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 Readers of poetry are almost as scarce as poetry — Have you noticed how little there is in the world ? how wide the desert, how few the little oases ? Through the Year with the Poets. Edited by Oscar Fay Adams. 12 bijou books of the months, of about 130 pages each. 75 cents each. D. Lothrop Com- pany, Boston. Is it possible ? Is there enough sweet singing ringing lustrous verse between heaven and earth to make twelve such books? There is indeed; and heaven and earth are in it! Ginx's Baby, a burlesque book of most serious purpose, made a stir in England some years ago ; and, what is of more accour went far to accomplish the author's object. Evr 1 ' 1 of Dodd. By William Hawley Smith. 153 pages. $1. D. Lothrop C r vany, Boston. Dodd is the terrible schoolboy. How he became so ; who is responsible ; what is the remedy — such is the gist of the book. As bright as Ginx's Baby. A bookful managing wisdom for parents as well as teachers. Questions such as practical boys and girls are asking their mothers all the year round about things that come up. Not one in ten of the mothers can answer one in ten of the questions. Household Notes and Queries, A Family Reference-Book. By the Wise Blackbird. 115 pages. 60 cents. It is handy to have such a book on the shelf, and handier yet to have the knowledge that's in it in one's head. viii