A Daughter of Freedom. -The book completes Miss Blanchard's series of Revolutionary stories, and is not one whit behind the others in interest. It deals with the incidents in the Southern campaign. The burning of Norfolk, the downfall of Savannah and Charleston, and the final American victories leading to the surrender at Yorktown form a grim background for the romance of Byrd Graham, daughter of a North Carolina regular, forced by the death of her father to find a home with her grandfather, a staunch Virginia royalist. (Wilde. $1.50.) The Prairie Schooner.-The Black Hawk War opened to immigration what is now the Middle West, and introduced to public notice many men afterward famous, as Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and others. They appear in this book, by W. E. Barton, not as they were later known, but as they then were. The story tells also of two bright young fellows of something less than twenty, fighting Indians, falling into the way of counterfeiters and claim-jumpers, driving their oxen and the wagon known as "the prairie schooner" across the prairies. (Wilde. $1.50.) The Godson of Lafayette.-"A story for boys, by Elbridge S. Brooks," says The Outlook, "told in a manner to hold their attention and dealing with an exceptional and little understood phase of American history, namely, the strategy of the Rev. Eleazer Williams, missionary Reels and Spindles.-A story for girls by Evelyn Raymond. The heroine, Amy Kaye, daughter of a sweetnatured Quaker mother, and an artist father whose life is passed in dreams without outcome, finds herself at an early age beset by trials of a most grinding and pressing poverty. Nobly unselfish and wholly ignorant of life, she faces the situation by simply taking up the first work that offers-in a carpet-mill. The Outlook pronounces it "ideal in purpose and admirably well told." (Wilde. $1.50.) The Pathfinders of the Revolution.-This story, by William Elliot Griffis, dealing with the great march through the wilderness and lake regions of central New York by MajorGeneral John Sullivan and his Continental soldiers in 1779, by which was broken up forever the power of the Iroquois Confederacy, is, says The Outlook, a valuable piece of historic fiction, dealing as it does with a war episode very little known. The lasting services rendered by General Sullivan and his five thousand men in opening up the State of New York and breaking forever the power of King George's allies, and their return again for the work at Yorktown, are finely depicted in this story ($1.50). W. A. Wilde & Co.'s Other Juveniles.With Preble at Tripoli, the latest "James Otis" story. takes up in a most entertaining fashion the causes which led to the war with Will Tripoli. The gunner's nephew and a friend of the latter take part in Commodore Preble's campaign against the pirates ($1.50). iam Drysdale's story of The Treasury Club gives a most interesting view of the inside workings of the Treasury Department in Washington ($1.50). All W. A. Wilde & Co.'s books are generously illustrated and attractively bound. SHE RODE QUIETLY ALONG BY HER BROTHER'S SIDE." Harper & Brothers' Gift-Books for Young People. In the Hands of the Cave Dwellers tells of a tribe of American Indians living in caves and has an American and a Mexican hero ($1). The Road to Nowhere, by Livingston B. Morse, is dedicated to Alice in Wonderland, and it suggests that well-beloved child as Jack and Kitty search for the Island of Flowers, helped by the wonderful talking animals along the way. ($1.50). The Book told and beautifully illustrated partly in of Dragons, by E. Nesbit, is a book of short fanciful tales for children very entertainingly color ($1.50). Gertrude Smith of Arabella and Araminta fame has prepared the Roggie and Reggie Stories, capital little tales for the younger children, illustrated with sixteen full-page color pictures ($1.50); and Wonder Stories From Herodotus has twenty pages in color by H. Granville Fell ($2.50). Reuben James, a Hero of the Forecastle.In this thrilling sea tale Cyrus Brady tells a wonderful story of a hero "who was only a common sailor, just a type of the plain American blue-jacket of the beginning of our Navy." In the war with France, Reuben James was captured by a French privateer, and afterward fought on the "Constellation"; later he was on the "United States" and volunteered under Decatur for the destruction of the "Philadelphia" at Tripoli. (Appleton. $1.) For the Honour of the School. The success of Ralph Henry Barbour's vivid football story The Half Back showed not only in terest in the theme but also the author's power in writing a story of boys' sport and life with the freshness, vigor and sympathy befitting the subject. Every school boy, whether he is in athletics himself or not, will be attracted by this graphic, wholesome, fascinating tale. Illustrated by C. M. Relyea. (Appleton. $1.50.) In the Days of Jefferson.-The earlier years of Jefferson's life in Virginia furnished a series of romantic episodes of which Hezekiah Butterworth has made most picturesque use. Dabney Carr, Patrick Henry and other striking figures appear in the course of the tale. Mr. Butterworth follows Jefferson to the White House. The story is a fascinating one and its value as a chapter of American history is enhanced by the approach of the centennial anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase. (Appleton. $1.50.) Young People's Treasures.-Little, Brown & Co. have so many new books this year and they are all so good that choosing the best becomes an impossibility. They will all be found in the list elsewhere. Indian ways and customs are admirably depicted for young readers in A Little American Girl in India. This is the work of Harriet A. Cheever with illustrations by H. C. Ireland and has as heroine a wilful little American girl, travelling with her father. An equally wilful little one of about the same ageeight-is the central figure of Doris and Her Dog Rodney, by Lily F. Wesselhoeft. Brenda, Her School and Her Club, by Helen Leah From "Roggie and Reggie Stories." Copyright, 1900, by Harper & Bros. "TWO-YEAR-OLD BOYS OUGHT NOT TO SUCK THEIR THUMBS." Reed, who wrote Miss Theodora, is for older children and for girls primarily. Phebe, Her Profession, also for girls, is a sequel to Anna Chapin Ray's Teddy, Her Book. (ea., $1.50.) Nan's Chicopee Children is the third and concluding volume of the much-liked Chicopee Series, begun with Nan at Camp Chicopee and followed by Nan in the City ($1.25). The Christmas Angel. by Katharine Pyle, tells of the original adventures of a little girl who finds admission into Toy-Land, where her gingerbread girl becomes alive, Noah walks and talks, the toy roosters crow and the wooden dolls and Jack-in-the-boxes do and say very disagreeable things ($1.50). A Child of Glee, Miss Plympton's new book, deals with the adventures of a little girl from Biddeford, Maine, who is travelling in Europe with her father, and becomes the playmate of the little queen of the kingdom of Averill and has many remarkable adventures. A good deal of history is interwoven with the narrative. (Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.) Books by Elbridge S. Brooks.-No less than four books by this excellent writer for young people are on the list of the Lothrop Publishing Company, and they all make for true, hopeful, strong American manhood. The Story of the Nineteenth Century is the complete, detailed, absorbing and dramatic story of the wonderful century just closing, told by one who has made a successful study of popularizing history. ($1.50.) The three other books are collected in The Young Defender Series and are separately entitled In Defence of the Flag, a boy's adventures in Spain and Cuba; With Lawton and Roberts, a boy's adventures in the Philippines and the Transvaal; and Under the Allied Flags, the story of an American boy who participated in the international conflict against the Boxers in China. Another of the Famous Pepper FamilyBefore her departure for Europe Margaret Sidney (Mrs. Lothrop) was good enough to add to the happiness of all children by increasing the famous Pepper Library with one more volume. The Adventures of Joel Pepper puts one more face in the delightful Pepper gallery-Joel, the harum-scarum, well meaning, heedless but lovable boy of the Pepper family. It goes without saying that Joel will make new friends in spite of his pranks and adventures, and that Phronsie and Polly and Ben and Davy will be welcomed anew. (Lothrop. $1.50.) Orison Other Lothrop Juveniles. - Dr. Swett Marden has never prepared a more invigorating or inspiring book than Winning Out, the first book he has designed wholly for young people. ($1.) The Last of the Flatboats is a story, of the Mississippi and its interesting family of rivers by George Cary Eggleston, an absolute storehouse of facts of the mid-West as they came to the knowledge of five healthy boys. ($1.50.) The Noank's Log, by William O. Stoddard, tells the story of a privateer during the American Revolution ($1.25). Mr. Trunnelle; Mate of the Ship "Pirate," by T. Jenkins Hains, the Boston Globe calls a rattling good sea story, as was The Wind-Jammers, by the same author (ea. $1.25). "Pansy" has a story for older readers called By Way of the Wilderness ($1.50), and Margaret Sidney has written The Judge's Cave, a romance of the New Haven Colony in the days of the Regicides in 1661. ($1.50.) Frederick A. Stokes Company's Children's Books-Children of the Revolution ($2) is one of Maud Humphrey's artistic color books, which is divided into two smaller books with the titles Little Continentals and Little Folks of '76 (ea., $1.25). The plates are facsimile designs of water-color sketches of little boys and girls in famous scenes of the Revolution, in the costumes of that time. Gelett Burgess, he of the Purple Cow, has prepared "a manual of manners for polite infants" under the name of Goops, and How to Be Them, the object being to teach children politeness from observation of the impolite ($1.50). More Bunny Stories portray the "Bunnies" at a more advanced stage in The Lothrop Publishing Co. their career than in previous books, particular attention being paid to that delightfully amusing character, Grandmother Bunny ($1.50). Two instructive books for boys are Jack Among the Indians, by George Bird Grinnell, profusely illustrated by E. W. Deming, and Heroes of the Revolution, by T. W. Hall, a companion volume to the Heroes of Our War with Spain, by the same author (ea., $1.25). Dames and Daughters of Colonial Days.The ten women selected as typical dames and daughters admirably portray the phases of life which marked the progress of our colonial era, from the sternness of the earliest days to the more cultured strenuousness of revolutionary times. This advance is well shown in Miss Geraldine Brooks's excellent collection of narrative sketches, and, apart from the life and sparkle of her style, the book itself has an educative as well as a personal value. The illustrations are effective. (Crowell. $1.50.) Helps for Ambitious Girls.-Aims to fill the same high place in assisting girls to select a calling as was taken almost immediately by the Helps for Ambitious Boys, last year, in giving like information to boys. It is equally elevated in tone, and, like its companion volume, it is thoroughly practical. Girls with ambition to succeed are not only told what to do, but are shown how to do it. The book gives valuable advice on the subjects considered by successful workers and by the best classical and modern writers. (Crowell. $1.50.) Du Chaillu's World of the Great Forest. Every child should own a copy of M. Paul du Chaillu's most interesting and instructive volume which introduces the creatures of the great African forest to our better knowledge and understanding and lets them speak in their own quaint language to our sympathies. Undoubtedly the masterpiece of the wellknown explorer. C. R. Knight and P. H. Gleeson, artists of reputation as animal painters, have beautified the book. (Scribner. $2.) Charles Scribner's Sons Juveniles.-There is no doubt at all that Daniel C. Beard's book entitled The Jack of All Trades; or, New Ideas for American Boys, will be received by the boys with delight. It contains just the hints on what to do to have a glorious good time in fair weather and in foul that active boys most desire to have. Illustrated by the author ($2). Brethren of the Coast, a tale of West Indian pirates, Kirk Munroe's new story, is one of breathless interest, and deals with the fortunes of an American boy, born in Cuba and heir to large plantations, who has many surprising adventures with the pirates, and, after his escape, as an officer in the American Navy. It is illustrated with all the oid fire and spirit by Rufus F. Zogbaum ($1.25). Fairies and Folk of Ireland, by William Henry Frost, is illustrated by Sidney R. Burleigh ($1.50). An entirely new edition, fully illustrated, is ready of Stevenson's Treasure Island, which is a classic ($1.25); Droll Doings is an illustrated book for the little ones, with the cleverest possible pictures of masquerading animals and their adventures, done in color by Harry B. Neilson. The accompanying verses, by the Cockiolly Eird, are sprightly and amusing ($1); and there are no less than three new books by George A. Henty. The Boer war, with its thrilling scenes round about and in Ladysmith during the siege. is the subiect of With Puller in Natal; the little known story of Italy's struggle for unity and freedom is made into a brilliant narrative under the title Ou! with Garibaldi; In the Irish Brigade we have a tale of war in Flanders and Spain, which follows the fortunes of a young Irish lad, who left Ireland to join the Irish Brigade in the service of Louis ($.50.) XIV. Drexel Biddle's Books for Young People. -No one writes like "Ouida" for the little folks. She has the magic touch and she reads the hearts and minds of the young with rare intuition. She has imagination, warmth, color and a vocabulary that is equal to an artist's brush. Two New Dog Stories and Another have all the best characteristics of Ouida's work, especially fine when she writes of animals or of people whose circum. stances put them among the dumb in the world. Ouida's dogs have as much individuality as human beings, and she makes us feel their joys and sorrows as we do those of friends and relatives Such books are good for children. They nourish and uplift and they fascinate and charm (75 c.). The Froggy Fairy Books have made their way into the hearts of the children, and in the de luxe dress for this year will please as much as ever. The publisher himself has prepared these treasures for the nursery and they are ever new, ever appreciated. The pictures are little gems of humor (ea., 50 c.) "TOTO AND THE ULM HOUND LOOKED AT EACH OTHER AND MEASURED THEIR RESPECTIVE FORCES." The following names and figures refer to the publishers and to the pages on which may be found descriptive notices of their more prominent books: Appleton (D.) & Co..354, 367, 373, 382 Baker & Taylor Co... 372 .362, 384 .....359, 370, 377, 378 Coates (Henry T.)........356, 372, 377 Crowell (T. Y.) & Co.....362, 365, 383 Dutton (E. P.) & Co.....360, 368, 380 Harper Bros.....360, 361, 372, 374, 382 Holt (Henry) & Co... Houghton, Mifflin & Co..355, 366, 376 375 Lippincott (J. B.) Co. ..362, 363, 379, 379 Revell (Fleming H.) Co..366, 369, 380 371 Aldrich, Works. Popular ed. 7▼. $10.. Houghton, M Alexander, Francesca, Hidden servants. $1.50. Little, B Alta lib. 256 v. of standard literature. Ea., 75c. Coates Andersen, Hans Christian, Fairy tales. 250 il. by Tegner. $5......... .........Century Appleton's World series. 12 V...... .Appleton Armstrong, Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds. 76 photo gravure il. $15....... ..Scribner Bacheller, Eben Holden. 125th thousand. $1.50. Lothrop Bailey, Great painters gospel; or, the life of our Lord. Wilde Balzac's works. Introds. by Trent. 16 v. 80 il. Pop. ed. Sold separately, ca., $i; Library ed., sold only in sets, 820; $40; De luxe ed., 3a v., only in sets, $40; $80. Crowell Balzac's works. Wormeley translation. 33 V. Ea., $1.50............................ ....Little, B Barrie, Tommy and Grizel. Il. $1.50........ Scribner Barrow, Fortune of war. $1.25...................Helt Beame, Pictures of Old French Court. $3.....Dutton Bell, Representative painters of Nineteenth Century. 50 il. $12..... .Dutton Bibles, Prayer-books and Hymnals. Nelson-Oxford Univ. -Pott Blackmore, Lorna Doone. New il. ed. 32 full-page hf. tone il. $a.. Harper Blashfield, Italian cities. V. $3...... ..Scribner Borrow, George, Works. 4 V. Ea., 82-Life of Borrow, by W: I. Knapp. 2 v. $6........... Putnam Bower, The puppet show. $1.50..... ......Holt Bride's book. Humphrey, Longpré, and Rowan. Col. il. $2.50-$7.50.... ........ Stokes Brooks, Phillips, Life and letters (Allen). 2 v. Il. boxed. $7.50..... Dutton Brown, Thomas Edward, Letters (Irwin). av. boxed. ...Dutton Browning, Mrs., Complete poetic works. Coxhoe ed. 6 v. $4.50-$20.50......................... ....... Crowell Browning, Mrs., Complete poetical works. Cambridge Houghton, M Scribner ed. $...... Buell, Paul Jones. Il. v. $3.............. Burns, Complete poetical works. 2 v. $4-$7.50. Crowell Burns, Complete poetical works, Cabinet ed. $1; $2; $3:$3.50.... ...Houghton, M Byron, Complete works. 12 ▼. Ea., $2...... Scribner Calendars........ .........................Dutton-Russell-Stokes Carryl, Mother Goose for grown-ups. $1.50... Harper Cary, The Rossettis: Dante Gabriel and Christina. 27 photogravures and other il. $3.75........ Futnam Century classics. World's best books. Ea., net, $1. Century Chadwick, Theodore Parker. 2 pors. $2. Houghton, M Revell Chaucer, Complete works. $4-$7.50........ Crewell $10...... Dodd, Falaise. il. $a... Macmillan $1.25.... Ea.. .Scribner 30 Fields, Yesterdays with authors. Holiday ed. photogravures and 12 facsimiles.........Houghton, M Filippe, Filippo de, Ascent of Mt. St. Elias by the Duke of Abruzzi. Il. $12.50..... .....Stokes Finck, Songs and song writers. (Music lover's lib.) 8 .Scribner pors. $1.25...... Fiske, Old Virginia and her neighbors. Il. ed. 2 V. $8; $12.50. Large-pap. ed., $16... .Houghton, M In box. Fitzgerald, Stories of famous songs. 11. 2 v. $3.. Lippincott Forsyth, Thrilling days in army life. Il. by Zogbaum. $1.50. .....Harper Fraser, Mooswa and others of the boundaries. Il. by Arthur Heming. $a...... .Scribner Fulton, Palestine. 30 full-page photogravures. $3; $7........ .......Coates Russell Gaboriau, Novels. Il. 6v. Ea., $1.25...... Seribner Garrett, Pilgrim shore. Il. $2-$4.50.........Little, B Gibson, Americans. 9o sketches. $5. Ed. de luxe, $10. Goldsmith, She stoops to conquer. I. by Abbey. $1.50...... .Harper I. $1.50. Little, B $1.50. Bowen-M Little, B Goodwin, Head of a hundred. New ed. Putnam Hawthorne, Marble faun. Monte Beni ed. 16 il, $1.50............ ........Houghton, M. Heckethorne, London memories. $2......Lippincott Henderson, Side lights on English history. 80 il. $5. Holt Herford, Oliver, Overheard in a garden. (Poems.) 11. by author. $1.25. ....Scribner Higginson, Works. 7 v. 3 por. Ea., $2. Large-pap. ed.... ......Houghton, M Highlanders at home; il. by R. R. Mclan; letterpress by J. Logan. 24 il. $2.50: $3.50....... ..Stokes Hobbes, John Oliver, Robert Orange. $1.50.... Stokes Hogarth's Works. Plates red. in exact facsimile of ....Lippincott originals. $5; $10... Holmes, Works. Popular ed. 8 v. $10..Houghton, M. Hope, Quisanté. $1.50 Stokes Hope, Rupert of Hentzau. Il. by Gibson. $1.50.. Holt 11. Howells, Literary friends and acquaintance. $2.50 ..Harper Humphrey (il.), Baby's record. 30 il. $1.50...Stokes Huxley, Life and letters. Il. 2 V. $5. .Appleton Iliowizi, Weird Orient. I. $1.50..... Coates Illustrated romance series. 12 col. il. in each volume. $1.75 per v.. ........Lippincott Contents: Ivanhoe.--John Halifax.--Peter Simple. Irving, Knickerbocker's history of New York. II. by Maxfield Parrish. $3.75........ ......... Russell Jackson, A. W., James Martineau. $3....... Little, B Jackson, Helen Hunt, Ramona. Il. by H. Sandham. a v. $6; $12. Limited ed. $15..... ....Little, B James, Geo. Wharton, In and around the Grand Canyon. 100 il. $3.. .......Little, B Keats, Complete poetical works. New cabinet ed. $10. ...Houghton, M |