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THE GREAT ROUND WORLD
NATURAL HISTORY
STORIES.

A Series of True Stories

BY
JULIA TRUITT BISHOP.

Attractively Illustrated by Barnes.

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These stories will be issued in parts.  Price, 10 cents each.  Subscription price (12 numbers), $1.00.  Part 1. issued as supplement to GREAT ROUND WORLD NO. 20.

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    =Author’s Preface.=

The stories published in this little volume have been issued from time to time in the Philadelphia Times, and it is at the request of many readers that they now greet the world in more enduring form.  They have been written as occasion suggested, during several years; and they commemorate to me many of the friends I have known and loved in the animal world.  “Shep” and “Dr. Jim,” “Abdallah” and “Brownie,” “Little Dryad” and “Peek-a-Boo.”  I have been fast friends with every one, and have watched them with such loving interest that I knew all their ways and could almost read their thoughts.  I send them on to other lovers of dumb animals, hoping that the stories of these friends of mine will carry pleasure to young and old.

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    =WILLIAM BEVERLEY HARISON,=
    =3 & 5 West 18th Street.=

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FOUR FAMOUS BOOKS

Every boy and girl is interested in what is going on about them.  The authors of this series have gathered together the most interesting kind of information, and have told it in a most entertaining way.

Copies will be sent post-paid to any address upon receipt of price named.

1. =Foods and Beverages=, by E.A.  BEAL, M.D.  Contains reading lessons on the various kinds of Foods and their hygienic values; on Grains, Fruits, and useful Plants, with elementary botanical instruction relating thereto; and on other common subjects of interest and importance to all, old and young. 281 pages.  Cloth, 60 cents.

2. =Every-Day Occupations=, by H. WARREN CLIFFORD, S.D.  Quantities of useful facts entertainingly told, relating to work and workers.  How Leather is Tanned; How Silk is Made; The Mysteries of Glass-Making, of Cotton Manufacture, of Cloth-Making, of Ship and House Building; The Secrets of the Dyer’s Art and the Potter’s Skill—­all and more are described and explained in detail with wonderful clearness. 330 pages.  Cloth, 60 cents.

3. =Man and Materials=, by WM. G. PARKER, M.E.  Shows how man has raised himself from savagery to civilization by utilizing the raw material of the earth.  Brings for the first time the wonderful natural resources of the United States to the notice of American children.  The progress of the Metal-Working arts simply described and