This is a story of New York when it was Niew Amsterdam and Peter Stuyvesant ruled with a high hand. Annetje, the “maid” of the title, is a little girl who through a series of misfortunes has become separated from her people and is brought up for a time by the Indians and later by a good Dutch “Vrouw.” Her unusual adventures, her services to her governor—“His High Mightiness” Peter Stuyvesant—and the finding of her family through the discovery of insignia which the old Indians had woven in the doe-skin clothes which she wore when she left their encampment as a little girl, are all charmingly set forth, while the beginning of a romance between Annetje and the governor’s son is sketched. Annetje’s loyal Indian guards, her pet raccoon and the mysterious peddler who plays an important part in the solution of the mystery of Annetje’s parentage, add interest to an altogether enjoyable tale.
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Publishers, 64-66 Fifth Avenue, New York
Peggy of Roundabout Lane
By EDNA TURPIN, Author of “Honey Sweet” and “Happy Acres.”
With illustrations by Alice Beard
Decorated cloth, 12mo.
Readers of Miss Turpin’s previous books for girls doubtless remember the Callahan family, among the more picturesque of all the characterizations in these delightful volumes. Peggy is a Callahan and this is her story, a story in which Anne Lewis of Honey Sweet fame and some of the people from Happy Acres also figure. It all has to do with the way in which Peggy rises gloriously to an emergency—how she cares for the home while her mother is recovering from a severe illness, brings order out of chaos, and even though she does lose the scholarship prize in school, upon which she has set her heart, wins something even greater and is very happy in her choice and in that which it brings.
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY