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With Sixty-six illustrations by Swinnerton. 4to. Paper boards. Price, $1.00. Parents who have experienced difficulty in finding books suited to children between the ages of four and six will thank us for calling their attention to a unique publication just arrived from the Far West. The book must be seen to be appreciated.-Bookman. Just the funniest, most fascinating book for little folks.-Columbia Herald. This is what we want-more books of humor for the wee ones.-Denver Book-Leaf. DOXEY'S, AT THE SIGN OF THE LARK, Please mention THE BOOK BUYER in writing to advertisers. With 40 illustrations from original drawings by F. C. Yohn, E. C. Peixotto, Seymour Lucas, Frank Craig, Henry McCarter and other distinguished English and American artists; also with portraits, facsimiles and documents, and rare memorabilia from the best English collections. 8vo, $2.00. G OVERNOR ROOSEVELT'S monograph on Cromwell is a most vivid and condensed account of the great Protector and his times, written with special reference to the birth of English liberty and its relation to the growth of American liberty and American institutions. It is the most important and elaborate historical work that Governor Roosevelt has written. The Rough Riders. By Theodore Roosevelt POPULAR EDITION. With portrait and illustrations. A NEW edition, at a reduced price, of Governor Roosevelt's graphic 12mo, $1.00. account of the origin and career of the unique cavalry regiment of which he was one of the organizers and finally the commander. This volume has already been accepted as a brilliant page of American history, and this new edition will insure for it a still wider circulation. THE With Both Armies in South Africa By Richard Harding Davis With many illustrations from photographs. 12mo, $1.50 HE frankness and the fearlessness with which Mr. Davis described, in his articles for Scribner's Magazine and in his newspaper letters, what he saw and heard in South Africa, coupled with his extraordinary faculty of observing the significant thing and for making it vivid, give a unique quality to this book, and differentiate it sharply from the score or more of volumes dealing with various aspects of the same subject. Mr. Davis was alone, moreover, in observing the war from both the British and the Boer points of view, and his book has therefore, in addition to its piquant personal quality, a completeness which is one of its most valuable characteristics. It is copiously illustrated. The Old Gentleman of the Black Stock By THOMAS NELSON PAGE. With 8 full-page illustrations in colors by Howard Chandler Christy. 12mo, $1.50. A HOLIDAY edition of one of the most highly praised and most popular of Mr. Page's stories, attractively illustrated in colors. The Boston Transcript calls it "a charming tale in the author's best manner." It will be issued in a similar form to "Santa Claus's Partner," which was one of the most successful of the Christmas books of last season. It is confidently expected that the new volume will exceed the former (now in its 25th thousand) in popularity. = Important Illustrated Works THE AMERICAN ANIMAL BOOK Mooswa and Others of the Boundaries By W. A. FRASER. With 12 illustrations by Arthur Heming. Cr. 8vo, $2.00. AUTHOR and illustrator have co-operated in making this story of the woods and their chief denizens a book of imaginative interest and romantic realism. Each knows the Canadian wilderness with the thoroughness of long familiarity, and together they have vividly portrayed the world of the trackless Northern forest. Carcajou, the wolverine; Mooswa, the moose; Muskwa, the bear; Black Fox the King, and the various other fur-bearing animals are the dramatis persona of a fascinating story which depicts animal life from the inside. The Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds By SIR WALTER ARMSTRONG. With 70 photogravure illustrations and 6 lithographic facsimiles. Folio, $25.00 net. THIS HIS work is uniform with the work on " Gainsborough" by the same author, which, when published two years ago, was in many respects the most sumptuous life of an artist which had up to that time been produced. Since then the author has given great study to the preparation of this new volume which, it is confidently expected, will exceed the former in value. A Prince Charles Edward. By Andrew Lang Profusely illustrated with photogravures from original sources. MOST elaborately illustrated and sumptuous volume. This work is being prepared by Messrs. 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Important Illustrated Works Overheard in a Garden. By Oliver Herford Author of "The Bashful Earthquake," "A Child's Primer of Natural History," etc. With illustrations by the author. 12mo, $1.25. "HE IS WORTHY-AND THIS IS SAYING MUCH OF THE TRADITIONS OF EDWARD LEAR AND LEWIS CARROLL. HIS NONSENSE IS IN SYMPATHY WITH THEIR NONSENSE."-New York Tribune. ANOTHER of Mr. Herford's inimitable collections, including many verses and drawings never elsewhere published. The whole exhibits this delightful artist and versifier's fancy at its best, and is sure to be a grateful morsel for his ever-increasing circle of admirers. The coverdesign and illustrations are done with characteristic cleverness. The Girl and the Guardsman. By Alexander Black. UNI With 20 full-page illustrations, decorative designs, etc. 12mo, $1.50. NLIKE the author's last two volumes of amusing studies of social types, Mr. Black's new book is a novel, with a strongly marked dramatic quality. The plot deals with love and war, the hero being a National guardsman who volunteers for service in the Philippines. The complications which follow the report of his death involve the girl to whom he was engaged and his intimate friend, and are set forth with vivacity and interest. History and Biography Paul -Jones: Founder of the American Navy. A History. By AUGUSTUS C. BUELL. Portraits, maps and plans. 2 vols., 12mo, $3.00. A DEFINITIVE life of the commander of the Ranger and Bon Homme Richard, the result of fourteen years' researches in England, France and St. Petersburg, as well as in this country, and compiled from original sources-Jones's letters and journals, contemporary pamphlets, memoirs, The author presents a wonderfully graphic and interesting portrait of the most romantic figure in American Revolutionary history, and reveals many hitherto unknown chapters of a remarkable career. etc. PROBAB Military Reminiscences of the Civil War By JACOB DOLSON COX, A.M., LL.D., formerly Major-General commanding 23d Army Corps. With portraits and maps. 2 vols., 8vo, $6.00 net. ROBABLY the most notable authoritative work of those that yet remained to be written about the Civil War. General Cox figured largely in the contest as a participator, being one of the generals on whom Sherman, his immediate chief, most relied. But he was also a jurist and military critic of distinction, and in this, the most elaborate, judicial and important of his works, the comments and characterization as well as the narrative are noteworthy. Discussion, however, gives precedence to the record of interesting facts which General Cox alone was competent to relate, and the book is full of new data as well as of new views. Napoleon III. at the Height of His Power By IMBERT DE SAINT-AMAND. AF With portraits. 12mo, $1.50. Translated by Elizabeth Gilbert Martin. FTER the Italian War Napoleon Third reached his greatest eminence, and was for a time the arbiter of Europe. This volume, the fifth in the series which M. de Saint-Amand has devoted to this momentous and varied reign, describes his court and its remarkable influence at the crowning point of its historic interest. iv History and Biography Recollections of a Missionary in the Great West By CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY, author of "The Grip of Honor," "For the Freedom of the Sea," etc. With portrait. 12mo, $1.25. THES `HESE anecdotes and reminiscences, full of humor and of other winning phases of human nature, give a vivid picture of the daily life of a missionary in the Great West ten or fifteen years ago. They illustrate the serious side of the life as well-the unselfish devotion to the work of helping one's fellow men characteristic of the true missionary spirit, which gives the book a decided value. A History of the American Slave-Trade By JOHN R. SPEARS, author of "The History of Our Navy," etc. Fully illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark. 8vo, $2.50. MR. R. SPEARS'S book gives a full and complete account of the steps by which the African slave was introduced into this country and slavery perpetuated. As might be expected the work is particularly strong in its review of the maritime conditions of the negro traffic. A specially noteworthy feature is contributed by Mr. Clark's drawings. Men and Measures of Half of Half a Century Sketches and Comments. By the Hon. HUGH McCULLOCH, Secretary of the Treasury in the Administrations of Lincoln, Johnson and Arthur. New edition. Crown 8vo, $2.50. IT T has evidently been his habit to study men as well as books, and so this work contains a large array of entertaining and useful recollections, the charm of which is increased by a certain simplicity of manner in the telling of them."-New York Tribune. A Literary History of America By BARRETT WENDELL, Professor of English at Harvard University. 8vo, $3.00. TH 'HE author endeavors to define the ways in which the native character and thought of America have diverged from those of England. Touching briefly on the seventeenth century, with a special chapter on Cotton Mather, he discusses the eighteenth century at greater length, with special chapters on Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, and the American Revolution. The nineteenth century is treated in more detail, with special chapters on Brockden Brown, Irving, Cooper, Bryant, Poe, Émerson, Whittier, Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, and Walt Whitman. A General History of Europe, 300-1900 By Professors OLIVER J. THATCHER and FERDINAND SCHWILL, University of Chicago. With maps, chronological tables, etc. 12mo, $1.50 net. TH HE great success which these two authors have attained in their two standard text-books for college use, Europe in the Middle Age" and "Modern Europe," is sufficient guarantee that this new book will meet with the greatest favor. The Transition Period. By G. 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