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HELEN LEAH REED'S "BRENDA" BOOKS
BRENDA, HER SCHOOL AND HER CLUB
Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.
The Boston Herald says: "Miss Reed's girls have all the impulses and likes of real girls as their characters are developing, and her record of their thoughts and actions reads like a chapter snatched from the page of life. It is bright, genial, merry, wholesome, and full of good characterizations."
BRENDA'S SUMMER AT ROCKLEY
Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.
A charming picture of vacation life along the famous North Shore of Massachusetts.
The Outlook says: "The author is one of the best equipped of our writers for girls of larger growth. Her stories are strong, intelligent, and wholesome."
BRENDA'S COUSIN AT RADCLIFFE
Illustrated by Alice Barber Stephens.
A remarkably real and fascinating story of a college girl's career, excelling in interest Miss Reed's first "Brenda" book. The Providence News says of it: "No better college story has been written." The author is a graduate of Radcliffe College which she describes.
No better college story has been written.—Providence News.
Miss Reed is herself a Radcliffe woman, and she has made a sympathetic and accurate study of the woman's college at Cambridge.—Chicago Evening Post.
The author is one of the best equipped of our writers for girls of larger growth. Her stories are strong, intelligent, and wholesome.—The Outlook, N. Y.
The book has the background of old Cambridge, a little of Harvard, and Boston in the distance.... The heroine is a fine girl, and the other characters are girls of many varieties and from many places.—New York Commercial Advertiser.
She brings out all sides of the life, and, while making much of the fun and good fellowship, does not let it be forgotten that work and growth are the end and object of it all.—Chicago Tribune.
BRENDA'S BARGAIN
Illustrated.
"The fourth and last of the 'Brenda' books," says The Bookman, "deals with social settlement work, under conditions with which the author is familiar." The Boston Transcript adds: "This book is by far the best of the series."
Another Popular "Brenda" Story
AMY IN ACADIA
Illustrated by Katharine Pyle.
A delightful scene for a tale that arouses and holds the young reader's attention and sympathies from the beginning.—Washington Star.
The entire story is full of life, action, and entertainment, as well as information.—Newark Advertiser.
Amy, now a college senior, and some of her friends have various unique experiences, and incidentally introduce a great many historical details concerning the descendants of the exiled Acadians in the romantic region of Clare in Nova Scotia.—New York Sun.
A splendid tale for girls, carefully written, interesting, and full of information concerning the romantic region made famous by the vicissitudes of Evangeline.—Toronto Globe.
The adventures of Amy and her girl friends among the descendants of the exiled Acadians have a spice of novelty to them.—Philadelphia Press.
So well written that it holds the attention of the young reader, and so well developed in its story as to prove without question another popular addition to the young folks' library.—Boston Journal.
A Story for Younger Girls
IRMA AND NAP
Illustrated by Clara E. Atwood.
A brightly written story about children from eleven to thirteen years of age, who live in a suburban town, and attend a public grammar school. The book is full of incident of school and home life.
The story deals with real life, and is told in the simple and natural style which characterized Miss Reed's popular "Brenda" stories.—Washington Post.
There are little people in this sweetly written story with whom all will feel at once that they have been long acquainted, so real do they seem, as well as their plans, their play, and their school and home and everyday life.—Boston Courier.
Her children are real; her style also is natural and pleasing.—The Outlook, New York.
Miss Reed's children are perfectly natural and act as real girls would under the same circumstances. Nap is a lively little dog, who takes an important part in the development of the story.—Christian Register, Boston.
A clever story, not a bit preachy, but with much influence for right living in evidence throughout.—Chicago Evening Post.