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VALENTINE'S DAY.

1) DAISY'S VALENTINES. A. Dobson. Dainty poem
about receiving valentines. (2) ST. VALENTINE
AND CUPID. H. M. Pickney. If St. Valentine will
allow him to pierce his heart with a love-dart, Cupid
agrees to grant whatever the Saint may ask,
whereupon he decides in favor of swaying all hearts
on his natal day. (3) AN OLD VALENTINE. George
Birdseye. A husband rejuvenates the love confessed
to his wife in an old valentine. All three for 25 cents.
MY VALENTINE. Jennie L. Hopkins. An old maid
relates how on St. Valentine's, when she expects her
lover's return, she enters a church and 'finds his
funeral service in progress. In a book containing
many other excellent selections. 35 cents.
(1) A ROMAN VALENTINE. Emma Dunning Banks.
With lesson-talk. A maiden's name is drawn on St.
Valentine's day by an objectionable suitor and by
her real lover, the case being decided by the em-
peror giving her to the man that does the most
valiant deed. The true lover wins. Can be given in
Roman costume. (2) A VALENTINE. G. R. Sims.
Encore piece telling of a man who went to buy a
valentine for his wife. When the clerk learns who it
is for, she shows him the cheapest one. (3) ST. VAL-
ENTINE'S AND ST. PATRICK'S DAY. Emma Dun-
ning Banks. A man buys a valentine, and finds his
lost love. Dancing may be introduced. Music and
lesson talk. In "Emma Dunning Banks's Original
Recitations with Lesson-Talks,' $1.25.
(1) MISS GRESHAM'S VALENTINE. M. D. Sterling.
An old maid, pouring over valentines sent her
twenty years before by her lover, who, she thinks, is
shipwrecked, is overjoyed by his sudden appearance.
(2) CONTRASTED VALENTINES. Kate T. Barrow.
An old woman tells her grandchild about the first
valentine she received, forty years ago, from a dash-
ing beau, who, the girl learns, is her grandfather.
Both for 25 cents.

WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY.
WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL TO HIS ARMY. Poeti-
cal description of the event. 20 cents.
THE TOMB OF WASHINGTON. B.T. Doyle. Poem. 20 cts.
(1) BIRTHDAY OF WASHINGTON. Poem. (2) THE
BIRTHDAY OF WASHINGTON. Grover Cleveland.
Declamation. Both for 25 cents.
(1) WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY. J. M O'Grady. Dec-
lamation. (2) WASHINGTON'S KISS. Annie S.
Downs. A maiden mends Washington's glove, and
he gives her a kiss. Both for 25 cents.
THE SICK CAPTAIN. Theron Brown. Washington
cheers a sick soldier, who recovers. 25 cents.
THE LITTLE HATCHET. Humorous prose account of
an attempt to entertain "a five-year-old cherub" by
telling him the story of Washington's hatchet. In a
book containing other excellent selections. 30 cents.
A NEW VERSION OF A CERTAIN HISTORICAL
DIALOGUE. R. J. Burdette. A cherry tree inci-
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"AMERICA'S PATRIOTIC RECITATION BOOK." A
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HATCHET DRILL. Clara L. Mabry. A simple drill
for 16 boys in Continental costume, with opportunity
for recitations, marches, and hatchet movements.
Full directions given. 20 cents.

WITH WASHINGTON ON THE DELAWARE.

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A. Welty. Spirited description of the General's attack on Trenton and how an old Continental turns the tide of battle by killing the Hessian colonel. 25 cts.

♦LENT AND EASTER.

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PRINCE ERIC'S CHRIST-MAID. Emma Dunning
Banks. With lesson-talk. Romantic fairy story. The
heroine is supposed to have been killed through a
plot, but is restored to life during the funeral. 15 cts.
LENT Romantic poem. With other recitations. 20 cts.
(1) LENTEN PRAYER. Mrs. A. L. McGrew. A mingling
of religious and worldly thoughts. (2) THE MES-
SAGE OF EASTER. Marion Riche. Religious poem.
These with other good recitations for 25 cents.
SACKCLOTH AND ASHES. Henry Baldwin.
society skit in prose, being a Lenten dialogue at a
fashionable afternoon tea. Very amusing. In a book
containing many other good pieces. 30 cents.
EASTER IN A HOSPITAL BED. Nym Crinkle. Pa-
thetic prose story of a dying girl, who sees an Easter
long ago when she was married and happy. May be
given with musical accompaniment. In a book con-
taining other fine pieces. 35 cents.
(1) A LENTEN SACRIFICE. Humorous romantic
poem. (2) AN EASTERTIDE DELIVERANCE. By
shouting" Alleluia" Christians put a pagan army to
flight. (3) HIDING EASTER EGGS. Libbie C. Baer.
(4) SAINT AND SINNER. A worldly girl's thoughts
in church. All four with other recitations for 20 cts.
THE MOTHER'S EASTER SCARF, Emma Dunning
Banks. With lesson-talk. One twin loses his arm in

saving the other from a mad dog. Both fall in love with the same girl. The one-armed thinks he kills the other but wakes up to find it a dream. 20 cents. (1) THE IVORY CRUCIFIX. G. W. Miles. An inspired monk carves a perfect crucifix. (2) THE LEGEND OF THE LILY. Annie Wall. An angel weeps because he can not find a flower good enough for God. Lilies grow where his tears fall. Both for 35 cents. (1) MARY'S STORY OF THE CRUCIFIXION. Edwin Arnold. Fine poetic monologue from "The Light of the World," describing that awful event. (2) THE CRUCIFIXION. Lew Wallace. Dramatic prose description of the Crucifixion. In a book containing other excellent pieces. 35 cents.

(1) IT'S LENT. Society encore telling of a girl who can not say "yes" to her lover's proposal because it is Lent. (2) A NEW LENTEN CATECHISM. Short society dialogue between a man and a woman. Both for 25 cents.

(1) THE MYRRH BEARERS. Birdie M. Stanley. Pantomimed poem for 9 girls. Opportunity for singing Easter anthem. (2) KITTY'S EASTER OFFERING. Marion Dickinson. A young violinist foregoes an opportunity to play for a famous singer on Easter as a aying little cripple sends for her. (3) EASTER FLOWERS. A weary and melancholy man is comforted by the glad tidings borne to him by a lily, passion flower, violet, and jasmine. All three for 25 cents.

ARBOR DAY.

THE HOLLY TREE. Robert Southey. Poem. 20 cents.
(1) THE BRAVE OLD OAK. Poem. Music may be
introduced. (2) SUNRISE ON THE HILLS. Long-
fellow. The woods and hills furnish a wholesome
lesson to the heart and the soul. Both for 25 cents.
PRAISE MEETING OF THE FLOWERS. A dainty
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various flowers bring to a floral prayer meeting. 25 cts.
THE MAPLE TREES. T. C. Pease. Descriptive poem
of the associations connected with maple trees. 25 cts.
THE IVY QUEEN. Mary L. Gaddess. A cantata for
four males and four females (or all females) and a
chorus of 50 girls. After comparing the merits of
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queen a wreath of ivy as being the most appropriate
present. Introduces singing, marching and charm-
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COLUMBIA'S FLORAL EMBLEM. Ella Sterling
Cummins. A play for floral festivals and school-en-
tertainments, hinging on the choice of a national
flower. Full music and directions. 25 cents.

(1) CORN. Sidney Lanier. Vivid word-picture of the
woods and fields, with an apostrophe to the corn
and the hillside. (2) A FOREST HYMN. Bryant. One
of the poet's masterpieces, beginning: "The groves
were God's first temples." (3) THE FALLOW
FIELD. Julia C. R. Dorr. Allegory of a field, called
useless, yet of value and contented. In a book con-
taining other excellent selections. 35 cents.
(1) A TREE-TISE ON NATURE. Louis H. Levin.
Likening personal traits to various trees; by play on
their names. Humorous. (2) LEGEND OF THE
HEATHER. An angel walks among plants, asking
them to clothe the bleak rocks. All refuse but the
heather, and he blesses that by making it bear
flowers. In a book containing other excellent selec-
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(1) THE FAIREST FLOWER. An earl passes by the
rose, the lily, the carnation, and the violet, but finds
in the forget-me-not the revival of hope. Very deli-
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Origin of the custom of kissing beneath the mistle-
toe. Quaint poem. (3) THE JUBILEE OF THE
FLOWERS. £. E. Howard. A dainty allegorical
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flowers. All three for 35 cents.
COLUMBIA'S EMBLEM. Edna D. Proctor. A plea to
have Indian corn adopted as America's emblem.
In a book containing other excellent selections. 35 cts.
(1) SCRIPTURE ETCHINGS FOR ARBOR DAY. Bible
selections, giving appropriate reference to the trees
and their value to man. (2) THE OAK AND THE
BRIAR. Edmund Spenser. A farmer hearing an
oak haughtily addressed by a briar cuts down the
oak and the briar perishes. In a book containing
other excellent selections. 35 cents.

THE MARRIAGE OF THE FLOWERS. S. H. Byers.
Exquisite poem, telling of a wedding in an orchard of
every flower and blossom. Music may be intro-
duced. In the "Delsarte Recitation Book," which con-
tains other fine selections, drills, etc. $1.25.
(1) THE HAUNTED OAK. On every moonlight night,
terrible screams are heard and a ghostly spectre is
seen under an old oak; they turn out to be a screech-
owl's cries and an old white horse. (2) THE OLD
TREE. S. W. Jewett. The tender memories asso-
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(3) A LEGEND OF THE CORN. Eugene Ühlrich. An
Indian allegory about its origin. All three for 25 cts.

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The sentiments of these tableaux are from the familiar songs: "Matrimonial Sweets;""We Never Speak as We Pass By;" "Call Me Thine Own;" "Then You'll Remember Me," "The Star-Spangled Banner:" "The Heart Bowed Down;" "Lead, Kindly Light;" "Nearer, My God, to Thee." Full directions. 25c.

Tableaux Mouvants and Poses Plastiques, No. 1. Clara Power Edgerly.

Contains text giving full directions, and the following illustrations from life: "The Toilet of the Bride," "The Dance of the Muses," "The Niobe Group," "The Death of Virginia." 25 cents.

Tableaux Mouvants and Poses Plastiques, No. 2. Margaret Virginia

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Night. Clara Power Edgerly.

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Revels of the Muses.

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Salute of the Lilies.

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Won't You Tell Me Why, Robin? Mary L. Gaddess.

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