The large public that took delight in "Elizabeth and her German Garden," and the larger public that likes to read of the ways of children and enjoys a good love story, will welcome this delightful book. It deals with the experiences of a charming young woman whose married sisters have made her a "professional aunt." The ways of children, their moods and manners, have never been more vividly and seductively portrayed. There is a zest in the account of household happenings that wins the reader at once, but the book is much more than a story about children. The love affairs of "Aunt Woggles" and her own charming personality will become permanent memories.
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MRS. WEMYSS
This is the author's first full-sized novel. She is an Englishwoman, one of a family of fourteen children, and she married an officer in the English army. "The Professional Aunt" will make her many friends on both sides of the sea.
LITTLE BROTHER O' DREAMS
By Elaine Goodale Eastman
Printed and bound in distinctive style. Narrow 12mo, $1.00 net. Postage extra.
This tender and poetic story has a power of imaginative pathos that will take it straight to the heart of the sensitive reader. "Little Brother o' Dreams," the shy, poetic elf of the woods, who makes friends with the rich man's child from the city and grows up to be both a bee-man and a poet, the lover of his childhood's friend, will stay in the memory as one of the unforgettable characters of contemporary fiction. It is not a novel for the man in the street, but for discerning readers it will have a rare and unique charm. Mrs. Eastman has already won distinction, both as a poet and as an authority in child culture.
JOHN FORSYTH'S AUNTS
By Eliza Orne White
Author of "The Wares of Edgefield," "Lesley Chilton," "A Browning Courtship," etc. New Edition. 12mo, $1.50.
Three delightful New England "maiden ladies" figure in these eleven short stories, which Miss White has so connected that they have a continuous interest and combine the merits of the short story with those of the novel. The three heroines belong to an old family, which is devoted to old ways, old furniture, and has an aversion to anything which savors of modernity and the parvenu. Miss White excels in the delineation of such characters, and she makes them all very real and life-like, so that the reader soon learns to look at them as persons and not as mere creations of an imagination. There is humor, too, in the stories—humor of a quaint but intensely satisfying nature. The love affairs have the delicate fragrance of mint and lavender, and savor of long ago. Contrasted with this is the modern time, which conflicts with the old and gives the bit of excitement found in the volume.