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Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read

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By Charles Dickens
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About This Book

This collection features stories centered around children, drawn from various works by a renowned Victorian author. Each tale highlights the innocence and experiences of youth, showcasing themes of love, resilience, and the struggles of the less fortunate. Notable characters include a cheerful ticket porter and his daughter, a sickly boy who brings joy to his family, and a brave girl living with her grandfather in a quaint, old house. The stories are designed to be accessible for young readers, offering a glimpse into the author's vivid portrayal of child life and the moral lessons intertwined within these narratives.

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This series will appeal to up-to-date American Girls. The subsequent volumes will carry the Ranch Girls through numerous ups and downs of fortune and adventures in America and Europe
THE "RANCH GIRLS" SERIES IS A
NEW LINE OF BOOKS FOR GIRLS

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Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge

By MARGARET VANDERCOOK

This first volume of the new RANCH GIRLS SERIES, will stir up the envy of all girl readers to a life of healthy exercise and honest helpfulness. The Ranch Girls undertake the management of a large ranch in a western state, and after many difficulties make it pay and give them a good living. They are jolly, healthy, attractive girls, who have the best kind of a time, and the young readers will enjoy the book as much as any of them. The first volume of the Ranch Girls Series will be followed by other titles carrying the Ranch Girls through numerous ups and downs of fortune and adventures in America and Europe.

Attractive cover design. Excellent paper. Illustrated. 12mo.
Cloth.           Price, Per volume, 60 cents.           Postpaid
THE JOHN C. WINSTON CO., Publishers
WINSTON BUILDING            PHILADELPHIA

NEW EDITION OF ALGER'S GREATEST SET OF BOOKS

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Famous Ragged Dick Series

NEW TYPE-SET PLATES MADE IN 1910

In response to a demand for a popular-priced edition of this series of books—the most famous set ever written by Horatio Alger, Jr.—this edition has been prepared.

Each volume is set in large, new type, printed on an excellent quality of paper, and bound in uniform style, having an entirely new and appropriate cover design, with heavy gold stamp.

As is well known, the books in this series are copyrighted, and consequently none of them will be found in any other publisher's list.

RAGGED DICK SERIES.       By Horatio Alger, Jr.       6 vols.
RAGGED DICK
FAME AND FORTUNE
MARK, THE MATCH BOY
ROUGH AND READY
BEN, THE LUGGAGE BOY
RUFUS AND ROSE
Each set is packed in a handsome box
12mo. Cloth
Sold only in sets.           Price per set, $3.60.           Postpaid
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RECOMMENDED BY REAR ADMIRAL MELVILLE, WHO
COMMANDED THREE EXPEDITIONS TO THE ARCTIC REGIONS

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New Popular Science Series

BY PROF. EDWIN J. HOUSTON

THE NORTH POLE SERIES. By Prof. Edwin J. Houston. This is an entirely new series, which opens a new field in Juvenile Literature. Dr. Houston has spent a lifetime in teaching boys the principles of physical and scientific phenomena and knows how to talk and write for them in a way that is most attractive. In the reading of these stories the most accurate scientific information will be absorbed.

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THE DISCOVERY OF THE NORTH POLE
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Handsomely bound. The volumes, 12mo. in size, are bound in Extra English Cloth, and are attractively stamped in colors and full gold titles. Sold separately or in sets, boxed.

Price           $1.00 per volume.           Postpaid
THE JOHN C. WINSTON CO., Publishers
WINSTON BUILDING            PHILADELPHIA

Transcriber's Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors were corrected.

The advertising pages in the back start at page 16 and go to 18. Then the numbering is 6, 9, 10 and 14.

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