Smith, F. H. The other fellow. Houghton $1.40 These entertaining other fellows include tramps, convicts, orphans, traveling Americans, etc. in Venice, Mexico, Holland and the United States. Stuart, Mrs R. McE. Holly and pizen. Century $1.25 Contains Uncle Riah's Christmas eve; A note of scarlet; Queen o' Sheba's triumph; Unele Still's famous weather prophecy; Picayune. Tarkington, Booth. The gentleman from Indiana. Doubleday $1.50 Main interest, the contest between White caps and a young newspaper man who trys to purify politics. First published in McClure's magazine. Trumbull, A. E. Mistress Content Cradock. Well written love story of colonial Massachusetts. prominent character. c Warner, C: D. That fortune. New York story. Sequel to The golden house. Wharton, Edith. The greater inclination. Barnes $1 Roger Williams a Harper $1.50 Scribner $1.50 Stories of present day social life. Extremely clever in psychologic study and literary expression, rather depressing and cynical, but not unlightened by humor. Whiteing, Richard. No. 5 J hn st. Century $1.50 Story of a cultured man ́s experimental residence in the Loudon slums. Has humor and good character diawing. Portrays things as they are, without theory of remedies. b Whitney, Mrs A. D. T. Square pegs. Houghton $1.50 New England story of a young girl "brought up in sections by two aunts". Zangwill, Israel. They that walk in darkness. Explains government, voting, taxes, etc., and shows how children About plants and how they travel to new fields by flying, floating, clinging, tumbling and shooting seeds. Excellent illustrations. 595.79 598.2 608 a Morley, M. W. The bee people. McClurg $1.25 All about bees-queen, workers and drones. Tells about their 12,603 eyes, how they get honey, how they comb their hair, and how they feed their babies. c Miller, Mrs H. M. "Olive Thorne Miller" pseud. First book of birds. Houghton $1 Interesting talks about their homes, clothes, schooling, food, how they behave and how to study them. Colored, and black and white illustrations. a Baker, R. S. Boy's book of inventions. Doubleday $2 Submarine boats, liquid air, wireless telegraphy, automobiles, x-ray photography, tailless kites, the phonograph, the modern sky scraper, flying machines. Excellent illustrations. 811.49 Tabb, J: B. Child verse: poems grave and gay. Small $1 Brief verses in which humor, poetic feeling and an unusual understanding of children blend delightfully. 821.08 Thatcher, Mrs L. W. The listening child. Macmillan $1.25 Admirable selection of poems rich in the musical and poetic qualities which appeal to young children, though not written for them. Arranged chronologically from Shakspere to Stevenson, with appendix of earlier 914.8 929.9 970.1 poets. ¿ Du Chaillu, P. B. Land of the long night. Scribner $2 Winter journey by reindeer sledge and on skees to northern Scandinavia. Describes adventures with wolves and bears, life with the queer little Lapps, etc. Holden, E: S. Our country's flag and the flags of foreign countries. (Appleton's home reading books) Appleton net $1 Gives history of American flag, describes foreign flags, explaining symbolism, weather signals, uses of flags at sea, salutes, signaling, etc. Starr, Frederick. American Indians. reader) (Ethno-geographic Heath 45C Interesting and reliable information about Indians of various tribes, their domestic life, games, ceremonials, etc. Helpful and attractive illustrations. Juvenile biography Brooks, E. S. Historic Americans. Crowell $1.50 Sketches Gov. Winthrop, Franklin, Washington, Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, Eli Whitney, Webster, Irving, Calhoun, Horace Maun, Lincoln, Longfellow, etc. Would interest older boys and girls. Dewey. Johnson, Rossiter. heroes of our navy) Hero of Manila. (Young Appleton $1.50 Admiral Dewey's life to 1899. Gives some imaginary details of boyhood, but follows facts in the main. Lafayette. Brooks, E. S. True story of Lafayette. (Children's lives of great men) Lothrop $1.50 Life of the gallant Frenchman who fought for the United States in youth and was welcomed enthusiastically there in age. Juvenile fiction Braine, S. E. Princess of hearts. Scribner $2 Fairy story about a princess with a frog-duchess godmother, a brother who bargains his heart for one of marble, etc. a Dix, B. M. Soldier Rigdale. Macmillan $1.50 About a boy who came over in the Mayflower, how Miles Standish befriended him and what he saw among the Indians Decidedly above average historical story for children in faithfulness to life, wholesome tone and style. Field, Mrs C. L. Nannie's happy childhood. Houghton $1 The little heroine plays that fairy tales are true, and herself becomes a good fairy. ¿ Grinnell, G: B. Jack, the young ranchman. Stokes $1.50 A New York boy's six months on a western ranch, where he learns to ride and shoot, collects Indian relics, etc. Hall, Ruth. Boys of Scrooby. Houghton $1.50 Three English boys whose parents first sought religious freedom in Holland, meet various adventures in the new colonies at Jamestown, Plymouth and New Netherlands. Harris, J. C. "Uncle Remus" pseud. Plantation pageants. Houghton $2 More abont Buster John, Sweetest Susan, Drusilla, Aaron and the animals on the Georgia plantation. Jewett, S. O. Betty Leicester's Christmas. Houghton $1 A 15 year old New England girl, living with her father in London, spends a delightful Christmas at Danesly castle. First published in St Nicholas. Jordan, D: S. Book of Knight and Barbara. Appleton $1.50 Mainly nonsense stories, including a few travesties of classic tales, first told to his own children. Illustrated from children's drawings. A few true stories of animals at end. b Kirk, Mrs E. O. Dorothy and her friends. Houghton $1.25 Sequel to Dorothy Deane, telling about her new home by the sea, a children's clam-bake, Fourth of July celebration, birthday party, etc. Lang, Andrew, ed. Red book of animal stories. Longmans $2 Compilation of true stories and legends. Well printed and illustrated. ¿Munroe, Kirk. Shine Terrill: a sea island ranger. Lothrop $1.25 A Georgia boy's adventures on a river raft, among "moonshiners " and on the coast. Ogden, Ruth. Loyal hearts and true. Stokes $1.50 Story of Spanish war. Scenes, Brooklyn navy yard and Cuba. Parker, F. W. & Helm, N. L. Uncle Robert's geography, Playtime and seedtime. V. I. books) (Appleton's home reading Appleton net 32C Country children's daily life in a very simple story which opens many interesting doors. A beginner's reader. 15 stories of young people in various parts of the world. Peattie, Mrs E. W. 'Ickery Ann and other girls and boys. Stone $1.25 Plympton, A. G. A flower of the wilderness. Little $1.25 Richards, Mrs L. E. Quicksilver Sue. Century $1 A little girl among the puritans in Dorchester Mass. about 1640. Summer's experiences of several country children and a badly brought up city girl. First published in St Nicholas. Seawell, M. E. Lively adventures of Gavin Hamilton. Harper $1.50 English boy's adventures in the seven years war between Frederick the Great and Maria Theresa. True, J: P. The iron star and what it saw on its journey through the ages from myth to history. Little $1.50 Two children of cave dwellers see a meteor fall. The story of its vicissitudes outlines the progress of civilization to the present. Wesselhoeft, L. F. Madam Mary of the zoo. Little $1.25 Characters, animals in the zoo and children who visit them. Mary is a parrot. Wright, M. O. Wabeno the magician. Madam Macmillan $1.50 The little girl heroine can talk with beasts, birds, trees, flowers, winds and moon, and thus learns Mother nature's ways. Continuation of Tommy-Anne and the three hearts. PREPARED BY STUDENTS OF THE NEW YORK STATE LIBRARY SCHOOL, ON SUBJECTS OF THEIR OWN CHOICE, AS A CONDITION OF GRADUATION In the following list all bibliographies not designated as select or as reading lists aim at completeness. Those printed as bibliography bulletins of the New York state library are designated by the name of the series and number. The subject number according to the Decimal classification precedes each title. 012 012 012 012 012 012 012 012 012 012 013 016.01 Phillips Brooks. G: W. C. Stockwell, '95 Ben Jonson. Mrs Mary (Wellman) Loomis, '90 Poems on Lincoln, Grant, Sherman and Sheridan. M.. L.. John Lothrop Motley. M.. E. Robbins, '92 H.. C. Silliman, '95 Index to subject bibliographies in library bulletins to Dec. 31, 1897. Mrs Alice (Newman) Nachtmann, '95 (Bibliography 14) 016.027773 College libraries in the United States. Hugh Williams, '98 016.0285 016.2217 016.246 016.27 016.28 (Bibliography 19) Lists of books for children. J. Y. Middleton, '91 Higher criticism of the Old testament. (Select) Rev. Christian art. (Select) M.. L. Davis, '92 Church history. (Reading list) Elizabeth Harvey, '90 N. Y. 1896. Cathedral library association 75C. 016.33185 Clubs for boys and working girls. J. D. Fellows, '97 016.33622 Single tax. Ethel Garvin, '98 016.339 To be printed as a New York state library bibliography bulletin. 016.352073 Municipal government. M.. L. Jones, '92; J. A. Rath 016.36 016.361 016.3722 016.3723 016.376 bone, '93; E. D. Biscoe, '96 Scientific study of philanthropy. I. E. Lord, '97 Printed in American journal of sociology, Jan. 1898, 3:566–76. Separate re- New philanthropy. (Reading list) H.. G. Sheldon, '93 To be printed as a New York state library bibliography bulletin. 016.37813 Consolidated index to university extension periodicals. English works on King Arthur and the Round Table. Fairy tales for children. (Reading list) F. J. Olcott, '96 Out-of-door books. (Reading list) H. H. Stanley, '95 (Bibliography 8) Renaissance art of 15th and 16th centuries. (Reading House decoration and furnishing, (Reading list) E. E |