THE “MOTHER DEAR” BOOKSTHE GOLDEN SPEARS ANDOTHER FAIRY TALESBy EDMUND LEAMYWith a prefaceBy JOHN E. REDMOND, M.P.Illustrated. Small 4to, cloth. Net $1.00“‘The Golden Spears and Other Fairy Tales’ is a book of absorbing interest for children, and will be read with pleasure by grown-up people. It is by the Irish writer, Edmund Leamy, who understood the child nature and loved to minister to it. The delight which children have in the world of fields and flowers, birds and blue skies, finds abundant expression in the stories. In each tale the dramatic feature is well developed and holds the reader’s interest to the end. The book has real literary merit, the author’s style being graceful and well adapted to the child mind. There are not enough such books in the world. Books that are free from objectionable features and meet the child’s craving for the wonderful, at the same time portraying the beautiful and noble in the world and in human life, are very rare. Brightness, beauty, nobility of sentiment, brave deeds, generous conduct, kindness, gratitude, fidelity, appreciation of the good and true in humanity, kindness to the lower orders of life, purity of thought, all find abundant expression in the stories. There are seven of them in the volume. Each has an attractive illustration drawn by Corinne Turner. They are printed on paper of an excellent quality and handsomely bound in cloth, with an appropriate cover design in colors. Educators would do well to consider this volume as well adapted to meet the need for suitable reading matter in certain school grades.”—The Springfield Republican.THE FAIRY MINSTREL OFGLENMALUREBy EDMUND LEAMYIllustrated in colorBy VERA CASSEAUA book of beautiful imaginative tales for children of all ages, a companion to “The Golden Spears and Other Fairy Tales” by the same author, which Mr. John E. Redmond, M.P., pronounced the most winsome and educative of its kind.Small 4to. Cloth. 75c. netTHE HEART OF ANORPHANBy AMANDA MATHEWSIllustrated by W. T. Benda“‘The Heart of an Orphan’ introduces another lovable child to the wealth of American child-lore.“Giovanna, the little Italian orphan, is so ingenuous and natural as to suggest the boys and girls of Myra Kelly’s tales. It is a book that should be known and loved.”—The Boston Herald.12mo. Cloth. $1.00 netPUBLISHED BYDesmond FitzGerald, Inc.156 FIFTH AVENUENEW YORK
THE “MOTHER DEAR” BOOKSTHE GOLDEN SPEARS ANDOTHER FAIRY TALESBy EDMUND LEAMYWith a prefaceBy JOHN E. REDMOND, M.P.Illustrated. Small 4to, cloth. Net $1.00“‘The Golden Spears and Other Fairy Tales’ is a book of absorbing interest for children, and will be read with pleasure by grown-up people. It is by the Irish writer, Edmund Leamy, who understood the child nature and loved to minister to it. The delight which children have in the world of fields and flowers, birds and blue skies, finds abundant expression in the stories. In each tale the dramatic feature is well developed and holds the reader’s interest to the end. The book has real literary merit, the author’s style being graceful and well adapted to the child mind. There are not enough such books in the world. Books that are free from objectionable features and meet the child’s craving for the wonderful, at the same time portraying the beautiful and noble in the world and in human life, are very rare. Brightness, beauty, nobility of sentiment, brave deeds, generous conduct, kindness, gratitude, fidelity, appreciation of the good and true in humanity, kindness to the lower orders of life, purity of thought, all find abundant expression in the stories. There are seven of them in the volume. Each has an attractive illustration drawn by Corinne Turner. They are printed on paper of an excellent quality and handsomely bound in cloth, with an appropriate cover design in colors. Educators would do well to consider this volume as well adapted to meet the need for suitable reading matter in certain school grades.”—The Springfield Republican.THE FAIRY MINSTREL OFGLENMALUREBy EDMUND LEAMYIllustrated in colorBy VERA CASSEAUA book of beautiful imaginative tales for children of all ages, a companion to “The Golden Spears and Other Fairy Tales” by the same author, which Mr. John E. Redmond, M.P., pronounced the most winsome and educative of its kind.Small 4to. Cloth. 75c. netTHE HEART OF ANORPHANBy AMANDA MATHEWSIllustrated by W. T. Benda“‘The Heart of an Orphan’ introduces another lovable child to the wealth of American child-lore.“Giovanna, the little Italian orphan, is so ingenuous and natural as to suggest the boys and girls of Myra Kelly’s tales. It is a book that should be known and loved.”—The Boston Herald.12mo. Cloth. $1.00 netPUBLISHED BYDesmond FitzGerald, Inc.156 FIFTH AVENUENEW YORK
THE “MOTHER DEAR” BOOKS
THE GOLDEN SPEARS ANDOTHER FAIRY TALES
By EDMUND LEAMY
With a preface
By JOHN E. REDMOND, M.P.
Illustrated. Small 4to, cloth. Net $1.00
“‘The Golden Spears and Other Fairy Tales’ is a book of absorbing interest for children, and will be read with pleasure by grown-up people. It is by the Irish writer, Edmund Leamy, who understood the child nature and loved to minister to it. The delight which children have in the world of fields and flowers, birds and blue skies, finds abundant expression in the stories. In each tale the dramatic feature is well developed and holds the reader’s interest to the end. The book has real literary merit, the author’s style being graceful and well adapted to the child mind. There are not enough such books in the world. Books that are free from objectionable features and meet the child’s craving for the wonderful, at the same time portraying the beautiful and noble in the world and in human life, are very rare. Brightness, beauty, nobility of sentiment, brave deeds, generous conduct, kindness, gratitude, fidelity, appreciation of the good and true in humanity, kindness to the lower orders of life, purity of thought, all find abundant expression in the stories. There are seven of them in the volume. Each has an attractive illustration drawn by Corinne Turner. They are printed on paper of an excellent quality and handsomely bound in cloth, with an appropriate cover design in colors. Educators would do well to consider this volume as well adapted to meet the need for suitable reading matter in certain school grades.”—The Springfield Republican.
THE FAIRY MINSTREL OFGLENMALURE
By EDMUND LEAMY
Illustrated in color
By VERA CASSEAU
A book of beautiful imaginative tales for children of all ages, a companion to “The Golden Spears and Other Fairy Tales” by the same author, which Mr. John E. Redmond, M.P., pronounced the most winsome and educative of its kind.
Small 4to. Cloth. 75c. net
THE HEART OF ANORPHAN
By AMANDA MATHEWS
Illustrated by W. T. Benda
“‘The Heart of an Orphan’ introduces another lovable child to the wealth of American child-lore.
“Giovanna, the little Italian orphan, is so ingenuous and natural as to suggest the boys and girls of Myra Kelly’s tales. It is a book that should be known and loved.”—The Boston Herald.
12mo. Cloth. $1.00 net
PUBLISHED BYDesmond FitzGerald, Inc.156 FIFTH AVENUENEW YORK