Part 8

Dr. Rankin needs no introduction to the American public. As a clergyman and an author he long ago won high reputation. In this little volume will be found his more recent poems. They include some of his finest work and will certainly add to his reputation as a genuine poet. In the collection are Hymns for Forefather’s Day. National Hymns, Humanitarian Hymns, Foreign Missionary Hymns, Christian Endeavor Hymns, and several Hymns relating to Christian Experience. The book will interest many.

Jerry: A Story for Young Folks.

Pratt. Jerry. By Ellen P. Pratt. 12mo, cloth, 75c. (25c).

This is a spirited story which will especially please the young people, though it will furnish no small degree of entertainment to their elders. It opens sadly with a record of intemperance and misery, but the scene soon changes and the love story opens in earnest. Various adventures, some of them quite remarkable, are narrated. The characters are numerous, events move rapidly, and the interest deepens until the closing page is reached.

The Medical Student _As Pictured in Punch._

Smith. The London Medical Student. By Albert Smith. 12mo, cloth, 50c. (20c).

In this book the career of a student in a London Medical College is traced in a broadly humorous manner. The appearance of the “new man” when he comes up from the country to continue his medical studies is aptly described, and the zeal with which he enters upon his new duties is delineated in a laughable manner. His subsequent course, his dodging of recitations, the letters home for money with which, ostensibly, to purchase books, his examination, and the various “Curiosities of Medical Experience,” follow in a similar strain. The work is reprinted from _Punch_, in which it appeared as a serial.

Dorance: A Novel.

Nelson. Dorance; A Novel. By R. E. Nelson. 12mo, cloth, 75c. (25c).

This first novel by an author as yet unknown to the public will find sympathetic readers among those who still read Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

“Of Virginia blood, but of Northern birth, my earliest sympathies were aroused in behalf of the people of both races of the ‘Sunny Southland,’ and my imagination was made alive by the glowing pictures of Southern life, gleaned from my friends and from books on the subject. If I have succeeded in interesting my young friends in this phase of life, which has now passed into history, the problem of which is still unsolved in a measure, I will have fully accomplished my purpose in writing this book.”—_Author’s Preface._

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Alden’s Manifold Cyclopedia.

Alden’s Cyclopedia of Universal Literature.

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The Great Locomotive Chase (the most thrilling and unique story of the war).

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Alden’s Home Atlas, and Handy Atlas,

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Transcriber’s Notes

--Silently corrected palpable typos; left non-standard spellings and dialect unchanged.

--Provided an original cover image, for free and unrestricted use with this Distributed Proofreaders-Canada eBook.

--Only in the text versions, delimited italicized text in _underscores_ (the HTML version reproduces the font form of the printed book.)