“Any boy or girl above the age of twelve may use this book to advantage and will find it interesting and suggestive as well as instructive.”
+ R of Rs 61:612 Je ’20 80w
OLMSTEAD, FLORENCE. Stafford’s Island. *$1.75 (2c) Scribner
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Clarissa Stafford had grown up a lonely child on a lonely island, off the Georgia coast, with her apathetic, hermit grandfather, Peter Stafford. Her loneliness had developed occult powers in her and she sometimes felt certain that she saw the reflection of a man in the mirror of the drawing room where the picture of her grandmother, whose namesake and image she was, hung over the fireplace. When Clarissa is twenty a young man is washed ashore in a storm who resembles the vision. It all comes out in the story how Henry Thorne is the grandson of the man who painted Clarissa Stafford, and how that accounts for the picture and then ran off with the older the mysterious affinity that draws the living young people irresistibly towards each other.
Booklist 16:314 Je ’20
“Miss Olmstead has, with appealing artistry, woven a fascinating love story.”
+ N Y Times 25:28 Jl 18 ’20 300w
OMORI, ANNIE SHEPLEY, and KOCHI DOI, trs. Diaries of court ladies of old Japan. il *$5 Houghton 895