"Alas! I have sinned, and the Island of Happiness has sunk down into the earth!" And he opened his eyes and saw a distant star like that of the sinking garden; but it was the morning star in the sky.
He got up and found himself in the large forest close to the Cavern of the Winds. The mother of the Winds sat by him, and looked angry, and raised her arm aloft.
"The very first evening," said she. "I thought it would be so! If you were my son, you should be put into the bag presently."
"Into it he shall go, sure enough!" said Death. He was a stalwart man with a scythe in his hand, and large black wings. "In his coffin shall he be laid, but not yet. I"ll only mark him now, and allow him to wander about the world yet awhile, to expiate his sins and to grow better. But I shall come at last. When he least expects it, I shall put him into the black bag, place it on my head, and fly up to the stars. There, too, blooms a lovely garden, and if he be good and pious, he will be allowed to enter it; but should his thoughts be wicked, and his heart still full of sin, then will he sink in his coffin yet lower than he saw the Garden of the World sink down; and it will be only once in every thousand years that I shall go and fetch him, when he will either be condemned to sink still deeper, or be borne aloft to the beaming stars above."
A. L. Burt"s Catalogue of Books for Young People by Popular Writers, 52-58 Duane Street, New York
BOOKS FOR GIRLS.
=Alice"s Adventures in Wonderland. By LEWIS CARROLL.= 12mo, cloth, 42 ill.u.s.trations, price 75 cents.
"From first to last, almost without exception, this story is delightfully droll, humorous and ill.u.s.trated in harmony with the story."--=New York Express.=
=Through the Looking Gla.s.s, and What Alice Found There.= By LEWIS CARROLL. 12mo, cloth, 50 ill.u.s.trations, price 75 cents.
"A delight alike to the young people and their elders, extremely funny both in text and ill.u.s.trations."--=Boston Express.=
=Little Lucy"s Wonderful Globe.= By CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. 12mo, cloth, ill.u.s.trated, price 75 cents.
"This story is unique among tales intended for children, alike for pleasant instruction, quaintness of humor, gentle pathos, and the subtlety with which lessons moral and otherwise are conveyed to children, and perhaps to their seniors as well."--=The Spectator.=
=Joan"s Adventures at the North Pole and Elsewhere.= BY ALICE CORKRAN. 12mo, cloth, ill.u.s.trated, price 75 cents.
"Wonderful as the adventures of Joan are, it must be admitted that they are very naturally worked out and very plausibly presented. Altogether this is an excellent story for girls."--=Sat.u.r.day Review.=
=Count Up the Sunny Days=: A Story for Girls and Boys. By C. A.
JONES. 12mo, cloth, ill.u.s.trated, price 75 cents.
"An unusually good children"s story."--=Glasgow Herald.=
=The Dove in the Eagle"s Nest.= By CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. 12mo, cloth, ill.u.s.trated, price $1.00.
"Among all the modern writers we believe Miss Yonge first, not in genius, but in this, that she employs her great abilities for a high and n.o.ble purpose. We know of few modern writers whose works may be so safely commended as hers."--=Cleveland Times.=
=Jan of the Windmill.= A Story of the Plains. By MRS. J. H.
EWING. 12mo, cloth, ill.u.s.trated, price $1.00.
"Never has Mrs. Ewing published a more charming volume, and that is saying a very great deal. From the first to the last the book overflows with the strange knowledge of child-nature which so rarely survives childhood: and moreover, with inexhaustible quiet humor, which is never anything but innocent and well-bred, never priggish, and never clumsy."--=Academy.=
=A Sweet Girl Graduate.= By L. T. MEADE. 12mo, cloth, ill.u.s.trated, price $1.00.
"One of this popular author"s best. The characters are well imagined and drawn. The story moves with plenty of spirit and the interest does not flag until the end too quickly comes."--=Providence Journal.=
=Six to Sixteen=: A Story for Girls. By JULIANA HORATIA EWING.
12mo, cloth, ill.u.s.trated, price $1.00.
"There is no doubt as to the good quality and attractiveness of "Six to Sixteen." The book is one which would enrich any girl"s book shelf."--=St. James" Gazette.=
=The Palace Beautiful=: A Story for Girls. By L. T. MEADE. 12mo, cloth, ill.u.s.trated, price $1.00.
"A bright and interesting story. The many admirers of Mrs. L. T.
Meade in this country will be delighted with the "Palace Beautiful" for more reasons than one. It is a charming book for girls."--=New York Recorder.=
=A World of Girls=: The Story of a School. By L. T. MEADE. 12mo, cloth, ill.u.s.trated, price $1.00.
"One of those wholesome stories which it does one good to read.
It will afford pure delight to numerous readers. This book should be on every girl"s book shelf."--=Boston Home Journal.=
=The Lady of the Forest=: A Story for Girls. By L. T. MEADE.
12mo, cloth, ill.u.s.trated, price $1.00.
"This story is written in the author"s well-known, fresh and easy style. All girls fond of reading will be charmed by this well-written story. It is told with the author"s customary grace and spirit."--=Boston Times.=
=At the Back of the North Wind.= By GEORGE MACDONALD. 12mo, cloth, ill.u.s.trated, price $1.00.
"A very pretty story, with much of the freshness and vigor of Mr. Macdonald"s earlier work.... It is a sweet, earnest, and wholesome fairy story, and the quaint native humor is delightful. A most delightful volume for young readers."--=Philadelphia Times.=
=The Water Babies=: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby. By CHARLES KINGSLEY. 12mo, cloth, ill.u.s.trated, price $1.00.
"The strength of his work, as well as its peculiar charms, consist in his description of the experiences of a youth with life under water in the luxuriant wealth of which he revels with all the ardor of a poetical nature."--=New York Tribune.=
=Our Bessie.= By ROSA N. CAREY. 12mo, cloth, ill.u.s.trated, price $1.00.
"One of the most entertaining stories of the season, full of vigorous action, and strong in character-painting. Elder girls will be charmed with it, and adults may read its pages with profit."--=The Teachers" Aid.=
=Wild Kitty.= A Story of Middleton School. By L. T. MEADE. 12mo, cloth, ill.u.s.trated, price $1.00.
"Kitty is a true heroine--warm-hearted, self-sacrificing, and, as all good women nowadays are, largely touched with the enthusiasm of humanity. One of the most attractive gift books of the season."--=The Academy.=
=A Young Mutineer.= A Story for Girls. By L. T. MEADE. 12mo, cloth, ill.u.s.trated, price $1.00.
"One of Mrs. Meade"s charming books for girls, narrated in that simple and picturesque style which marks the auth.o.r.ess as one of the first among writers for young people."--=The Spectator.=
=Sue and I.= By MRS. O"REILLY. 12mo, cloth, ill.u.s.trated, price 75 cents.
"A thoroughly delightful book, full of sound wisdom as well as fun."--=Athenaeum.=
=The Princess and the Goblin.= A Fairy Story. By GEORGE MACDONALD. 12mo, cloth, ill.u.s.trated, price 75 cents.
"If a child once begins this book, it will get so deeply interested in it that when bedtime comes it will altogether forget the moral, and will weary its parents with importunities for just a few minutes more to see how everything ends."--=Sat.u.r.day Review.=