Sara Crewe; or, What happened at Miss Minchin's . In this book, undoubtedly the most original and elaborate ever produced by an Americanartist, Mr. Pyle has gathered Irom the old ballads and legends, and told with pencil and pen, thecomplete and consecutive story of Robin Hood and his merry men in their haunts in Sherwoodforest. There is something thoroughly English and home-bred in these episodes in the life ofthe bold outlaw. His sunny, open-air nature, his matchless skill at archery, his generous dispo-sition, his love of fair play, and his ever-present courtesy to women, form a picture tha
Sara Crewe; or, What happened at Miss Minchin's . In this book, undoubtedly the most original and elaborate ever produced by an Americanartist, Mr. Pyle has gathered Irom the old ballads and legends, and told with pencil and pen, thecomplete and consecutive story of Robin Hood and his merry men in their haunts in Sherwoodforest. There is something thoroughly English and home-bred in these episodes in the life ofthe bold outlaw. His sunny, open-air nature, his matchless skill at archery, his generous dispo-sition, his love of fair play, and his ever-present courtesy to women, form a picture that has nocounterpart in the folk-lore of any other Mr. Pyle has taken the most characteristic of these old ballads, and has turned them intohis own fresh, simple, idiomatic prose, and has illustrated them as no other man in Americacould have done.—New York Mail id Express. SCR/BNERS BOOKS FOT{ THE YOUNG. A NEW EDITION AT REDUCED PRICE. THE AMERICAN BOYS Hanby BOOK OR, WHAT TO DO AND HOW TO DO IT. BY DANIEL C. BEARD. One volume, octavo, fully Illustrated by the Author, $ Mr. Beards book is the first to tell the active, inventive and practical American boy the thingshe really wants to know; the thousand things he wants to do, and the ten thousand ways inwhich he can do them, with the helps and ingenious contrivances which every boy can eitherprocure or make. The author divides the book among the sports of the four seasons ; and hehas made aD almost exhaustive collection of the cleverest modern devices, besides himselfinventing an immense number of capital and practical ideas. SUMMARY OF CONTENTS. Kite Time—War Kites—Novel Mod
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