JEMIMA.
A Story of English Family Life. By Adelaide. With Frontispiece.
Opinions of the Press.
The Times says:—“‘Jemima,’ by Adelaide, is another tale that girls should care to read, with sufficient proportion of story, and of a more original type than girls’ books generally are. The humour, of which there is an unusual proportion for such works, is not, perhaps, of a very subtle or rich quality, but it is easy and simple, and appropriate to the characters. Any humour, so long as it is neither vulgar nor obscene, is surely preferable to the long-drawn melancholy which is too apt to pervade girls’ books—for what reason we could never understand; girls are no more naturally prone to sadness than boys.”
The Scotsman says:—“A better story of its kind than ‘Jemima’ cannot easily be met with. The book is written with a freshness and exuberant buoyancy of manner that suit the subject admirably.”
The Academy says:—“‘Jemima’ is a very natural and charming story of a very natural and charming little girl. It is exactly what it pretends to be—‘a story of English family life’—but it has a distinctness of quality which is by no means common in stories of English family life.”
The Daily Chronicle says:—“The story of English family life told by Adelaide, under the title of ‘Jemima,’ is of a much more realistic character. Lively and amusing throughout, there is also an element of good sense introduced, which keeps the juvenile escapades within reasonable bounds, and extracts a lesson even from naughtiness.”
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VOCABULARY OF THE ENGLISH-MALAY LANGUAGES—
With Notes. English-Malay Vocal Dialogues. By Frank A. Swettenham.