Hope, a little girl of nine, and her big brother Lewis, are orphans living in an isolated farm-house, all in all to each other. A railroad accident to a city lad introduces them to a wider circle, and no story written is more touching.
IV. MAX MEREDITH’S MILLENNIUM.
A manly lad of twelve is the hero of this the best story for boys you ever read. Try the opening chapter, and you won’t close the book till the end is reached.
Miss Townsend has a great reputation as a writer of mature books, and this series for boys and girls from ten upward has won her a host of readers. Each of these books are “Heart Stories,” that move you strangely, and make everything from her pen eagerly sought after.
Sunday-school librarians say these books wear out in service, they are such favorites.
VERONICA;
Or, the Light House Keeper.
Handsome cloth. Price, 75 cents.
Veronica’s father was lost at sea. She lived with her grandparents, on the English coast.
The fairy story of a Magic Horn, if heard at sea, would banish all sorrow, so impressed her that she got into a boat and fell asleep listening for this welcome sound. She drifted from the English to the French Coast, was picked up by a Light House Keeper, and long years elapsed before she was found and restored, with her lost father, to the mourning ones at home.