A bright story in which children and animals play an equal part.—The Outlook.
She is a womanly girl, and we have met her like outside of story-books. A wonderfully healthy, thoroughly womanly maiden, standing at the point in life where childhood and womanhood meet, one follows with interest the account of her first winter at school in a great city, where she made new friends and found some old ones.—Chicago Advance.
NAN’S CHICOPEE CHILDREN
Illustrated by L. J. Bridgman. 16mo. $1.25.
Myra Sawyer Hamlin’s stories are full of outdoor life, redolent of the woods, the fields, and the mountain lakes, and her characters are very natural young folk.—Cambridge Tribune.
Full of happiness and helpfulness, with experiences in doors and out that will interest all young people.—Evening Standard, New Bedford.
CATHARINE’S PROXY. A Story of Schoolgirl Life
Illustrated by Florence E. Plaisted. 12mo. $1.20 net.
An entertaining story of a very modern young American girl of wealth who fails to appreciate the advantages of an expensive education, and at the suggestion of her father gives her educational advantage to another girl, who for a year becomes her proxy.
The girl characters are from fifteen to seventeen years of age, the boys are preparing for college, and all are instilled with the spirit of modern life in our best schools.
New Illustrated Editions of
Miss Alcott’s Famous Stories
LITTLE MEN: Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys
By Louisa M. Alcott. With fifteen full-page illustrations by Reginald B. Birch. Crown 8vo. Decorated cloth. $2.00.