The charm of this tale is its delicate, wistful sympathy. It is the story of a sunny-hearted child, Rosebud, who assists her grandfather in his dusty, second-hand bookshop. One cannot help being fascinated by the sweet little heroine, she is so engaging, so natural: and to love Rosebud is to love all her friends and enter sympathetically into the good fortune she brought them.
AMONG THE LAWMAKERS
By Edmund Alton. Illustrated. Square 8vo, $1.50.
“The book is a diverting as well as an instructive one. Mr. Alton was in his early days a page in the Senate, and he relates the doings of Congress from the point of view he then obtained. His narrative is easy and piquant, and abounds in personal anecdotes about the great men whom the pages waited on.”—Christian Union.
EVENING TALES
Done into English from the French of Frederic Ortoli, by Joel Chandler Harris. 12mo, $1.00.
“It is a veritable French ‘Uncle Remus’ that Mr. Harris has discovered in Frederic Ortoli. The book has the genuine piquancy of Gallic wit, and will be sure to charm American children. Mr. Harris’s version is delightfully written.”—Boston Beacon.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Froissart’s own cunning little poem of Le Débat dou Cheval et dou Levrier, recently printed for the first time by M. Buchon, gives such a picture of himself:—
“Froissars d’Escoce revenolt
Sus un cheval qui gris estoit;
Un blanc levrier menoit en lasse.”