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Enclosed please find ($3 for ($5) Name (1) years subscription to St. Nicholas beginning St. Nich.-10-19 GOOD BOOKS YOUNGSTERS love to hear about the doings of other children. Reading of the ad ventures kiddies have had in by-gone days!-why, it's as real as if the experiences were their own. In the Little Folks Series published by THE ABINGDON PRESS the stories are told as well as any Mother could tell them, and it's very much easier for Mother to read than to make up tales. Other interesting ABINGDON books for children and for grown-ups are described in a catalog-sent on request. LITTLE FOLKS IN HISTORY (In four books) "Not many know the story of the boy leader of BOOK I Little Folks on Thrones LITTLE FOLKS OF THE BIBLE (In four books) These delightful stories differ from other Bible nar- "Little Folks of the Bible presents the familiar child characters of the book. The stories are told in appropriate tone. The entire collection may be warmly commended."-The New York Evening Post. 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The chapters recounting the fights on, and for, the vessel, and its final fate, will hold the breathless interest of every patriotic American, boy or girl, man or woman, who is fortunate enough to read them. The authors never told a more thrilling story. 352 pages. Illustrated. Price $1.50 12 mo, Also by the Same Authors LOST ISLAND A thrilling story of the adventures of a Brooklyn boy who could not resist the call of the sea. He fares forth on his own account, and circumstances send him around the world. Difficulties and dangers confront him, but he meets them always with steady courage; and finally his adventures lead to a sunken ship's treasure more precious even than gold. 12 mo, 389 pages. Illustrated. Price $1.50 Books by Ralph Henry Barbour CAPTAIN CHUB. 23 full-page illustrations by Relyea. $1.50. THE CRIMSON SWEATER. A capital story of athletics. Illustrated by Relyea. $1.50. CROFTON CHUMS. Sixteen illustrations by Relyea. $1.50. HARRY'S ISLAND. Pictures by Relyea. KINGSFORD, QUARTER. Illustrated TEAM-MATES. 22 full-page illustra- TOM, DICK, AND HARRIET. 16 il THE CENTURY CO. 353 Fourth Avenue New York City Other big stories this month "The Well of Ourir" A French boy's exciting adventure in an African desert. "Tired Bull's Busy Day" Thrilling and funny, both. Keep on, too, with "High Benton" and "Catty Atkins" in this October, the biggest number of The American Boy ever published. In Mid-Pacific, lacking food or water, under blazing suns by day, storm-wracked by night, among dying and dead companions, this 16-year-old wireless operator lived to tell his thrilling, terrible tale to The American Boy readers. You have never read a more romantic or remarkable story than the true story that 16-year-old Theron Bean, wireless operator of Portland, Ore., tells himself in the October American Boy. An emergency operator in the U. S. Merchant Marine, selfeducated in the elements of radio operation, Theron Bean went along as operator on the wooden steamer Damaru, from Seattle for the Philippines with gasoline and dynamite. A bolt of lightning destroyed the ship. With 31 others, few of whom survived the frightful ordeal, Theron tossed in an open whaleboat on an open sea for days, 'til washed ashore among semi-savage natives. But get it all from him at first hand in his own words in the October American Boy, just out. Get one at your news-stand-ask Dad to bring it home for you. He'll enjoy this story, too. Don't miss this remarkable story or The American Boy this month-eight pages larger than any other ever! 20c a copy on news-stands, $2.00 a year by mail THE SPRAGUE PUBLISHING COMPANY Dept. 69, Detroit, Mich. "The Telegraphic Laugh" How a messenger boy "Yankee Ingenuity" Two boys' thrilling experiences on a cannibal island. A knowledge of electricity saved them. "The Burning Arrow" Anew Jimmy May series, showing Jimmy in an outlaw hunt through southern swamps. |