Chapter 9

Despite the efforts of publishers, a brilliant book for boys is a _rara avis_; therefore "Royal Lowrie" is likely to be appreciated by all lively boys between twelve and forty. While in literary finish the book ranks with the best novels of the day, the characters are the boys and girls of our modern High Schools. The plot is of breathless interest, but of such a character that we will warrant when the general mystification is dispersed no reader will feel like ever undertaking to seem what he is not. The humiliation which at last overtakes Royal Lowrie and Archer Bishop is so very thorough that the two gay, thoughtless fellows, in the language of the _American Bookseller_, "resolve in future to be wholly true, even in little things. Royal Lowrie is an especially engaging rattlepate, and we do not wonder that he wins forgiveness on all sides."

Although it is an irresistibly humorous story of high-spirited boys and girls, the book is calculated to exert as strong a restraining influence as any volume which will be found in our Sunday-school Libraries.

ENTERPRISE.

We copy the following from _The American Bookseller_, New York:

Few people can have failed to notice the great enterprise, if they have not observed the scrupulous care with which Messrs. D. Lothrop & Co. have published a class of books adapted to the highest culture of the people.

It is only ten years since they commenced the work of publishing, and their list now numbers more than six hundred volumes.

We are glad to make record, that brave and persistent following of a high ideal has been successful.

Messrs. D. Lothrop & Co. have given special attention to the publication of books for children and youths, rightly considering that in no department is _the best_, as regards literary excellence and purity of moral and religious reading, of so great importance. Yet the names of works by such authors as Austin Phelps, D.D., Francis Wayland, and Dr. Nehemiah Adams on their catalogue, will show that maturer readers have not been uncared for.

Of their work projected for the coming season, we have not room to speak in detail; it will suffice for the present to say that it is wide in range, including substantial and elegantly illustrated books, all in the line of the practical and useful, and fresh in character and treatment.

Their two juvenile magazines, _Wide Awake_ and _Babyland_, are warmly welcomed in every part of the English-speaking world.

We advise any of our readers who desire to know more about these publications, to send to D. Lothrop & Co., Boston, for an illustrated catalogue.

All who visit their establishment, corner of Franklin and Hawley streets, will not only be courteously welcomed and entertained, but will have the pleasure of seeing one of the most spacious and attractive bookstores in the country.

BABY BUNTING. Short Stories with Bright Pictures. By the Best American Authors. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price, $1.00.

_Baby Bunting_ is a beautiful quarto with one of the most attractive outsides we have seen for a long time. It is made up of choice stories adapted to the reading of children from four to eight years of age. They are all short, few of them being over a page in length, and each is accompanied by a full page engraving. It is just the kind of book that ought to be popular, and undoubtedly will be.

YOUNG FOLKS' HISTORY OF GERMANY. By Charlotte M. Yonge. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price, $1.50.

This handsome volume is the first of a series, which will include the principal countries of Europe, the succeeding numbers of which will appear at brief intervals. Miss Yonge, whose talents have been exerted in various directions for the benefit of young readers, has been peculiarly successful in this series, which has had a very large sale in Europe, and deserves a like popularity here. It covers not only the entire period of German civilization down to the present time, but it gives an account of ancient Germany and its inhabitants in times which might almost be called pre-historic. The first chapters are explanatory of the German mythology, and of the ancient methods of worship. The Nibelungen Lied is described and its story told. The real history begins about the year 496 A.D., at a time when the Franks were the victorious race in Europe. From that time down to the beginning of the present year the record is continuous. The volume is profusely illustrated.

HAPPY MOODS OF HAPPY CHILDREN. Original Poems. By favorite American authors. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co. Price $1.00.

We venture to say that no publishing house in the country will issue this season anything choicer in the way of a presentation book of poems than this charming volume. The poems it contains were written expressly for Mr. Lothrop, and have never before been brought together in collected form. Among the authors represented are Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Clara Doty Bates, Margaret G. Preston, Ella Farman, Mrs. Platt, Harriet McEwen Kimball, Mary A. Lathbury, Nora Perry, Mrs. L. C. Whiton, Celia Thaxter, Edgar Fawcett, and many others. Although the volume is ostensibly preferred for children, it is one which grown-up people will equally enjoy. There are a score or more of illustrations, most of them full-page, exquisitely drawn and engraved.

PANSY'S PAGE.

FOUR GIRLS AT CHAUTAUQUA. By _Pansy_. 12mo. Illustrated $1 50

The most fascinating "watering-place" story ever published. Four friends, each a brilliant girl in her way, tired of Saratoga and Newport, try a fortnight at the new summer resort on Chautauqua Lake, choosing the time when the National Sunday-school Assembly is in camp. Rev. Drs. Vincent, Deems, Cuyler, Edward, Eggleston, Mrs. Emily Huntington Miller, move prominently through the story.

HOUSEHOLD PUZZLES. By _Pansy_. 12mo. Illustrated 1 50

How to make one dollar do the work of five. A family of beautiful girls seek to solve this "puzzle." Piquant, humorous, but written with an intense purpose.

THE RANDOLPHS. By _Pansy_. 12mo. Illustrated 1 50

A sequel to Household Puzzles, in which the Puzzles are agreeably disposed of.

GRANDPA'S DARLINGS, By _Pansy_. 16mo. Illustrated 1 25

A big book, full of "good times" for the little people of the family.

ESTER RIED By Pansy. 1 50 JULIA RIED " 1 50 THREE PEOPLE " 1 50 THE KING'S DAUGHTER " 1 50 WISE AND OTHERWISE " 1 50 CUNNING WORKMEN " 1 25 JESSIE WELLS " 75 DOCIA'S JOURNAL " 75 BERNIE'S WHITE CHICKEN " 75 HELEN LESTER " 75 A CHRISTMAS TIME " 15

MISS JULIA A. EASTMAN is one of the most popular of our modern writers.

YOUNG RICK. By _Julia A. Eastman_. Large 16mo. Twelve illustrations by Sol Eytinge. $1.50

A bright, fascinating story of a little boy who was both a blessing and a bother.--_Boston Journal._

The most delightful book on the list for the children of the family, being full of adventures and gay home scenes and merry play-times. "Paty" would have done credit to Dickens in his palmiest days. The strange glows and shadows of her character are put in lovingly and lingeringly, with the pencil of a master. Miss Margaret's character of light is admirably drawn, while Aunt Lesbia, Deacon Harkaway, Tom Dorrance, and the master and mistress of Graythorpe poor-house are genuine "charcoal sketches."

STRIKING FOR THE RIGHT. By _Julia A. Eastman_. Large 16mo. Illustrated $1 75

While this story holds the reader breathless with expectancy and excitement, its civilizing influence in the family is hardly to be estimated. In all quarters it has met with the warmest praise.

THE ROMNEYS OF RIDGEMONT. By Julia A. Eastman. 16mo. Illustrated $1 50

BEULAH ROMNEY. By _Julia A. Eastman_. 16mo. Illustrated $1 50

Two stones wondrously alive, flashing with fun, sparkling with tears, throbbing with emotion. The next best thing to attending Mrs. Hale's big boarding-school is to read Beulah's experience there.

SHORT-COMINGS AND LONG-GOINGS. By _Julia A. Eastman_. 16mo. Illustrated $1 25

A remarkable book, crowded with remarkable characters. It is a picture gallery of human nature.

KITTY KENT'S TROUBLES. By _Julia A. Eastman_. 16mo. Illustrated $1 50

"A delicious April-day style of book, sunshiny with smiles on one page while the next is misty with tender tears. Almost every type of American school-girl is here represented--the vain Helen Dart, the beauty, Amy Searle, the ambitious, high bred, conservative Anna Matson; but next to Kitty herself sunny little Pauline Sedgewick will prove the general favorite. It is a story fully calculated to win both girls and boys toward noble, royal ways of doing little as well as great things. All teachers should feel an interest in placing it in the hands of their pupils."

BOOKS FOR YOUNG HEROES AND BRAVE WORKERS.

VIRGINIA. By _W. H. G. Kingston_. 16mo. Illustrated $1 25

A stirring story of adventure upon sea and land.

AFRICAN ADVENTURE AND ADVENTURERS. By _Rev. G. T. Day, D. D._ 16 mo. Illustrated $1 50

The stories of Speke, Grant, Baker, Livingstone and Stanley are put into simple shape for the entertainment of young readers.

NOBLE WORKERS. Edited by _S. F. Smith, D. D._ 16mo. $1 50

STORIES OF SUCCESS. Edited by _S. F. Smith, D. D._ 16mo. $1 50

Inspiring biographies and records which leave a most wholesome and enduring effect upon the reader.

MYTHS AND HEROES. 16mo. Illustrated. Edited by _S. F. Smith, D. D._ $1 50

KNIGHTS AND SEA KINGS. Edited by _S. F. Smith, D. D._ 12mo. Illustrated $1 50

Two entertaining books, which will fasten forever the historical and geographical lessons of the school-room firmly in the student's mind.

CHAPLIN'S LIFE OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. 16mo. Illustrated $1 50

LIFE OF AMOS LAWRENCE. 12mo. Ill. $1 50

Two biographies of perennial value. No worthier books were ever offered as holiday presents for our American young men.

WALTER NEAL'S EXAMPLE. By _Rev. Theron Brown_. 16mo. Illustrated $1 25

Walter Neal's Example is by Rev. Theron Brown, the editor of that very successful paper, _The Youth's Companion_. The story is a touching one, and is in parts so vivid as to seem drawn from the life.--_N. Y. Independent._

TWO FORTUNE-SEEKERS. Stories by _Rossiter Johnson_, _Louise Chandler Moulton_, _E. Stuart Phelps_, _Ella Farman_, _etc._ Fully illustrated $1 50

"MISS FARMAN has the very desirable knack of imparting valuable ideas under the guise of a pleasing story."--_The New Century_.

MRS. HURD'S NIECE. By _Ella Farman_. Ill. $1 50

A thrilling story for the girls, especially for those who think they have a "mission," to whom we commend sturdy English Hannah, with her small means, and her grand success. Saidee Hurd is one of the sweetest girls ever embalmed in story, and Lois Gladstone one of the noblest.

THE COOKING CLUB OF TU-WHIT HOLLOW. By _Ella Farman_. 16mo. Eight full-page illustrations $1 25

Worth reading by all who delight in domestic romance.--_Fall River Daily News_.

The practical instructions in housewifery, which are abundant, are set in the midst of a bright, wholesome story, and the little housewives who figure in it are good specimens of very human, but at the same time very lovable, little American girls. It ought to be the most successful little girls' book of the season.--_The Advance._

A LITTLE WOMAN. By _Ella Farman_. 16m. $1 00

The daintiest of all juvenile books. From its merry pages, winsome Kinnie Crosby has stretched out her warm little hand to help thousands of young girls.

A WHITE HAND. By _Ella Farman_. 12m. Ill. $1 50

A genuine painting of American society. Millicent and Jack are drawn by a bold, firm hand. No one can lay this story down until the last leaf is turned.

_WIDE AWAKE._ AN ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE For the Young Folks. $2.00 PER ANNUM. POSTAGE PREPAID. Edited by ELLA FARMAN. Published by D. LOTHROP & CO., Boston, Mass.

It always contains a feast of fat things for the little folks, and folks who are no longer little find there lost childhood in its pages. We are not saying too much when we say that its versatile editor--Ella Farman, is more fully at home in the child's wonder-land than any other living American writer. She is thoroughly _en rapport_ with her readers, gives them now a sugar plum of poesy, now a dainty jelly-cake of imagination, and cunningly intermixes all the solid bread of thought that the child's mind can digest and assimilate.--_York True Democrat._

The $1000 Prize Series.

_Pronounced by the Examining Committee, Rev. Drs. Lincoln, Rankin and Day, superior to any similar series._

Striking for the Right, $1.75 Silent Tom, 1.75 Evening Rest, 1.50 The Old Stone House, 1.50 Into the Light, 1.50 Walter McDonald, 1.50 Story of the Blount Family, 1.50 Margaret Worthington, 1.50 The Wadsworth Boys, 1.50 Grace Avery's Influence, 1.50 Glimpses Through, 1.50 Ralph's Possession, 1.50 Luck of Alden Farm, 1.50 Chronicles of Sunset Mountain, 1.50 The Marble Preacher, 1.50 Golden Lines, 1.50

_Sold by Booksellers generally, and sent by Mail, postpaid, on receipt of price._

BOSTON: D. LOTHROP & CO., PUBLISHERS.

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