Chapter III: Part 3

_Lucile_ from Missouri. I do hope, dear little girlie, that we have rescued those poor fingernails from any further bad treatment. I made all haste I could, as soon as I heard of your needs. It is really wonderful how many naughty teeth there are in our P. S. biting what they ought not to touch!

_Menton_ from Massachusetts. That is right. A well "governed" tongue is a most useful member of society. I know a great many tongues that were sadly neglected when they were young, and now are engaged in making all the people around them uncomfortable. I am glad yours will never be in that list.

_Anna_ from Georgia. Yes, my dear, all members of the P. S. are subscribers to THE PANSY; except the little brothers and sisters of subscribers, who have the use of the magazine in their homes; those we receive as members, and they can have badges by sending in their pledges and ten cents each to pay for the badges. Subscribers receive the badges free of charge. I was much pleased with your letter. As a rule, I know, letters should be written with pen and ink; but yours was very plain. I hope you are a faithful scholar in your school.

_Joanna_ from Michigan. Thank you for the card. It was very pretty. I was much interested in your letter. Yes, I am glad to hear anything interesting about birds and animals of every kind. I will copy your letter for the Pansies to enjoy. It gave me a great deal of pleasure to notice the resolve you made. If you keep it, you will have a good and happy life.

_Anna_ from Iowa. Here is another Blossom who "wants her own way." Shall I tell you how to always have it? Just decide that your way shall be the one that the Saviour of the world wants you to have, and then it will be the right way, and you will always get what you want. There is a beautiful secret hidden in that thought; I hope you will hunt for it until you find it.

_Anna_ from Wisconsin. Dear little friend, I am afraid you expect too much of the P. S., if you hope that joining it will keep you from being "selfish" and "spunky." It will help, but you must do your part, you know. You would make poor work of mending the hole in your apron without a needle and thread, but just imagine what a mess the needle and thread would make of it without your hands to help!

_Maud_ from Pennsylvania. "Dreaming" is really very pleasant, but you are right, it does not help work along very well. The best time to dream is at night when your eyes are tightly closed. I know a little girl who sat dreaming she was a fairy, and when she wanted anything had only to wave her wand and it would come to her; and she let the water boil from the potatoes, and they burned to the kettle and were spoiled; so because of this naughty fairy, the family had to eat their dinner without potatoes.

_Auburn_ from Pennsylvania. My boy, that is a splendid pledge to take. As I watch the boys at play, I am constantly wondering what pleasure they can find in being so "rough" that lookers-on will be sure to say: "What a disagreeable boy that is! I should think his mother would teach him how to behave better than that." I wonder if the boys know how constantly mothers are blamed when they do wrong? I think it would make some boys who love their mothers more careful. Don't you?

_Minnie_ from Minnesota. Were you named for the State, my dear, or was the State named for you? What a question! We receive your name with pleasure. I wish I knew about some of the "kind acts." Tell us their story.

_Walter_ and _Laura_ from New Jersey. We are very happy to welcome this brother and sister to our ranks. I wonder if I met you last summer? I saw a great many boys and girls when I was at the seaside where you live. Perhaps you were among them. I remember a sweet-faced little girl who was trying to speak gentle words to two older ones who were in ill humor about something. They called her Laura. Perhaps it was you, little Blossom. Be sure that you both shed fragrance about you for Jesus.

_Fannie_ from Illinois. Your pledge reminds me of two boys who were under my window not long ago. They were very angry; they called each other hard names, and threw mud at each other, and at last they took off their little jackets and began to fight with their strong little fists. When they were separated, and peace was declared, it was discovered that they had been disputing as to whether a small brown bug which they had found, had four legs or six! But as the bug had crawled away, I am afraid it will never be known which was right.

_Maxwell_ from Ohio. Yes, indeed, I sent you a badge, with pleasure. The more boys we can get to pledge each day to do a "kind act" the better are we pleased. I believe a boy who honestly tries to do one good kind act each day, will grow into the habit of it, so that, some day, he will do a great many. Don't you think so?

_Clara_ from New York. I do not know that I have ever received a pledge which gave me more pleasure than yours. To help to lead others to give themselves to the Lord Jesus, is the greatest work we can do in this world. God bless you in your efforts!

_Cora_ from New Hampshire. Thank you for your very high opinion of THE PANSY. I believe all the Pansies are fond of it. I like to think of their bright faces when I am writing anything that I think will please them. I do everything I can think of, to make it a good and helpful magazine for them.

_Stella_ from Ohio. Oh! not at all too old. We have many who are older than you. What an astonishing age your "chicken" reached! I have never heard of such a thing before. I should think it would have forgotten how to be a chicken! Orderly people are very pleasant to live with. I really do not know much about it by experience, but I know all about what it is to travel after a disorderly young person, and put away hat, and coat, and books, and blocks. I send my congratulations to your mother.

_Carrie_ from Minnesota. Bless her heart! You certainly do have need of patience. Five little people to copy all you say and do. If you chance to slam a door, or bang a book down hard, or say, "Oh, dear!" in a sharp sort of way, just as likely as not five doors will slam! and five "oh dears!" will be singing around the room. Yet, my Blossom, there is a very sweet side to it; what a chance you have to help the little lives to grow up pure, and sweet, and patient. May the dear Saviour give you a fresh blessing every day!

_Marion_ from ---- You do not give me the State, so I have to "guess" at it. It always gives me pleasure to hear of a Missionary Blossom. I wish you had told us the subject of your Bible reading. Did you select the verses yourself? Suppose you send me a copy for the Pansies? Thank you for the sweet bit of good news which you gave me at the close of your letter. Nothing better could have been told.

_Fred_ from Massachusetts. Your letter gave me great joy. When I can write down one of the P. S. members as a servant of the Lord Jesus, I always feel so safe and glad. May you be a brave soldier as long as you live.

_Lizzie_ from Nebraska. Welcome. May the "kind words" you are pledged to speak echo so far that we shall catch their music and send them on until they reach around the earth. Nay, they will reach further than that; every one of them echoes around God's throne.

_Agnes_ from Massachusetts. Do you know I think it is a very good hint as to a girl's character, when she says she always likes her teacher? It is apt to prove that she behaves herself in such a manner that her teacher can be kind and gentle to her. Is that it? Remember the "kind words" you are pledged to speak.

_Alice_ from New York. It is a great trial to a teacher to have whispering girls in her school. I know how your teacher will rejoice that you have chosen to break yourself of that habit. I suspect you will find it hard to do. Don't get discouraged.

_Chauncy_ from Massachusetts. Another boy with a temper! As soon as I get time, I am going to count the number of boys in the P. S. who have already taken that pledge. Then I shall know the number who are sure to be better men than they would have been without that resolve.

_Mary_ from Nebraska. I wish you had given me the name of the fault, my dear Blossom. I could so much better understand what your temptations are, and perhaps be able to help you. Still, you are welcome to all the privileges of the P. S. Will you let us hear how you succeed?

_Oscar_ from Pennsylvania. That is right, my boy. "By-words," beside being senseless things, are very apt as you say, to lead one at last into using profane by-words. I heard an old man who was trying hard to break himself of that dreadful habit, say that he began by constantly using the by-word, "My goodness!" until the time came when it did not seem to be strong enough to express his feelings, and he took a worse form of the same sin.

_Minnie_ from Pennsylvania. Another "dreamer." "I dreamed I was a great merchant," said a boy to his father, one morning. "Well, you will never be one," said his father, "for you will spend your time sitting and dreaming how nice it would be if you were somebody, instead of setting to work with a will, and being somebody."

This habit of talking about others is one very easily formed. If we would always say good and sweet things of them, I suppose it would do no harm. Did you ever hear of the dear old lady who was in the habit of always saying something good about every one who was mentioned in her hearing? One day, a daughter said of her, "I believe mother would find something good to say about Satan himself, if we should try it." So they agreed to try the experiment, and when their mother entered the room they were talking about how he tempted people constantly to do wrong. "Yes," said the dear mother, "I have often thought we might learn a lesson from his perseverance. He doesn't waste any time!" As to wearing the badge, you must be your own judge of when. Some of the Pansies only wear them at their weekly meetings; others wear them when they think there is a reason that they will be specially tempted to break the pledge. Others wear them all the time, and when they are soiled, send ten cents to have them renewed.

_Mary_ from Kentucky. How sorry I am for your disappointment! I do not know how it happened. We always attend to the badges as soon as the letters come. But about answers to letters, sometimes the poor little Blossoms have to wait until I am afraid they will almost wilt in their impatience! You see there are so many thousands of them, that, try as hard as I can, it is impossible to keep "caught up." We must each take a pledge of patience, and try to live up to it.

_Annie_ from Massachusetts. That is good news. It is a great joy to me to hear from my Pansies that their badges are really helping them. A great many forget to tell me anything about it. I hope you will have a very pleasant visit. When you lie in your hammock under the trees, looking up into the blue sky, I hope you will have sweet and helpful thoughts.

_Nellie_ from Pennsylvania. My dear, your pretty things that you make for those who have none, are to be sent wherever you please. Some of the Pansies send them to the great cities, in all of which there are hospitals for the sick poor children who have no parents to take care of them. Some select homes in their own town where they think their gifts would do good, and send them there. If you have anything to send, you might select the city nearest you, and address the package to the matron of the Children's Hospital, sending a letter of explanation with it.

_Julia_ from Virginia. We are glad that you find so much pleasure in THE PANSY. Hope you will succeed with your "club." It is those who try who are always the successful ones. I congratulate the "teeth." I know they are shining over their good fortune at this moment.

_Ettie_ from California. You have a "giant" to fight, it is true; but there is a happy thought--you are sure of success if you wear the armor which the great Captain has provided. Have you read a careful description of the armor? And are you clothed in it from head to foot? We should like to hear something about the country you live in; the birds, the flowers, the fruits, anything which interests you.

_H. A. M. W._ from Wisconsin. Dear friend, what an honor you have bestowed on the P. S. A "Blossom" which has been cultivated for threescore years must have a wonderful record of perfume shed for the glory of the Master! I regret that your young friends should have had to wait so long for their badges. There is some misunderstanding or it would not have occurred. We try to be very careful, but in a family of sixty thousand some mistakes will happen.

_Carroll_ from Vermont. You have plenty of company. The people who "start right off" to do things are few and delightful. They are the people who will, one of these days, do things that the world will be proud of. In other words, in this busy world, one must be "diligent in business" if he wants to accomplish much. As to the "hectoring," if you decide to attend promptly to all your duties, you will find that you have not so much time for that occupation, and I shouldn't wonder if it would also lose its interest to you. Do you know a little couplet--

Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do?

_Clara_ from Michigan. So you don't mean to tell us what that "worst fault" is? Well, tell it to Jesus, and ask his hourly help; then you will overcome it. I hope the badge will remind you of your Helper.

WONDER STORIES OF SCIENCE.

I HOPE that name pleases you, my dear Pansies, and I wish each one of you had a copy of the book to which it belongs. Let me describe the one which now lies on my desk. A lovely colored binding, I don't know whether the artists call it "olive" or "old gold" or "crushed strawberry" or what. It isn't exactly _any_ color, but reminds me of sunshine and autumn leaves. There is a medallion in gold on the upper half, and the monogram of the publishers on the lower right-hand corner. There are three hundred and eighty-three pages of good clear print, and some excellent pictures.

It is a book which retails for one dollar and fifty cents; and now comes my special bit of news which ought to rejoice your hearts. Every subscriber to THE PANSY who is also a member of the P. S. can secure it for eighty-five cents, by sending that amount to D. Lothrop & Co. with their order!

As for the things which it talks about, of course you know that in so many pages many interesting topics can be handled; for instance, "Christmas Cards," and "Newspapers," and "Camphor," and "Umbrellas," and "Combs," and "Thunderstorms," (!) and "Brooms," and "Lace," and a dozen other things. The fact is, if you take one article, no matter how simple, and seat yourself in a corner to think about it, you can get up twenty questions, right away, which you wish somebody would answer for you. Well, this book answers those very questions.

Now I am going to copy for you a bit right out of the heart of a story in it, which I know will delight the boys; the name of the story is:

"TALKING BY SIGNALS."

When boys live some distance apart, it is pleasant to be able to communicate with each other by means of signals. Many and ingenious have been the methods devised by enthusiastic boys for this purpose. But it can be brought much nearer perfection than has yet been done, by means of a very simple system.

At the age of fourteen, I had an intimate friend who lived more than a mile away, but whose home was in plain sight from mine. As we could not always be together when we wished, we invented a system of signalling requiring a number of different colored flags; but we were not quite satisfied with it, for we could send but few communications by its use. Then, when we came to test it, we found the distance was too great to allow of the different colors being distinguished. The white one was plainly visible. It seemed necessary, therefore, that only white flags should be used. We studied over the problem long and hard, with the following result. We each made five flags by tacking a small stick, eighteen inches long, to both ends of a strip of white cloth, two feet long, by ten inches wide. Then we nailed loops of leather to the side of our fathers' barns, so that, when the sticks were inserted in them, the flags would be in the following positions:

The upper left-hand position was numbered 1, upper right 2, lower right 3, lower left 4, centre, 5. Notice, there was no difference in the _flags_; the _positions_ they occupied, determined the communication.

Thirty combinations of these positions can be made.

These combinations were written down, and opposite each, was written the question or answer for which it stood. The answers likely to be used most, we placed opposite the shortest combinations, to save time in signalling. My old "Code" lies before me, from which I copy the following examples:

(Then follows a list, and an interesting account of a flag conversation which you can read for yourselves when you get the book.)

We usually spent our noon hour conversing in this manner; and, when it became necessary for either to leave his station, all the flags, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, were put out, signifying "gone."

One combination, 1, 2, 3, 4, was, by mutual consent, reserved for a communication of vital importance, "Come Over!" It was never to be used except in time of trouble, when the case would warrant leaving everything to obey the call. We had little expectation of its ever being used. It was simply a whim; although, like many other things, it served a serious purpose in the end.

Not far from my father's house stood a valuable timber lot, in which he took an especial pride. Adjoining this was an old apple orchard, where the limbs of several trees that had been cut down, and the prunings of the remainder, had been heaped together in two large piles to be burned at a favorable opportunity. One afternoon, when there was not the slightest breath of wind, we armed ourselves, father and I, with green pine boughs and set the brush-heaps a-fire. We had made the heap in as moist a spot as possible, that there might be less danger of the fire spreading through the grass. While the flame was getting under way, I busied myself in gathering stray bits of limbs and twigs--some of them from the edge of the woods--and throwing them on the fire.

"Be careful not to put on any hemlock branches!" shouted my father from his heap. "The sparks may snap out into the grass!"

Almost as he spoke, a live coal popped out with a loud snap, and fell at my feet, and the little tongues of flame began to spread through the dead grass. A few blows from my pine bough had smothered them, when snap, snap, snap! went three more in different directions. As I rushed to the nearest, I remembered throwing on several dead hemlock branches, entirely forgetting their snapping propensity.

Bestowing a few hasty strokes on the first spot of spreading flame, I hastened to the next, and was vigorously beating that, when, glancing behind me, I saw to my dismay that the first was blazing again. Ahead of me was another, rapidly increasing; while the roaring, towering flame at the heap was sputtering ominously, as if preparing to send out a shower of sparks. And, to make matters worse, I felt a puff of wind on my face. Terror-stricken I shouted: "Father! The fire is running! Come quick!"

In a moment he was beside me, and for a short time we fought the flame desperately.

"It'll reach the woods in spite of us!" he gasped, as we came together after a short struggle. "There isn't a neighbor within half a mile, and before you could get help it would be too late! Besides, one alone couldn't do anything against it!"

A sudden inspiration seized me. "I'm going to signal to Harry!" I cried. "If he sees it, he'll come, and perhaps bring help with him."

"Hurry!" he shouted back, and I started for the barn. The distance was short. As I reached it, I glanced over to Harry's. There were some white spots on his barn. He was signalling, and of course could see my signal. Excitedly I placed the flags in 1, 2, 3, 4, and without waiting for an answer, tore back across the fields to the fire. It was gaining rapidly. In a large circle, a dozen rods across, it advanced toward the buildings on one hand, and swept toward the woods on the other. We could only hope to hinder its progress until help should arrive.

Fifteen minutes of desperate struggle, and then, with a ringing cheer, Harry and his father dashed upon the scene. Their arrival infused me with new courage; and four pairs of hands and four willing hearts at length conquered the flame, two rods from the woods!

My father sank down upon a rock, and as he wiped the perspiration from his smutty face, he said:

"There, boys, your signalling has saved the prettiest timber lot in the town of Hardwick! I shall not forget it!"

For the way in which the father proved his gratitude, and what resulted, and a great deal more which is delightful reading, I must refer you to the book; for I have already taken too much space.

PANSY.

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OCT. 15. "=On Nantucket Shore.=" F. CHILDE HASSAM.

A wood engraving from this sea-beach picture was the frontispiece to the September Wide Awake. In a boy's room it would be a delightful reminder of vacation days.

NOV. 1. "=In Grandmother's Garden.=" WM. T. SMEDLEY.

This is a picture of the time when mother was a little girl, and walked with grandmother in the dear old lady's garden.

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Every nursery should have this picture of the captivating Dream Peddler, standing on the crescent moon and with his bell crying his dreams for sale.

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THE motto of the Society is "Pansies for Thoughts." What kind of thoughts? Oh, sweet, good, pure, unselfish, hopeful thoughts, such as Pansies, beautiful Pansies ought to inspire.

Now "who may join?"

Every boy and girl who takes the PANSY, and is willing to promise to try to overcome his or her faults, to encourage every good impulse, to try to conquer some hard lesson at school, to do anything that shows a disposition to help the cause of right in the world. Any one who will say from the heart: "I promise to try each day to do some kind act, or to say some kind word that shall help somebody;" honest effort will be accepted as much as if success were gained.

This promise must be dated, and will be copied into the "P. S." roll-book.

The most important of all to remember is our whisper motto: "I will do it for Jesus' sake."

"FOR JESUS' SAKE."

Whatever He will own, the "P. S." will be proud and glad to copy on its roll-book.

Then you must write a letter to Pansy (Mrs. G. R. Alden, Cincinnati, O.), saying that you thus pledge yourself, and you will become a member of the Pansy Society, and receive a badge.

Now, about the badges.

The officer's is of satin, trimmed with gilt fringe, and has a gilt pin to fasten the badge to the dress or coat. In the centre is a pansy in colors--above it the words, _Pansy Society_, and beneath it, _Pansies for Thoughts_.

The badge for members will be the same as the officer's, with the exception of having no fringe and a silver pin.

And the PANSY will help. As it has always been glad to encourage those who are struggling up toward the light, so now it reaches forth its helping hand to those little ones who will rally bravely around it, to the work, of putting down the evil, and the support of all things good and beautiful.

So many of you have little brothers and sisters who want to join the P. S., and who of course do not need an extra copy of the paper, that we have concluded to receive all such, letting them pay ten cents each for their badges, if they wish them. Understand! If you are a subscriber to THE PANSY, and have a badge, and have a little sister who would like a badge, write at her dictation a little letter to Pansy, taking the pledge, telling of some habit which she means to try to break, and enclosing twelve cents in two-cent stamps, ten to pay for the badge, and two to pay the postage for sending it. Her name will be enrolled as if she were a subscriber. The same advice applies of course to little brothers. Send your letters to MRS. G. R. ALDEN, Chapel Street, Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, O.

It is also asked:--

What makes an officer of the Pansy Society?

You are to endeavor to organize a club of as many members as you can. Each one forming such a Club or Society will receive the Officer's badge, and become President of the same. The local Society may contain as many members as can be secured.

Then, of course, you will plan for your Society; how often it shall be called together, and what your rules shall be; whether you will sing, or visit, or work, or have a literary society, or read a book. The only thing you call on the members to positively promise is that each will try to overcome some bad habit, and will take for the whisper motto the words--

"FOR JESUS' SAKE."

Each member of the "P. S." is invited to write to the editor, Mrs. G. R. Alden (Pansy), Cincinnati, O., how far the trial has proved a success, how many temptations have been resisted, how much progress in any direction has been made, etc., feeling sure of encouragement and loving help.

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=12. LUTE FALCONER, by the author of "Andy Luttrell." A
story of rare interest.=

These twelve volumes constitute the first year's series.

The twelve volumes announced below constitute the second year's series.

=13. FABRICS, by the author of "Finished, or Not." It
inculcates a lesson of loving and living for others.=

=14. THE PRINCE AND THE PAGE, by Miss C. M. Yonge. A
story of the last Crusade.=

=15. MYRA SHERWOOD'S CROSS, AND HOW SHE BORE IT.=

=16. THIS ONE THING I DO, by Mrs. A. E. Porter.=

=17. SO AS BY FIRE, by Margaret Sidney.=

=18. OLD SCHOOLFELLOWS, AND WHAT BECAME OF THEM.=

=19. ROSE AND MILLIE, by the author of "Hester's Happy
Summer."=

=20. VEIL ON THE HEART (The), by Miss L. L. Phelps.
Issued Nov. 15th.=

=21. THE NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE, by the author of "The New
Commandment." Issued Dec. 15.=

=22. FROM NIGHT TO LIGHT, by E. E. Brown. A beautiful
and thrilling story of Bible times.=

=23. SURE; or, IT PAYS. It ministers naturally to what
is highest in social morals and vital in religion. To
be issued Feb. 15.=

=24. SISTER ELEANOR'S BROOD, by Mrs. S. B. Phelps.
It has a fascination in its purity of tone and moral
sentiment.=

WHAT THE PRESS SAY OF US.

It would require much more space than we have at command to quote all the kind and flattering things the press has said of the publications of D. Lothrop & Co. And it is matter of just pride to the publishers to feel that every word of it is deserved. Below are appended some of these opinions from standard critical sources:

=Five Little Peppers and How They Grew.= (MARGARET
SIDNEY.) A charming little story of the home life
of a poor but happy family, whose members, from the
mother to the youngest child, are full of the spirit of
helpfulness and of love for each other.--_New England
Farmer._

The affection, happiness and goodwill prevailing
among the members of the humble family living in the
"little brown house," as narrated by the author of this
charming volume, cannot but have a beneficial influence
on the disposition of every little reader.--_Chicago
Evening Journal._

_Five Little Peppers and How They Grew_ is a good
title, and no mistake, and Margaret Sidney has made a
thoroughly readable and instructive story of which it
is the name.--_Boston Congregationalist._

Of all books for juvenile readers which crowd the
counters of dealers this season, not one possesses
more of these peculiar qualities which go to make up a
perfect story. It ought for the lesson it teaches, to
be in the hands of every boy and girl in the country.
It is finely illustrated and bound in handsome form,
and it will find prominent place among the higher class
of juvenile presentation books the coming holiday
season.--_Boston Transcript._

A capital story for young readers.--_Eastern Argus._

=Magna Charta Stories.= A real bright and healthy
little volume, showing excellent taste and judgment on
the part of the editor and compiler.--_Philadelphia
Times._

These stories will, we doubt not, be found stimulative
of a love of history, which is the chief design of
the author. It contains a great deal in a small
compass.--_Cincinnati Farmer._

The style of each narrative is picturesque and easy,
and all may read these pages with pleasure and
profit.--_Christian Advocate._

=Boy Life in the United States Navy.= This is a right
wholesome story of a Maine boy who enlisted for service
on the United States training ships. The book gives
a clear and full account of the rules, usages, and
course of study and discipline in this department of
the naval service. It depicts in a lively way life on
a man-of-war and contains much information regarding
other lands. Boys are sure to read such a book as this,
and to read this book can have no influence but for
good.--_Maine Sunday-School Reporter._

The entire account is a very interesting one, but we
are especially pleased with the information imparted as
to the character of instruction given the boys entering
the United States naval training service. In this book
that is so fully explained that every reader need have
no question to ask in relation thereto. It tells just
how far one can receive promotion in this line of the
service. It is a very interesting book and one with
which boys will be especially delighted.--_Boston
Sports and Pastimes._

Very graphically told, and the boy who reads it gets
a clear and actual idea what a boy must go through
on board a man-of-war before he can graduate as an
"able-bodied seaman." The writer shows a thorough
acquaintance with everything on board ship, even to the
minutest details.--_Cape Ann Advertiser._

Told in a manner to enlist the sympathy and admiration
of all boys, who, however, learn from the book that the
life of a sailor is not all sunshine.--_Brattleboro'
Household._

=How We are Governed.= (ANNA LAURENS DAWES.) Although
this book is written in a simple and explicit manner
intended for the comprehension of young people,
many who are not young would be greatly benefited
by studying it. In short it is a political history,
thorough and complete in its way, and one which should
be read by every voter who is not already acquainted
with the details of government.--_Cleveland Leader._

It would be an excellent text-book for our high
schools and academies, as well as a very useful and
attractive addition to the family library. It will
refresh the mind of any reader, however experienced he
may be, and add to the clearness of his comprehension
of the present processes of government, to read this
comprehensive and admirable treatise.--_Zion's Herald._

The specific merits of the book are the clear way
in which the underlying principles upon which our
government is founded are kept in view in explaining
its form and laws, and the simplicity and familiar
phraseology in which this information is conveyed.
Young people--and old ones, too--can learn from Miss
Dawes' book what it means to be an American.--_St. Paul
Pioneer and Press._

The whole style of the author is simple and helpful,
and the book ought to be welcome everywhere and
preserved for frequent reconsideration. It is
especially commended to young people and such as
have not read the professional writers on the same
subject.--_Boston Beacon._

=Wild Flowers and Where They Grow.= (AMANDA B. HARRIS.)
Just the book that every young person, or old person,
too, for that matter, who is interested in wild
flowers, should have in hand. It is not a text-book,
neither is it an essay about flowers, but it is a
bouquet itself, with bits of description, and the very
information that one wants. Miss Harris's style is
fascinating, and there is a freshness in this book of
the dew and the wind of springtime.--_Chicago Advance._

It is a real pleasure to accompany Miss Harris in her
rambles through fields and woods, where wild flowers
grow, and the pleasure is heightened by the faithful
illustrations contributed by Miss Humphrey.--_Chicago
Journal._

=China.= (R. H. DOUGLAS.) A good book, which cannot
fail to do much good, as it is eminently suitable for
popular circulation. The work is particularly well
written, amply illustrated, and remarkably accurate. It
ought to dispel forever the idle illusion that China is
a barbarous country.--_Boston Beacon._

Like every book that comes from the press of D.
Lothrop & Co. it is of a high order, paper and print
superior, and a neat as well as useful addition to the
library.--_Elmira_ (N. Y.) _Husbandman._

=Alaska.= (MISS R. SCIDMORE.) A well written and
exceedingly interesting volume. Miss Scidmore's
descriptions of the various places she visited and the
curious things she saw are vivid and picturesque, and
one can learn more of both from her pages than from
all the official reports that have been published. It
is a book that ought to have a wide popularity. It is
well illustrated and contains a map reduced from the
last general chart of Alaska published by the Coast
Survey.--_Lancaster_ (Ohio) _Gazette._

The author has a bright and pleasant style, and
has the advantage of describing regions which are
little known and ill understood. There are numerous
illustrations.--_Boston Journal._

A pleasant book, well suited for popular circulation
and a people's library; thoroughly entertaining as well
as instructive.--_Boston Beacon._

=Dean Stanley with the Children.= The beautiful book
now in hand will make a good many children and young
people familiar with the name and work of the good Dean
of Westminster.--_Chicago Standard._

The sermons here given are full of exquisite
tenderness, and form admirable models for discourses
of like character. Canon Farrar says that there was
not one sermon ever preached by Dean Stanley which did
not contain at least some one bright, and fresh, and
rememberable thing. Mrs. Humphrey's sketch not only
gives us an excellent idea of the man himself, but
also tells us many interesting things about the great
English public schools.--_Zion's Herald._

In this charming book the author makes us feel the
presence of that character so dear to all who know
him--Arthur Stanley, Dean of Westminster. Even from
his gentle childhood his life was devoted to Christian
truth and Christian history, and this volume with its
information concerning the illustrious dead, who lies
in Westminster, and its sermons to children is one that
every Christian mother will delight to read with her
boys.--_Springfield_ (Ill.) _Register._

An admirable gift book for young people is Mrs.
Humphrey's volume entitled Dean Stanley with the
Children.--_Boston Advertiser._

The book has a singularly beautiful moral influence
which commends it to parents.--_Boston Globe._

Every mother will be glad to add this little book to
the children's library, for the record it contains of
the life of a strong and noble character.--_New Bedford
Standard._

It is in every sense a timely as well as excellent
contribution to biographical literature.--_Cleveland
Leader._

Mrs. Humphrey's book _Dean Stanley with the Children_,
is a book so winsome that old and young readers cannot
fail to find it fascinating.--_Boston Traveller._

=The Pettibone Name.= (MARGARET SIDNEY.) If the
publishers had offered a prize for the brightest,
freshest and most entertaining picture of home that
fiction could give, they could not have been more
successful than in securing _The Pettibone Name_, for
the story is one that deserves a wide and enthusiastic
popularity.--_Hartford Courant._

It is always a pleasure to read a well-written story
of every-day life--one whose characters appear to be
faithful types of humanity. Such is _The Pettibone
Name_.--_Chicago Times._

The story is written with great simplicity, but with
many touches of pathos, and it is not often that
Calvinism is made as touching and attractive as it is
in some of the religious passages.--_Boston Budget._

Unless our judgment be at fault, _The Pettibone Name_
will create a decided sensation in the world of
fiction. It is so thoroughly free from weak and sickly
sentiment, the characters are so finely and sharply
drawn, and the whole impression so good, that its
success is beyond all question.--_Lutheran Observer._

The story is not only entertaining, but incidents
of New England life and manners are wrought in,
that will give the book more than a transient
interest.--_Advance._

"The Pettibone Name," by Margaret Sidney, as a
realistic picture of New England rural society, has
the details of a photograph. Its pages are often mirth
provoking, and yet under them all runs a current of
sober meaning that is impressive. Samantha Scarritt and
Dr. Pilcher are equal to Mrs. Stowe's best New England
delineations; and Bobby Jane is as thoroughly alive as
they. Indeed, the whole characterization has crispiness
and individuality, and is strong with the flavor of
humanity.--_Rural Home, Rochester, N. Y._

"One of the finest pieces of American fiction."

Its two ministers are well drawn. Its village
gossips are "racy of the soil," and in Judith
Pettibone, the Puritan woman with intense family
pride and stern reticence of life, finds a fitting
representative.--_Sun._

=How They Went to Europe.= (MARGARET SIDNEY.)
The story is illustrated and well told, and is
suggestive.--_Herald and Presbyter._

This is a charming fresh story of young girl-life,
presented in Margaret Sidney's most attractive
style.--_New Bedford Standard._

Margaret Sidney is one of the best and brightest story
writers we have. Her books are just such as we would
place in the hands of every story-loving boy or girl;
pure, bright, fresh and interesting. _How They Went to
Europe_ is no exception to the standard maintained by
her other works. In it a new and entirely practicable
plan for interesting the young in profitable and
stimulating mental culture is developed. The book is
full of valuable and suggestive ideas, and, withal, is
a very good story.--_Presbyterian._

If any author knows how to write for children, Margaret
Sidney does. She can feel and sympathize with them; all
that she writes about is natural and real, and pervaded
by such a spirit as should eminently recommend it to
Christian homes.--_Southern Sun._

This admirable little volume has all the sprightliness
and attractiveness of Mrs. Sidney's other books, and
this is saying a good deal in the way of praise.
Although written primarily for the younger class of
readers, it will have an equal charm for the older
folks.--_Christian Advocate._

It is a delightful book, the story is told in a
sprightly way, and is thoroughly wholesome.--_Chicago
Advance._

How we are Governed.

=By Anna Laurens Dawes.= 12mo, $1.50.

The task undertaken in this work by the accomplished daughter of Senator Dawes, has been to present an explanation of the constitution and government of the United States, both national, State, and local, in so simple and clear a way as to offer to the masses everywhere such an opportunity for their study as is not afforded by the numerous volumes in which such information is chiefly to be sought. She has accomplished her aim with remarkable success, and her book will have a hearty welcome from the thousands who appreciate the need of it.

Lilith: the Legend of the First Woman.

=By Ada Langworthy Collier.= 12mo, $1.00. GILT EDGES, $1.25.

In this book, which is characterized by rare brilliancy of expression, beauty of thought, and tenderness and pathos in sentiment, and which is withal as intensely interesting as any recent work of prose fiction, the accomplished author presents a poem based upon the Rabbinic legends that Eve was not Adam's first wife, but that she had a predecessor in the world's first Eden, who bore the name of "Lilith." The poem, based upon these legends, cannot fail to establish the writer's reputation as an exceptionally able writer of verse, a reputation which she has already gained as a writer of prose.

Boy Life in the United States Navy.

=By H. H. Clark.= 12mo, ILLUSTRATED, $1.50.

If there is anything in the way of human attire which more than any other commands the admiration and stirs the enthusiasm of the average boy of whatever nation, it is the trim uniform and shining buttons that distinguish the jolly lads of the "Navy." In this graphically written and wonderfully entertaining volume, boy life in the Navy of the United States is described by a navy officer, in a manner which cannot fail to satisfy the boys.

Memorial of Rev. Warren H. Cudworth.

=By His Sister=; WITH PORTRAIT, 380 PAGES, $1.50.

Simply told and remarkably interesting is this story of the life of one of the most saintly of Christian men. It will be welcomed and read with satisfaction by all who knew him. Those who never saw him, cannot fail to be stimulated by its suggestive thought.

Money in Politics.

=By Hon. J. K. Upton.= LATE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE UNITED STATES
TREASURY. EXTRA CLOTH, TOP. 12mo, $1.25.

This volume presents a complete history of money, or the circulating medium, in the United States, from the colonial days to the present time. Mr. Edward Atkinson, in his introduction, pronounces it the most valuable work of the kind yet published.

Baccalaureate Sermons.

=By Rev. A. P. Peabody, D. D. LL. D.= 12mo. $1.25.

These sermons, delivered before the graduating classes of Harvard University, it is safe to say, are not excelled by any production of their kind. They are not only rarely appropriate, as discourses addressed to educated young men upon the threshold of active life, but are models of logical thought and graceful rhetoric worthy the study of all ministers.

What's Mine's Mine.

=By George MacDonald=, AUTHOR OF "ANNALS OF A QUIET NEIGHBORHOOD,"
"DONAL GRANT," ETC. 12mo, CLOTH, $1.50.

From original MSS. It will be published by D. Lothrop & Co., in advance of the publication in England.

Boys' Heroes.

=By Edward Everett Hale.= READING UNION LIBRARY. 16mo,
ILLUSTRATED. PRICE, $1.00.

This handsome volume unites the charm of the _Arabian Nights_ with the solid value of an Encyclopædia. In its twelve chapters, Dr. Hale gives careful and definite account of a dozen famous characters the boys of all ages have agreed to regard as heroes, but about whom their information is often neither full nor accurate.

Japan and its Leading Men.

=By Charles Lanman.= NEW EDITION, ILLUSTRATED. 12mo, $1.50.

This volume gives full information of the Empire and also a highly interesting account of the origin of the American expedition to Japan. One of the most charming sketches of the "Leading Men" is that of Yoshida Kiyonari, who was for years our minister in Washington, and who with his agreeable wife entertained with fine hospitality President Grant and his lady while sojourning in Japan. Mr. Lanman has given in his book information and the result of scholarly research in most graphic language, which will do much to bring before us the elevated, progressive and gifted Japanese nation. The volume presents to the student of Japanese political progress, an invaluable work of reference.

The Children of Westminster Abbey.

=By Rose G. Kingsley.= READING UNION LIBRARY. 16mo. VERY FULLY
ILLUSTRATED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS AND OLD PRINTS.
PRICE, $1.00.