The cover is almost made of pansies, purple and gold, with a pair of happy children on a grassy bank, and a flock of butterflies.
By LUCY RIDER MEYER, A.M. Illustrated, 12mo, cloth, $1.50.
A play-excursion into chemistry, none the less serious because it is play, and none the less play because it is serious.
We quote from the author’s word to parents: “This book is true to chemical fact and principle. It is an effort to make them love the beautiful science of chemistry and to lift their thoughts to the One who holds in His hand the atoms as securely as He holds the worlds.”
Nevertheless it is a book of diversion, a story-book, a fairy story-book. A queer combination, but we believe successful. We much mistake if it is not splendidly successful.
By LYDIA HOYT FARMER. Illustrated, 12mo, cloth, $1.50.
This also is fact and fiction in science; stories made upon what goes on in the world, the scientific and practical world. Glass-making is in it; and silk; a great many insects; snow; wind; the seven modern wonders; birds; animals; tea, coffee, pepper, potatoes; what not? There are subjects enough, and learning enough; and there is fun in finding out how the world is put together.
The Club is a family given to study of animals. Under the guise of play the family learns about spiders and butterflies, chickens and rabbits, fishes and frogs, the folks in the brook, the folks on the ground and the folks in the air, which includes grasshoppers and beetles.
There is a great deal to know about our neighbors, worth knowing, too; and the surest way to begin learning is to like it. That is why such books as this are made, to make young people like the beginnings of learning.
By FRANCES C. SPARHAWK. 4to, boards, 1.00.
Delightful stories out of little Polly’s life. Polly is what elderly people call an “old” little girl. She is continually thinking of things that little people are apt to skip; and she keeps her thoughts to herself so wisely and lets them out so in the nick of time, she delights her good papa and mamma in the book and the little girl who reads it. It is a rare book for pleasure and wholesome suggestion.
Short stories about children, animals and birds, with a great many pictures. Not a page but is full of entertainment, instruction and means of growth for pretty good readers of six or eight or ten—Do little folks go by ages nowadays?