A whole “nature library” about animals prepared by experts. Scientific facts are presented in simple language, and are enlivened by anecdotes, personal experiences, and references to history, art, and literature.

The illustrations are not only superior as animal pictures, but are genuinely illustrative, since they show the creature in its natural surroundings and characteristic action.

Extinct animals are fully treated, because these strange forms are fascinating to children, and because they illustrate the derivation of such familiar living animals as birds, horses, and dogs.

“A full menagerie of all sorts of animals, with a multitude of pictures.... A wonderful exhibition, and the story of each individual is interesting and calculated to stimulate the youthful mind in research.... Pictures carefully reproduced, so that they represent the creatures in their real forms and proportions.”—Brooklyn Eagle.

Brief accounts of the great books, buildings, statues, pictures, operas, symphonies, etc.

“Few poems, plays, novels, pictures, statues, or fictitious characters that children—or most of their parents—of our day are likely to inquire about will be missed here.... Mr. Champlin’s judgment seems unusually sound—will be welcome and useful.”—Nation.

“Every schoolboy should have it on his study table.... The range of the volume is very wide, for besides those items of classical knowledge which constitute the average school encyclopædia, we have brief descriptions given of modern books, poems, inventions, pictures, and persons about which the lad of the period should be acquainted.... The pictures in the volume are varied and truly illustrative. Old pictures and sculpture are presented in the usual line of drawings, but modern scenes and buildings are pictured through excellent half-tone reproductions of photographs.”—N. Y. Times Saturday Review.

Earlier Volumes of Champlin’s Young Folks’ Cyclopædia.

With numerous illustrations. 8vo. $2.50 each.

COMMON THINGS.PERSONS and PLACES.
GAMES and SPORTS.

⁂ 12-page circular, with sample pages of Champlin’s Young Folks’ Cyclopædias and his other books, free.