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Major Gibbs, like his brothers, possesses the gift of writing. As an enlisted man, and as an officer, his experiences were unusually varied. He is, therefore, one of the most interesting, most illuminating, of the personal narratives that have come out of the war. Frontispiece. Crown Evo. Cloth. $2.00 net. (October) The Juvenile Leader for the Coming Season BY THORNTON W. BURGESS All readers of the "Bedtime Story-Books" will want this new Burgess Book. Told in story form, this is an authoritative bird book, so written as to arouse the interest of even the littlest tots in their feathered neighbors, and at the same time enable them to recognize them. It is beautifully illustrated with fifty-seven drawings in full- A Crown Octavo of 351 pages. $2.50 net. (For boys and girls TALES OF FOLK AND FAIRIES By KATHARINE PYLE From old worlds across the seas come these fairy tales-Russian, Persian, Indian, Arabian, Scotch and Serbian. 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