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cean._ =The Jolly Rover.= By J. T. TROWBRIDGE. Illustrated. $1.25. "This book will help to neutralize the ill effects of any poison which children may have swallowed in the way of sham-adventurous stories and wildly fictitious tales. 'The Jolly Rover' runs away from home, and meets life as it is, till he is glad enough to seek again his father's house. Mr. TROWBRIDGE has the power of making an instructive story absorbing in its interest, and of covering a moral so that it is easy to take."--_Christian Intelligencer._ =Young Joe=, AND OTHER BOYS. By J. T. TROWBRIDGE. Illustrated. $1.25. "Young Joe," who lived at Bass Cove, where he shot wild ducks, took some to town for sale, and attracted the attention of a portly gentleman fond of shooting. This gentleman went duck shooting with Joe, and their adventures were more amusing to the boy than to the amateur sportsman. There are thirteen other short stories in the book which will be sure co please the young folks. =The Vagabonds=: AN ILLUSTRATED POEM. By J. T. TROWBRIDGE. Cloth. $1.50. "The Vagabonds" are a strolling fiddler and his dog. The fiddler has been ruined by drink, and his monologue is one of the most pathetic and effective pieces in our literature. =LEE AND SHEPARD, BOSTON, SEND THEIR COMPLETE CATALOGUE FREE.= BOOKS BY EVERETT T. TOMLINSON THE WAR OF 1812 SERIES By EVERETT T. TOMLINSON Cloth Illustrated Per volume $1.50 COMPRISING =The Search for Andrew Field= =The Boy Soldiers of 1812= =The Boy Officers of 1812= =Tecumseh's Young Braves= =Guarding the Border= =The Boys with Old Hickory= [Illustration: The Boys with Old Hickory] Mr. Tomlinson, who knows the "ins and outs" of boy nature by heart, is one of the most entertaining and at the same time one of the most instructive of living writers of juvenile fiction. In his younger days a teacher by profession, he has made boys and their idiosyncrasies the absorbing study of his life, and, with the accumulated experience of years to aid him, has applied himself to the task of preparing for their mental delectation a diet that shall be at once wholesome and attractive; and that his efforts in this l
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