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=Cookery for Beginners.= By MARION HARLAN. 16mo. In
extra cloth, blank pages. $1.00.

=Twenty-Six Hours a Day.= By MARY BLAKE. 12mo. Extra
cloth. $1.25.

D. LOTHROP & CO., Publishers and Booksellers.
Franklin and Hawley Streets, Boston, Mass.

THE POPULAR PANSY BOOKS.

The works of this popular author are universally acknowledged to be among the very best of all books for Sunday-school reading. Earnest, hopeful, practical, full of the spirit of Christian faith and courage, they are also in the highest degree interesting.

COMPLETE LIST OF THE PANSY BOOKS.

_Each volume 12mo., $1.50._

Chautauqua Girls at Home.
Divers Women.
Echoing and Reëchoing.
Endless Chain (An).
Ester Ried.
Ester Ried Yet Speaking.
Four Girls at Chautauqua.
From Different Standpoints.
Hall in the Grove (The).
Household Puzzles.
Julia Ried.
King's Daughter (The).
Links in Rebecca's Life.
Mrs. Solomon Smith Looking On.
Modern Prophets.
Man of the House (The).
New Graft on the Family Tree (A).
Pocket Measure (The).
Ruth Erskine's Crosses.
Randolphs (The).
Sidney Martin's Christmas.
Those Boys.
Three People.
Tip Lewis and his Lamp.
Wise and Otherwise.

_Each volume, 12mo., $1.25._

Cunning Workmen.
Dr. Deane's Way.
Grandpa's Darlings.
Miss Priscilla Hunter and my Daughter Susan.
Mrs. Deane's Way.
What She Said.

_Each volume, 12mo., $1.00._

Five Friends.
Mrs. Harry Harper's Awakening.
Next Things.
Pansy's Scrap Book.
Some Young Heroines.

_Each volume, 12mo., 75 cents._

Getting Ahead.
Mary Burton Abroad.
Six Little Girls.
That Boy Rob.
Two Boys.

_Each volume, 16mo., 75 cents._

Bernie's White Chicken.
Docia's Journal.
Helen Lester.
Jessie Wells.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Hedge Fence (A). 16mo., 60c.

Side by Side. 16mo., 60c.

Pansy's Picture Book. 4to., boards, $1.50; cloth, $2.00.

The Little Pansy Series. 10 vols., boards, $3.00;
cloth, $4.00.

Mother's Boys and Girls Library. 12 vols., quarto,
boards, $3.00.

PANSY'S NEW BOOKS.

Among the new books by this favorite author, which Sunday-school Superintendents and all readers of her previous books will wish to order, are:--

=One Commonplace Day.= Pansy has brought out in this book a vivid, lifelike story, full of strong incentives to right thinking and living. 12mo, cloth, $1.50.

=Interrupted.= Has all the charm of this author's style, grown riper each year. 12mo, extra cloth, $1.50.

=In the Woods and Out.= Admirably suited to the needs of a large class of young folks. It is composed of the choicest of short tales so delightful at the twilight hour when the children clamor for "a story." 12mo, cloth, $1.00.

=The Browning Boys.= A fascinating story of the growth of two boys who set out on their birthday to be helpful at home. By applying the "golden texts" of the International Sunday-school lessons in their every-day life, they, without swerving from the strictest sense of right, are able to send their invalid father to Florida, and were the means of his restoration to health. 16mo, cloth, 60 cents.

=A Hedge Fence.= A story that will be particularly pleasing to boys, most of whom will find in its hero a fair representation of themselves. 16mo, 60 cents.

=An Endless Chain.= From the introduction, on the first page, of the new superintendent of the Packard Place Sabbath-school, to the end, there is no flagging of interest in this bright, fresh, wholesome story. Illustrated. 12mo., $1.50.

=Side by Side.= Short illustrated stories from Bible texts for the help of boys and girls in their every-day duties. 16mo., cloth, 60 cents.

=Christie's Christmas.= No more charming little heroine can be found than the Christie of this volume, and the story of her journey to spend Christmas, with the great variety of characters introduced, all of them original and individual in their way, is perfectly novel and interesting.

As a guide to teachers, rich in suggestions and directions for methods of teaching, etc., there is nothing better than =Pansy's Scrap Book=. 12mo., cloth, illustrated, $1.00.

In fact all of Pansy's books have some special charm or attraction which makes them a power for good wherever read.

JUST READY

The New Sunday-school Library, No. 11. 20 Volumes. Former prices, $1.25 and $1.50 each; net to Schools, $10.00.

New Pansy Primary Library. 20 Volumes. Net to Schools, $5.00.

32 FRANKLIN ST., BOSTON, March, 1886.

TO SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHERS:--

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(_From the N. Y. Tribune._)

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Leads .05
Type Case .30
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Can of Cleaning Preparation, .30
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Transcriber's Notes:

Punctuation errors repaired.

First advertising page, "wokr" changed to "work" (Embroidery Cotton to work)

Same, "AAMATEUR" changed to "AMATEUR" (AMATEUR PRINTERS.)

Page 205, "unpleasont" changed to "unpleasant" (not an unpleasant task)

Page 205, final line of first stanza indented to match rest of poem (It cannot matter much)

Page 207, "come" changed to "came" (supper time came)

Page 215, "reaehed" changed to "reached" (reached their destination)

Page 223, "somwhat" changed to "somewhat" (being somewhat curious)

Page 227, "invisble" changed to "invisible" (balloon was invisible)

Page 228, "Inever" changed to "I never" (I never would have)

Page 237, repeated word "to" removed from text. Original read (ought to to go)

Page 237, word "the" added to text (down the street)

Page 238, "missonaries" changed to "missionaries" (built by the missionaries)

Page 238 and 239, text uses both "Oroomia" and "Oroomiah" once.

Page 3, advertising, "andthe" changed to "and the" (literature, and the book)

Page 3, advertising, ".00" added to text to match rest of prices. (By Hezekiah Butterworth. $1.00.)

Page 12, advertisements, "Pepy's" changed to "Pepys'" (Mr. Pepys' Valentine)

Page 12, advertisements, "Tunrcoat" changed to "Turncoat" (A Revolutionary Turncoat)

Page 12, advertisements, "VI" changed to "IV." (IV. Some Italian Authors)

Page 12, advertisements, "By" changed to "by" (by Anna Katherine Greene)

Page 14, advertisements, "o" changed to "of" (fidelity to facts of)

Page 14, advertisements, "Dr." changed to "DR." to match rest of type-setting in advertisement (DR. GEO. T. DAY)

Page 14, advertisements, word "By" added to text (By FRANCES A. HUMPHREY.)

Page 14, advertisements, "HARLA" added to "HARLAN" (By MARION HARLAN.)

Page 14, advertisements, "12m" changed to "12mo." (MARY BLAKE. 12mo.)

Page 15, advertisements, "she" changed to "She" (What She Said)