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Set No. 1. Popular Fiction

Black Rock.....Ralph Connor

Three Men in a Boat.....Jerome K. Jerome

Elizabeth and her German Garden.....

House of the Wolf.....Stanley J. Weyman

Sign of the Four.....Conan Doyle

Set No. 2. Standard Classics

Lorna Doone.....R.D. Blackmore

John Halifax.....Miss Mulock

Sketch Book.....Washington Irving

The Scarlet Letter.....Nathaniel Hawthorne

Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.....

Set No. 3. Poetic Masterpieces

Longfellow's Poems.....H.W. Longfellow

Holmes' Poems.....Oliver W. Holmes

Whittier's Poems.....J.G. Whittier

Lucile.....Owen Meredith

The Princess.....Alfred Tennyson

Set No. 4. For Girls

Black Beauty.....Ann Sewall

Flower Fables.....Louisa M. Alcott

Laddie, and Miss Toosie's Mission.....

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.....

Uncle Tom's Cabin.....Harriet Beecher Stowe

Set No. 5. For Boys

Little Lame Prince.....Miss Mulock

Try Again.....Oliver Optic

Water Babies.....Charles Kingsley

Rollo in London.....Jacob Abbott

Tales from Shakespeare.....C. and M. Lamb

Set No. 6. Religious

Pilgrim's Progress.....John Bunyan

Imitation of Christ..... Thomas a Kempis

Kept for the Master's Use.....F.R. Havergal

Daily Food for Christians.....

Paradise Lost.....John Milton

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The books alone would cost you $1.25. They are printed from new perfect plates, on good quality book paper, and are bound in strong cloth stamped with a beautiful design in attractive colors, and the popular vocal and instrumental music published in twelve successive issues of Conkey's Home Journal, if purchased in sheet music form, would cost you $6.00

FOR $2.00 WE OFFER YOU

A Year's Subscription to ANN ARBOR ARGUS-DEMOCRAT $1.00

A Year's Subscription to CONKEY'S HOME JOURNAL ..... .50

A Year's Membership in the AMERICAN MUSICAL ASSOCIATION ..... 1.00

A Set of ANY FIVE BOOKS from the above List of 30 Title ..... 1.25

A Total Valuation of $9.75,  All for $2.00

Conkey's Home Journal Is one of the best family magazines published. It contains from 36 to 68 pages, is printed on good paper and is beautifully illustrated. The home departments are as follows: Lessons in Home Millinery, Home Dressmaking, an Up-to-Date Pattern Department, Lace and Embroidery Making, Interior Decoration, Domestic Science, Plants and Flowers and a Department of Music. The home departments are all conducted by well-known specialists and the special articles and short stories are by such famous authors as

OPIE READ
STANLEY WATERLOO
MAUD HOWARD PETERSON
MARY J. STAFFORD
FLORENCE HULL WINTERBURN
Senator A.J. BEVERIDGE

MADAME PATTI
MADAME SARAH GRAND
LILLIAN BELL
IRVING BATCHELLOR
JACK LONDON
FRANK SPEARMAN

LANDON KNIGHT
Senator CHAUNCEY DEPEW
CARMEN SYLVA, Queen of Roumania
HENRY IRVING DODGE
ONOTO WATANNA

EBEN E REXFORD
MRS. M. L. SIEGFRIED
FREDK B. STEVENSON
OUIDA
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
COUNTESS OF WARWICK

The Department of Music contains each month a song, waltz or two-step for the piano or organ and practical lessons in piano playing and vocal training by eminent Chicago teachers. The newest and best features are continually added and improved and there will be many features in Conkey's Home Journal this year that can not be noted in advance. It will always be one of the very best. 

The American Musical Association Has a membership of over 50,000. The object of the Association is to furnish its members sheet music, folios, instruction books and every variety of musical literature at discounts ranging from 50 to 90 per cent. For 24 cents extra we will send you a copy of the American Musical Association's catalogue, which lists over 40,000 titles of standard classical and popular vocal and instrumental selections, all of which are subject to immense discounts when purchased from the Association. The catalogue also contains a list of about 5,000 organs, violins, mandolins and other musical instruments. The regular price of a membership in the American Musical Association is $1.00, but by special arrangement it is given free with the above offer. The Association publishes in each issue of Conkey's Home Journal a complete list of titles of new, up-to-date music, which may be obtained from the Association at less than half the regular price.

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