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November 26, 1913.
A FAMILY PAPER.
W. A. WILDE CO., BOSTON, MASS.
paper covered booklet of 64 pages, SO
"Peloubet's Select Notes on the International
Lessons for 1914." By Rev. eastern city experience any difficulty has become familiar through her
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This is a child's book of verse
Francis N. Peloubet, D.D., and Amos in going west, taking up a claim and dwelling in and tramping through the
about cats and dogs and their place
R. WeRs, Litt. D,, LL.D. Cloth. clearing a quarter section? Is there forests of the norLU, The birus
and treatment in the home. Every
$1.00.
any thrill in the tale of encounters she selects as the subjects of her
,page is dotted with attractive pictures
This volume needs no review. The with wild bears and thieves, of flght­taleing forest fires and shooting rapids? the owl, the hawk, the crow, the star­
the blue heron, the wild goose,
of home pets. This is a book for
simple announcement that it is ready
the very young children.
is sufficient to put the volume in wide The very suggestion of some of the ling and the partridge. Her tales
All these books are tastily and substantially
bound, well printed on good
circulation. To say that the Notes experiences through which Phil and also tell the experiences of the weasel,
the skunk, the fox, the raccoon,
for 1914 are fully up to the standard Ted Porter passed assures one that
paper and fully illustrated. Many of
set by previous volumes is the heighi the tale of their adventures will have the beaver, the lynx, the porcupine,
the illustrations are done in colors.
ol praise. This acme of excellence
some ginger in it. The incidents of the wolf, the moose, the catamount,
Without exception, the volumes will
the new volume has attained. The
the tale are not wholly imaginary. Actual
facts are kept in mind and form
THE
deer, the woodchuck, and the hear.
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helps to the understanding and to
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
How Solomon Owl Became Wise,
the teaching of the lessons follow the
the ba>sis for the incidents of the Why the Weasel Never Sleeps, Why The J, B, Lippincott Company, of
lines with which the former editions
story. Every hoy will dub it a tale
have made the many friends of Peloubet's
Notes familiar. The maps, A story of 304 pages, $1,00.
worth
"The
while.
Boy Scouts of the Dismal
Ahmuk the Beaver Moved, are some Philadelphia, is publishing a long list
Swamp." By Walter Prichard Eaton,
of the queries she strives to answer. of books in all branches of literature.
Most of their books that have
Altogether "Dolls of the Many volume Lands." is destined A hook to of
the harmony of the life of Christ, the This is the story of three boy scouts
be doll a stories great success. by IMary Hazelton Wade, recently reached our table are works
bibliography, the illustrations, pictorial
and verbal, the outlines of tne les­
their scout master, made a tour of In a series of nine doll stories, Mrs, edly different nature.
from the Berkshires who, together with 153 pages, $1,00.
of fiction,but some are of a decidsons,
the suggtested topics for re­thsearch and discussion, the excellence ested in the Boy Scout Movement; de-of different countries. Plum Bloom, What to Do Before the Doctor
Dismal Swamp. Boys are inter­
Wade portrays the life of the children "When to Send for the Doctor, ana
and fairness, and fullness and freshness
of the comments, all combine to The author of this story was for years Indian, Nooguk, the Eskimo, Wilhel­
A, Holmes, Ph, D. 265 pages, $1,25,
siraible results are being obtained. the Japanese, Rippling Water, the Comes." By F. B. Li)ppert, M,D,, and
explain the astonishing continuance a Scout Master, He actually made mina, of Holland, Mrs, Martha, Queen While not dealing exclusively with
and the large and ever increasing circulation
of this work. The 1914 edi­
a party of boys as he describes in his ian, the doll of the daughter of Wang of this hook had the care of chlldreu
some such tour of the swamp with Victoria's doll, Viola iMay, the Paris­
the treatment of children, the authors
tion is the fortieth annual volume of book, Mr, Baton is possessed of a the Korean, Rudabeh, the Persian, the uppermost in their minds when they
Peloubet's Notes.
conceived and prepared this volume.
"Her Daughter Jean." By Marion
It is difficult to determine when to
Ames Taggart. A story of 332 pages,
send for the doctor. Most authors
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who endeavor to deal with the care
From the heart of the mountains of
of the sick, the detection of disease,
Pennsylvania comes this delightful
and kindred topics clothe their
story of the city and the seashore. It
thought in phrases so extremely technical
that their work loses much of
is a story of a sixteen year old girl,
a story that will captivate girls of
its practical value. The authors of
sixteen, or who hope some day to be
this woik have succeeded in avoiding
this source of difflculty. Ailments
sixteen, or who look back, perhaps
through a long vista of years, to the
are catalogued by their common
days when they were sixteen. There
names. Symptoms of comparatively
are also several real, live, stirring
harmless indisipositions are descrbed
boys in the tale, and the plot is sufficiently
;?•!•«.••» intricate "'^/s%• to hold the intered.
The more serious diseases de­
and suitable home treatment inrwr-F suggest­
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est .i^H^plcw/
A boy sat up till the wee, small
mand a doctor's care. The book endeavors
/•'^y to /f.MtM'
tell when f not to '•* send for
hours last night to see the end of
1he doctor, just when to send for him.
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