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  A UNIQUE BOOK.

  "_For children, parents, teachers, and all who are interested in thepsychology of childhood._"

  The Book of Knight and Barbara.

  By DAVID STARR JORDAN. Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.

  The curious and fascinating tales and pictures of this unique book areintroduced by Dr. Jordan with the following preface: "The only apologythe author can make in this case is that he never meant to do it. Hehad told his own children many stories of many kinds, some original,some imitative, some travesties of the work of real story-tellers.Two students of the department of education in the StanfordUniversity--Mrs. Louise Maitland, of San Jose, and Miss Harriet Hawley,of Boston--asked him to repeat these stories before other children.Miss Hawley, as a stenographer, took them down for future reference,and while the author was absent on the Bering Sea Commission of 1896she wrote them out in full, thus forming the material of this book.Copies of the stories were placed by Mrs. Maitland in the hands ofhundreds of children. These drew illustrative pictures, after theirfashion; and from the multitude offered, Mrs. Maitland chose thosewhich are here reproduced. The scenes in the stories were alsosubjected to the criticisms of the children, and in many cases amendedto meet their suggestions. These pictures made by the children havebeen found to interest deeply other children, a fact which gives thema definite value as original documents in the study of the workings ofthe child-mind. At the end of the volume are added a few true storiesof birds and of beasts, told to a different audience. With these are afew drawings by university students, which are intended to assist theimagination of child-readers."

  D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK.