Descriptive Handbook to Juvenile Literature

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Finsbury public libraries, 1906 - Broj stranica: 336
 

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Stranica 321 - Charge will be made if this card is mutilated or not returned with the book GRADUATE LIBRARY THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN GL DO NOT REMOVE OR MUTILATE CARD...
Stranica 60 - THE PRINCE OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID; or, Three Years in the Holy City.
Stranica 97 - The story of a friendless orphan girl, who is placed as pupil-teacher at the school in which she was educated, but is suddenly removed by hard and selfish relatives, who employ her as a menial as well as a governess. Through a series of exciting adventures she makes discoveries respecting a large property which is restored to its rightful owners, and at the same time she secures her escape from her persecutors. The character of Dora is a very sweet one, and the interest of the story is so sustained...
Stranica 21 - THE HOUSE OF WALDERNE. A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons
Stranica 62 - St. George of England, St. Denis of France, St. James of Spain, St. Anthony of Italy, St. Andrew of Scotland, St. Patrick of Ireland, and St. David of Wales.
Stranica 50 - The hero, a young English lad. after rather a stormy boyhood, emigrates to Australia, and gets employment as an officer in the mounted police. A few years of active work on the frontier, where he has many a brush with both natives and bushrangers, gain him promotion to a captaincy, and he eventually settles down to the peaceful life of a squatter.
Stranica 105 - The History of the Fairchild Family, or the Child's Manual, being a collection of Stories calculated to show the importance and effects of a religious education.
Stranica 308 - Being Historical Stories collected out of English Romantic Literature in illustration of the Reigns of English Monarchs from the Conquest to King William IV.
Stranica 304 - Slieve Bloom/' &c. i6mo., cloth, gilt, price 2s. "It is a well-told story of Irish life, full of pathetic interest. Miss Kerr is a good writer for children; her books are attractive, healthy in tone, and on the whole well written." — Christian Miscellany. " The book is full of picturesque incident and picturesque pieces. It should find a place tn every parochial and Sunday-school library.
Stranica 59 - Scouring of the White Horse. Or, the Long Vacation Ramble of a London Clerk. By the Author of

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