“How best to help the slender store,
How mend the dwellings of the poor,
How gain in life as life advances,
Valor and charity more and more.”
FARMAN (Ella). (Mrs. C. S. Pratt.)
Ella Farman is the editor of Wide Awake, and her books are full of sympathy with girl-life, always sunshiny and hopeful, always pointing out new ways to do things and unexpected causes for happiness and gladness.
THE COOKING-CLUB OF TU-WHIT HOLLOW. 12mo, illustrated, 1.25.
The practical instructions in housewifery, which are abundant, are set in the midst of a bright wholesome story. Girls who read this book will not be able to keep house at once, but they will learn to do some things, and they will have an hour or two of genuine pleasure in discovering how there came to be a cooking-club and in tracing its history.
GOOD-FOR-NOTHING POLLY. 12mo, illustrated, 1.00.
Polly is not a girl at all, but a boy, a slangy, school-hating, fun-loving, wilful, big-hearted boy. “Nagged” continually at home, he wastes his time upon the streets and finally runs away. The book tells of his adventures. Mrs. Pratt has a keen insight into the joys and sorrows of the little appreciated boy-life. Like Robert J. Burdette, she is a master of humor and often touches a tender chord of pathos. Every boy will be delighted with this book and every mother ought to read it who is, all unwittingly perhaps, “freezing” her own noisy boy out of the home.
“‘Good-for-Nothing Polly’ will doubtless gain the admiration and win the graces of as large a circle of readers in England as it has already done in the United States.”—Bookseller, London.
HOW TWO GIRLS TRIED FARMING. 12mo, illustrated, 1.00.
A narrative of an actual experience.