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BOOKS AND
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If Well Chosen Books Increase in Value and In?
terest with Each Succeeding Day, and
Every Book Is the Nucleus of
a Possible Library.
[his is the season of books par excellence.
Enter any bookstore in the city and be convinced.
Books are living companions if once one begins to
?Cultivate their acquaintance. Theirs is an infinite
varietv thdt nothing can stale. The taste for read?
ing, once formed, is a pleasure of life that endures
to the end.
BUY BOOKS, READ BOOKS, GIVE BOOKS!
And books are an inexpensive pleasure, the
most easily attainable luxury of modern civiliza?
tion. Their cost bears no relation to their value.
One can have the best, the highest that human
wisdom, knowledge, imagination has written for
a few cents. All that may be had in finest dress of
paper, type and binding, but it is to hand, mod?
estly, on any book counter. Too many respect
literature at a distance, as something solemn, to be
approached with much worshipful preparation.
In reality it is a friendly, an intimate art, ready to
ingratiate itself if only one will open its pages.
Don't treat literature too seriously; consider it as
you consider the drama, an evenings relaxation
from the work of the day.
CONSULT THE BOOKSELLER WHO
KNOWS HIS WARES.
Those who enter bookstores only on festive
occasions should consult the bookseller. Habit?
ual book buyers need not be told. Don't look for
keys to a dark mystery. The field of literature
may be approached from any side. You can link
your reading to your newspaper, your magazine
-trace what interests you in the news of the day
to its sources. You can approach poetry through
the Elizabethans or Noyes, Masefield, Masters;
or you can make a beginning with Tennyson, the
Biownings and Whittier. It does not matter
whether you begin in fiction with Bret Harte or
Dickens or Trollope, or start with the moderns,
with Mrs. Wharton, Winston Churchill, Wells,
Ernest Poole, or Mr. Howells, that master delin?
eator of nineteenth-century American life in
transformation.
HAVE BOOKS IN RESERVE IN YOUR
HOUSE!
Wait for the mood, the opportunity. Have
books within reach even though your interests lie
elsewhere. These may fail you on some rainy
day or stormy evening, in days of convalescence.
The occupants of your shelf will patiently await
their time. They ask no more than to be an add?
ed interest in your existence. Buying books with?
out a definite intention of reading them, or with
the vague one of reading them "some time"?
huying them merely as inexpensive and most dec?
orative furnishings, even, is a good habit. Por
few can live with books without coming under
their influence, without learning to appreciate
their resources in some degree, however slight.
And even in the least bookish family there is al?
ways one member who is born with the blessed
taste for reading, whether it be a taste for fiction
and poetry or a thirst for knowledge. And there
are very few books that do not satisfy both.
BOOKS FOR ALL AGES, ALL TASTES,
ALL PURSES.
In these practical days, returns on invest?
ments are so much considered and discussed that
i i.niiiiinrl '<n Ihlrirrnlh V*%*. ?evenlh and eighth.roiumn?
AUTHORS----REVIEWS AND COMMENT
BL1 THI.V? OOD, HARKISON-ON-HLDSON.
'f'rnm "Itramlfi. (.ardria In An;?--..-*" ? ???. I
CHRISTMAS BOOKS:
A GENERAL SURVEY
American Leaders in Biography, Travel, Belles
Lettres and Fiction?Illustrated
Books Architecture.
The Christmas "gift" book is p
ing, the book specially, and o
artistically, made for the mere
pose of being given away, looke
and admired but not read, and 1
placed on the shelf to lumber
room of its betters. Hands?
books we still have for the holi
?eason, but almost invariably i
it is their contents that count; sp
dor of binding and illustration,
type and paper, are no longer was
I r.pon trash. Who measures
I
. gifts by their cost can still be
i commodated in our bookstores; oi
; no??ns volems, he must buy bel
; books, and can get more of th
for the allotted sum. He may b
? stranger in a bookstore during
l the other weeks of the year, nan
?2nd titles may mean nothing to h
I?he needs must buy better boo
I The salesman will see to it, if
will only ask his advice and follow
A selection from the simply boui
well-printed. inexpensive Kvei
1 man's Library will be a more w
come gift to the booklover than
folio edition of one of our gr<
! poets, who needs not the embellis
ment of colored illustrations, more
ic binding, red rubrics and a desc
of margin to a disproportionate
slender type-page. There are real
beautiful, dignified specimens of tl
printer's art to be had from tl
Merrymount Press and the Rive
tide Press, worthy settings i
worthy books. There are, if one I
inclined to plunge, publications th
ere necessaries of life to many whoi
purse is slender?the "Encyclopaed
Britannica," for instance, which
row issued in two editions of vast!
varying prices, the only difieren?
between them being that of size c
I age and type. There is the nr
edition of the "New Internation;
1 .myclonardia," sixteen of whos
twenty-four volumes have airead
been issued. In his book on Amei
ica H. G. Wells observed that
dictionary of the English languag
is with us a household article, am
not, as in Europe, a luxury rarel;
found in private houses. And her
is another hint for the Christma
shopper in a bookstore?the Cen
trry, the Standard in many editions
from th: unabridged downward, ir
all sizes and prices for all kinds o
purposes. Christmas is, above all
the season in which to get awai
from "the latest" unless it is worthy
There is the Home University Li?
brary for those of studious inclina
tions; and there is the Wayfarers
Library for good light reading
There are the tools of the trade for
youngsters beginning author: Soule's
"Synonyms," Edwin Hamlin Carr's
most helpful "The Happy Phrase,"
and, ol course, Bartlett's "Familiar
Quotations" in its new, much ex?
panded edition by Nathan Haskell
Uole. There are guides for young
poet??even vers librists may profit
by them?for budding dramatists.
for picture play writers. And there
?s the whole field of literature from
"The Canterbury Tales" to the
' Spoon River Anthology" and
"North of Boston," from Defoe and
Padding m Mrs. Cather's "The Song
of the Lark." which, when all is said
and done, is likely to be adjudged
the best American novel of a year
that has produced so much of excel?
lent .native fiction.
THE YEARS FICTION
Elsewhere will be found a classi
j lied list of the year's leading books
in ?liHerent departments of literature.
Most of them have already been re?
viewed or commented upon in these ,
? olumn?. One of the latest of them, |
Fiances Hodgson Burnett's "T
Lost Prince," scarcely needs coi
ment. It will inevitably and rapid
make its way into public favor, ft
even more than "Little Lord Faur
leroy," it appeals to readers of ?
ages. It will fascinate childr?
it will charm their elders with i
supremely able knightly romance
the long ago set in the prosaic e
vironment of to-day. Such bool
IS Ernest Poole's "The Harbor
Mr. Harrison's "Angela's Business
Booth Tarkington'8 "The Turmoil
Gouverneur Morris's graceful "Se
SSI Darlings," Arthur Stringer's "Tl
Prairie Wife," Dorothy Canfield
"The Bent Twig," Stewart Edwai
White's "The Grey Dawn" ar
Kathleen Norris's "Story of Jul
Page'' only need to be named. Tl
?ate F Hopkinson Smith's "Fell
O'D'ay" holds second place in "Tr
Bookman's" list of best-selling in
tion during November. Gene Stra
ton-Porter's "Michael O'Hallorar
?elds the first, Mary Roberts Kin?
hart's "K" the third, Gilbert Parker
'The Money Master" is fourth an
Rex Beach's "Heart of the Sunset
fifth.
From England we have had in th
course of the year, among man
others, two novels by H. G. Well:
the farcical "Bealby" and the seriou
"Search Magnificent " Anthon
Hope has given us "A Young Man'
Year"; Maurice Hewlett, "The Litt 1
Iliad"; Oliver Onions. "Mushroor
Town"; W. Somerset Maugham, "O
Human Bondage"; Sir Arthur Qui!
ler-Couch that delightful comedy o
ttu war in Cornwall, "Nicky-Nar
Reservist"; Joseph Conrad, "Vic
tory"; Eden Phillpotts, "Old Del?
bole"; Stephen Pryce. "David Pen
t-iephen, ' his best book thus far; an?
Arnold Bennett has concluded hii
trilogy of the Five Towns wit!
"These Twain."
A new boom for Russian rictioi
has been started. The old master;
.^re being issued in new and for thi
first time altogether competen
translations; and the new generatior
il fully represented in the fall list?
cf our publishers. Introductions tc
this literature are available, Kropot
Iritl'l book in a new edition, with on<
of Melchior de Vogue's "The Rus
rian Novel" soon to follow. Maurice
Baring's little work on the same
subject deserves mention, as does
???Iso, his "The Russian People." Ste?
phen Graham has just added to his
revealing books on the country and
its people "The Way of Mary and
the Way of Martha," a comparative
.'.?udy of Eastern and Western Chris
t'nnity.
NEW BIOGRAPHIES.
It is not only in fiction that Amer?
ica is well to the fore this year in
literature. The best of the new biog?
raphies are cf Americans, American
women being notably well represent?
ed. There are lives of Julia Ward
Howe, Clara Barton and Fanny
Crosby; and there is l)r Anna How
aid Shaw'a own cheerful "Story of
? Pioneer." "The Life and Letters
of John Hay" takes first place
among the biographies of American
men. Then we have the life of
Bishop Potter. William Dean How
ells's "Tales of My Youth." Dr. Ly
man Abbott's R?miniscences, and,
promised for immediate publication,
?II authorized biography of Booker
1. Washington. From England we
have little of first class importance
except 'Emma Darwin: A Century
ol Family Letters," which is very
important indeed. And from Russia
C ?mes Gorki's frank "My Child?
hood," a book far greater than any
tt his fiction so far, though in it will
be found the origins of matty of his
tales.
The Infanta Eulalia's democratic
"Court Life from Within" in many
? ? 1 urope's capitals is an ent?
ing volume, comprehensively t
1 ut mo-t delightful in its ski
of the simple democracy o
Scandinavian courts. With thi
1 e named Mnc?tM Radziwill's
Royal Marriage Market of Eui
>ok of romances and trage
in which figure all the reigning
lies?H?r?sburgs and Hohcnzol
I. '?'?overians and Romanovs,
Bourbons of Spain, the houi
Bavojf, .he Coburgs of Belgiun
Bulgaria and. until recently, of
ugal, the Hohenzollerns of Rur
end many others. The Serbian
cess Lazarovitch, an Americai
.rib, tells of her life in Loi
where she made her d?but a
r.ctress. and of the interesting
sonages of the late Victorian
whom she met there?Lord
dolph Churchill, Lady Jeune.
Souls" and many others. And t
adventurously inclined may tur
such earlier books of the yea
Anne Topham's "Memories of
Kaiser'; Court." The many r i
tions of English governesses in
man princely houses and the
may be read for amusement if
for their authenticity. They
tain, at least, much, of the cur
gossip of European capitals.
The record would not be comf
v ithout mention of some book!
| the war by American women. I
. among them, a book of infi
charm, a romance of the tragi
we have Mildred Aldrich's "A I
top on the Marne"; Edith Wharti
"Fighting France" is notable for
artistry, if also for its unrestrai
bitterness toward the invaders. Tr
American delegates to the recent
ternational women's peace congi
-i* The Hague?Jane Addams, En
G. Balch and Alice Hamilton?h
chroniclfrd their impressions and
i e* ults of their work in "Women
The ilaguc"; Mabel T. Boardm
the chairman of the National Re
rund ot the American Re 1 Crc
has written ? complete account
the history, organization, present
tivities. needs, hopes and possibilit
of the international societies "Un?
the Red Cross Flag." And, last I
n? t least, there is Lillian D. Wal
own story of her increasing soc
service. "The House on Her
Street."
TRAVEL AT HOME.
In the new books of travel ev
more than in current biograp
America romes first this year. Ma
iiii a virtue of necessity, our pr
iessional globe trotters have tra
c'led at home, and, as Mr. and Mi
William Hale ingenuously confe
ii the title of their book. "We Di
cover New Eng] ind," they have di
covered their :jwii country. There
the cheeiful "In Vacation America
North and South and East, in wint?
and summer, with its many bad
?vard glances to fifty years ag
when Saratoga was the height <
fashion, with memories even of th
days before the war in the Soutl
John Muir's posthumous "Travels i
Alaska" deserves mention here, tc
gether with S. Hall Young's "Alask
Days with John Muir." "Old Cor
cord" and Francis E. Leupp's "Walk
Around Washington." both wit
drawings by Lester G. Hornby, d?
serve consideration. And so doe
Sarah Comstock's "Old Roads fron
the Heart of New York." receive
here to-day. Bostonians and all whi
know Boston will be interested ii
"The Boston of Dr. Oliver Wendel
Holmes." compiled from his writ
U'.gS.
ART AND ARTISTS.
Such books as Louise Sh.-lton'?
"Beautiful Gardens in America,'
Harold Donaldson's "The Archi
tccture of Colonial America," Johr
Martin Hammond's "Quaint and
Historic Forts of North America,'
Robert A. Lancaster's "Historic Vir?
ginia Homes and Churches" com
line the interests of American travel
and Am-rican art. The artistic feat?
ures of the Panama-Pacific Exposi?
tion are being dealt with in an in?
creasing number of more or less
elaborately illustrated volumes, list
i ed elsewhere; and this^s as good a
I ? lace as any for a reference to Anne
Dollingsworth Wbarton's "English
THE AMERICAN SCENE:
PRESENT AND PAST
American Homes Past and Present?East. South and West
Beautiful Gardens?Remodelled Farmhouses?Pict?
uresque ?New York and Its Storied Places.
HUI AND THERE.
TSTS AR. HITMTt RK ?>r ri'UlMil. AMU
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ant ?"J iir.jt?i?rrapr.a. *?"> ?'l-arla* BcfSJ
Many tomes have been ??ritten
' the ?ubje?*t of our ?'olonial archlti
ure; it? best examples have been m
kr.own to u.? il elaborate illuitratio
? ? ?.round ub ?n the adroit
made of it? beauty and ?ignitv bv e
temporary architects; it it a to
?vhose interest Is inexhaustible.
K'.?*r!ein's book i? not merely ?till
other volume on the subject. It ii
complete study of the art In all
changing forma and tranamutation?
? e.l local!?, in New England, N
York and Dutch New Jersey, the M
die State? and the South. This II
of differentiations, of nuan
even, tracing, also, the influence of ti
and pla*M and social and economic c<
ditions upon the arrangement and I
development of" the home. A book :
architect?., but, above all, a book I
the layman who take? an intelligi
Interns! in one of the great arti?
h.-ri'Hge? of hi? country. Mr. Eb?
lein end? hi? book with a contiderati
of the clastic influence which came
us from France, and which wa? ?o mu
more successful in our public than
our privat?? buildings. And he add?
final chapter on American architec
An informing book, pleasantly writti
and, of course, tilled with picture? th
alone make it? possession worth whi
What ha? been done, what can
done by a good architect with an o
fnrmhouie i? illustrated by concrete i
?'an.-.'? twenty of them- in Mi
Northend's book. The possibilities a
Btadless, especially where the basis
transformation i* a sound Colon!
Htructure. In fact, lookln? at some
the picture? in this volume one wo
d?ra that anything ?o simple a?
farmhouse ha? furnished the found
tion for these elaborate and beautlf
country residence?. 01 course, wh?
once one ha? restored or remodell?
according to period, the next ?tep
furnishings and furnitur? in keepin
Thus the interior? here shown sui
gest the hunt for the antique Heppl
white and Sheraton and Chippendal
William mid Mary escritoire?, four-po
bedsteads, all the ?leliifht? of beaut
ful BOSSSM?SBI in keeping with tl
house. This, too. it one of those ei
ticing volumes whose illustrations ii
evitably compel to a rea.llng of the n
mantle text. For can there be a be
ter, more enduring romance than thi
of milking the past live anew in th
present in one'? mo?t intimate environ
ment?
No greater contrast to Colonial am
Georgian architecture could possibly b.
f'iutiil 'hin that illustrated in Mr. Oar
iK'tt's book. In California Nature bid
.iirliiU'Ct to do her bidding. Thes?
descriptions are, therefore, first of all
to 'ht- parks and garden? ir
- tl ??-?* stately homes are built
Al for their style, there is a lit tie oi
?\?'iythit,g a hint of the mission?, ?
great dss] of the Spain of the Moor?,
considerable borrowing from classic
Grs>S4M und Korne, tritt) here and there
mi ?xample of Elizabethan and. of
course, the otnniprnssnt Ronsisasnro.
i ?n th" whole, these houses are adapf?*d
t<> their environment, to vegetation and
sunshine and blue 3kv whence the use
of color? and tints on outer walls.
< alifornia i? evolving an architecture
of its own, but thus far it has been,
; ono bolisvss, Basra successful in the
1 uilding of simpler residences than in
? the p:!':.!-.'? hi'!?* depicted.
Sarah Comstock's book ?hould be in
I :u..is o? every New Yorker who
love? New York. It? itineraries within
r.us of thirty mile? around the
?ill ri'veal to them a wealth of
biatoric interest for outing? innum
i ruble. We all know the Van Cort
landt house, of course, and the Phil
Jumel rr. i ?
and Fruunc's's Tavern, the f'.ty Hall,
the Poo cottage but how many of u?
?ver visited ths Billop house, the
Perrina homestead, the Garibaldi
house under its protective roof, or the
orir'nal Vanderbilt homestead on Stat
en Island? Where la the old Lefferta
homestead? And where did Baron
Steuben entertain (ieorge Washington?
Did rou knot that th? Ston? Hsnss in
which An-ire was imprisoned at Tappen
II in existence? Have you ?een
the Keather?fone House, where Wath
? and Rochambeeu conferred, and
where the British guide hid in the i
current buahea? How much do
not know o? the hiitorieal altea
house? and monument? In and ai
New York? Read thi? book, and b
lightened. You can ?tart on youi
grimage? on any clear, crisp Su
morning, and benefit thereby in
and mind. Or. if you prefer it,
can light your lamp at night
ramble in your armchair from th*
Amsterdam that wa? to the New
that is, even to the utmost conflm
its urban influence. And the Uli
tions will be of greatest help to ;
"Beautiful Garden? in America
a pure delight, a holiday book foi
??ry day of the year, a thing of bei
The illustrations fully iuatify the I
the range from which they are tak?
American in the full senne of the ?
repreienting ?J| our climatic tones,
the text ??helpful and sugR-estive
deed, the volume comes at the r
tune, when the art of gardening
attained its true place in our ?ch
of living.
IRVINGS NEW Y0R1
A Sumptuous Edition of One
Our Humorous Classics.
A HISTi'Ki Of SK\? V"RK FUKM Tlir
iiivsiMi nr rHK vaiiki ii m nu: km
THE 1)1 Till DTNA8T1 I?> Pl?d
- Tl.i Whole KmtwIlUhM '?>? Et?h4 l'i ?
tt'tm 'h* Ilar.il o* Matfl.M P?rrl?h. la-ir? 1
?TO. VO III. iV? I?1*1.1. M??l * ?v
This hand?ome edition of the K-il
erbocker Hist<iry of New York i
first nublished fifteen year? t
und long ?inc? went out of print,
reissue to-day I? welcome, for it i?
tire a piece of bookmaking a? h?? b
produced In this country. It? font
type ll gracefully ?impie and re?t
to the eye, the large type-page
noticeably well-balanced; in ?hort,
every typographical detail the book
thoroughly artlitic.
So much ha? been written about 1
Knickerbocker Hiitory that little
main? to be ?aid at this late d?
Planned originally a? a bripf ?attr? M
highfalutin guidebook of N?w York
the period, it grew in the autho
hand? to its final proportion?. Th
it? humor w?? misunderstood, that
wa? taken ?eriously for many ye?
after it? appearance, that America
large accepted it a? a true picture
the Dutch in thl? country long aft
Irving had written hi? apology in IK
all thi? l? ?ufficiently well known,
1? al?o th? fact that the author's tar
apology wa? called forth by th? p?
siatent prote?t? of New York?r?
Dutch descent, who yet accepted,
they did not themielve? mum?, fro
its title-page, and collective name
Knickerbocker?. Indeed, to the ve
?ting of the ?atire may b? traced th
pride of Dutch tradition? in New Yo
which has firmly fixed them in Amei
can hiatory.
"I will say ms in further apoloj
for my work," wrote Irving in 1X4
"that if it ha? taken an unwarrantab
liberty with our eariy provincial hn
tory it ha? at least turned ?ttentio
to that history and provoked researcl
It is only since this work appeared kill
th? forgotten archive? ?I the provine
have been rummaged and the facts an
personage? of the olden time rescue*
from the du?t of oblivion. Before th'
appearance of my work the popular tra
dition? of our city were unrecorded
the peculiar and racy custom? an?
usage? d-'ived from our Dutch progen
Itera wen unnoticed, or regarded wit!
indifference, or reverted to with ? sneer
Now they form a convivial currency
and are brought forward on ; 11 occa
?ions; they link our whole communitj
together in go d humor and good fel?
lowship; they are the rallying pointa o?
home feeling, the ?eaaoning of our civic
festivities, and are bo harped upon L>
our writer? of popular fiction that 1
find myself almoit crowded off the leg
erdary ground which I wa? th? first tc
explore."
The reference to the popular novel?
ist? of nearly seventy years ago recalli
the now forgotten Knickerbocker
School, which deserve? attention onlv
a? the first "society fiction" produced
in thi? country. It is pree?rved in the
Duyckinck collection at the New York
Public Library.
Concluding his apology In the vein
of the work that called it forth, Irving
declared: "When I find i ta very name
become a household word, and uied to
give the home ?tamp to everything
recommended for popular acceptation,
(.uch a? Knickerbocker ?ocietie?, Knick?
erbocker inturance companies, Knick?
erbocker steamboats, Knickerbocker
omnibuses, Knickerbocker bread and
Knickerbocker ice; and when I find
New Yorker? of Dutch descent priding
th'-m?elvea on being 'genuine Knicker?
bocker?' I please my?elf with the per
.t-on that I have ?truck the right
chord."
Ancestral Homes of Noted Amer
cans."
Mr. B-angwyn's "Book of Bridges,
with its unusually fresh and sug
gestive accompaniment of text, i
dealt with in another column. Bel
g'um receives its share of attentio
in picture and word. And. for th
rest, there are the lata Arthur Hoa
ber's "The Barbizon Pointers," ani
a volume on Vig?e Lebrun whicl
reaches us from England through i
Boston publishing house. We mi]
le.-?rn "What Pictures to See ?r
America." And George F. Kuntj
follows up his last year's "Curioui
Lore of Jewels" with a volume or
'The Magic of Jewell and Charms"
and also gives us a book on ivory
in art, "Ivory and the Elephant."
CONCLUDING REMARKS.
Lafcadio Hearn's "Interpretations
? of Literature." his lectures at the
Imperial University of Tokio, is one
of the welcome sur;.rises of the au?
tumn season. The year has been
prolific in critical studies of living
authors, George Bernard Shaw at
their head. The letters of Wash?
ington Irving to Henry Brevoort
,-rt a titbit for amateurs; and s new
lire of Tennyson, by the late Profes?
sor Thomas R. Lounsbury, prom?
ises to be worth while, since it is
bused on new material. The poeta
we have with us in increasing num?
bers. The latest addition to the list
1 is "The Collected Poems of Rupert
Brooke." the young Englishman whc
died fighting for his country.
It is worth noting that in the year ol
Waterloo Napoleonic literature haa
been eclipsed by a war far greater
than any the Corsican ever waged.
Some books dealing with him have
been published during the year, but
have been received with indifference.
The latest of them, "In the Foot?
steps of Napoleon," claims consid?
eration, however. The issue of the
third and fourth volume? of a new
six-volume English translation of
exceptional merit of the "Memoir?
cf the Duke de St. Simon" may also
be noted. There is Hilaire Belloc's
"High Lights of the French Revolu?
tion"; a history of "The Partitions
of Poland" is timely again, and
Beatrice A. Lees'? "Alfred the
Great" recommends itself by it?
sterling qualities.
In American history there is, fir?t
of all, the "Riverside History of the
United State?," in four volume?,
worth recommending. Charles H.
Sherrill's "French Memories of
Eighteenth Century America" i?
Mied with pictures of the life of our
ancestors; and the man who prob?
ably knows the Indian best. George
Bird Grinnell. has written the ?tory
of "The Fighting Cheyennea."
There is no dearth of book? for
holiday giving. A diminution of the
quantity of new publicatUane has
only served to raise the quality of !
those available for the purpose
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Uondity. WeOm ?.iiv ?tal 9*0
Why?
Why is the chipmunk's hack
?triped) Why is the curlew's
bill long an?J crooked ? Why
do Blackfret never kill mice?
All these things are told in
the new book of Indian leg?
end?the ?Uncle Remua of
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and children.
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A delightful novel
The atory of a woman, written
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Kalendars
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SAVE
AMERICA !
An Appeal to
Patriotism
First ..?.sued ?nonymously s*
"Stnltitis"?A atirriris; presen?
tation of unpleasant truths con?
cerning; unpreparedness and the
reason* why u? are xnprepnrert.
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