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Children's Holiday Books NO CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IS COMPLETE WITHOUT BOOKS. For List of Children's Books, Classified Ac? cording to Age, See Woman's Page To-day. In the case of children there can he no room for doubt. Whatever toys they receive, a Christmas would he INCOMPLETE for them WITHOUT BOOKS. Great minds have been telling them tales since the infancy of the race. Many of these tales have survived to this day with undimin ished popularity. The critical verdicts of children are UNERRING, and there is no appeal from them. They, in a phrase much condemned by critics of a larger growth, "know what they like." They always have known, and from the nursery to their earliest 'teens at least, what they like has never been subjected to change. To the old classics they have added new ones, however?from j^Esop to Grimm, from him to Andrew Lang. The literature of childhood is an inherit? ance handed down from parents to children and grandchildren in unbroken succession. For, whatever literature we may forget in later years, the favorites of our own child? hood never fail to come to mind when it is a question of making a new generation happy, of introducing it to the beguilement of pict? ures and easy rhymes, to the enchantment of wonderland, the cave of Robinson Crusoe, Stevenson's treasure island. It is with its entrance upon its second dec? ade of life that childhood proves that it is necessarily in advance of its parents and rela Continued on Page 11, leventh and eighth column?. New Books for Boys and Girls i The Book of Athletics rauit^?? ' With many reproductions of photographs and with diagrams. iVet, $?.50 Near?) thlrt) olleae sturn and champions, men like i?r. Knien/.].-in. Thorpe, .' White, "Eddie" Hart. Ralph Cralg, "Hurry Up" Yost. ? Jay Camp, Homer, Jackson. r i?. Huntington, EL Norria William? "Eddie" Muhan, and many inore teil the beat then Is to tell abc il even form of athletic cotitt al ot consequence. Lost in the Fur Country Illustrated. Net, $1.00 Mr. Lanr-e. t? an expert In the very difficult art of interesting nova and ttirls rrorita! ie proved it to a very wide ?in le bv his piev'lous 1 try" la also on Indian .?tory. While unite different from the othei two. It has t ts ol popular.t\ myaterv .?,i and darin'; to'd In **r.iphic style. "' ..?<-?" Dave Porter in the Gold Field ? or the Search for the Landtlide Mine , ,:Im VKn -T $?25 MKtll.Ml.iKK Thi? is the record-breaker of all the "Pave I'orter Plies." hard to achieve as that i .?? v< the mining rc?ion? and of the rtial:> ; When Max Came * kdna a bro?*. Illustrated. Net, $1.20 This ?? tt.e St uho did tot Wish to visit his New Ene-land cousins ?r.d of I ... |,i ?r\,r hke a bOJ ??ho had been broorht ?\ in Europe The stor) ??.il appeal tn loth ho?s and girls of Ihrm ?v fiool . ' other Ik?.; uthor, li d ? d 1.-. ,i ? John and Betty's Irish History Visit J By M*aK(.\K*T ?II I.IAMM? Futly /?/?, d from pl)<)fo, Nef t, 25 I The "hlhtor-. ?. HtH Bcotloild I"- John uni 1! fv I ,-.-. he? roine so well known that ,,,l ,,,,m H ,..lmiiar P^K.1% Dorothy Dainty's Visit Illustrated. $1.00 The name of ?'/?orotl has -crown to be I hlHwahoM word wher? ever there ara IlttlSJ **lrl??, a") . ., h M? Look ,,f |h|| fterlei e? e,?H batter than the )a?t. v CI AT ALL BOOKSTORES LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO., BOSTON > V . *\ " 't* > ^SafJSi ^ .?-/> * I Ksr-Vi?*'' r~-*/ v*rTfx~\. m*mmemmm ? +'__& The Most Interesting Presents to ?fiS?ft <?ivc or Receive Are Hooks HOUGHTON ilFFUN CO. &'.??-?*? S Fait 40tti 8tr*?t id. A ^g?-GIFT BOOKS THE POET By Meredith Nicholson "Not aine?? Henry Harland told us the story of the lontls_<'ardi?al and his snuffbox have we had anything as Idyllic aa 'The I oet. ? IV I. mea? Sun. Dluatrated in color. |?LM net. THE LURE OF THE CAMERA By Charle. S. Oleott "The book la pleasing to eve mil mind alike ... written ?xrtth easy frlenillnres.s. m an B?Teeable mlngUn? of information and discursive charm. Tie Illustrations amply Justify hie love fur pnoMsrnpnv. ?rn? outlook. POrty-elfhl full-pM* llfurtratlona. W.00 not THE GRAND TOUR IN THE 18TH CENTURY By William ?. Mead A quaint, amusing and InatWCtlV* tveount of th* mofles ar.d conditions of travel In eighteenth centurv Borop*. Illustrated. ?AMnet. THE HOME BOOK OF GREAT PAINTINGS By Estelle M. Hurll Informal tnlks on the greatest pi?ton* of MIchelanKelo. Titian, Raphael, Corr'ggio, Van Djrek. Rembrandt and Murlllo. 108 IllustratlonH. IX.f'J net. ROUND THE WORLD IN ANY NUMBER OF DAYS By Maurice Baring n.rirarteristlenllv humorous nkef-hes of the United States and other countries b] the ?utbOf Of "Lost Iirarlea," etc. lll'istr;it.-d. 11 25 net. BYWAYS IN BOOKLAND By Walter A. Mursell In this i.ook Steve neon. 1 Hi kens, l'.orrow and many other? are dealt with in ;i sympathetic way. |L.2f not CAPE COD (Visitors' Edition) By Henry D. Thoreau A i ? vv edition of thin classic, attnotivelj n'rifltrated from photographs. UNCLE REMUS AND HIS FRIENDS (Visitors' Edition) By Joel Chandler Harris a new edition of Mr. Barrio's ittool popular book, fully illustrate.i and with a biographical sketch of the author. Il.tl net. ?HOLIDAY FICTION HI I ii 1! I i THE CLARION By Samuel Hopkins Adama "A vivid, atron?, sincere Btory ? ? ? unusually Interesting from tho standpoint of romance and of human nature."?New Orleans Times Picayune. Illustrated. $l.Sr. net. TfieSTREET of SEVEN STARS By Mary Roberts Rinehart " 'The Htreet of Seven Stars' proves two things; first that Mrs. Klne hart Is not contented with farce and melodrama, and second that she deserves a place among the foremost American writers of stories of tender? ness, romance and modern krilphthood. It far surpasses anything ?he haa ev< r done hefore." Syracuse Post-Standard. $1.25 net. THE NIGHTINGALE By Ellenor Stoothoff "A clever, original and amusing b?>ok. It tells the Htory of the ex? cursion Into the world of a wife and mother who feels the need of a chunge and who gets It with great rapidity and In many varieties."?The Outlook. 11.28 net. THE RIGHT TRACK By Clara Louise Burnham "A book over which to linger, and aft-r rending to think and talk about. ... It is own companion to 'The Dawtl of Tomorrow.' and Its irl.i'led good air?el Is literally a brlnger of Joy, a soul heiler of the first water.'' Phil ?deiphla Etecortl Frontispiece in color. Il.lt net. THE WITCH By Mary Johnston "Surpasse* anything Miss Johnston has yet done." St. lxvjis I'ost Plspati h. With frontispiece by N. r. Wytth. 11.40 net. jgjEEI r^-EIr-HI r=?'^=J ______=_ r=Jr=J f=Jf=i r=Jr=J ?3J? I?, In the highest ccvt.ita.Uon the Book is still the highest delight?Emerson. Brentano's Christmas Book Boxes 1 I il I A Notable Christmas Innovation Tj An unusual and enduring GIFT, suitable for every age, taste, and purse?A Box of Books 1 11 ! Ill ! I ill II Purchaser* can make their own choice, according to the amount [I they wish to ?pene5, or, if ?election it left to us, our bett efforts will be given. A CATALOGUE, clattified a? to tubjectt, with prices, will be sent free upon request. ._ Prices: $2.00, $5.00, $7.00, $10.00 ? and upwards, according to selection. T? CATALOGUE will alto contain a Litt of SINGLE VOLUMES of STANDARD AUTHORS, in FINE BINDINGS; also RARE and CHOICE BOOKS, and BOOKS in FOREIGN LANGUAGES. Christmas Catalogues Free j B R E N T A N O ' S5,h ^"tT*? | 6 _W___\__\ -=lr=l n=^r=j rrr.' T?C=:T^?g?g ?=ir=i muf? 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"Even the m<-ct astute and wiliest "The ending is one of the cleverest reader of detective sudes need feel and mx>st ingenl us that can be no chegrin .?t his inability to guess Imagined. Mr. CHllm ore Is already the surprising he wholly amasing distinguished for his skill In story - and enirely unexpected climaji of telling and the "The Alite* Caie" is this ingeni ui piece of fiction." - additi nal p'oof of ihe maturity of Philadelphia Press. hil art."?Buffalo .Vete?. Illustrated. $1H net. AT ALL BOOKSELLERS D. APPLETON & COMPANY, Publishers, NEW YORK 77ie r*t'r?f intimate account of Paris during the days of war. New York Evening Post. PARIS WAR DAYS $2.00 NET By CHARLES INMAN BARNARD With 24 piges of illustrations from photographs. 8vo. Decorated cloth. MR. BARNARD, who has for sixteen years repre? sented The New York Tribune at Paris, pictures graph? ically day by day the transfor? mation in the gay metropolis. Every American familiar with the French capital will welcome this pen picture. $2.00 NET At Your Mnnksellers LITTLE, BROWN & CO., Publishers, Boston. ?SoTOo^wBooks ^Christmas RECOLLECTIONS OF FULL YEARS By Mrs. William Howard Taft Bright, witty, delightfully entertaining reminiscences of the inner side of official life, in the Philippines, at Washington, and in the White House, by the wife of one of our most distinguished Americans. The be?t deicription of the unofficial tide of official life that ha? been published in year?. Illustrated. $3.50 rift. THE UNKNOWN GUEST By Maurice Maeterlinck Ihe I'nknown Guest within ourselves?that myste? rious, vaguely realized stranger that is part of us, and which is sometimes termed the psychic self?has called forth thi?, strangely beautiful and exquisitely worded hook. |L50 not, THE MASON BEES By J. H. 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