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Helen’s Babies

By

John Habberton

Interesting! 
Entertaining! 
Amusing!

A book with a famous reputation.  It is safe to say that no book, illustrating the doings of children, has ever been published that has reached the popularity enjoyed by “HELEN’S BABIES.”  Brilliantly written, Habberton records in this volume some of the cutest, wittiest and most amusing of childish sayings, whims and pranks, all at the expense of a bachelor uncle.  The book is elaborately illustrated, which greatly assists the reader in appreciating page by page, Habberton’s masterpiece.

Published as follows: 

Popular Price Edition, Cloth, 60c., Postpaid.

Quarto Edition, with Six Colored Plates, Cloth, $1.25, Postpaid.

We guarantee that you will not suffer from “the blues” after reading this book.

Ask for our complete catalogue.  Mailed upon request.

HURST & CO., Publishers, 395-399 Broadway, New York.

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Elegant Gift Books

Hurst’s Presentation Series

A Distinctive Cover Design on Each Book

A beautiful series of Young People’s Books to suit the tastes of the most fastidious.  The publishers consider themselves fortunate in being able to offer such a marvelous line of choice subjects, made up into attractive presentation volumes.  Large type, fine heavy paper, numerous pictures in black, inserted with six lithographic reproductions in ten colors by eminent artists, bound in extra English cloth, with three ink and gold effects.

Price, postpaid, $1.00 per volume.

  Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. 
  Andersen’s Fairy Tales. 
  Arabian Nights. 
  Black Beauty. 
  Child’s History of England. 
  Grimm’s Fairy Tales. 
  Gulliver’s Travels. 
  Helen’s Babies. 
  Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare. 
  Mother Goose, Complete. 
  Palmer Cox’s Fairy Book. 
  Peck’s Uncle Ike and the Red-Headed Boy. 
  Pilgrim’s Progress. 
  Robinson Crusoe. 
  Swiss Family Robinson. 
  Tales from Scott for Young People. 
  Tom Brown’s School Days. 
  Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Books sure to be a delight to every boy and girl who becomes the proud possessor of any or all of them.

Write for our Complete Catalogue.

HURST & CO., Publishers, 395-399 Broadway, New York.

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The Works of Mary J. Holmes

This popular novel writer has written a large number of successful books that have been widely circulated and are constantly in demand.  We issue twenty of them as below: