JEST-BOOK

THE CHOICEST ANECDOTES AND SAYINGS

SELECTED AND ARRANGED

BY MARK LEMON

16mo. Green Vellum. Vignette Title. Price, $ 1.75.

BOSTON POST.

"Gentlemen, prepare to smile. Here is an interest for a minute or a dull day. Mark Lemon gives us the result of his recondite searches and seizures in the regions of infinite jest. Like all good jesters, he has the quality of sound philosophy in him, and of reason also, for he discriminates closely, and serves up his wit with a deal of refinement in it."

HARTFORD PRESS.

So exquisitely is the book printed, that every jest in it shines like a new gold dollar. It is the apotheosis of jokes. There is jollity enough in it to keep the whole American press good humored."

PROVIDENCE JOURNAL.

"Mark Lemon, who helps to flavor Punch, has gathered this volume of anecdotes, this parcel of sharp and witty sayings, and we have no fear in declaring that the reader will find it a book of some wisdom and much amusement. By this single 'Lemon' we judge of the rest."

CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE.

"This little volume is a very agreeable provocative of mirth, and as such, it will be useful in driving dull care away."

ST. JOHN'S GLOBE.

"It contains many old jokes, which like good wine become all the better for age, and many new and fugitive ones which until now never had a local habitation and a name."

CHICAGO JOURNAL.

"For a fireside we can imagine nothing more diverting or more likely to be laughed over during the intervals of labor or study."

BALLAD BOOK

A SELECTION OF THE CHOICEST BRITISH BALLADS

EDITED

BY WILLIAM ALLINGHAM

16mo. Vellum. Vignette Title. Price, $1.75.

PORTLAND TRANSCRIPT.

"These Old Ballads have a value as pictures of the manners and customs of the rude times in which they originated, and possess besides a pathos and simplicity which must ever delight the lovers of poetry. In giving them authentic and consistent form, Mr. Allingham has performed a good work."

WORCESTER SPY.

"The Ballad Book, edited by William Allingham is one of the gems of the season. It contains seventy-five of the choicest British Ballads, introduced by a delightful introductory essay on Ballad literature.".

PHILADELPHIA AGE.

"The selections in this delightful little book have been made with the greatest care. It contains nearly a hundred of the best old English Ballads, which the reader will be glad to find presented in an acceptable form. It should be in every library.”

CHICAGO JOURNAL OF COMMERCE.

"This is a fine collection of old British Ballads, selected and arranged by the English poet, William Allingham, with excellent taste and judgment. It contains the best versions of all the well-known old Ballads, with many others not so familiar, but even more interesting.'

COMMONWEALTH.

"Altogether it is one of the best books of its class we have ever seen."

ANTI-SLAVERY STANDARD.

"Mr. Allingham appears here as the editor of what we may safely call the best existing collection of Ballads within the compass of a single volume of this size."

SUNDAY BOOK OF POETRY

SELECTED AND ARRANGED

By C. F. ALEXANDER

16mo. Vellum, Vignette Title. Price, $1.75.

EVANGELIST.

"All the selections are in harmony with the general spirit of the volume, while sprinkled here and there are many dear, old, familiar hymns, which we heard sung in childhood by voices now forever stilled, and which we hope to hear till they are lost on 'the dull cold ear of death.' Such pieces sanctify any collection. Hence we bid it God speed. Let it go on its way singing the songs of a better world in the ears of this wicked generation. As for the getting up of this volume, it is in such perfect taste that not Oxford or Paternoster Row can show anything more exquisite. It is well it is so, for beautiful forms are the fitting shrine for thoughts of such purity as have less of earth than of heaven."

METHODIST.

"So rich and complete is the volume, that there is scarcely a subject to which reference is not made. The craving of the soul for spiritual nourishment on the Sabbath is fully satisfied by drinking in the sweetness of sacred poetry."

LITERARY REGISTER.

"Its piety is not of the obtrusive kind, that repels, but it breathes a gentle sweetness that glides into the spirit of the reader, and possesses alike the intellect and the affections."

BOSTON POST.

"We cheerfully commend the collection to the Christian Mothers of the land, that they receive aid in beautifying the immortal and fadeless flowers-lives running forever parallel with their own-placed in their keeping."

CONGREGATIONALIST.

"One cannot open the book at random without finding something excellent. The gleaning is from harvest-fields of old and new literature; many of the later poems are from sources quite unfamiliar, yet they are as beautiful as they are fresh,"

The Golden Treasury Juvenile.

DREAM CHILDREN

66

BY THE AUTHOR OF

SEVEN LITTLE PEOPLE AND THEIR
FRIENDS."

Embellished by full-page Illustrations after designs by WHite, with ornamental Initials, illustrating each story.

16mo. Vellum Cloth. Price, $1.25.

NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW.

"Its external form, the prettiness of its cover, the clearness of its finely-cut type, the appropriate originality of its initial letters, the excellence of its large illustrations, are only the befitting dress and adornment of stories delightful alike in feeling and in fancy."

SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN.

"It has an individuality and flavor of its own, is very charming as a work of fancy, and healthful in the tone which breathes through the stories, like fragrance through a grove of pines."

BOSTON JOURNAL.

"It is a book for children; written not down to them, as some by mistaken opinion are, but up; so that it will not be found uninteresting to the most thoughtful reader. If any one has a child whom he loves, and in whose genius he particularly delights and hopes, let him buy this book, and in an auspicious hour, perchance when day fades into twilight, let him read one of these stories to him, and he will find out better than from any other critic their value and their meaning."

CLEVELAND DAILY HERALD.

"In the opinion of a jury of little critics to whom the book was submitted, and whose decisions have considerable weight with us in matters of juvenile literature, Dream Children is one of the very best and nicest' books of its class, and it occupies a place of honor on the children's shelf."

"Dream Children is as ideal and imaginative as childhood itself. Whoever reads it, no matter of what age, will be morally elevated and refined at beholding the beautiful exposition of what is most lovely in humanity enacted in the world of flowers and animals. The sense of what we read is twofold more affecting when we can see our very selves through the thin veil of fable, fairy, and allegory. This is a book which one would delight in reading to his child, alone, in some quiet, large arm-chair; or if he had no child, to make him wish that he had; for it is of that character of excellence to so commend itself, you wish everybody to know and have it."