler in Spain 
Notes on a Goya Pilgrimage 
By J. E. CRAWFORD FLITCH 
Mr. Flitch has conceived the 
happy idea of studying Goya, the 
Spanish Hogarth and master 
painter, against the background 
of Spain, in the vital air of to-day 
and not in the atmosphere of the 
museums. 
8vo. With eight illustrations after 
Francisco Jose Goya Lucienles 
S2.00 net. Postage 14 cents 
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