The Bee-Man of Orn and Other Fanciful Tales Part 21

A Popular History of the Elephant and Its Allies.

By CHARLES F. HOLDER.

The wonderfully interesting array of facts which Mr. Holder brought together in his "Marvels of Animal Life" was the fruit very largely of his personal observations. It forms one of the most stimulating and delightful contributions to the cla.s.s of Natural History books for the young that has ever been made, and was a fitting forerunner to "The Ivory King," which is devoted entirely to the Elephant, and has even a more vivid fascination than the first named volume. The summary of its contents includes the Natural History of the Elephant, its habits and ways and its intelligence, the Mammoth Three and Four Tusked Elephants, Hunting and Capturing Wild Elephants, the Elephant in Captivity, Rogue Elephants, the White Elephant, Trained Elephants, Show Elephants, Ivory, War Elephants, etc., etc. The numerous ill.u.s.trations are especially excellent, being drawn from a great variety of sources.

It would be hard to name a book which would be a more welcome and valued addition to the library of the average boy or girl just beginning to cultivate a love of reading and an interest in the world around them.

MARVELS OF ANIMAL LIFE.

By CHARLES F. HOLDER.

SCRIBNER'S STANDARD JUVENILE BOOKS.

THE BOY'S

Library of Legend and Chivalry.

EDITED BY SIDNEY LANIER,

And richly ill.u.s.trated by FREDERICKS, BENSELL, and KAPPES.

THE BOY'S KING ARTHUR. THE BOY'S FROISSART.

KNIGHTLY LEGENDS OF WALES. THE BOY'S PERCY.

"Amid all the strange and fanciful scenery of these stories, character and the ideals of character remain at the simplest and the purest. The romantic history transpires in the healthy atmosphere of the open air, on the green earth beneath the open sky.... The figures of Right, Truth, Justice, Honor, Purity, Courage, Reverence for Law, are always in the background; and the grand pa.s.sion inspired by the book is for strength to do well and n.o.bly in the world."--The Independent.

THE BOY'S Library of Pluck and Action.

A JOLLY FELLOWs.h.i.+P, By Frank R. Stockton.

HANS BRINKER; OR, THE SILVER SKATES. A story of life in Holland. By Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge.

THE BOY EMIGRANTS, By Noah Brooks.

PHAETON ROGERS, By Rossiter Johnson.

In the "Boy's Library of Pluck and Action," the design was to bring together the representative and most popular books of four of the best known writers for young people. The names of Mary Mapes Dodge, Frank R. Stockton, Noah Brooks, and Rossiter Johnson are familiar ones in every household, and a set of books, to which each has contributed one, forms a present that will delight the heart of every boy who likes manly, spirited, and amusing tales. The volumes are beautifully ill.u.s.trated and uniformly bound in a most attractive form.

SCRIBNER'S LIST OF JUVENILE BOOKS.

The great legend of the Nibelungen told to boys and girls.

THE STORY OF SIEGFRIED.

By JAMES BALDWIN.

Mr. Baldwin has at last given "The Story of Siegfried" in the way in which it most appeals to the boy-reader,--simply and strongly told, with all its fire and action, yet without losing any of that strange charm of the myth, and that heroic pathos, which every previous attempt at a version, even for adult readers, has failed to catch.

THE STORY OF ROLAND.

By JAMES BALDWIN.

This volume is intended as a companion to "The Story of Siegfried."

As Siegfried was an adaptation of Northern myths and romances to the wants and the understanding of young readers, so is this story a similar adaptation of the middle-age romances relating to Charlemagne and his paladins. As Siegfried was the greatest of the heroes of the North, so, too, was Roland the most famous among the knights of the Middle Ages.

"We congratulate the boys of the land upon the appearance of this book. We commend it to parents who are selecting literature for their children, a.s.sured, as we are, that it will convince them that books may be found which will engage the attention, and stimulate the imagination, of the young, without dissipating the mind, or blunting the moral sensibilities."--Philadelphia Messenger.

THE FIRST REALLY PRACTICAL BOY'S BOOK.

THE AMERICAN BOY'S HANDY BOOK;

Or, WHAT TO DO AND HOW TO DO IT.

By DANIEL C. BEARD.

Mr. Beard's book is the first to tell the active, inventive, and practical American boy the things he really wants to know, the thousand things he wants to do, and the ten thousand ways in which he can do them, with the helps and ingenious contrivances which every boy can either procure or make.

The author divides the book among the sports of the four seasons; and he has made an almost exhaustive collection of the cleverest modern devices, besides himself inventing an immense number of capital and practical ideas.

FRANK R. STOCKTON'S POPULAR STORIES.

THE STORY OF VITEAU.

With sixteen full-page ill.u.s.trations by R.B. Birch.