“William O. Stoddard has written capital books for boys.  His ’Dab Kinzer’ and ‘The Quartet’ are among the best specimens of ‘Juveniles’ produced anywhere.  In his latest volume, ‘Winter Fun,’ Mr. Stoddard gives free rein to his remarkable gift of story-telling for boys.  Healthful works of this kind cannot be too freely distributed among the little men of America.”—­NEW YORK JOURNAL OF COMMERCE.

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Little People

And their Homes in Meadows, Woods, and Waters.  By STELLA LOUISE HOOK.  Illustrated by DAN BEARD and HARRY BEARD.  One volume, square 8vo, $1.50.

“A delightful excursion for the little ones into the fairy-land of nature, telling all about the little people and all in such pleasant language and such pretty illustrations that the little readers will be charmed as much as they will be instructed by the book.”—­NEW YORK EVANGELIST.

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Two Books by Robert Louis Stevenson.

THE BLACK ARROW: 

A Tale of the Two Roses.  By R.L.  STEVENSON.  With 12 full-page illustrations by WILL H. LOW and ALFRED BRENNAN. 12mo, $1.25.

“The story is one of the strongest pieces of romantic writing ever done by Mr. Stevenson.”—­THE BOSTON TIMES.

KIDNAPPED:  Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751.  By R.L.  STEVENSON. 12mo, with 16 full-page illustrations, $1.50.

“Mr. Stevenson has never appeared to greater advantage than in ‘Kidnapped.’”—­THE NATION.

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Two Books by Henry M. Stanley.

MY DARK COMPANIONS

And Their Strange Stories.  With 64 illustrations. 8vo, $2.00

“The following legends,” says Mr. Stanley in his introduction, “are the choicest and most curious of those that were related to me during seventeen years, and which have not been hitherto published in any of my books of travel.”  There are in all nineteen stories, new and striking in motive and quaint in language.

MY KALULU.

Prince, King, and Slave.  A Story of Central Africa.  By HENRY M. STANLEY.  One volume, 12mo, new edition, with many illustrations, $1.50.

“A fresh, breezy, stirring story for youths, interesting in itself and full of information regarding life in the interior of the continent in which its scenes are laid.”—­NEW YORK TIMES.

“If the young reader is fond of strange adventures, he will find enough in this volume to delight him all winter, and he will be hard to please who is not charmed by its graphic pages.”—­BOSTON JOURNAL.

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Jules Verne’s Greatest Work.

“THE EXPLORATION OF THE WORLD.”

“M.  Verne’s scheme in this work is to tell fully how man has made acquaintance with the world in which he lives, to combine into a single work in three volumes the wonderful stories of all the great explorers, navigators, and travelers who have sought out, one after another, the once uttermost parts of the earth.”—­THE NEW YORK EVENING POST.