In this story you have the amusing escapades of an American boy at an English watering-place. No doubt Willie is "a little handful" to his friends, but notwithstanding all his freaks, he is a clever, entertaining, intelligent youngster, who wins our love without an effort.
A Golden Age: A Story of Four Merry Children. By Ismay Thorn. Illustrated by Gordon Browne. New Edition.
The four children whose everyday experiences are here given are singularly happy in their choice of pastimes. Their adventures have all the virtues of the ordinary and the probable, and to these they add the merit of being set forth in a delightful style.
A Rough Road: or, How the Boy Made a Man of Himself. By Mrs. G. Linnæus Banks. Illustrated by Alfred Pearse.
"Mrs. Linnæus Banks has not written a better book than A Rough Road."—Spectator.
"Told with much simple force and that charm which belongs to one who has known herself what a rough road is, and how to traverse it."—Winter's Weekly.
The Two Dorothys: A Tale for Girls. By Mrs. Herbert Martin. Illustrated by Gordon Browne.
"A book that will not only interest and please all girls, but will also, from its pure but unostentatious teaching, stimulate and encourage to better and higher things, youthful hopes, dreams, and ambitions."—The Lady.
Penelope and the Others: A Story of Five Country Children. By Amy Walton. Illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke.
"This is a charming book for children. Miss Walton proves herself a perfect adept in understanding of school-room joys and sorrows, and her name ought to become a household word amongst our boys and girls."—Christian Leader.