_Wide Awake_ is one of those rare collections varied and bright enough to engage the common reader and good enough to lead the capable reader to higher pleasures and benefits.
Volume W contains: a yachting story, by Charles R. Talbot; Peggy and her Family, by Margaret Sidney; Pamela’s Fortune, by Lucy C. Lillie; Pocahontas and Rolfe, by Mrs. Blathwayt; Turkish Childhood, by Hon. S. S. Cox; Some Nantucket Children, by Mrs. Macy; stories of early American warfare; no end of short stories and sketches, poems, engravings, etc.
Volume X is equally full and fine. The two volumes make the year. The covers are bright and beautiful.
A big book of short stories and long; good many of both; and bright ones all of them, long or short. The secret is: they are out of _Wide Awake_. Pictures besides.
By F. S. W. Illustrated by nine full-page colored illustrations and numerous engravings. 8vo, cloth, 2.50.
The writer, his children having an interest in heraldry, set himself at the task of telling them what he knew of it. Hence the book; which treats the whole subject formally, yet with a pleasant vacation air.
By E. E. HALE and SUSAN HALE, 5 vols., 8vo, boards, each, 1.75; cloth, 2.25.
Book journeys through the several countries with eyes and ears wide open, old eyes and young eyes and ears. The books are full of pictures, and fuller of knowledge not only of what is going on but what has gone on ever since book-making began, and fuller yet of brightness and interest. You see the old as old; but you see it; you see where it was and the marks it left. You see the new with eyes made sharper by knowledge of what has gone in the world.
In other words these books amount to something like going through these places with a traveling companion who knows all about them and their histories.
They are written and pictured for boys and girls; but there is nothing to hinder the old folks going along. Will you go?
FAMILY FLIGHT AROUND HOME. FAMILY FLIGHT OVER EGYPT AND SYRIA. FAMILY FLIGHT THROUGH FRANCE, GERMANY, NORWAY AND SWITZERLAND. FAMILY FLIGHT THROUGH MEXICO. FAMILY FLIGHT THROUGH SPAIN.
One of the most effective means of exciting and satisfying zeal for knowledge of the world we have in books.
Containing in one large book the following stories, with many illustrations: