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”We hardly know of such a delicious book for little children, with sixty little stories and the same number of lovely full-page pictures of cats and dogs and dolls, for the delight of grown-ups just as surely as the little folks. It is a pleasant little feast all the way through for the eyes and the tender feelings.”--_Herald and Presbyter._
”There is a good deal of both fun and sentiment in the stories, and they will appeal to all lovers of pets.”--_Brooklyn Daily Eagle._
THE SLEEPY-TIME STORY-BOOK
By RUTH O. DYER
With Frontispiece by ALICE BARBER STEPHENS and Fifty-four Pen-and-ink Ill.u.s.trations by BERTHA DAVIDSON HOXIE Decorative End-leaves and t.i.tle-page
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Intelligent mothers have learned better than to spoil the restful sleep of a child, and probably exert an unfortunate influence upon his disposition and character, by tales of ogres, dark woods, and savage beasts. They know he cannot rest well with his mind excited and his blood quickened by tales of adventure, but are at a loss to answer the natural plea for a bed-time story in a way that shall interest and yet soothe. The simple nature-stories in this attractive book are the prescription of an expert for all such cases. Using familiar objects, they, with words adapted to a lulling tone of voice, will hold the attention of a child until refres.h.i.+ng drowsiness comes to bring healthful rest.
”A unique and delightful volume of restful stories by which the mother may put her little child to bed. They meet not only the need of the mother who thinks she does not know how to tell stories, but their slow cadences must be almost magical in the way of lulling a child to refres.h.i.+ng drowsiness.”--_Bulletin of the American Inst.i.tute of Child Life._
”In the fas.h.i.+on of prose lullabies, Ruth Dyer has put together a little volume of twenty-five short stories. Each deals with the things of every-day child experiences, and aside from the standpoint of nap-time stories, forms a pleasant lesson for the child consciousness in making it aware of its surroundings.”_--The Churchman._
”Pretty little bedside tales of the tranquilizing order are grouped in this neat little book for the pleasure of little people and the relief of mothers.”--_Detroit Free Press._
New Editions of Two Favorite Books
THE LANCE OF KANANA
A STORY OF ARABIA
By HARRY W. FRENCH (”Abd el Ardavan”)
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Kanana, a Bedouin youth, though excelling in athletic prowess, is branded, even by his father, as a coward because he prefers the humble lot of a shepherd to the warrior's career that he, the son of a sheik known as the ”Terror of the Desert,” was expected to follow. ”Only for Allah and Arabia will I lift a lance and take a life,” he maintained.
Opportunity to prove his worth soon comes, and the supposed coward, understood too late, becomes in memory a national hero.
”The stirring story of the loyalty and self-sacrifice of a Bedouin boy is well worth the attractive new edition in which it now presents its rare pictures of fervid patriotism.”--_Continent, Chicago._
THE ADVENTURES
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