The Sea Slug Slugger from the Sea. By L. C. Laxson. Price $1.00 This book is in the highest style of literature for the boys. A Young Fugitive From Dixie. A Story of Plantation Life In South Carolina. By John P. Kennedy. Price $1.00 An interesting story of plantation life in South Carolina, during the latter half of the eighteenth century, and the early part of the nineteenth. In Recessional Clothing. By Louise Pettis, author of "Little Red House in New Jersey," "Over the Hills to School," "Peggy and Her People," "Sally's Hero," etc. Price $1.50 A realistic story of school days, told by the children themselves. The Sands of Her Time. A Story for Girls. By Abigail Scott Duniway. Price $1.50 A beautiful and pathetic story of a little city girl transplanted to the country, with a new brother and sister, telling how her new life affects her older life, and how the mother, after many discouragements, succeeds in establishing the family again in the old home, at the country seat. "Pussy" with Two Little Kittens. By Louis G. Weil. Price $1.00 Pussy has a family of kittens, twins; and being all good boys, but troublesome, and the cat getting old, she takes them one night and strays away, leaving them under the neighbor's back steps. The boy happens to pass along the street, and by the aid of his companion of the tramp days, finds them and brings them home. They become favorites with his little sister, who never can have enough of them. The story, told simply, is told well. --=_Send for Our Free Illustrated Catalogue._= SHELLABER & COMPANY, NEW YORK. [Illustration] Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe. (A Story for Very Young Girls.) By Mrs. G. R. Alden. Illustrated by BERTHA H. BECKWITH. Price $1.25. A wonderfully true and faithful little tale about a young English girl who had been an invalid, and had to spend a portion of each year at a watering place, and who had often expressed a desire to have a baby to take out with her in the steamer to make her journey more cheerful. One day she was told that the "Stork" had come, and in an instant the news was all over the house, and she was almost wild with delight. Her family were, however, much perplexed to know where the baby was going to be born, and the doctor suggested that they should send word to the great Lord High Admiral at Portsmouth, and he would tell them. The very next day a letter came from the Stork's "office," saying that the Queen of England wanted a baby of her own, and that she had determined to make Lucy's little brother a present. The "Wonderful Globe" was an enormous globe, and when its beautiful shining surface was removed Lucy peeped within and saw all manner of beautiful things. First she discovered her great brother Jack (she never could decide which she liked the best), and in her excitement was so naughty that she was banished to the nursery, and had to leave her beloved "Wonderful Globe" behind her, and the other toys too. Her grandfather then took possession, and she went to bed, and there lay in a beautiful new bed a tiny little brother, in his pretty white frock; and then began the question, "Where shall we take him?" Lucy had never known a brother, and could not tell where he should be taken; and after a while her uncle Tom said, "Now let's take him to Lucy's Wonderful Globe, it's much too big for him to begin with, but we will make it grow." The "Stork" was full of wrath when she came to know of Lucy's behaviour; but when Lucy took her little brother, and said that she would never get into mischief any more, her great grandfather said he should tell the Stork that "she was the best friend the little one had had, and that she could stay with us always." And when Lucy showed the Stork her beautiful "Wonderful Globe" and her lovely gold watch, the Stork grew quite pleased, and said, "I will tell you when I want her back," and then she went away and there was great rejoicing at the family. Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe has become a very favorite book, and many young girls delight to read it. [Illustration] Little Sister's Story of the "Twins" (A Story for Young Girls.) By Mrs. M. A. Aldrich. Price $1.25. Sister Jane loved to hear stories, so when the boys were away, she used to listen to "Mother's" stories of her own young days, as she used to call them. One morning when she was seven, she was told by her mother that she might go to see her Aunt Hannah, who was visiting at the other end of the hall, and find her some books. A little more noise, and perhaps she would not have heard the answer of "Mother" to her question, "You tell her that you are very busy; that I have so many things to do," and then the door was opened and she saw the little golden head of a boy peeping in, a little brother of her own! The child seemed unwilling to speak, but his mother said, "He has a dreadful cold; but you must not mind it; he has been a patient baby ever since he was born." And then the child spoke: "How do you do? What are you doing? Where is my sissy? I think I see my sissy?" Sister Jane took her little brother home, and was more busy than ever, she was so happy to have him with her. When he was a very little fellow he used to say, "Sis, you are the best thing in the whole wide world," and Sister Jane always loved the first word of his little speech. When a baby is put into the mother's arms it is a new life beginning for her and for all that she touches and belongs to. [Illustration] The Sands of Time. A Story of Child Life. By Harriet A. Stover, author of "Emmy's Journal," "Ferns Neck," "The Children of Cherry Street," etc. Price $1.00 This is a charming little book, full of earnest religious feeling and sweet teaching. A sweet and pure girl narrator tells of the struggles of a little country girl, who, moved by a mother's earnest desire that her child should be brought up in the fear of the Lord, seeks to win this precious blessing. LITTLE FOLKS & HOW THEY LIVE. [Illustration] In "Little Folks" have made a place For what they choose, to tell. The truthful histories they keep By telling faithfully what they know. We trust that we may find therein Truth's honest picture of life's ways. It is all very pleasant to see In "Little Folks" the little folks, When we are children, and in the school We sit with those same little folks. [Illustration] [Illustration] THE BOYS' AND GIRLS' BOOKSHELF. MILDRED'S NEW YEAR OLD. By Grace Ellery Channing. THE ADVENTURES OF JIMMIE LION. By James Otis. THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH: A LITTLE BOY'S TREASURE. By Harriet L. Bryant. MRS. HULL'S INHERITANCE. By the author of "Beauty and the Beast," and "A Child's Book of Poetry." HELPFUL HINTS FOR GIRLS. By Mrs. S. S. Robbins, author of "Beauty and the Beast," etc. MY FATHER'S TEN COMMANDMENTS: A PILGRIM'S PROGRESS. By James E. Cooke. WALTER'S WISH. By John R. Wodrow, author of "Old Daniel's Oration," etc. THE LITTLE TAR'S TALE. By Helen Bannerman, author of "Mrs. Carroll's New Year," etc.