Century Books for Young People THE DRAGON'S SECRET A By AUGUSTA HUIELL SEAMAN Author of "The Boarded-Up House," etc. MYSTERY story centering about a dragon-shaped box found buried in the sands near a mysteriously haunted empty summer bungalow at the seaside. Two girls and a boy have thrilling experiences in the course of finding out what it is all about. A clean, healthy-minded story, like all of this popular author's work, it is at the same time intensely exciting, genuinely puzzling, and wholesomely stimulating. Illustrated. Price $1.75 THE HAPPY VENTURE By EDITH BALLINGER PRICE A CHARMING story, how a big lad and his A Illustrated. Price $1.75 DRIFTWOOD By RAYMOND S. SPEARS A N IMPRESSIVE story of the tremendous phenomenon of a Mississippi flood and the exploits of two boys upon it. They are not impossible heroes, but real and natural, though unusually brave and resourceful boys; and the rise of the river and its irresistible overflow, the damage, peril, suffering and strange situations which it causes are the result of close observation and long knowledge of the great river and the dwellers on its waters and its shores. A thoroughly American story of youthful ingenuity and grit in a situation typically American. Illustrated. Price $2.00 SWORD OF LIBERTY By FRANK W. and CORTELLE J. HUTCHINS STORY-HISTORY of two revolutions, the American and the French, which is full of picturesque facts the history books have never revealed to most young Americans. It is woven about a sword which Lafayette cherished, made from the blade of a sword presented by the French Republic, and the hilt of that voted him by the American Congress. Illustrated. Price $1.75 At All Bookstores THE CENTURY CO. 353 Fourth Avenue New York City Before the child's fifth year Occur most of those injuries to the psychic life which are the real reason why normally well-equipped human beings do not obtain satisfaction, success, health and happiness in life. Lack of initiative and confidence, defective response to human contacts, wrong reactions to happenings, over-developed egoism, self-depreciation, timidity - practically every kind of mal-adaptation of the human being to his environment has its roots in some conflict of the psychic life. Suppressed, covered up, forgotten by the conscious mind, but playing terrible havoc in that layer of the psychic existence below the level of conscious thought which is called "the sub-conscious," these troubles manifest themselves in every sort of inefficiency for happy life. Frequently the trouble is expressed in bodily derangements which may even feign the symptoms of organic disease, but most commonly in nervous disorders. The careful father and mother if they knew about the nature and seriousness of these conflicts, could do as much to guide, to explain, to avert, as they do in the protection of the physical life. Lovewithout-knowledge can do its worst in just this connection, and those who wish to be good parents to their children should not rest content with the totally wrong impressions usually gathered in casual ways of the Freudian discoveries about the sub-conscious, but Should seek information For this purpose there has not been until now an altogether suitable book, but Dr. Josephine A. Jackson, who for ten years has been searching out and curing these deep-buried conflicts (many of them occurring in early childhood, and many avoidable) after they have done all sorts of harm, has written-with Helen M. Salisbury OUTWITTING OUR NERVES A book which every mother and every father of a child should read. Send for it today. Published by THE CENTURY CO. New York City At All Bookstores Outdoor Books for Boys and Girls BOY HUNTERS OF DEMERARA O By GEORGE INNESS HARTLEY NE of the best combined natural history and adventure stories which has been published for years. The wonders of a region strange to most of us- the jungle of British Guiana, with its strikingly unfamiliar and interesting wild life and its Indians scarcely touched by the white man's civilization, are described through the medium of a stirring story about a young naturalist sent to collect specimens for a museum, and his still younger assistants. A By GRAVES GLENWOOD CLARK TTRACTIVE, brightly told and fascinating stories of some of the more spectacular and little-known activities of insects the Texan agricultural ant who raises a crop; the young tarantula who never gets hungry; the strange spinning of the psyche moth, etc. The information is accurate and the treatment makes it as exciting as a fairy tale. New kinds of heroes, heroines, clowns and villains appear in an insect world whose laws and customs are as interesting as they are captivatingly strange. ANIMAL LIFE IN FIELD AND T By JEAN-HENRI FABRE HE most charming of writers on natural history tells his two nephews stories about the animals, birds and insects whose life-habits affect the crops of field and garden and orchard. He surprises them by showing them that many of those little creatures we have always scorned or feared are our very powerful, and even much-needed, friends. Illustrated. Price $2.50 GOLF FACTS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE By FRANCIS OUIMET T HE "veteran" golfer, who has been amateur champion, victor in many hard-played matches, and is just as keen and expert a player as ever, gives to young people the advantage of his golf-wisdom, and the results of much observation, many friendships and wide contacts with the great game. He himself began golf young on an improvised. course, and he understands the problems of youthful players: the pitfalls to be avoided, the difficulties under which they must sometimes develop their game. Illustrated. Price $1.75 BROTHER ESKIMO By ALAN SULLIVAN A YOUNG Mowgli of the North," a professional reader called the hero of this book. He is carried away in his father's igloo on the ice-floe, far from any place he knows, with only his younger brother for companion. The strange life of the north, every condition of which is strange as dreamland to us, Mr. Sullivan knows well and describes accurately and fascinatingly. The two boys go through many adventures, in which wild animals play a large part, life itself depending upon their knowledge of the arctic creatures. Illustrated. Price $1.75 THE BOYS' BOOK OF MODEL AEROPLANES A By FRANCIS A. COLLINS N up-to-date new book covering all of the phases of young people's interest in the art and science of the aeroplane, including clubs, tournaments, prizes, etc., and giving models, discussion of principles, building and flying instructions, and photographs of actual planes of all types, often with their young builders and flyers. This supersedes two earlier boys' books of model aeroplanes by Mr. Collins. Illustrated. Price $2.00 At All Bookstores Published by THE CENTURY CO. 353 Fourth Avenue New York City MESSER MARCO POLO T By DONN BYRNE HE love story of Marco Polo and the daughter of Kublai Khan. It is wonderfully told by an Ulster Scotch-Irishman, glorious old Malachi of the Glens. The reviewing press has accorded this beautiful little book one of the most extraordinary welcomes a story has had in many a day. The Detroit Free Press says: "Donn Byrne writes with the kind of musical beauty that comes only from the glens of Antrim and the hills of Doan. . . . 'Messer Marco Polo' is an exquisite, a singing story." The Chicago Tribune says: "Possesses pure charm. . . . Rich with Celtic color and beauty, quaint with the phraseology which made Synge's plays so lilting." knows your heart Marco Polo cage E sits New York A MAN'S GAME By JOHN BRENT Hextending thousands of many the an invisible, sinister figure at the center of a web of power the juggling of franchises worth millions in colorful Mescalia, sharp clashes of strong-willed men, the peril and plot of revolution, and the by-play of love and intrigue of the characters involved. At All Bookstores Price $2.00 THE CENTURY CO. 353 Fourth Avenue New York City |