A romance of an Eastern girl and a Western youth, an almost human automobile, and a trip from Minneapolis to Seattle. $1.75 net. "A story of today, as American as corn on the cob. future of American literature."-New York Times. Heartens one as to the I B 2 MCARONI BALLADS By T. A. DALY, author of "Carmina,” “Canzoni,” etc. ACROSS THE BLOCKADE A Record of Travels in Enemy Europe By HENRY NOEL BRAILSFORD. $1.50 net. The most illuminating and authoritative account yet published of what has happened in Central Europe since the Armistice, by one of England's leading Liberal publicists. MODERN AMERICAN POETRY A collection by LOUIS UNTERMEYER. $1.25 net. An authology of American verse since Whitman, containing some 130 poems For Young Folks CZECHOSLOVAK FAIRY TALES $2.00 net. Retold by PARKER FILLMORE, with illustrations by JAN MATULKA. A beautiful book, with all the charm of Slavic folklore, and with delightful illustrations by a brilliant Czech artist. BOB THORPE, SKY FIGHTER IN THE LAFAYETTE FLYING CORPS $1.50. By AUSTIN BISHOP. Illustrated by JOHN R. NEILL. HARCOURT, BRACE & HOWE 1 West 47th Street NEW YORK NEW CROWELL JUVENILES Jed's Boy By Warren Lee Goss. Ill. 8vo. $1.50 net. The story of an American boy in the Great War. An incomprehensible action of his towards the close of the war makes him seem like a traitor to the international cause, but when the mystery clears he is found to be a patriot of the highest type. The boy is nephew to "Jed" a character in a book of our Civil War, by the same author, a book which has been reprinted for so many years it seems destined to be a classic. A wonderful horse and dog are featured in the story of the nephew. The Story of Our National Ballads By C. A. Browne. Ill. 8vo. $1.50 net. With the account of the origin of these ballads, the definite historic episode in which it has taken its rise is discussed by the author in a fashion to throw interesting light on the inner turn of their events. Songs of the Spanish-American War and the World War follow those growing from the earlier episodes of our national growth. Little Curly Head By Johanna Spyrl. Trans. by Helen B. Dole. Col. illus. 8vo. 75 cents net. A story of the Alps and their peolpe, like that of "Heidi" by the same author, and relates the kindly contact of a rich and poor family through an incident of Christmas day, which brings the children of each into happy relations with each other. With its color illustrations and its glimpses of Swiss life, likely to interest American children, it makes an appropriate holiday gift book.. Girls' Book of the Red Cross By Mary Kendall Hyde. Ill. 8vo. $1.25 net. A review of the work of the "Greatest Mother of the World," from a point of view to interest girls, particularly, but also presented in such a way as to give for any reader an interesting survey of this great work. From the time of the origin of its emblem, the Red Cross, with the Crusaders of the Middle Ages, it arrives at the founding of the modern order by Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War. Grand-Daddy Whiskers By Nellie M. Leonard. Ill. 8vo. 75 cents net. Another of the "Graymouse family" books for little readers. The adventures of the lively groups of little animals about which children love to read, pointed by droll line drawings. A Treasury of Animal Stories Hunting and nature stories for children told by an old hunter to admiring young friends who call him the "Grey Man" and find enchantment in visiting his home filled with trophies of his own exploits. Tales of India, the North Pole and the New World are in the collection. THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY Opening the Iron Trail By Edwin L. Sabin. Ill. 8vo. $1.35 net. The always picturesque and at the same time living subject of the real events in the growth of this nation-this tale of the laying of the first railroad across our country is calculated to take its place as a favorite with boy readers as the author's previous boys' books have done. Encounters with Pawnee and Sioux tribes who fought the iron road aid the thrills of the story. Daisy By Ruth Brown McArthur. Col. illus. 8vo. $1.25 net. The story, humorously told, of an irresponsible, wide awake girl and the way she made for herself against odds, is the type of story inspiring to every American girl. Not the least use ful part of the theme is that which shows how this girl and her sister help the apparently unsympathetic relative they live with to discover herself, through awakening to understand them and their youthful ways which have at first shocked her. A Peep at the Front By Inez N. McFee. Ill. Svo. $1.25 net. A book of the war for boys and girls with sufficient of its real activities told to make its effort as a stupendous and stern enterprise realized, without including its greater horrors or its too complex technicalities. We read in it of the soldiers going courageously to the front, of the systematic ordering of their life in the trenches, the problems of living and eating there under fire; work of the various branches of service; air, signal service, miners and sappers, work of the engineering corps on bridges and roads, and more. Boy Hikers Homeward Bound By Chelsea Curtis Fraser. Ill. Svo. $1.25 net. The second book of a lively new series, "The Boy Hikers," for boys. Beginning with simply breezy adventures of a hike across states, it accumulates excitement through running German spy plots to earth, and delivering the farms of a certain section from a series of barn burnings. By these activities they contribute their "bit" during the summer, to our nation's war efforts. Boys' Book of Battles By Che.sea Curtis Fraser. Ill. Svo. $1.25 net. A picturesque volume of famous conflicts on American and European fields told with a mass of picturesque detail and local color which gives them a new vitality. Battles of the recent Great War complete the historical epoch covered. The Maid of Orleans: The Story of Jeanne d'Arc for Girls By M. S. C. Smith. Ill. 8vo. $1.25 net. The author brings out the chief events in the career of the maid whose mystical influence seems ever to rest upon France, and handles her subject in a way to emphasize the simple, human aspect of the heroine's character, giving her life story a peculiarly rich appeal. Belgian Fairy Tales By William E. Griffis. Col. illus. Svo. $1.25 net. Since the test of "little" Belgium's mettle in the Great War, anything which throws light on the interior life of her people is interesting to ours. Through the songs and folk tales of a people we get very close to their hearts. These tales are intended as a contribution to such intimate acquaintance. Not all fairy tales, but many of them fanciful, they give us glimpses of manners, customs, and ideals in work and play of the Belgian people. Publishers NEW YORK T Atlantic Books As Gifts The contents, binding, and make-up of the following list give these books AN AMERICAN IDYLL: GENERAL The Life of Carleton H. Parker. By Cornelia S. Parker. A love story and a biography, and altogether a tale of life and achievement. binding, gilt top, and photogravure frontispiece. $1.75. COLLECTOR'S LUCK. By Alice Van Leer Carrick. Attractive It is not of the priceless objects that few can collect that Mrs. Carrick writes, but of those interesting pieces, large and small, which add to the charm of a home, and which fill the amateur collector with enthusiasm. Profusely illustrated, charmingly bound. $2.50. THE AMENITIES OF BOOK-COLLECTING. By A. Edward Newton For the book-lover this is a volume which cannot fail to please; for the layman it is a volume full of inspiration. Profusely illustrated with frontispiece in color. $3.50 (After Jan. 1, 1920, $4.00) ADVENTURES IN INDIGENCE. By Laura Spencer Portor. A collection of the author's most notable essays. The covers, facsimiles of an old-style book, are the color of old vellum, with quaint design in color. Decidedly a gift book. $1.50. THE PERFECT GENTLEMAN. By Ralph Bergengren. The genial author of The Comforts of Home now ridicules the foibles of men. ATLANTIC CLASSICS. These two A collection, in two volumes, of thirty-three of the finest essays contributed to the Atlantic Monthly in recent years. Beautiful leather edition with half-binding in dark maroon calf; gilt top and lettering. Two volumes, attractively boxed, $6.00. (The two volumes in uniform cloth binding, $2.50.) JUVENILE THE FIRELIGHT FAIRY BOOK. By Henry B. Beston. A new fairy book is always a delight. The stories in this one are imaginative and charming and the illustrations captivating. Profusely illustrated in color by Maurice E. Day. Price $3.00. JANE, JOSEPH AND JOHN: Their Book of Verses. By Ralph Bergengren. Verses with a Stevensonian simplicity and charm in which children of all ages will delight. Beautiful full-page illustrations in color by Maurice E. Day. 9in. by 12in. Specially boxed for Christmas; price $2.50. (After January 1, 1920, $3.00.) UNCLE ZEB AND HIS FRIENDS. By Edward W. Frentz. A book of short stories of child life and the out-of-doors. Brimful of interest and information for the young reader. Twenty-two full-page black and white illustrations. Price $1.50. THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS 41 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston, Mass. A Holiday Selection For a complete description of our new books write for our free 32 page illustrated catalog, mentioning this advertisement. THE FORBIDDEN TRAIL Author of "Still Jim," "The Heart of the Desert," etc A novel of the Arizona desert country, a drama of human striving and human failing, in which a man's conquest, of nature and his more important conquering of himself are the vital points. Mrs. Willsie's earlier novels established her as the writer who from actual experience could make readers share her love of the desert. Here she gives also a story of gripping intensity, of unusual happenings, in which the sweetness of human love, the power of man's ambition and the harmfulness of his passion are pictured with manifest sincerity. Frontispiece in color. LITTLE MISS BY-THE-DAY BY LUCILLE VAN SLYKE "A delectable story," says the New York Sun of this novel, whose joyous little heroine, after a girlhood spent in the country, returns to her childhood home in Brooklyn to raise the burden of debts from the crumbling old house. "They will be dead souls indeed who miss its charm." Frontispiece in color. RAINBOW VALLEY By L. M. MONTGOMERY Author of "Anne of Green Gables," etc. "A wholesome romance in which the reader delightfully renews the acquaintance of several old friends and makes many new ones Bubbling over with quaint humor and amusing character studies."-Springfield Union. Frontispiece in color. LOVE LETTERS OF BILL TO MABLE By EDWARD STREETER All the letters of the indefatigable Bill to his sweetheart, comprising "Dere Mable," "Thats Me All Over, Mable" and "Same Old Bill, eh Mable!" If you are a real, genuine, dyed-in-the-wool American, if you are a good sport, a loyal baseball fan, if you revelled in your youth in "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn." then the "Dere Mable" letters are for you. Illustrated by Bill Breck. AMERICA'S RACE TO VICTORY "Col. Requin has presented a vivid and stimulating picture of the problem our country faced in April, 1917," says Gen. Peyton C. March in his cordial introduction to this volume, "the faulty organization with which we at first attempted its solution and the gradual steps by which our national endeavor gained momentum until it swept everything before it in what was, indeed, a 'race to victory.'' With remarkable diagrams. OF MR. PUNCH'S HISTORY THE GREAT WAR "A record in comment as well as in cartoon of the great war by the able artists of Punch and his no less able writers To read this book is not only delightful, but it is to learn-if one does not already know it-a lot about British morale."-Chicago Evening Post. 170 cartoons and other illustrations. LO, AND BEHOLD YE! True Irish folk-tales, which the New York Times says, "glow with Irish humor, wink genially with Irish shrewdness, exhibit naive credulity, roar with laughter." 8 illustrations by Mabel Hatt. PUBLISHERS FREDERICK A. From STOKES' List Our children's books for this and several previous years are fully described in our free 32 page illustrated children's catalog. STOKES' WONDER BOOK OF MOTHER GOOSE A comprehensive Mother Goose, carefully compiled and beautifully illustrated. Mother Goose never goes out of fashion-her rhymes are the invariable starting point of the child's library. An edition such as this, notable alike for its careful editing, its distinctive color illustrations and its reasonable price is a veritable nursery treasure, fully measuring up to the standard of its companion volumes, "Stokes' Wonder Book of the Bible" and "Stokes' Wonder Book of Fairy Tales." With 24 illustrations in full color and 138 in black and white by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis. GOLDEN DICKY By MARSHALL SAUNDERS The author of "Beautiful Joe" tells the story of a valiant little canary and the other pets belonging to a delightful family of animal lovers. Throughout the story Miss Saunders shows, with her rare understanding of animal personality, how the happiness of human beings is interestingly and beautifully connected with the love and mutual service between themselves and their faithful animal friends. Frontispiece in color. FOR DAYS AND DAYS By ANNETTE WYNNE A year-round treasury of original verse for children, which, says William Stanley Braithwaite in his introduction, will soon rank as a classic. The Boston Post says it is "simply filled with little rhymes for all the twelve months of the year. There are fairies in them, and growing things, and sunshine and rain, and toys and all the other things that children delight in." Frontispiece in color. DADDY PAT THE MARINES By LT. COL. FRANK E. EVANS "A very simple and vivid account of war life in France, printed in big capital letters, and uniquely illustrated by a father on active service to his little 6-year-old boy in America. Many more pretentious war volumes rather conspicuously lack the sincerity. the fresh point of view. and the crisp, humorous style to be found in this little book."-Chicago Evening Post. Illustrated. UNCLE SAM, FIGHTER By WILLIAM A. DUPUY The inspiring story of how Uncle Sam drafted, equipped, trained, cared for and used his army of three million men, with authoritative facts not generally known. 15 full page photographic illustrations. THE BOYS' AIRPLANE BOOK By A. FREDERICK COLLINS "Facts that all wide-awake boys want to know about the airplane, its history, construction and uses An excellent book for boys who have a taste for mechanics and for anyone, old or young, who wants a concise, accurate description of the principles of the airplane.”- New Haven Journal Courier. JACK HEATON, WIRELESS OPERATOR By A. FREDERICK COLLINS A thrilling adventure story of which the Newark Sunday Call says, "Boys seeking intelligible explanation of wireless telegraphy, of submarines and of how artillery fire is directed by wireless in combination with airplanes will find the book instructive as well as entertaining." STOKES COMPANY NEW YORK |