Chapter 40

SPECIAL CIRCULAR TO EDUCATORS

"Masterpieces of the World's Literature"

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Is extensively used by schools and colleges for supplementary reading. It is issued in attractive 16mo shape, paper covers, printed from clear, readable type, on good paper. Many of the volumes are illustrated.

1. Abbé Constantin. Ludovic Halévy.

2. Æsop's Fables.

3. Black Beauty. Anna Sewell.

4. Bracebridge Hall. Irving.

5. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Byron.

6. Coming Race. Bulwer.

7. Cranford. Mrs. Gaskell.

8. Crown of Wild Olive. Ruskin.

9. Discourses of Epictetus.

10. Dreams. Olive Schreiner.

11. Dream Life. Ik Marvel.

12. Drummond's Addresses.

13. Emerson's Earlier Essays.

14. Ethics of the Dust. Ruskin.

15. Frankenstein. Mrs. Shelley.

16. Uncle Tom's Cabin. Mrs. Stowe.

17. Lady of the Lake. Scott.

18. Lalla Rookh. Thomas Moore.

19. Lamb's Essays of Elia.

20. Lamb's Last Essays of Elia.

21. Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, I.

22. Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, II.

23. Lays of Ancient Rome. Macaulay.

24. Lays of Scottish Cavaliers.

25. Light of Asia. Sir E. Arnold.

26. Longfellow's Poems.

27. Lowell's Poems.

28. Mornings in Florence. Ruskin.

29. One of the Profession. M. White, Jr.

30. Paul and Virginia. B. St. Pierre.

31. Pleasures of Life. Sir J. Lubbock.

32. Poe's Poems.

33. Princess. Tennyson.

34. Queen of the Air. Ruskin.

35. Rab and His Friends. Dr. J. Brown.

36. Rasselas. Johnson.

37. Reveries of a Bachelor. Ik Marvel.

38. Representative Men. Emerson.

39. Sartor Resartus. Carlyle.

40. Scarlet Letter. Hawthorne.

41. Sesame and Lilies. Ruskin.

42. Ships that Pass in the Night. Beatrice Harraden.

43. St. Mark's Rest. Ruskin.

44. Thoughts from Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.

45. Tillyloss Scandal. J. M. Barrie.

46. Twice-Told Tales, I. Hawthorne.

47. Twice-Told Tales, II. Hawthorne.

48. In Memoriam. Tennyson.

49. Vicar of Wakefield. Goldsmith.

50. Whittier's Poems.

51. Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. Holmes.

52. Heroes and Hero Worship. Carlyle.

53. Mosses from an Old Manse, I. Hawthorne.

54. Mosses from an Old Manse, II Hawthorne.

55. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.

56. Song of Hiawatha. Longfellow.

57. Evangeline, and Poems. Longfellow.

58. Sketch Book. Irving.

59. Stickit Minister. S. R. Crockett.

60. House of the Seven Gables. Hawthorne.

61. Poetical Works of Robert Browning.

62. Paradise Lost. Milton.

63. Hamlet. Shakespeare.

64. Julius Caesar. Shakespeare.

65. Book of Golden Deeds. Yonge.

66. Child's History of England. Dickens.

67. Confessions of an Opium Eater. De Quincey.

68. Ten Nights in a Barroom. Arthur.

69. Treasure Island. Stevenson.

70. Tanglewood Tales. Hawthorne.

71. In His Steps. Chas. M. Sheldon.

72. Natural Law in the Spiritual World. Henry Drummond.

73. Imitation of Christ. T. à Kempis.

74. Paradise Regained. John Milton.

75. Water Babies. Kingsley.

76. Flower Fables. L. M. Alcott.

77. Blithedale Romance. Hawthorne.

78. Prue and I. G. W. Curtis.

79. Grandfather's Chair. Hawthorne.

80. Bacon's Essays.

81. Idylls of the King. Tennyson.

82. Wonder Book. Hawthorne.

83. Cricket on the Hearth. C. Dickens.

84. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow. Jerome K. Jerome.

85. Inez. Augusta J. Evans.

86. Kidnapped. R. L. Stevenson.

87. Lucile. Owen Meredith.

88. Phillips Brooks' Addresses.

89. Prince of the House of David. Professor Ingraham.

90. Three Men in a Boat. J. K. Jerome.

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A Final Reckoning A Tale of Bush Life in Australia

Among the Malay Pirates

By England's Aid The Freeing of the Netherlands

By Right of Conquest A Tale of Cortez in Mexico

Bravest of the Brave A Tale of Peterborough in Spain

By Pike and Dyke The Rise of the Dutch Republic

By Sheer Pluck A Tale of the Ashantee War

Bonnie Prince Charlie A Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden

Captain Bayley's Heir A Tale of the Gold Fields of California

Cat of Bubastes A Story of Ancient Egypt

Colonel Thorndyke's Secret

Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars

Facing Death A Tale of the Coal Mines

Friends, though Divided A Tale of the Civil War in England

For Name and Fame A Tale of Afghan Warfare

For the Temple A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem

In Freedom's Cause A Story of Wallace and Bruce

In the Reign of Terror The Adventures of a Westminster Boy

In Times of Peril A Tale of India

Jack Archer A Tale of the Crimea

Lion of St. Mark A Tale of Venice in the XIV. Century

Lion of the North A Tale of Gustavus Adolphus

Maori and Settler A Tale of the New Zealand War

Orange and Green A Tale of the Boyne and Limerick

One of the 28th A Tale of Waterloo

Out on the Pampas A Tale of South America

Rujub the Juggler

St. George for England A Tale of Crécy and Poictiers

Sturdy and Strong

True to the Old Flag A Tale of the Revolution

The Golden Cañon

The Lost Heir

The Young Colonists A Tale of the Zulu and Boer Wars

The Young Midshipman

The Dragon and the Raven A Tale of King Alfred

The Boy Knight A Tale of the Crusades

Through the Fray A Story of the Luddite Riots

Under Drake's Flag A Tale of the Spanish Main

With Wolfe in Canada The Tale of Winning a Continent

With Clive in India The Beginning of an Empire

With Lee in Virginia A Story of the American Civil War

Young Carthaginian A Story of the Times of Hannibal

Young Buglers A Tale of the Peninsular War

Young Franc-Tireurs A Tale of the Franco-Prussian War

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By CAPTAIN RALPH BONEHILL

BOYS OF THE FORT; or, A Young Captain's Pluck

Captain Bonehill is at his best when relating a tale of military adventure, and this story of stirring doings at one of our well-known forts in the Wild West is of more than ordinary interest. The young captain had a difficult task to accomplish, but he had been drilled to do his duty, and he did it thoroughly. Gives a good insight into army life of to-day.

THE YOUNG BANDMASTER; or, Concert Stage and Battlefield

In this tale Captain Bonehill touches upon a new field. The hero is a youth with a passion for music, who, compelled to make his own way in the world, becomes a cornetist in an orchestra, and works his way up, first, to the position of a soloist, and then to that of leader of a brass band. He is carried off to sea and falls in with a secret-service cutter bound for Cuba, and while in that island joins a military band which accompanies our soldiers in the never-to-be-forgotten attack on Santiago. A mystery connected with the hero's inheritance adds to the interest of the tale.

OFF FOR HAWAII; or, The Mystery of a Great Volcano

Here we have fact and romance cleverly interwoven. Several boys start on a tour of the Hawaiian Islands. They have heard that there is a treasure located in the vicinity of Kilauea, the largest active volcano in the world, and go in search of it. Their numerous adventures will be followed with much interest.

A SAILOR BOY WITH DEWEY; or, Afloat in the Philippines

The story of Dewey's victory in Manila Bay will never grow old, but here we have it told in a new form--not as those in command witnessed the contest, but as it appeared to a real, live American youth who was in the navy at the time. Many adventures in Manila and in the interior follow, giving true-to-life scenes from this remote portion of the globe. A book that should be in every boy's library.

WHEN SANTIAGO FELL; or, The War Adventures of Two Chums

Captain Bonehill has never penned a better tale than this stirring story of adventures in Cuba. Two boys, an American and his Cuban chum, leave New York to join their parents in the interior of Cuba. The war between Spain and the Cubans is on, and the boys are detained at Santiago de Cuba, but escape by crossing the bay at night. Many adventures between the lines follow, and a good pen-picture of General Garcia is given. The American lad, with others, is captured and cast into a dungeon in Santiago; and then follows the never-to-be-forgotten campaign in Cuba under General Shafter. How the hero finally escapes makes reading no wide-awake boy will want to miss.

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Here will be found no maudlin nonsense as to the affections. There are no counts in disguise nor castles in Spain. It is pure and wholesome literature of a high order with a lofty ideal.

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THE FOLLOWING ARE THE TITLES

The Children of Wilton Chase Bashful Fifteen Betty: A Schoolgirl Four on an Island Girls New and Old Out of the Fashion The Palace Beautiful Polly, a New-Fashioned Girl Red Rose and Tiger Lily Temptation of Olive Latimer A Ring of Rubies A Sweet Girl Graduate A World of Girls Good Luck A Girl in Ten Thousand A Young Mutineer Wild Kitty The Children's Pilgrimage The Girls of St. Wode's Light o' the Morning Bad Little Hannah Rebellion of Lill Carrington A Little Mother to the Others Merry Girls of England