Jan B. Balet

#2

1959

One fine day the circus came to town. The posters announced all sorts of amazing features, but the most sensational was the marvelous bareback act of the five Rollatinis and their wonder horse Ammonia. Now there was a sixth Rollatini, Bambino, who, above everything, wanted to be a bareback rider, too, but there was only one room for five on Ammonia's back. Everyone felt sorry for Bambino and suggested he try for another job in the circus. There were bears, there were clowns,lions, acrobats-Bambino tried working with them all, but what he wanted to do was be with his own family. The Five Rollatinis. Jan Balet has told of Bmbino's problem and its solution with hunor and sympathy. His brilliant pictures in full color, as well as those in two colors, capture the magic and activity of the small traveling circus.

#3

Autumn and the garden / Mrs. Sigourney -- Isabel's bridal / Emma C. Embury -- Dulcinea / Miss Leslie -- Snow / Mrs. Sigourney -- The bee-tree / Author of 'A new home' -- The broken-hearted / Mary E. Lee -- The wife's appeal / Miss C.H. Waterman -- Glimpses of heaven / Mary Ann Browne -- Nora / Mrs. Sigourney -- The recluse of the Blue Mountain / Mrs. Ellet -- The tough yarn / Seba Smith -- Lines on the death of two promising children / Mary E. Lee -- The love of tears / G.W. Patten -- Biographical studies upon contemporary singers -- Prayer on Bunker's Hill / Mrs. Sigourney -- The gipsy's chaunt / Charles West Thomson -- Eleanora / Edgar A. Poe -- A wreath of riddles / Mrs. F.S. Osgood -- Prayer for the bride at sea / G.W. Patten -- The village church / Mrs. Sigourney -- Early death / Miss M. Miles -- The people that did not take boarders / Miss Leslie -- Address to nature / Miss C.H. Waterman -- The sled / Charles West Thomson -- The French heroine / Catherine E. Beecher -- Stanzas / Park Benjamin -- To-morrow / Miss A.M.F. Buchanan -- Angel help / Charles West Thomson -- The raffle / John Frost -- 'Murder will out' / W.G. Simms -- Portia / W.J. Walter -- The doom of Moniac / G.W. Patten -- The appeal of Maria Theresa / Lucy Hooper -- Commencement day / Mary E. Lee -- Field of wheat / Miss H.F. Gould -- The cottage where we dwell / Mrs. F.S. Osgood.