The Tapestry Room: A Child's Romance. By Mrs. Molesworth. Illustrated by Walter Crane. 12mo, cloth, price 75 cents.
"Mrs. Molesworth is a charming painter of the nature and ways of children; and she has done good service in giving us this charming juvenile which will delight the young people."—Athenæum, London.
Little Miss Peggy: Only a Nursery Story. By Mrs. Molesworth. With Illustrations by Walter Crane. 12mo, cloth, price 75 cents.
Mrs. Molesworth's children are finished studies. She is never sentimental, but writes common sense in a straightforward manner. A joyous earnest spirit pervades her work, and her sympathy is unbounded. She loves them with her whole heart, while she lays bare their little minds, and expresses their foibles, their faults, their virtues, their inward struggles, their conception of duty, and their instinctive knowledge of the right and wrong of things. She knows their characters, she understands their wants, and she desires to help them.
Polly: A New Fashioned Girl. By L. T. Meade. Illustrated 12mo, cloth, price $1.00.
Few authors have achieved a popularity equal to Mrs. Meade as a writer of stories for young girls. Her characters are living beings of flesh and blood, not lay figures of conventional type. Into the trials and crosses, and everyday experiences, the reader enters at once with zest and hearty sympathy. While Mrs. Meade always writes with a high moral purpose, her lessons of life, purity and nobility of character are rather inculcated by example than intruded as sermons.
Rosy. By Mrs. Molesworth. Illustrated by Walter Crane. 12mo, cloth, price 75 cents.
Mrs. Molesworth, considering the quality and quantity of her labors, is the best story-teller for children England has yet known. This is a bold statement and requires substantiation, Mrs. Molesworth, during the last six years, has never failed to occupy a prominent place among the juvenile writers of the season.
"A very pretty story.... The writer knows children and their ways well.... The illustrations are exceedingly well drawn."—Spectator.