Books published by publisher Bowen-Merrill Co

First produced in 1895, this charming book includes many of James Whitcomb Riley's signature stories such as "At Aunty's House", "The Bumblebee", The Raggedy Man", "Out to Old Aunt Mary's", "Little Orphant Annie" and more. Dozens of lovely and whimsical illustrations by Will Vawter of girls rolling hoops and boys with cane fishing poles, lingering through long summer afternoons, recall times gone by. This vintage book would make a lovely addition to anyone's library.

"Rives was a member of one of America's oldest families and the wife of a prominent American diplomat. She authored The Modern and Complete Book of Etiquette. As a novelist she wrote several best sellers. Hearts Courageous begins: In the year of grace 1774, a climbing sun glowed above his Majesty's Colony of Virginia. It drank the opal mists of the marshes, flecked the fields into shadow-haunted cloth-of-gold, and so unrolled over the old middle plantation, where, a round century before, Bacon and his men had taken the oath against England, a drowsing, yellow mid-May afternoon."