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the popular Heidi series.
Stories for children and those who love children.
Translated from the German of Johanna Spyri by Louise Brooks.
Heidi: Her Years of Wandering and Learning.
How She Used What She Learned.
2 vols. in one. 12mo.
Cloth. pp. 668. 8th edition, with 7 illustrations, and portrait of the Authoress.
$1.50.
The Atlantic Monthly pronounces “Heidi” “a delightful book, charmingly told.
The book is, as it should be, printed in clear type, well leaded, and is bound in excellent taste.
Altogether it is one which we suspect will be looked back upon a generation hence by people who now read it in their childhood, and they will hunt for the old copy to read in it to their children.”
Rico and Wiseli.
“Rico and Stinelli,” and “how Rico found A home.” 12mo.
pp. 509. Cloth $1.50.
A leading Sunday-school paper further says: “No better books for a Sunday-school library have been published for a long time.
Scholars of all ages will read them with delight.
Teachers and parents will share the children's enjoyment.”
Veronica and other friends, 12mo.
517 pages. Cloth, $1.50.
Gritili's children, 12mo.
397 pages. Cloth, $1.50.
The steadily increasing sales of these books attest to their extreme popularity and value, and it has been truly said that their publication marks an era in the history of juvenile literature.
Their sweetness, purity, and freedom from any sectarian bias, have secured for them a place in the Sunday-school libraries of all denominations, and make them as welcome to those having charge of the young as they are to the children themselves.
around the Golden deep.
A Romance of the Sierras.
By A. P. Reeder. 500 pages. 12mo.
Cloth. $1.50.
A novel of incident and adventure, depicting with a strong hand the virile life of the mine that gives its name to the story, and contrasting it with the more refined touches of society in the larger cities; well written and interesting.
old New England days.
A story of true life.
By Sophie M. Damon. Second edition. 16mo.
$1.25.
“ Reading Old New England days is like talking with an old lady who has long since passed the allotted” three score and ten, “and now delights in nothing so much as in recalling the far distant days of her youth.” --Concord Evening Gazette.
priest and man: Or Abelard and Heloisa.
By William Wilberforce Newton.
An Historical Romance.
In a neat and at. tractive binding, with new dies.
Third edition.
Illustrated. 12mo.
$1.25.
Boston. De Wolfe, Fiske &c Co. 361 and 365 Washington Street. 1888.
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