Patrick Henry, by Moses Coit Tyler. Published 1915.

Thanks to Anonymous for post-processing this project!

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The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse, by Thornton W. Burgess, Illustrated by Harrison Cady. Published 1915 (1944).

This is another project I picked up randomly. The illustrations turned out quite well, I especially like the top hat on the grumpy owl.

Children’s Book Week is this month, there will be plenty of new Children’s books posted to PG in the coming days.

Three Things, by Elinor Glyn. Published 1915.

I post-processed this book pretty much at random — I was looking for something easy to do and there it was…

Elinor Glyn invented the It girl. In this small book of essays she discusses love, sex, marriage (and divorce) and motherhood.

Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge, by Alexander Philip. Published 1915.

Thanks to Michael Zeug and Lisa Reigel for post-processing this project!

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Jack Harkaway’s Boy Tinker Among The Turks; Being the Conclusion of the “Adventures of Young Jack Harkaway and His Boy Tinker”, by Bracebridge Hemyng. Book Number Fifteen. Published ca. 1915.

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Evening Round Up: More Good Stuff Like PEP, by Col. Wm. C. Hunter. Published 1915.

Thanks to Colin Bell for post-processing this project!

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Journeys to Bagdad, by Charles S. Brooks. Published 1915. With fabulous wood-cuts by Allen Lewis.

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The Black Box, by E. Phillips Oppenheim. This 1915 book was an early movie tie-in. The movie, made also in 1915, is unfortunately lost.

Oppenheim was a prolific and popular writer — and quite inventive. How could you not want to read about the “pocket wireless” or the “phototelesme” or find out information from young women by “very dodgy means” (as one smooth reader put it)?