Part 20
By Helen Leah Reed. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. 12mo. Decorated cloth. $1.50
This book, the first volume of a very popular and successful series of books for girls, has received high praise. The _New York Tribune_ says it “has a tone of healthy common sense which is not always found in girls’ story books.”
The _Boston Herald_ says: “Miss Reed’s girls have all the impulses and likes of real girls as their characters are developing, and her record of their thoughts and actions reads like a chapter snatched from the page of life. It is bright, genial, merry, wholesome, and full of good characterizations.”
BRENDA’S SUMMER AT ROCKLEY
By Helen Leah Reed. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. l2mo. Decorated cloth. $1.20 _net_
A charming picture of vacation life along the famous North Shore of Massachusetts.
The _Outlook_ says: “The author is one of the best equipped of our writers for girls of larger growth. Her stories are strong, intelligent, and wholesome.”
“A clean, wholesome narrative, with a bright sparkle to its lines and sound moral for its girl readers,” says the _Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph_.
BRENDA’S COUSIN AT RADCLIFFE
By Helen Leah Reed. Illustrated by Alice Barber Stephens. 12mo. Decorated cloth. $1.20 _net_
The third and concluding “Brenda” book, in which student life at Radcliffe is described. A remarkably real and fascinating story of a college girl’s career, excelling in interest Miss Reed’s first “Brenda” book, of which the _Congregationalist_ said: “Equal to the best of the recent books of school life about boys. Lively and amusing, revealing a shrewd understanding of girl nature.”
ANNA CHAPIN RAY’S “TEDDY” STORIES
TEDDY: HER BOOK A Story of Sweet Sixteen
Illustrated by Vesper L. George. 12mo. $1.50
The girls of sweet sixteen owe Anna Chapin Ray a debt of gratitude. No other writer, of recent years at least, has given such complete expression to the comprehensiveness of the complex character of the modern girl of that age. The story is charmingly told and thoroughly wholesome.—_Denver Times._
PHEBE: HER PROFESSION A Sequel to “Teddy: Her Book”
Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill. 12mo. $1.50
Miss Ray’s work draws instant comparison with the best of Miss Alcott’s: first, because she has the same genuine sympathy with boy and girl life; secondly, because she creates real characters, individual and natural, like the young people one knows, actually working out the same kind of problems; and, finally, because her style of writing is equally unaffected and straightforward. She builds upon clearly thought-out convictions, and the influence of the book will be wholly for good, tending toward a sane, wholesome view of life generally. There is a deal of fun in it too.—_Christian Register_, Boston.
TEDDY: HER DAUGHTER A Sequel to “Teddy: Her Book,” and “Phebe: Her Profession”
Illustrated by J. B. Graff. 12mo. $1.20 _net_
Introduces a new generation of girls and boys, all well bred and gifted with good manners, takes them through much fun and such adventures as one may find on a small sandy island, and gives the girl a page or two of saving common sense about her duties to boys and her obligation to be true and womanly.—_New York Times Saturday Review._
NATHALIE’S CHUM
Illustrated by Ellen Bernard Thompson. 12mo. $1.20 _net_
A new volume by the author of “Teddy: Her Book,” is pronounced by those who have read it the most delightful she has yet written. “Teddy,” “Babe,” “Dr. McAlister,” and several other favorite characters in the previous books reappear, together with an orphan family of New York.
_Myra Sawyer Hamlin’s Stories_
NAN AT CAMP CHICOPEE; or, Nan’s Summer with the Boys
Illustrated by Jessie McDermott. 16mo. $1.25.
The story is one of free, outdoor life, characterized by a deal of fine descriptive writing and many bits of local color that invest the whole book with an atmosphere which is actually fragrant.—_Bangor Commercial._
NAN IN THE CITY; or, Nan’s Winter with the Girls
Illustrated by L. J. Bridgman. 16mo. $1.25.
A bright story in which children and animals play an equal part.—_The Outlook._
She is a womanly girl, and we have met her like outside of story-books. A wonderfully healthy, thoroughly womanly maiden, standing at the point in life where childhood and womanhood meet, one follows with interest the account of her first winter at school in a great city, where she made new friends and found some old ones.—_Chicago Advance._
NAN’S CHICOPEE CHILDREN
Illustrated by L. J. Bridgman. 16mo. $1.25.
Myra Sawyer Hamlin’s stories are full of outdoor life, redolent of the woods, the fields, and the mountain lakes, and her characters are very natural young folk.—_Cambridge Tribune._
Full of happiness and helpfulness, with experiences in doors and out that will interest all young people.—_Evening Standard, New Bedford._
CATHARINE’S PROXY. A Story of Schoolgirl Life
Illustrated by Florence E. Plaisted. 12mo. $1.20 _net_.
An entertaining story of a very modern young American girl of wealth who fails to appreciate the advantages of an expensive education, and at the suggestion of her father gives her educational advantage to another girl, who for a year becomes her proxy.
The girl characters are from fifteen to seventeen years of age, the boys are preparing for college, and all are instilled with the spirit of modern life in our best schools.
New Illustrated Editions of Miss Alcott’s Famous Stories
LITTLE MEN: Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys
By Louisa M. Alcott. With fifteen full-page illustrations by Reginald B. Birch. Crown 8vo. Decorated cloth. $2.00.
Nothing of its kind could be better than Miss Alcott’s “Little Men,” unless, possibly, her “Little Women.” ... It is the story of boys at school, and how they lived there. The boys will like it, for it will tell them of their own kind. The mothers will like it, for it is full of suggestions on the high art of governing. And everybody should read it, for it is cheery and like cordial from beginning to end.—_Congregationalist._
“Little Men” has never been given to an admiring public in any form so charming as this one. All that was needed to make the tale quite irresistible was such illustrations as are here supplied, fifteen full-page ones instinct with life and movement and charm.—_Boston Budget._
LITTLE WOMEN: or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy
By Louisa M. Alcott. With 15 full-page illustrations by Alice Barber Stephens. Crown 8vo. Decorated cloth. $2.00.
No book for the young is better known than Miss Alcott’s famous “Little Women.” It continues to have a wider reading and circulation than any other book of its class. Thousands of new readers will be delighted with this favorite book, in its new form, with Mrs. Stephens’s charming pictures.
AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL
By Louisa M. Alcott. With 12 full-page pictures by Jessie Willcox Smith. Crown 8vo. Decorated cloth. $2.00.
The third volume of “The Little Women Series.” Miss Alcott in this book described “the good old fashions which make women truly beautiful and honored, and render home what it should be,—a happy place where parents and children, brothers and sisters, learn to love and know and help one another.”
_In Preparation_
NEW ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS OF MISS ALCOTT’S OTHER BOOKS
JO’S BOYS, and How They Turned Out. A Sequel to “Little Men” EIGHT COUSINS; or, The Aunt-Hill ROSE IN BLOOM. A Sequel to “Eight Cousins” UNDER THE LILACS JACK AND JILL. A Village Story
LITTLE, BROWN, & COMPANY _Publishers_, 254 WASHINGTON ST., BOSTON, MASS. GROSSET & DUNLAP, - NEW YORK
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