Miss Julia Magruder has by this time firmly established her reputation
as one of the most popular of our younger writers. Many readers had
their introduction to her when "The Princess Sonia" began in the pages
of _The Century Magazine_, and all agreed that the most charming
love-story they had read for years came from this almost unknown
Southern girl.
Since then "The Violet" and a volume of short stories, entitled, "Miss
Ayr of Virginia," have appeared. In the title of this latest volume,
Miss Magruder, in a way, makes the confession that she is an old
fashioned writer. At least she is not modern in some of the unpleasant
meanings of the word. In her book, "ideals" are sometimes to be
"realized," and the whole story is an unobtrusive protest in favor of
sweetness and of sentiment in fiction.
The volume is bound in an exceedingly good design by Frank Hazenplug,
in three colors.
16mo. Cloth. $1.25.