Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomasina (formerly L. T. Meade). Hill top girl. †$1.50. Lippincott.
Mrs. Smith’s story “exhibits the familiar contrast between rich and poor, worldly and unworldly households. The humble folk dwell on the top of the hill, the great folk in the plain below, and this symbolizes their relative position from an ethical point of view. A sudden girl-friendship that springs up between the two houses is discouraged by the hill-top father Prof. Primrose; and the rebellion against his decree occupies the greater part of the story.” (Ath.)
“The fault of the over-accentuation appears throughout.”
| − | Ath. 1906, 2: 652. N. 24. 160w. |
“For American girls there will be all the charm of the unaccustomed in the ‘Hill-top girl.’”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 851. D. 8, ’06. 120w. | |
| − | Sat. R. 102: 742. D. 15, ’06. 340w. |
Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomasina. Little school mothers: a story for girls. 75c. McKay.
7–21231.
A boarding-school story for girls whose chief interest centers about a contest which is designed to reveal the girl best fitted to become the school-mother of a motherless child.