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LAD BOOKS," says Mr. H. V. Meyer of the American Baptist Publication Society. Selections from The Page Company's List of Fiction WORKS OF ELEANOR H. PORTER POLLYANNA: The GLAD Book (340,000) Cloth decorative, illustrated by Stockton Mulford. Net, $1.25; carriage paid, $1.40 Mr. Leigh Mitchell Hodges, The Optimist, in an editorial for the Philadelphia North American, says: "And when, after Pollyanna has gone away, you get her letter saying she is going to take 'eight steps' to-morrow--well, I don't know just what you may do, but I know of one person who buried his face in his hands and shook with the gladdest sort of sadness and got down on his knees and thanked the Giver of all gladness for Pollyanna." POLLYANNA GROWS UP: The Second GLAD Book Cloth decorative, illustrated by H. Weston Taylor. Net, 1.25; carriage paid, $1.40 When the story of POLLYANNA told in The Glad Book was ended a great cry of regret for the vanishing "Glad Girl" went up all over the country--and other countries, too. Now POLLYANNA appears again, just as sweet and joyous-hearted, more grown up and more lovable. "Take away frowns! Put down the worries! Stop fidgeting and disagreeing and grumbling! Cheer up, everybody! POLLYANNA has come back!"--Christian Herald. The GLAD Book Calendar THE POLLYANNA CALENDAR (This calendar is issued annually; the calendar for the new year being ready about Sept. 1st of the preceding year. Note: in ordering please specify what year you desire.) Decorated and printed in colors. Net, $1.50; carriage paid, $1.65 "There is a message of cheer on every page, and the calendar is beautifully illustrated."--Kansas City Star. MISS BILLY (17th printing) Cloth decorative, with a frontispiece in full color from a painting by G. Tyng $1.50 "There is something altogether fascinating about 'Miss Billy,' some inexplicable feminine characteristic that seems to demand the individual attention of the reader from the moment we open the book until we reluctantly turn the last page."--Boston Transcript. MISS BILLY'S DECISION (10th printing) Cloth decorative, with a frontispiece in full color from a painting by Henry W. Moore. Net, $1.25; carriage paid, $1.40 "The story is written in bright, clever style and has plenty of action and humor. Miss Billy is nice to know and so are her friends."--New Haven Times Leader. "The author has succeeded admirably in repeating so delightful a
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