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Tales of the Pathfinders.

By ARTHUR GILMAN. Illustrated by Robert Lewis. Romantic chapters from
history detailing the experiences of some of those who left the Old
World to find and possess the New. An important volume. $1.00.


The Triple E.

By MRS. S.R. GRAHAM CLARK. A charming story with strange incident and
involved plot attracting lovers of romance, and with firm ideals of
character wrought out in the struggles and self-denials of daily life.
$1.50.


Travelling Law School (The), AND FAMOUS TRIALS.

By BENJAMIN VAUGHAN ABBOTT, LL. D. A series of easy talks to a party of
young folks concerning law, also delineating the differing functions of
national, state, city, and town governments, and illustrating legal
principles by accounts of a dozen famous trials. $1.00.


William the Silent, AND THE NETHERLAND WAR.

By MARY BARRETT. Withmaps and engravings. _12mo, illustrated_, $1.50.


Young Folks' History of the Netherlands.

By ALEX. YOUNG. A concise history of Holland and Belgium, 1 _vol., 16mo,
cloth_, $1.50. _Half Russia_, $2.00.

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STANDARD AND MISCELLANEOUS.


AEsop's Fables.

By REV. T. JAMES, M.A. Illustrated by J. Tenniel. _12mo_, $1.00.
_Boards_, $.50.


Afterthoughts of Foreign Travel, IN HISTORIC LANDS AND CAPITAL CITIES.
BY SULLIVAN HOLMAN MCCOLLESTER.

A book of rare excellence. One of the few in the great flood of books of
travel that are worth reading. Fourth edition. _12mo, cloth_, $1.50.


Anna Maria's Housekeeping.

By MRS. S.D. POWER. During the appearance the past two years of these
papers in WIDE AWAKE, the editors were besieged by letters from
housekeepers, both old and young, asking for their publication in
permanent form. On the one hand they have been declared by trained
housewives to be the most helpful and complete domestic literature, and
on the other hand, men and women of letters have warmly praised their
literary excellence. The publishers, therefore, confidently offer the
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_Housekeeper's Library, 16mo, extra cloth_,$1.00.


An Hour with Miss Streator.

By PANSY. An intensely interesting little monograph which will be a
genuine inspiration to all faithful teachers, while to the thoughtless
disparagers of such toilers it will bear most useful lessons. _Paper_, 6
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American Explorations in the Ice Zones.

Early American Voyages made in search of the Northwest Passage.
Explorations in the Arctic Zone by Lieut. DeHaven, Dr. Kane, Commodore
Rodgers, Capt. Hall, Lieut. Schwatka and Lieut. DeLong; Wrangel Land as
first reported by Capt. Long, and a brief account of the U.S. Expedition
to the Antarctic seas under Capt. Wilkes. Compiled from official and
other sources by PROF. J.E. NOURSE, U.S.N. We have in this volume the
work of a scientist and scholar, and at the same time a book of
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concerning the subject of which it treats, and must be, for years to
come, regarded as the standard work upon Arctic affairs. _8mo, extra
cloth, illustrated_,$3.00. _With circumpolar map_,$3.50. _Half calf_,
$6.00.


Bremen Lectures.

On Fundamental, Living, Religious Questions by various eminent European
Divines. Translated by REV. D. HEAGLE, with an Introduction by REV.
ALVAH HOVET, D.D., President of Newton Theological Institution. Of this
volume, as touching some of the great religious questions of the day,
the translator well says it would be difficult to find another work
wherein is included in so brief compass so much of that which with the
present helps from science and thought, should be said on these several
themes. _Third edition. 12mo_, $1.50.


China.

By ROBT. K. DOUGLAS, of the British Museum, and Professor of Chinese at
King's College, London, with revisions by Yan Phou Lee. The latest
addition to Lothrop's Library of Entertaining History, and a work which
is not only graphic and interesting in style and matter, but which bears
the marks of authenticity and scholarship on every page. _12mo, cloth,_
$1.50.


Classic Tales.

By MARIA EDGEWORTH. _12mo, cloth_,$1.25.


Christie's Christmas.

By PANSY. Christie is one of those delightfully lifelike, naive and
interesting characters which no one so well as Pansy can portray, and in
the study of which every reader will find delight and profit. _12mo,
fully illustrated_,$1.50.


Cookery for Beginners.

By MARION HARLAND, author of "Common Sense in the Household," etc.
Plain, practical lessons for girls and young housekeepers of small
means. Its directions are to be relied upon, and its results are
invariably delicate, wholesome, and delicious. _16mo,_ $1.00.


Double Story (A).

By GEORGE MACDONALD. This standard fairy story still retains its
popularity in the world of readers, and edition follows edition. It is a
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from a cheerful, living, trustful faith in the Master to whose service
she consecrates her best efforts. _Illustrated, 12mo_, $1.50.


Far From Home.

From the German of Johannes Van Derval, translated by Kathrine Hamilton.
The latest and one of the most pleasing volumes of the famous V.I.F.
Series. Translated by the niece of Professor Spencer F. Baird, Director
Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. _12mo, cloth_, $1.25.


Health and Strength Papers for Girls.

By Mary J. Safford, M.D., of the Boston University, and Mary E. Allen,
of the Boston Ladies' Gymnasium. The two professors of Physical Science
have together prepared a valuable book of counsel for mothers, teachers,
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its suggestions provoke reflection and action, and its influence in the
family will be lasting. $.60.


Helpful Thoughts FOR YOUNG MEN.

By T.D. Woolsey, D.D. LL. D. _16mo, cloth_, $.60.


How to Learn and Earn. HALF HOURS IN SOME HELPFUL SCHOOLS.

Graphic accounts of schools where the unfortunate are taught useful
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_12mo, cloth._ 100 _illustrations_. $1.50.


Interrupted.

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Margie's Mission.

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Paul and Virginia.

By Bernardin De ST. Pierre, with a memoir and illustrations by La Lanze.
A beautiful edition from new plates, exquisitely printed on choice
paper. _12mo_, $1.25; _Half calf_, $2.50; _Morocco, full gilt_, $3.00.


Through a Microscope.

By Samuel Wells and Mary Treat. With illustrations. A little book by two
practical microscopists, which should accompany every microscope put
into the hands of girl or boy. _16mo_, $.60.


Truro--Cape Cod; OR, LANDMARKS AND SEAMARKS.

By Shebnah Rich. This valuable contribution to colonial history is the
result of long and careful preparation, thorough research and excellent
judgment. _8vo, cloth, gilt, 77 illustrations_, $3.00.


Vicar of Wakefield.

By Oliver Goldsmith. With illustrations by Wm. Mulready, R.A. A new and
very beautiful edition, elegantly printed on plate paper. _12mo_, $1.25,
_half calf_, $2.50, _morocco, full gilt_, $3.00.

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Dickens' Complete Works.

_15 vols., popular edition_, $18.75, _15 vols., standard edition_,
$22.50. _15 vols., half calf_, $37.50.


Dictionary of the Bible.

By William Smith, LL. D. _8vo, illustrated_, $2.00. _Large edition with
history of Jewish nation_, $4.00.


George Eliot's Complete Works.

_8 vols., popular edition_, $10.00. _8 vols., sunshine edition_, $12.00.
_8 vols., half calf_, $20.00.


Rawlinson's Seven Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World, OR, THE
HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, and ANTIQUITIES OF CHALDEA, ASSYRIA, BABYLON, etc.

By GEO. RAWLINSON, M.A., Camden Professor of Ancient History in the
University of Oxford. _3 vols. Maps and illustrations. Extra cloth
binding, bevelled boards_, $4.50. _Half calf_, $9.00.


Rollins' Ancient History.

_4 vols., 12mo, cloth_, $6.00; _4 vols., 12mo, half calf_, $10.00.


Self Help Series.

By Samuel Smiles, Character, Thrift, Duty, Self Help. _4 vols, 12mo_,
$6.00.


Thackeray's Complete Novels.

_11 vols., popular edition_, $13.75. _11 vols., sunshine edition_,
$16.50. _11 vols., half calf_, $27.50.


Washington Irving's Works.

_6 vols., standard edition_, $9.00. _6 vols., half calf_, $18.00.


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The mother of a lawyer who says her daughter's best-selling "misery memoir" is fiction broke down in court yesterday as she told a jury how she had struggled to raise her family. Carmen Briscoe-Mitchell is suing barrister Constance Briscoe for libel. Briscoe alleged she had suffered abuse and neglect during her south London childhood in Ugly, the first part of her autobiography published in 2006.

Briscoe-Mitchell began crying as she described her relationship with George Briscoe, father of seven of her 11 children, on the second day of the hearing at the high court in London at which she is also suing the book's publishers Hodder and Stoughton over her daughter's claims. Her counsel, William Panton, said Briscoe was "spinning a yarn". Her mother had worked as a dressmaker to keep her children, often without their father, and had provided for them equally to the best of her ability, an assertion supported by Briscoe's siblings, he said. Briscoe painted a picture of being regularly punched, kicked and beaten with a stick by her mother, said Panton, yet had not complained to police, social services or teachers.

Briscoe's lawyer, Andrew Caldecott QC, said the jury must remember when they heard witnesses that they were dealing with events between 1964 and 1975 when Briscoe-Mitchell, 74, was in her prime, not a vulnerable old lady, and Briscoe was a child. "Constance Briscoe says she was the victim of sustained cruelty and serious neglect when she was a child. She chose to say it. She has to prove it."

The trial was not of the accuracy of every word or paragraph in the book but of whether or not it was true that Briscoe was physically and emotionally abused by her mother over a lengthy period, said Caldecott. "We say this is a book that has its share of errors but it was properly put in the biography section of a bookshop, not in the fiction section."

Briscoe-Mitchell was asked about her relationship with George Briscoe. "My husband wasn't there to help me along with his children. I've had a very hard time with my husband. He wouldn't maintain them, he wasn't there. It was rough, it wasn't easy but I managed.

"He was in and out. He'd just come and make a baby and go back to his girlfriend and that was my life. It was too much. He'd come and kick the door off." Briscoe-Mitchell said she had four times taken him to court for maintenance. The only time she received any payment was when he was arrested and police gave her the £15 in his pocket. "He didn't want to know about his children, he got no interest there at all."

The case continues.

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