GOOD BOOKS FOR HOLIDAY GIFTS.
By Editor
Any of the following will be sent by mail, post-paid, on receipt of the price:— Sunshine Series.—Ten small books, containing numerous choice stories adapted to children from the ages of five to twelve years. This little series of books is a careful selection from a great amount of excellent reading matter for children, and are acknowledged by all acquainted with them to be the best in print. Prof. U. Smith says, "If you want to know how to please, and at the same time profit your children, I can tell you. Send and get for them a package of the little books for children, for sale at the Signs Office, Oakland, Cal." Price 50 cents. The Child's Poems.—Containing Little Will and other stories that will captivate the young reader and teach many lessons of temperance and virtue. Bound in cloth, and richly embossed with gold and black. 128 pages, 30 cents. Golden Grain Series.—A choice collection of instructive stories suited to the wants of children from ten to sixteen years and older, illustrated and beautifully bound in three volumes.
Vol. 1, The Hard Way, 40 cents.
Vol. 2, The School-boy's Dinner, 40c.
Vol. 3, Grumbling Tommy, 40 cents.
Other volumes in preparation. Golden Grains—In Ten Pamphlets.—The same reading contained in Vols. 1 and 2, is put up without pictures, in ten pamphlets of 32 pages each. In this form they are especially suited to Sabbath-school work, being unequaled as prizes for juvenile classes. Price 50 cents.
List of the series:—
No. 1, Robin's Judgment Book.
No. 2, Annie's Savings Box.
No. 3, Always the Bible.
No. 4, The Hard Way.
No. 5, The Sister's Lesson.
No. 6, The School-boy's Dinner.
No. 7, Seven Times.
No. 8, The Wicket Gate
No. 9, The Sensitive Plant.
No. 10, The Two Gardens.
Price of the series 50 cents. Sabbath Readings for the Home Circle. In three volumes, containing moral and religious reading for the household; carefully selected, and compiled for the use of Sabbath-schools and family libraries. These volumes will be found the most forcible teachers of the principles of obedience, kindness, and benevolence, by relating instances of conformity to them and departure from them, in such a manner as to lead to their love and practice. Great care has been taken to exclude anything of a sectarian character.
Vol. 1 is especially adapted to the wants of the youthful mind. 384 pp., 60c.
Vol. 2 continues the same course of reading, and introduces articles suited to the wants of the whole family circle. 416 pages, 60 cents.
Vol. 3 continues the same line of reading as Vol. 2. 380 pages, 60 cents. The Advent Keepsake.—A collection of Bible texts for each day of the year, on the subjects of the Second Advent, the Resurrection, etc. Muslin, 136 pages, 25 cts. The Game of Life.—Three lithographic illustrations, with explanations. These scenes represent Satan playing a game with man for his soul. In the first scene, The Game in Progress, Satan and man are represented as intent upon the game spread before them upon a covered sarcophagus. The second scene, The Game Lost, represents Satan as victor, man in despair. The Game Won reverses this scene. Neatly bound in boards. Price 50 cents. Thrilling Incidents in the Political Life of Francesco Urgos, including his Travels in Africa and Syria. This work vividly sets forth the varied trials and sufferings of one of the noble sons of Italy while a soldier in the army of Garibaldi, and afterward a prisoner of the Holy Inquisition. 318 pages, $1. The Life of Elder Joseph Bates, with portrait; relating his experience of twenty-five years on shipboard, with incidents of his advancement from cabin-boy up to master and owner. Here will be found the record of fearful dangers and adventures, and wonderful escapes and deliverances. And right here, associated more or less with all that is evil, Captain Bates became a most thorough reformer and a devoted Christian. Tinted paper, 352 pages, $1.