BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE A List of Books by-Kirk Munroe A SON OF SATSUMA Or, with Perry in Japan. By Kirk Munroe. With 12 illustrations by Harry C. Edwards. 1.00 net.

This absorbing story for boys deals with one of the most interesting episodes in our National history. From the beginning Japan has been a land of mystery. Foreigners were permitted to land only at certain points on her shores, and nothing whatever was known of her civilization and history, her romance and magnificence, her wealth and art. It was Commodore Perry who opened her gates to the world, thus solving the mystery of the ages, and, in this thrilling story of an American boy in Japan at that period, the spirit as well as the history of this great achievement is ably set forth.

IN PIRATE WATERS A Tale of the American Navy. Illustrated by 1. W. Taber. 12mo, $1.25.

The hero of the story becomes a midshipman in the navy just'at the time of the war with Tripoli. His own wild adventures among the Turks and his love romance are thoroughly interwoven with the stirring history of that time.

WITH CROCKETT AND BOWIE Or, Fighting for the Lone Star Flag. A Tale of Texas. By Kirk Munroe. With 8 full-page Illustrations by Victor PkRARD. Crown 8vo. $1.25.

The story is of the Texas revolution in 1835, when American Texans under Sam Houston, Bowie, Crockett, and Travis fought for relief from the intolerable tyranny of the Mexican Santa Afia. The hero, Rex Hardin, son of a Texan ranchman and graduate of an American military school, takes a prominent part in the heroic defense of the Alamo, and the final triumph at San Jacinto.