Decorated cloth, 12mo; preparing
The scene, a settlement school in Kentucky; the characters, the unformed children of the mountaineers and a young woman, their teacher, who has come to them that she may forget in her work a great sorrow that has entered into her life. How her grief is not only assuaged, but how she finds a new life, rich in possibilities, in the mothering of the homesick lads and in the molding of their careers, is told by Miss Furman with a wealth of feeling. The book is at times as genuinely humorous as it is touching and all through it there is evidenced the hand of one who knows whereof she speaks. Miss Furman is a teacher in a school in Kentucky. "Mothering on Perilous" may, therefore, be taken not as a story, but as a picture of what is actually being done by earnest-minded people in a line of endeavor of which too little is known.
A Kingdom of Two
By HELEN R. ALBEE
Decorated cloth, illustrated, 12mo; preparing
"The Kingdom" is a country place of about two hundred acres and the "two" are the writer's husband and herself. Practical information for the home-maker and the gardener are happily blended in this book with sentiment and a pleasing vein of philosophical reflection. While the work is primarily one for lovers of the great outdoors, for Nature in its various moods is perhaps the central theme, it is much more than what is ordinarily termed a "nature volume." The story form, only half assumed, the charming personalities which are presented, their day to day lives, these all lend to it an added interest.
The "Highways and Byways" Series
Highways and Byways from the St. Lawrence to Virginia