ISABEL CARLETON’S YEAR
By MARGARET ASHMUN
The senior year in high school of a charming, bright and very human girl is the theme of this story—her girlish ambitions, her occupations, her amusements, her sacrifices and her triumphs. The scene is laid in Jefferson, a college town of the Middle West, and in addition to the Carleton family—Professor Carleton absorbed in his work but fond of his children; his wife, who is Isabel’s close friend and a wise one, and Isabel’s sister—there are introduced a number of happy young people whom Miss Ashmun characterizes with real insight into boy and girl nature. Among these friends of Isabel is Rodney Fox, and while the story closes with Isabel’s graduation from high school and her preparation for a trip abroad, there is the suggestion that in time this friendship, which has gone through the years, will ripen into something deeper. Miss Ashmun has well succeeded in her purpose, which was to write a story that would appeal to the girl in her teens.
THE THREE PEARLS
By J. W. FORTESQUE
A fairy story of unusual charm is this, having to do with three pearls worn in a royal crown. Good luck goes with them so long as they are honored; ill fortune comes when they are dishonored. The possibilities of this theme are many and the author has made much of them. The tale is rich in imagination, in color and in that kind of fairy adventure which has delighted children and grown-ups for aeons past. The illustrations are by Alice B. Woodward.
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