By Conduct and Courage Part 55

[Ill.u.s.tration: _From THE BIG BOOK OF NURSERY RHYMES_ BY CHARLES ROBINSON-WALTER JERROLD (See page 25)]

[Ill.u.s.tration: _From MY BOOK OF TRUE STORIES_ (See page 31) SIR PHILIP SIDNEY AND THE DYING SOLDIER (_Reduced from a Colour Ill.u.s.tration_)]

H. B. NEILSON-CLIFTON BINGHAM

The Animals' Academy. With 24 full-page Colour Ill.u.s.trations and many Black-and-White Vignettes. Picture-boards, cloth back, 3_s._ 6_d._; cloth, 5_s._

In _The Animals' Academy_ Mr. Neilson and Mr. Bingham have again combined their forces, and have turned out a picture-book which for fun and variety will be difficult to equal. In bright, musical, "catchy" verse Mr. Bingham tells of the many amusing events that take place at a school in which the elephant is master and other well-known animals are the scholars, and Mr.

Neilson ill.u.s.trates the story as only he can ill.u.s.trate animal frolics.

"A humorous, clever, and delightful book. The pictures of the dressed-up animals will captivate little children."-_British Weekly_.

H. B. NEILSON-JOHN BRYMER

Games and Gambols. Ill.u.s.trated by HARRY B. NEILSON; with Verses by JOHN BRYMER. 26 pages in colour, and 24 pages of letterpress. Picture boards, 9 inches by 11 inches, cloth back, 2_s._ 6_d._; also cloth elegant, 3_s._ 6_d._

Mr. Neilson surpa.s.ses himself in these irresistible colour pictures representing the animal world at play. The great test match between the Lions and the Kangaroos, Mrs. Mouse's Ping-Pong Party, Mr. Bruin playing Golf, Towser's Bicycle Tour, and the Kittens _v._ Bunnies Football Match, are a few among the many droll subjects ill.u.s.trated in this amusing and original series.

"Mr. Neilson has a positive genius for making animals comic."-_Academy_.

"Children will revel in his work."-_Daily Graphic_.

S. R. PRAEGER

How They Went to School. With 24 full-page pictures in full colour.

Picture-boards, cloth back, 2_s._ 6_d._; cloth extra, 3_s._ 6_d._

A pretty picture-book for the little ones, full of quiet humour and shrewd observation of child life. The book tells in picture and story how Hal and Kitty, two tiny scholars, set out on their way to school, and the various adventures that happen to them on the road.

"Quite the most charming book we have yet seen."-_Daily News_.

OUR DARLING'S FIRST BOOK

Bright Pictures and Easy Lessons for Little Folk. Quarto, 10? inches by 7 inches, picture boards, 1_s._; cloth, gilt edges, 2_s._

An interesting and instructive picture lesson-book for very little folk.

Beginning with an ill.u.s.trated alphabet of large letters, the little reader goes forward by easy stages to word-making, reading, counting, writing, and finally to the most popular nursery rhymes and tales.

"The very perfection of a child's alphabet and spelling-book."-_St.

James's Budget_.

ELLINOR DAVENPORT ADAMS

Those Twins! With a Frontispiece and 28 Ill.u.s.trations by S. B. PEa.r.s.e.

Cloth elegant, 2_s._ 6_d._

Two little rogues are the twins, Horatio and Tommy; but loyal-hearted and generous to boot, and determined to resist the stern decree of their aunt that they shall forsake the company of their scapegrace grown-up cousin Algy. So they deliberately set to work to "reform" the scapegrace; and succeed so well that he wins back the love of his aunt, and delights the twins by earning a V.C. in South Africa.

"A merry story for young and old."-_World_.

A. B. ROMNEY

Little Village Folk. With 37 Ill.u.s.trations by ROBERT HOPE. 2_s._ 6_d._

A series of delightful stories of Irish village children. Miss Romney opens up a new field in these beautiful little tales, which have the twofold charm of humour and poetic feeling.

"A story-book that will be welcomed wherever it makes its way."-_Literary World_.

MY NEW STORY-BOOK

Stories, Verses, and Pictures for the Little Ones. 290 pages, of which 48 are in colour. Cloth; 2_s._ 6_d._

A treasury of entertainment for the nursery. The contents are extremely varied both as regards the text and the ill.u.s.trations, and carefully designed to meet the tastes of the little ones. The many bright colour pictures will be in themselves a never-failing source of delight.

"A fascinating little volume, well filled with stories and quaint and pretty ill.u.s.trations."-_Guardian_.

STORIES BY GEORGE MAC DONALD

(NEW AND UNIFORM EDITION)

A Rough Shaking. With 12 page Ill.u.s.trations by W. PARKINSON. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, 3_s._ 6_d._

Clare, the hero of the story, is a boy whose mother is killed at his side by the fall of a church during an earthquake. The kindly clergyman and his wife, who adopt him, die while he is still very young, and he is thrown upon the world a second time. The narrative of his wanderings is full of interest and novelty, the boy's unswerving honesty and his pa.s.sion for children and animals leading him into all sorts of adventures. He works on a farm, supports a baby in an old deserted house, finds employment in a menagerie, becomes a bank clerk, is kidnapped, and ultimately discovers his father on board the s.h.i.+p to which he has been conveyed.

At the Back of the North Wind. With 75 Ill.u.s.trations by ARTHUR HUGHES, and a Frontispiece by LAURENCE HOUSMAN. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, 3_s._ 6_d._

"In _At the Back of the North Wind_ we stand with one foot in fairyland and one on common earth. The story is thoroughly original, full of fancy and pathos."-_The Times_.

Ra.n.a.ld Bannerman's Boyhood. With 36 Ill.u.s.trations by ARTHUR HUGHES. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, 3_s._ 6_d._

"Dr. Mac Donald has a real understanding of boy nature, and he has in consequence written a capital story, judged from their stand-point, with a true ring all through which ensures its success."-_The Spectator_.