Climbing The Rope; or, God Helps Those who Help Themselves:
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Billy Grimes's Favorite; or, Johnny Greenleaf's Talent.
By May Mannering.
Boston: Lee & Shepard.
These two volumes, the first of the "Helping Hand Series," are well adapted to make the youthful reader self-reliant, while carefully guarding against self-sufficiency. The principal characters are well drawn, and there are several charming episodes of village life. There is one blemish. How could Biddy O'Rooke, (sic,) "a good Catholic," say that "though she had been always to church, and confessed all her life, when she had a chance, it wasn't much of the Great Father himself that she heard"?
Alexis, The Runaway; or, Afloat in the World.
By Mrs. Rosa Abbott Parker.
Boston: Lee & Shepard.
The search of Alexis for his master, the Count von Homburg, results in some striking adventures by sea and land; in the New World and the Old. Pierre Grepan, fairly love-crazed Prissy Dean, and the kind-hearted Jacqueline Rasheburne, are well conceived.
Dotty Dimple At Her Grandmother's.
By Sophie May, author of Little Prudie Stories.
Boston: Lee & Shepard.
A charming little tale, attractive from its very simplicity; a true child's book.