YOUNG HEROES OF OUR NAVY.
Uniform Edition. Each, 12mo, cloth, $1.00.
Reuben James.
A Hero of the Forecastle. By Cyrus Townsend Brady, author of “Paul Jones.” Illustrated by George Gibbs and others.
“Nothing could be more absorbing than Mr. Brady’s graphic tale, which forms an eloquent tribute to the heroes of the forecastle, the predecessors of the men who did such gallant work at Manila and Santiago.”—Cleveland World.
The Hero of Manila.
Dewey on the Mississippi and the Pacific. By Rossiter Johnson. Illustrated by B. West Clinedinst and others.
“There is nothing sensational or bombastic in the story from beginning to end. It is, however, picturesque and vivid, as well as dignified, modest, and decidedly interesting.”—Boston Budget.
The Hero Of Erie (Commodore Perry).
By James Barnes, author of “Midshipman Farragut,” “Commodore Bainbridge,” etc. With 10 full-page Illustrations.
Commodore Bainbridge.
From the Gunroom to the Quarter-deck. By James Barnes. Illustrated by George Gibbs and others.
Midshipman Farragut.
By James Barnes. Illustrated by Carlton F. Chapman.
Decatur and Somers.
By Molly Elliot Seawell. With 6 full-page Illustrations by J. O. Davidson and others.
Paul Jones.
By Molly Elliot Seawell. With 8 full-page Illustrations.
Midshipman Paulding.
A True Story of the War of 1812. By Molly Elliot Seawell. With 6 full-page Illustrations.
Little Jarvis.
The Story of the Heroic Midshipman of the Frigate Constellation. By Molly Elliot Seawell. With 6 full-page Illustrations.
APPLETONS’ SUPPLEMENTARY READERS.
Uncle Robert’s Geography.
By the late Francis W. Parker and Nellie L. Helm. A Series of Geographical Readers for Supplementary Use. Three volumes. Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth.
| 1. Playtime and Seedtime | 32 cents |
| 2. On the Farm | 42 ” |
| 3. Uncle Robert’s Visit | 50 ” |
Uncle Robert teaches children how to read aright the great book of Nature. He makes study a pleasure. He teaches geography in the right way. He makes rural life and occupations attractive. He has a deep and loving sympathy with child-life. He believes in the education that strengthens the body as well as the mind. He tells children instructive stories to arouse their imaginations and stimulate their observing powers. He believes that every normal child may be made useful in the world. He has a boundless faith in human progress, and finds his greatest hopes in childhood and its possibilities.
These extraordinarily suggestive little books by the late Colonel Parker—one of the most far-sighted students of child-life of our day—have approved themselves to thousands of primary teachers. They form one of the few successful attempts to incorporate that which is close by nature to child perception into the very warp and woof of the child mind. They give an intelligible meaning and vitality to the round of experiences that come to all normal children in our land.
FOR NATURE-LOVERS AND ANGLERS.
Familiar Fish: Their Habits and Capture.
A Practical Book on Fresh-Water Game Fish. By Eugene McCarthy. With an Introduction by Dr. David Starr Jordan, President of Leland Stanford Junior University, and numerous Illustrations. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
This informing and practical book describes in a most interesting fashion the habits and environment of our familiar freshwater game fish, including anadromous fish like the salmon and sea trout. The life of a fish is traced in a manner very interesting to nature-lovers, while the simple and useful explanations of the methods of angling for different fish will be appreciated by fishermen old and young. As one of the most experienced of American fishermen, Mr. McCarthy is able to speak with authority regarding salmon, trout, ouananiche, bass, pike, and pickerel, and other fish which are the object of the angler’s pursuit. The book is profusely illustrated with pictures and serviceable diagrams.
“The book compresses into a moderate space a larger amount of interesting knowledge about fish and fishing than any other volume that has appeared this season.”—Chicago Tribune.
“It gives, in simple language and illustrations, much that it will be profitable for our boys to know before they begin to lay out their money, and much information that will be useful to them when they begin to go farther afield than their own immediate local waters.”—Outing.
“One of the handsomest, most practical, most informing books that we know. The author treats his subject with scientific thoroughness, but with a light touch that makes the book easy reading.... The book should be the companion of all who go a-fishing.”—New York Mail and Express.
BY HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH.
Uniform Edition. Each, 12mo, cloth.
In the Days Of Audubon. A Tale of the “Protector of Birds.” Illustrated by B. West Clinedinst and Others. $1.20 net; postage, 14 cents additional.
In the Days Of Jefferson; or, The Six Golden Horseshoes. A Tale of Republican Simplicity. Illustrated by F. T. Merrill. $1.50.
The Story Of Magellan. A Tale of the Discovery of the Philippines. Illustrated by F. T. Merrill and Others. $1.50.
The Treasure Ship. A Story of Sir William Phipps and the Inter-Charter Period in Massachusetts. Illustrated by B. West Clinedinst and Others. $1.50.
The Pilot of the Mayflower. Illustrated by H. Winthrop Peirce and Others. $1.50.
True to his Home. A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin. Illustrated by H. Winthrop Peirce. $1.50.
The Wampum Belt; or, The Fairest Page of History. A Tale of William Penn’s Treaty with the Indians. With 6 full-page Illustrations. $1.50.
The Knight Of Liberty. A Tale of the Fortunes of Lafayette. With 6 full-page Illustrations. $1.50.
The Patriot Schoolmaster. A Tale of the Minutemen and the Sons of Liberty. With 6 full-page Illustrations by H. Winthrop Peirce. $1.50.
In the Boyhood of Lincoln. A Story of the Black Hawk War and the Tunker Schoolmaster. With 12 Illustrations and colored Frontispiece. $1.50.
The Boys of Greenway Court. A story of the Early Years of Washington. With 10 full-page Illustrations. $1.50.
The Log School-House on the Columbia. With 13 full-page Illustrations by J. Carter Beard, E. J. Austen, and Others. $1.50.
FOR YOUNG READERS.
Paleface and Redskin,
And Other Stories for Boys and Girls. By F. Anstey, author of “Vice Versa,” etc.
Christine’s Career.
By Pauline King.
John Boyd’s Adventures.
By Thomas W. Knox.
We All.
By Octave Thanet.
King Tom and the Runaways.
By Louis Pendleton.
Englishman’s Haven.
By W. J. Gordon.
Along the Florida Reef.
By Charles F. Holder.
Each, illustrated, 12mo, cloth, $1.50.
OUTDOOR BOOKS.
By RALPH HENRY BARBOUR.
Each, 12mo, cloth.
Captain of the Crew.
Illustrated by C. M. Relyea. $1.20 net; postage, 14 cents additional.
Mr. Barbour has made himself a master of sport in fiction for young readers. His new book is one of those fresh, graphic, delightful stories of school life that appeal to all healthy boys and girls. He sketches skating and ice-boating and track athletics, as well as rowing. His glimpses of training and his brilliant picture of the great race will give this capital tale an enduring popularity.
For the Honor of the School.
A Story of School Life and Interscholastic Sport. Illustrated by C. M. Relyea. $1.50.
“High spirits, good fellowship, and manliness breathe from its pages.”—The Outlook.
“A superior book for boys.... Enjoyable from cover to cover.”—Boston Congregationalist.
“A lively, spirited story, sure to interest boys, and at the same time it is thoroughly wholesome and full of information.”—Boston Herald.
“It is a wholesome book, one tingling with health and activity, endeavor and laudable ambition to excel in more fields than one.”—New York Mail and Express.
The Half-Back.
Illustrated by B. West Clinedinst. $1.50.
“It is a stirring, healthy boys’ book.”—Philadelphia Call.
“A good, manly book for boys, on a good, manly Anglo-Saxon game.”—New York Mail and Express.
“It is in every sense an out-and-out boys’ book, simple and manly in tone, hearty and healthy in its sports, and full of that enthusiasm, life, and fondness for games which characterize the wide-awake, active schoolboy.”—Boston Herald.
A UNIQUE BOOK.
“For children, parents, teachers, and all who are interested
in the psychology of childhood.”
The Book of Knight and Barbara.
By David Starr Jordan. Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
The curious and fascinating tales and pictures of this unique book are introduced by Dr. Jordan with the foil owing preface: “The only apology the author can make in this case is that he never meant to do it. He had told his own children many stories of many kinds, some original, some imitative, some travesties of the work of real story-tellers. Two students of the department of education in the Stanford University—Mrs. Louise Maitland, of San Jose, and Miss Harriet Hawley, of Boston—asked him to repeat these stories before other children. Miss Hawley, as a stenographer, took them down for future reference, and while the author was absent on the Bering Sea Commission of 1896 she wrote them out in full, thus forming the material of this book. Copies of the stories were placed by Mrs. Maitland in the hands of hundreds of children. These drew illustrative pictures, after their fashion; and from the multitude offered, Mrs. Maitland chose those which are here reproduced. The scenes in the stories were also subjected to the criticisms of the children, and in many cases amended to meet their suggestions. These pictures made by the children have been found to interest deeply other children, a fact which gives them a definite value as original documents in the study of the workings of the child-mind. At the end of the volume are added a few true stories of birds and of beasts, told to a different audience. With these are a few drawings by university students, which are intended to assist the imagination of child-readers.”
BY CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY.
The Quiberon Touch.
A Romance of the Sea. With frontispiece. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
“A story to make your pulse leap and your eyes glisten. It fairly glows with color and throbs with movement.”—Philadelphia Item.
“This story has a real beauty; it breathes of the sea. Fenimore Cooper would not be ashamed to own a disciple in the school of which he was master in these descriptions of the tug of war as it was in the eighteenth century between battle-ships under sail.”—New York Mail and Express.
Commodore Paul Jones.
A new volume in the Great Commander Series, edited by General James Grant Wilson. With Photogravure Portrait and Maps. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50 net; postage, 11 cents additional.
“A thousand times more interesting than any of the so-called historical romances that are now in vogue.”—Spirit of the Times.
“Mr. Brady’s vigorous style, vivid imagination, and dramatic force are most happily exhibited in this book.”—Philadelphia Press.
“Incomparably fine. Being the work of a scholarly writer, it must stand as the best popular life yet available. The book is one to buy and own. It is more interesting than any novel, and better written than most histories.”—Nautical Gazette.
Reuben James.
A Hero of the Forecastle. A new volume in the Young Heroes of Our Navy Series. Illustrated by George Gibbs and Others. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.
“A lively and spirited narrative.”—Boston Herald.
“Mr. Brady has made a stirring tale out of the material before him, one of those brilliant and forceful descriptions of the glories of the old wooden-walled navy, which stir the blood like a trumpet call.”—Brooklyn Eagle.
RECENT FICTION.
Kate Bonnet.
The Romance of a Pirate’s Daughter. By Frank R. Stockton, author of “Rudder Grange,” “The Lady or Tiger,” etc. Illustrated, 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
“A cleverly conceived and neatly developed story into which Stockton has injected a goodly portion of his peculiarly fantastic genius.... It has not a dull page.”—Boston Advertiser.
Love in Its Tenderness.
By J. R. Aitken. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00; paper, 50 cents.
“It reminds us of Ian Maclaren, yet Mr. Aitken has traits peculiarly his own.”—London Echo.
“An unstudied pathos and charm and radiant simplicity pervade the book.”—London Daily News.
Scarlet and Hyssop.
By E. F. Benson, author of “Dodo,” “Mammon & Co.,” “The Luck of the Vails,” etc. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
Mr. Benson has returned to the field which he developed with such signal success in “Dodo,” and his new novel reveals a brilliancy, social knowledge and worldly wisdom that show how much the author has grown in force and pungency since the appearance of his first book.
The Strength of the Weak.
By Chauncey C. Hotchkiss, author of “Betsy Ross,” “In Defiance of the King,” etc. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
“Mr. Hotchkiss firmly sustains the excitement of his story at a pitch that holds the attention of the reader strongly in eager anticipation without wearying him from excessive vigor.”—Baltimore Herald.
A Fool’s Year.
By E. H. Cooper. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00; paper, 50 cents.
“A well-written book with obvious marks of unusual culture.”—New York Commercial Advertiser.
A PICTURESQUE BOOK OF THE SEA.
A Sailor’s Log.
Recollections of Forty Tears of Naval Life. By Rear-Admiral Robley D. Evans, U. S. N. Illustrated. Large 12mo. Cloth, $2.00.
“It is essentially a book for men, young and old; and the man who does not enjoy it is lacking in healthy red blood.”—Chicago Bookseller.
“A profoundly interesting book. There is not a line of bravado in its chapters, nor a carping criticism. It is a book which will increase the esteem and high honor which the American feels and willingly awards our naval heroes.”—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
“It would be difficult to find an autobiography possessing more interest than this narrative of forty years of active naval service. It equals the most fascinating novel for interest; it contains a great deal of material that has a distinct historical value.... Altogether it is a most delightful book.”—Brooklyn Eagle.
“His is a picturesque personality, and he stands the supreme test by being as popular with his officers and men as he is with the public generally. His life has been one of action and adventure since he was a boy, and the record of it which he has prepared in his book ‘A Sailor’s Log’ has not a dull line in it from cover to cover. It is all action, action, and again action from the first page to the last, and makes one want to go and ‘do things’ himself. Any boy between fifteen and nineteen who reads this book and does not want to go to sea must be a sluggish youth.... The book is really an interesting record of an interesting man.”—New York Press.
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK.