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SCRIBNER’S BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG. SS THE STORY OF SIEGFRIED. BY JAMES BALDWIN. With a Series of Superb Illustrations by Howard Pyle. One vclume, square I2mo, - - - - : - - $2.00. "To wise parents who strive, as all parents should do, to regulate and supervise their children’s reading, this book is most earnestly commended, Would there were more of its type and excellence. It has our most hearty approval and recommendation in every way, not only for beauty of illustration, which is of the | highest order, but for the fascinating manner in which the old Norse legend is told.”— The ChurchTA. ‘No more delightful reading for the young can be imagined than that provided in this interesting book "— Boston Saturday Evening Gazette. It is a good, strong story ; it comes In among the mass of juvenile books like a wind blown from Northern woods,”—5Sxz day-School Times. TRE STORY OF ROLAND. BY JAMES BALDWIN. With a Series of Illustrations ty R. B. Birch. One volume, square I2mo, _- - - - - - - $2.00 This volume is intended as a companion to The Story of Siegfried. As Siegfried was an adaptation of Northern myths and romances to the wants and the understanding of young readers, so Is this story a similar adaptation of the middle-age romances relating to Charlemagne and his paladins, As Siegfried was the greatest of the heroes of the North so too was Roland the most famous among the Knights of the Middle-Ages,
