JOLLY GOOD STORIES.
BY
MARY P. WELLS SMITH.
Jolly Good Times To-Day. With illustrations by Jessie McDermott. 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.25.
A sensible book, and it is sensible because it is merry and natural.—New York Times.
A complete description of the happy every-day life of American children of the present day.—Christian Register.
Natural, every-day children.—Churchman.
One of the jolliest, most natural, and readable books we have read for many a day.—Boston Times.
A most charming book for children, whose scene is laid in our very midst, is Mrs. Mary P. Wells Smith’s “Jolly Good Times To-Day.” The writer, Mrs. Fayette Smith, of Avondale, has been very successful in her books for young people but this is the first instance where she has drawn upon her own beautiful neighborhood for materials. Apart from the interest felt in a description of people in our midst, the book is charming in its fresh, simple presentation of child-life. Mrs. Smith has the power of entering directly into the personality of her characters, and, as a result, they are real people. The book is full of local references that will interest Cincinnatians, and this fact, with its excellence as a story, should make it very popular with our young folk.—Cincinnati Tribune.
The book is rightly named, and is the fifth in a series of volumes bearing similar title. It is brimming from cover to cover with healthy, hearty, child’s companionship and wholesomely jolly times. It is the story of children whose lives are put in pleasant places, where the modern possessions of our day contribute freely to the general happiness; where the comradeship of elders gives no undue sense of parental authority, but, rather, a friendly sharing of mutual guiding; where liberal instincts and thoughtful living create an atmosphere of growth and of personal privilege, wherein young lives may unconsciously expand toward a noble future.—Unity.