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The World of the Great Forest

How Animals, Birds, Reptiles and Insects Talk, Think, Work and Live. By PAUL B. DU CHAILLU. With 50 illustrations by C. R. Knight and J. H. Gleeson. Square 8vo, $2.00.

Undoubtedly the masterpiece of the well-known explorer, in which his young friends may read how his companions of the great African Forest, in which he spent so many years, describe in their own language their characteristics, feelings, manner of life, means of subsistence, etc., etc., as if they were actually endowed with the gift of speech and had made him their confidant. The copious illustrations, by artists of reputation as animal painters, emphasize the adventurous interest and picturesqueness of which wild animal life is full. The Jack of All Trades, or New Ideas for American Boys.

BEARD. Profusely illustrated by the author.

Square 8vo, $2.00.

By DANIEL C.

An entirely new book by Mr. Beard. No author possesses to such a degree the ability to describe and make interesting to boys all the various ingenious devices for amusement and new games. Over 30,000 of his two previous books have been sold.

The Outdoor Handy Book. For Playground, Field and Forest. By DANIEL C. BEARD. New edition of " The American Boy's Book of Sport."

than 300 illustrations. Square 8vo, $2.00.

With more

These books will be similar in style to the author's "American Boy's Handy Book.” Fairies and Folk of Ireland. By WILLIAM HENRY FROST, author of "The

Knights of the Round Table," etc. Illustrated by Sidney R. Burleigh. 12mo, $1.50. Mr. Frost here applies his attractive methods to re-telling, for young and old, the fascinating myths and legends of Irish folk-lore.

Treasure Island. By ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.

trations by Wal Paget. 12mo, $1.25.

With numerous original illus

An entirely new edition, fully illustrated, of the most popular of Stevenson's books. Brethren of the Coast. A Tale of West Indian Pirates. By KIRK MUNROE.

Illustrated by RUFUS F. ZOGBAUM. 12mo, $1.25.

Mr. 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.

Each, with Three New Books by G. A. Henty

illustrations

12mo,

$1.50.

With Buller in Natal; or, a Born Leader. A most interesting story of the Boer war. The hero, Chris King, is a scout in the service of Gen. Yule at Glencoe, then in Ladysmith, and then with Gen. Buller. In each place Chris and his friends had many thrilling adventures. In the Irish Brigade. A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain. The story of a young Irish

lad, Desmond Kennedy, who left Ireland to join the Irish Brigade in the service of Louis XIV. He has many adventures with the army in Scotland, Flanders and Spain.

Out with Garibaldi. A Story of the Liberation of Italy. Garibaldi himself is the central figure of this brilliant story, and the little-known history of the struggle for Italian Freedom is told here in a most thrilling way.

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, New York

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THE BOOK BUYER is published on the first of every month. Subscription price, $1.50 per year.
Subscriptions are received by all booksellers.

Subscribers in ordering change of address must give the old as well as the new address.
Bound copies of Volumes IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, and XIII, $2.00 each. Volumes XIV, XV, XVI, XVII,
XVIII, XIX and XX, $1.50. Covers for binding, 50 cts, each. Bound volume sent on receipt of $1.00 and all the num-
bers in good condition. Postage prepaid. Volumes I, II, and III out of print. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, NEW YORK.

IT

THE RAMBLER

is usually an ungrateful task for a young untried writer to collaborate with an older author of established fame. The average reader is apt to attribute the strong and interesting parts to the greater man, and what does not please him to the youthful collaborator.

Mr. Lloyd Osbourne, whose name is on the title-page of several of Robert Louis Stevenson's books, is now bringing out a volume of his own collected stories, some of which have already appeared in the magazines. They are almost all tales of the South Seas, a remote part of the world, but familiar to Mr. Osbourne as Scotland to Barrie or India to Kipling.

The young man was barely nineteen when he went with his stepfather, Mr. Stevenson, on the yacht Casco, bound for the Marquesas and the South Seas. A year later the family left Honolulu on the schooner, Equator, bound for the Line Islands, where they spent seven months visiting the various groups. Some months later he left Sydney, Australia, with the same party on the trading schooner, Janet Nicholl, known in the island trade as "the Jumping Jenny," for a cruise among the Marshall and Kingsmill groups.

During the eight years that Mr. Osbourne lived at Vailima he not only gave his stepfather help in literary work and ardent support in the political struggles for the welfare of Samoa, but he took upon his own shoulders the entire burden of managing the estate. During that time he learned the Samoan language, which he speaks with unusual correctness for a white man. He went about a great deal among the natives, taking boating trips around the island, walking over the mountain ridges and spending weeks at a time far from the haunts of civilization.

Mr. Osbourne has made excellent use of his most romantic life. It has been his good fortune to sail the blue waters of the Pacific, to wander in the valley of Typee on the Marquesas islands, to dance by moonlight to the sound of singing voices at Tahiti, to voyage through the dangerous archipelago; to visit unknown forgotten. islands; to go shark-hunting with the young chiefs of Samoa, to make friends with kings and queens on lonely lovely atolls, to yarn with seafaring men and chum with beach-combers. All the time he looked with seeing eyes and heard with intelligence, so that the book of stories. Copyright, 1900, by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS All rights reserved.

brims with romance, but through all bears the unmistakable stamp of truth.

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Miss Mary Tracy Earle, well known as a writer of short stories and essays, was born in the middle sixties in Cobden, Ill., and lived on a farm in that section for many years. In 1881 she entered the University of Illinois, where she graduated in 1885. After graduating Miss Earle spent a great deal of time in the South doing a little writing now and then, but it was not until she came to New York in 1898 that she really began seriously to devote herself to literature. Since then her work has been very much in evidence in the more important magazines. Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. are bringing out this fall a second book of her stories, entitled "Through Old-Rose Glasses." Her first book, entitled "The Man Who Worked for Collister," published by Messrs. Copeland & Day several years ago, was unusually successful.

The new Chester Edition of Charles Kingsley's "Novels and Poems," to be issued by J. F. Taylor & Company, will be supplemented by the" Letters and Memories." This edition will contain a general introduction to the series and a shorter introduction to each story, by Maurice Kingsley, the novelist's eldest son, who will also revise the notes in the "Letters and Memories," and add

THE KINGSLEY COAT OF ARMS

MARY TRACY EARLE

[From a photograph by Miss Ben Yusuf.]

many of his own. To "The Poems " will be added a few which have been omitted in previous editions. The edition will also contain a series of illustrations by Lee Woodward Zeigler, several pictures of Eversley Rectory, and portraits of Kingsley which have never before been reproduced.

The Kingsley Coat of Arms, which is here reproduced, and which will be used as a cover decoration, was originally traced. in vellum for the novelist's grandfather by the College of Heralds. The shield in the centre is that of the Haddington family. Charles Kingsley could have been Earl of Haddington had he desired, but assuming the title would have involved a costly chancery suit; the family, who have ever been democratic in their ideas, decided to remain Kingsleys. The hunting horn is only used by the head of the family, the others all using a fifth ermine in its place.

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