An Indian story for girls. A mission school for the daughters of the Dakota tribes is most interestingly described. The strange ideas and beliefs of these wild people are woven into the thread of the story, which tells how a little white girl was brought up as an Indian child, educated at a mission school, and was finally discovered by her parents.
SERAPH, THE LITTLE VIOLINISTE. By Mrs. C. V. Jamison. 298 pp. Illustrated. Cloth, $1,50.
A most charming and delightful story of a little girl who had inherited a most remarkable musical talent, which found its natural expression through the medium of the violin. The picturesqueness of Mrs. Jamison’s stories is remarkable, and the reader unconsciously becomes Seraph’s friend and sympathizer in all her trials and triumphs.
ORCUTT GIRLS; or, One Term at the Academy. By Charlotte M. Vaile. 316 pp. Illustrated. Cloth, $1.50.
Mrs. Vaile gives us a story here which will become famous as a description of a phase of New England educational history which has now become a thing of the past—with an exception here and there. The Academy, once the pride and boast of our fathers, has given way to the High School, and girls and boys of to-day know nothing of the experiences which “The Orcutt Girls” enjoyed in their “One Term at the Academy.”
MALVERN. A Neighborhood Story. By Ellen Douglas Deland. 341 pp. Illustrated. Cloth, $1.50.
A most attractive and interesting story by a writer who has won a vast audience of young people by her stories. Malvern is a small suburban town in New Jersey. The neighborhood furnishes a queer assortment of boys and girls. How they felt and acted, what they did, and how they did it, forms an interesting narrative.
LADY BETTY’S TWINS. By E. M. Waterworth. With 12 illustrations. 116 pp. Cloth, 75 cents.
A quaint little story of a girl—a little girl—who had a propensity for getting into trouble, because she had not learned the lesson of obedience. She masters this, however, as the story tells, and in doing so she and her brother have a number of experiences.
THE MOONSTONE RING. By Jennie Chappell. With 6 full-page illustrations. 116 pp. Cloth, 75 cents.