SOPHIE MAY'S "LITTLE-FOLKS" BOOKS.

"'Oh, what a fascinating creature,' said the Man in the Moon, making an eye-glass with his thumb and fore-finger, and gazing at the lady boarder. 'Are you a widow, mem?'"


SPECIMEN CUT TO "LITTLE PRUDY'S FLYAWAY SERIES."


SOPHIE MAY'S "LITTLE-FOLKS" BOOKS.

LITTLE GRANDMOTHER.

"Grandmother Parlen when a little girl is the subject. Of course that was ever so long ago, when there were no lucifer matches, and steel and tinder were used to light fires; when soda and saleratus had never been heard of, but people made their pearl ash by soaking burnt crackers in water; when the dressmaker and the tailor and the shoemaker went from house to house twice a year to make the dresses and coats of the family."—Transcript.