THE CHILDREN’S PLEASURE BOOK SERIES
CHILDREN’S BOOK OF ART
By Miss A. E. Conway and Sir Martin Conway.
With 16 full-page illustrations in color from public and private galleries.
Dec. cloth, 12mo, $2.00 net; by mail $2.15.
An entertaining and attractive volume. The paintings reproduced have been chosen because of their undoubted appeal to young minds.
CHILD’S WORLD IN PICTURES
By Clotilde von Wyss.
With 32 full-page illustrations in color and 30 in black and white.
Dec. boards, 12mo, $.75 net; by mail $.85.
Story-like descriptions, illustrated by pictures of life in far-away and unknown lands, certain to appeal to a child’s vivid imagination.
CHILDREN’S BOOK OF STARS
By G. E. Mitton.
With 11 full-page illustrations in color and other illustrations.
Dec. cloth, 8vo, $2.00 net; by mail $2.15.
A capital introduction to astronomy written in a most pleasing manner for children’s comprehension and interest and well illustrated.
CHILDREN’S BOOK OF GARDENING
Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick and Mrs. Paynter.
With 12 full-page illustrations in color by Mrs. Cayley-Robinson.
Dec. cloth, 12mo, $2.00 net; by mail $2.15.
Tells the juvenile reader how to make his garden grow. It is written from a child’s point of view and supplies the information a child can use.
CHILDREN’S BOOK OF CELTIC STORIES
By Elizabeth W. Grierson.
With 12 full-page illustrations in color by Allan Stewart.
Dec. cloth, 8vo, $2.00 net; by mail $2.15.
A collection of stories, some of them strange and weird, but quite as fascinating as any of the better known fairy tales. They are retold in words as near the original as possible.
CHILDREN’S TALES FROM SCOTTISH BALLADS
By Elizabeth W. Grierson.
With 12 full-page illustrations in color by Allan Stewart.
Dec. cloth, 8vo, $2.00 net; by mail $2.15.
Seventeen of the most famous Scottish ballads retold in simple English for children.
CHILDREN’S TALES OF ENGLISH MINSTERS
By Elizabeth W. Grierson.
With 12 full-page illustrations in color by various artists.
Dec. cloth, 8vo, $2.00 net; by mail, $2.15. Also separately: Canterbury, Durham, Ely, Lincoln, St. Albans, St. Paul’s, York. Each with a colored illustration, 50 cents net; by mail 55 cents.
Stories of saints, monarchs, statesmen and warriors connected with the founding of ten of the best known English cathedrals.
CHILDREN’S BOOK OF LONDON
By G. E. Mitton.
With 12 full-page illustrations in color by John Williamson.
Dec. cloth, 8vo, $2.00 net; by mail $2.15.
“A book as thoroughly charming as it is variously instructive ... fitted to kindle in the imagination of a child a lively sense of what great London is, as also of what it has been.”—Chicago Tribune.
CHILDREN’S BOOK OF EDINBURGH
By Elizabeth W. Grierson.
With 12 full-page illustrations in color by Allan Stewart.
Dec. cloth, 12mo, $2.00 net; by mail $2.15.
In simple language Miss Grierson writes about the modern interests of the city.
THE BOOK OF THE RAILWAY
By G. E. Mitton.
With 12 full-page illustrations in color by Allan Stewart.
Dec. cloth, 8vo, $2.00; by mail $2.15.
There is nothing technical in it; it is written so clearly that a young child can understand it and yet grown up children will find a great deal that is entirely new to them.
THE ADVENTURES OF PUNCH
By Ascott R. Hope.
With 12 full-page illustrations in color by Stephen Baghot De La Bere.
Dec. cloth, 12mo, $2.00 net; by mail $2.15.
A book full of thrilling experiences and illustrated with lively color pictures. It will hold the attention of boy or girl from the first to the last word.
THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS
By John Bunyan.
With 8 full-page illustrations in color by Gertrude D. Hammond.
Dec. cloth, 12mo, $2.00 net; by mail $2.15.
This great allegory illustrated with pictures which are remarkable for the manner in which they portray the spirit of Bunyan’s famous text.
WILLIAM TELL TOLD AGAIN
By P. G. Wodehouse.
With 16 full-page illustrations in color by Philip Dadd.
Dec. cloth, 12mo, $2.00 net; by mail $2.15.
Accompanying the prose story and supplementing the pictures are delightfully humorous verses revealing a lighter side to the story.
THE ADVENTURES OF DON QUIXOTE
By Miguel De Cervantes.
Translated and abridged by Dominick Daly.
With 12 full-page illustrations in color by Stephen Baghot De La Bere.
Dec. cloth, 12mo, $2.00 net; by mail $2.15.
A selection of the more interesting and amusing parts of Cervantes’ great composition.
THE KING WHO NEVER DIED
By Dorothy Senior.
With 12 full-page illustrations in color.
Dec. cloth, 12mo, $1.50.
BEASTS AND BIRDS
By Clotilde von Wyss.
With 55 illustrations, of which 31 are in color.
Dec. boards, 8vo, 75 cents net.
A nature book for boys and girls.
RED CAP ADVENTURES
By S. R. Crockett.
With 16 full-page illustrations in color by Allan Stewart.
Dec. cloth, 12mo, $1.75.
A collection of nineteen stories founded upon Sir Walter Scott’s “Ivanhoe,” “Fortunes of Nigel,” “Quentin Durward,” and “The Pirate.”
RED CAP TALES
By S. R. Crockett.
With 16 full-page illustrations in color by Allan Stewart.
Dec. cloth, 12mo, $2.00 net; by mail $2.20.
Here Mr. Crockett adapts “Waverley,” “Rob Roy,” “Guy Mannering,” and “The Antiquary” for the benefit of young readers.
ADVENTURES IN MANY LANDS NORTH AMERICA
By Ascott R. Hope.
With 12 full-page illustrations in color by Henry Sandham.
Dec. cloth, 12mo, $1.75
A collection of personal narratives of adventure, remarkable not only for their own interest, but because they represent notable phases of American life.
THE BULL OF THE KRAAL
By Dudley Kidd.
With 12 full-page illustrations in color by A. M. Goodall.
Dec. cloth, 12mo, $2.00 net; by mail $2.15.
A story of the exciting adventures of a delightful little Kafir Prince and a number of his small, black friends.
GOD’S LANTERN BEARERS
By Rev. R. C. Gillie.
With 32 full-page illustrations in black and white by John Sargent and others.
Dec. cloth, 8vo, $2.00 net; by mail $2.15.
A retelling of certain Bible stories in the language of children, each illustrated by photogravures of ideal portraits. The lantern bearers are holy men who, in each age, passed on the light of heavenly truth to those beyond them.
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK