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Arnold, Gertrude Weld

"A Mother's List of Books for Children"

" So
it is in travelling: A man must carry knowledge with him if he
would bring home knowledge.
Dr. JOHNSON.

BRASSEY, A. (A.).
A Voyage in the Sunbeam.
Longmans. .75
This abridgment of the original book tells in pleasant narrative style
of the Sunbeam's voyage around the world, which lasted from July
first, 1876, to May twenty-sixth, 1877.

FINNEMORE, JOHN. (p. 210)
Italy.
Illustrated by Alberto Pisa and Others.
Macmillan. .75
We travel over the Alps, and through the country to Naples and Sicily.
The wonderful cities of this historic land are described, and a brief
account given of its many poor but happy people. There are twelve
illustrations in color.

HIGGINSON, T.W. (Editor).
Young Folks' Book of American Explorers.
Longmans. 1.20
It has always seemed to me that the narratives of the early
discoverers and explorers of the American coast were as
interesting as Robinson Crusoe, and were, indeed, very much like
it. This has led me to make a series of extracts from these
narratives, selecting what appeared to me the most interesting
parts, and altering only the spelling.


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