‘This is a most delightful, and, let us add, a most sensible book for children. It teaches us many a good moral, many a good common-sense lesson, in its rhymes, which are, for the most part, very musical to the ear.’—Standard.
THE DESERT PASTOR, JEAN JAROUSSEAU. By Colonel E. P. De L’Hoste. Translated from the French of Eugène Pelletan. In fcp. 8vo. with an Engraved Frontispiece. New Edition.
‘There is a poetical simplicity and picturesqueness; the noblest heroism; unpretentious religion; pure love, and the spectacle of a household brought up in the fear of the Lord.’—Illustrated London News.
‘It is a touching record of the struggles in the cause of religious liberty of a real man.’—Graphic.
‘It is difficult to imagine any class of persons to whom this little book will not prove attractive.’—London Quarterly.
Works by MARTHA FARQUHARSON.
I. ELSIE DINSMORE. Crown 8vo.
II. ELSIE’S GIRLHOOD. Crown 8vo.
III. ELSIE’S HOLIDAYS AT ROSELANDS. Crown 8vo.
‘We do not pretend to have read the history of Elsie as she is portrayed in three different volumes. By the help, however, of the illustrations, and by dips here and there, we can safely give a favourable account.’—Westminster Review.
‘Elsie Dinsmore is a familiar name to a world of young readers. In the above three pretty volumes her story is complete, and it is one full of youthful experiences, winning a general interest.’—Athenæum.