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Miller, Mrs. Harriet (Mann) (Olive Thorne Miller, pseud.). Harry’s runaway. †$1.25. Houghton.
7–32035.
A sure cure for the runaway malady. The good work of parents in restraining dissatisfied boys is helpfully supplemented in Mrs. Miller’s story. Harry Barnes persuades a playmate to run away with him. Their experiences lead to a half starved condition in which their parents find them. To make Harry’s lesson more impressive each night some one drops in and tells a runaway story which shatters some youthful ideal of heroism and reduces the would-be hero to the suppliant state.
Miller, Mrs. Harriet (Mann) (Olive Thorne Miller, pseud.). What happened to Barbara. †$1.25. Houghton.
7–15599.
A little girl of thirty years ago is the heroine of Mrs. Miller’s story. “The story has the air of being autobiographical, and is interesting for two reasons, and two only: It furnishes a kind of proof that there is a type of healthy child life in which the thing we know as sentiment is non-existent: and it demonstrates the possibility of converting into quasi-literary form the amazing gift of being able to discourse ‘ad libitum’ about absolutely nothing.” (Lit. D.)
| − + | Lit. D. 35: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 170w. |
“It might be, and doubtless is, in the main, a carefully expurgated account of the part of the author’s own life which lies in the schoolgirl stage.”