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 NOTABLE BOOKS OF AMERICAN HUMOR BY HOLMAN F. DAY UP IN HAINE. Stories of Yankee Life told in Verse. Few books of verse have won popular favor so quickly as this volume, which is now in its ninth edition and selling as steadily as when first published. It is a rare combina- tion of wit, humor, sense, and homely pathos. " Reading the book, one feels as though he had Maine in the phono- graph." The New York Sun. " James Russell Lowell would have welcomed this delicious adjunct to The Biglow Papers." The Outlook. " So fresh, so vigorous, and so full of manly feeling that they sweep away all criticism." The Nation. " His subjects are rough diamonds. They have the inherent qualities from which great characters are developed, and out of which heroes are made." Buffalo Commercial. Cloth, decorative, six illustrations, y-j- x 4^ in. $1.00 PINE TREE BALLADS. Rhymed Stories of Unplaned Human Natur' up in flaine. Mr. Day's second book bids fair to outdo in popularity his earlier volume. The section titles, " Our Home Folks," " Songs of the Sea and Shore," " Ballads of Drive and Camp," "Just Human Nature," "Next to the Heart," "Our Good Pre- varicators," and " Ballads of Capers and Actions," give an idea of the nature of the contents, which are fully equal in freshness, vigour, and manly feeling to the poems by which Mr. Day has already won an established reputa- tion. " It is impossible to think of any person or class of people in America that these epical lyrics, these laughter-fetching, tear-provoking ballads will fail to please." The Chicago Record-Herald. Cloth, decorative, gilt top, illustrated, 7^x4 in. Net, $1 .00 SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, BOSTON