ave accomplished in the United States
a work second to that of no publishing house.

Little change can be made in the literary tastes of a generation which
is passing off the stage. If there are evidences of dangerous tendencies
in popular thought, or if an infection of the public mind is being
spread by unwholesome reading, the antidote for all this, so far as the
future is concerned, lies in the protection of the young by providing
them with a literature which is at once attractive and wholesome.

This work was undertaken by D. Lothrop & Co. years ago. With the firm
conviction that ultimate success would attend their efforts, they have
employed the pens of scores of those who have shared their convictions,
including some of the best known authors at home and abroad, and have
sent out an ever increasing stream of pure, attractive and instructive
literature, which has reached every part of the land, and made their
name, famous everywhere.

Those who began, as children, to read books of the character supplied by
D. Lothrop & Co., have a taste for books equally elevating and
instructing in maturer years. For the thousands of such, and the
thousands of others who may be attracted by good literature, the later
publications of this house, as evidenced by its large and rapidly
increasing list of miscellaneous standard books, make generous
provision.

In a general way, the public are familiar with the aims of this house,
and have come to regard its imprint upon a book as a guarantee of
excellence in all essential qualities.

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RECENT AND CHOICE BOOKS FOR S. S. LIBRARIES.

=By E. A. Rand.=

Pushing Ahead, $1 25
Roy's Dory, 1 25
Little Brown-Top, 1 25
After the Freshet, 1 25

=By Margaret Sidney.=

The Pettibone Name, $1 25
So as by Fire, 1 25
Half Year at Bronckton, 1 25

=By Pansy.=

An Endless Chain, $1 50
Ester Ried Yet Speaking, 1 50
New Year's Tangles, 1 00
Side by Side, 60

=By Carrie A. Cooke.=

To-days and Yesterdays, $1 25
From June to June, 1 25

=By Marie Oliver.=

Seba's Discipline, $1 50
Old and New Friends, 1 50
Ruby Hamilton, 1 50

=By Mrs. S. R. G. Clark.=

Our Street, $1 50
Yensie Walton, 1 50
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