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ORY OF SIEGFRIED.= With a series of Full-page Illustrations by HOWARD PYLE. =One volume, 12mo, $1.50.= "It is told with spirit and is beautifully illustrated." --_The New York Sun._ "'The Story of Siegfried' is charmingly told. The author makes up the story from the various myths in a fascinating way which cannot fail to interest the reader. It is as enjoyable as any fairy tale. The writer's style is simple and very attractive, and the book is in every way an excellent one for young readers." --_The Hartford Courant._ * * * * * =THE STORY OF ROLAND.= With a Series of Full-page Illustrations by R. B. BIRCH. =One volume, 12mo, $1.50.= [Illustration] "Finely written, beautifully bound and excellently illustrated, it is a charming gift-book for either a boy or a girl." --_The Critic._ "The old romance is thus told in English for the first time in a connected form, and is admirably told in the true spirit of chivalry." --_The Boston Traveler._ "Mr. Baldwin has culled from a wide range of epics, French, Italian and German, and has once more proved his aptitude as a story teller for the young, while conveying information for which many of their elders will be thankful." --_The Nation._ * * * * * THE BLACK ARROW. _A TALE OF THE TWO ROSES_. BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. =With 12 full-page Illustrations by Will H. Low and Alfred Brennan.= _One volume, 12mo, paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00._ "We have devoured the book at a sitting; and were the question to arise which of the author's two books, 'Treasure Island' or 'The Black Arrow,' should be preserved, if only one of them could escape destruction, we should hesitate not a moment to cry out for 'The Black Arrow.' It has all the charm of the other book and something more." --_The Critic._ "The Black Arrows are a kind of Robin Hoods, who forgather in the greenwood, kill the King's venison, waylay the King's subjects, and exercise a simple and primitive injustice by killing everybody in any way connected with the objects of their special animosity. Mr. Stevenson has made a striking series of dramatic pictures. The action is vigorous and incessant. The lawless condition of the time is kept in ev
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