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THE

BABY'S

MAGAZINE.

Price 3D

THE ROSEBUD.

A MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF NURSERY NURTURE AND AMUSEMENT, WITH

CHOICE ILLUSTRATIONS,

PRINTED ON STRONG THICK PAPER, IN LARGE TYPE.

PRICE THREEPENCE.

Annual Subscription, 35.; with postage, 4s.; of all Booksellers, or direct from the Publishers.

What the Papers say about 'The Rosebud ':

The QUEEN:-' Both as regards pictures and readings, is beyond all our praise.'

The NORTH British Daily MAIL:-'Continues to be as deserving as ever of the warmest praise we have bestowed upon it in the past.'

The LEEDS MERCURY:-'That delight of the nursery.' The LOUTH TIMES:-The illustrations are exquisite, and the letterpress clear and simple enough for the youngest intelligence in the nursery and playroom."

The CHRISTIAN LEADER:-'As fascinating as the most winsome of the little folk for whom it is prepared.'

The SCOTSMAN:-The pretty illustrations in "The Rosebud "are especially to be commended.'

ELGIN COURANT:-""The Rosebud" keeps up its character as one of the best magazines for young children.' The NORTHAMPTON MERCURY:- Charming pictures and delightful letterpress.'

The COVENTRY STANDARD:-'The best of all zines for the very little folk,'

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NEWCASTLE WEEKLY CHRONICLE:-'An excellent book for children.'

NOW READY.

GREENOCK TELEGRAPH :-There is no more welcome visitant in the nursery. Its letterpress and its pictures are ag.ow with kindness and naturalness."

The WAKEFIELD PRESS:-'By far the best magazine for juveniles published at the present time'

The SUNDAY SCHOOL CHRONICLE:-Quaint, bright, humorous; just what the little folk like.'

The WESTERN DAILY MERCURY: -Very pretty and well-executed engravings.

PETERBOROUGH STANDARD:-'Cannot fail to provide en lless amusement for the youngsters.'

The SCOTTISH LEADER:-An ideal magazine for the nursery humorously illustrated, and showing some of the rare genius of writing for children.'

The ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS:-'A charming magazine.'

Mr. SPURGEON: The very little ones can have nothing better.'

The GRANTHAM TIMES:-'A most charming magazine for very young children.'

THE BABY'S ANNUAL.

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London: JAMES CLARKE & CO., 13 and 14 Fleet Street, E.C.

NOVELS BY AMELIA E. BARR.

'In descriptive writing, in simplicity and gracefulness of style, and in perfect mastery over her characters,
Mrs. Barr can hold her own with any living English novelist.'—GLASGOW HERALD.

In a variety of handsome cloth bindings, or bound uniformly. Crown 8vo. cloth, 38. 6d. each.

1. A BORDER SHEPHERDESS.

2. PAUL AND CHRISTINA.

3. THE SQUIRE OF SANDAL-SIDE.

4. THE BOW OF ORANGE RIBBON. 5. BETWEEN TWO LOVES.

6. A DAUGHTER OF FIFE.
7. JAN VEDDER'S WIFE.
8. IN SPITE OF HIMSELF.
9. THE HOUSE OF MCNEIL.

Crown 8vo. paper, 18.

THE HARVEST OF THE WIND.

*A New and Cheap Edition of Jan Vedder's Wife' is now issued in paper cover at 18. 6d.

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A New and Cheap Edition of the following Novels by Mrs. Emma Jane Worboise will be published at intervals of a FORTNIGHT. The first to appear-THORNYCROFT HALL-is now ready (December 1), and the others will follow in the order given.

THORNYCROFT HALL.

MILLICENT KENDRICK.

ST. BEETHA'S.

VIOLET VAUGHAN.

MARGARET TORRINGTON.

FORTUNES OF CYRIL DENHAM.
SINGLEHURST MANOR.
OVERDALE.

GREY AND GOLD.

MR. MONTMORENCY'S MONEY.
NOBLY BORN.

CHRYSTABEL.

CANONBURY HOLT.

HUSBANDS AND WIVES.

THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE.
EMILIA'S INHERITANCE.

FATHER FABIAN.

OLIVER WESTWOOD.
LADY CLARISSA.

THE GREY HOUSE at ENDLESTONE.
ROBERT WREFORD'S DAUGHTER.
THE BRUDENELLS OF BRUDE.
THE HEIRS OF ERRINGTON.
JOAN CARISBROKE.

A WOMAN'S PATIENCE.
THE STORY OF PENELOPE.
SISSIE.

THE ABBEY MILL.

WARLEIGH'S TRUST.

ESTHER WYNNE.

FORTUNE'S FAVOURITE.

HIS NEXT OF KIN.

To be followed, at THREE SHILLINGS EACH, by

MARRIED LIFE.
OUR NEW HOUSE.
MAUDE BOLINGBROKE.

| HEARTSEASE IN THE FAMILY.
AMY WILTON.
HELEN BURY.

PRICE FOUR SHILLINGS AND SIXPENCE EACH.

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BY MRS. HAYCRAFT,

Author of 'A Wedded Courtship' &c. &c. &c.

London: JAMES CLARKE & CO., 13 and 14 Fleet Street, E.C.

SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO.'S NEW NOVELS.

1. Everyone who read LORD DESART'S LORD AND LADY PICCADILLY' (of which Four large Editions have been published since its issue in July 1887) should at once obtain his New Novel, which is now ready, in 2 vols.

HERNE LODGE. By the EARL OF DESART.

*** A 28. Edition of 'Lord and Lady Piccadilly' is now on sale at every Bookstall.

THE

2. Mr. F. C. PHILIPS, the most rising of the younger Novelists, whose 'AS IN A LOOKING-GLASS, THE DEAN AND HIS DAUGHTER,' and STRANGE ADVENTURES OF LUCY SMITH,' have been, perhaps, as much read as any Novels of the past year or two, has now ready, in 2 vols.,

LITTLE MRS. MURRAY. By F. C. PHILIPS.

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Which the SCOTSMAN concisely describes as The Adventures of a Young and Pretty Widow in search of a Livelihood.'

***A 28. Edition of The Strange Adventures of Lucy Smith' is now on sale at

every Bookstall.

3. KEPT SECRET, in 3 vols., is the title of Mrs. J. K. SPENDER'S New Novel. It is clever and interesting' (ATHENEUM); powerfully and well

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written' (SCOTSMAN); the interest never flags' (MORNING POST).

4. Readers of “ ANTINOUS," by GEORGE TAYLOR (Prof. HAUSRATH), will not need a second invitation to read another Novel from the same pen,' remarks the GLASGOW HERALD; and attention is therefore confidently called to

ELFRIEDE. BY GEORGE TAYLOR. 2 vols.

We rarely come upon anything so excellent in current fiction as "Elfriede," says the SCOTSMAN.

NEWEST

ONE-VOLUME NOVELS.

AT ALL BOOKSELLERS'.

350,000 OF THE FRENCH EDITION HAVE BEEN SOLD.

The TIMES says: 'Daudet has never written, nor has any French author written for many years, anything so incisive, vigorous, or violent. The style is admirable, the observation close, the satire keen.'

1. ONE OF THE 'FORTY' ('L'IMMORTEL').

By

ALPHONSE DAUDET, Author of Tartarin sur les Alpes' &c. Translated by Dr. A. W.
VERRALL and MARGARET DE G. VERRALL. 68.

WHITECHAPEL DOSS-HOUSE LIFE, WORK AT THE DOCKS, &C.

2. OUT OF WORK. By JOHN LAW. 3s. 6d.

'A relentlessly truthful picture of the East End as it is.'-BRITISH WEEKLY.

3. MISTERTON'S MISTAKE. By WALTER RAYMOND. 68.

'A charming idyll of Somersetshire.'-ACADEMY.

'A very real love of nature is displayed. . . . A rural idyll.'-POST.

'Well worth reading.'-YORKSHIRE POST.

4. A MORAL BIGAMIST: a Story of Ourselves in India.

'The sketches of Indian official and demi-official life are admirable. There is also an animated account of the fight in the Paiwar Pass, which gives a fairer notion of what battles are like on the frontier than whole bundles of despatches." ST. JAMES'S GAZETTE. A NEW SENSATIONAL STORY.-DEDICATED TO WILKIE COLLINS.

5. GHOST'S GLOOM. By J. G. HOLMES. With a Frontispiece by WILLIAM

PARKINSON.

68.

MR. GEORGE BARLOW'S POEM,

THE PAGEANT OF LIFE: an Epic of Man (price 6s.), will now be found in stock at all the principal Booksellers'.

The DAILY TELEGRAPH, in a one-column review, says: 'A new poet has arisen among us; an indisputable poet-forcible, graceful, earnest, courageous.'

The PALL MALL says: Very many of the single lyrics are full of beauty and rich in music. That Mr. Barlow is a genuine and a very sweet singer it were vain to deny.'

SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO., Paternoster Square, E.C.

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ALMA. By EMMA MARSHALL, Author of Under the Mendips.' 3s. 6d.

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UP THE LADDER:

OR, THE HOUSE OF THIRTEEN STORIES.

Large 8vo. 128 pp., in clever Picture Wrapper, 1s.

SIR EDWIN ARNOLD contributes a Story for Statesmen.

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Together with STORIES FOR DOCTORS, THE BAR ('MYSTERY OF A

HANDSOME CAD'), &c. &c. &c.

SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO., Paternoster Square, E.C.

SWAN SONNENSCHEIN &

Co.

DAILY TELEGRAPH.--Three large portraits appear every month, with text, explanatory, descriptive, anecdotal, and amusing. The whole production is good in style and execution.' PUNCH. Every month, for the ridiculously small sum of 2s. 6d.'

COURT JOURNAL.- An example of photography in a fine-art form that has hardly yet been approximated to. They are speaking likenesses.'

OUR CELEBRITIES:

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VOLUME I., in large folio, artistic boards, price 12s. 6d., is now ready, containing :—

PART I., 28. 6d.

THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE.

THE MARQUIS OF SALISBURY.

SIR FREDERICK LEIGHTON.

PART II., 2s. 6d.

THE RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE.

SIR ALGERNON BORTHWICK.

MR. GEORGE LEWIS.

PART III., 2s. 6d.

LORD STANLEY OF PRESTON.

SIR MORELL MACKENZIE.

LADY LINDSAY.

PART IV., 28. 6d.

SIR PHILIP CUNLIFFE OWEN.

SIR CHARLES RUSSELL.

MR. EDMUND YATES.

Each Photograph is taken from a SPECIAL SITTING for Our CelebritiES.'

SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO., Paternoster Square, E.C.

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