AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL. BY LOUISA M. ALCOTT. With Illustrations. Price
$1.50.
"Miss Alcott has a faculty of entering into the lives and feelings of
children that is conspicuously wanting in most writers who address
them; and to this cause, to the consciousness among her readers that
they are hearing about people like themselves, instead of abstract
qualities labelled with names, the popularity of her books is due.
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy are friends in every nursery and schoolroom,
and even in the parlor and office they are not unknown; for a good
story is interesting to older folks as well, and Miss Alcott carries
on her children to manhood and womanhood, and leaves them only on the
wedding-day."--_Mrs. Sarah J. Hale in Godey's Ladies' Book._
"We are glad to see that Miss Alcott is becoming naturalized among
us as a writer, and cannot help congratulating ourselves on having
done something to bring about the result. The author of 'Little
Women' is so manifestly on the side of all that is 'lovely, pure, and
of good report' in the life of women, and writes with such genuine
power and humor, and with such a tender charity and sympathy, that
we hail her books with no common pleasure. 'An Old-Fashioned Girl'
is a protest from the other side of the Atlantic against the manners
of the creature which we know on this by the name of 'the Girl of
the Period;' but the attack is delivered with delicacy as well as
force."--_The London Spectator._
"A charming little book, brimful of the good qualities of intellect
and heart which made 'Little Women' so successful. The 'Old-Fashioned
Girl' carries with it a teaching specially needed at the present
day, and we are glad to know it is even already a decided and great
success."--_New York Independent._
"Miss Alcott's new story deserves quite as great a success as her
famous "Little Women," and we dare say will secure it. She has
written a book which child and parent alike ought to read, for it
is neither above the comprehension of the one, nor below the taste
of the other. Her boys and girls are so fresh, hearty, and natural,
the incidents of her story are so true to life, and the tone is so
thoroughly healthy, that a chapter of the 'Old-Fashioned Girl' wakes
up the unartificial better life within us almost as effectually as an
hour spent in the company of good, honest, sprightly children. The
Old-Fashioned Girl, Polly Milton, is a delightful creature!"--_New
York Tribune._
"Gladly we welcome the 'Old-Fashioned Girl' to heart and home!
Joyfully we herald her progress over the land! Hopefully we look
forward to the time when our young people, following her example,
will also be old-fashioned in purity of heart and simplicity
of life, thus brightening like a sunbeam the atmosphere around
them."--_Providence Journal._
_Mailed, postpaid, on receipt of the advertised price, by the
Publishers_,
ROBERTS BROTHERS,
_Boston_
"MISS ALCOTT IS REALLY A BENEFACTOR OF HOUSEHOLDS."--_H. H._
LITTLE MEN: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys. By LOUISA M. ALCOTT. With
Illustrations. Price $1.50.
"The gods are to be congratulated upon the success of the Alcott
experiment, as well as all childhood, young and old, upon the
singular charm of the little men and little women who have run
forth from the Alcott cottage, children of a maiden whose genius is
beautiful motherhood."--_The Examiner._
"No true-hearted boy or girl can read this book without deriving
benefit from the perusal; nor, for that matter, will it the least
injure children of a larger growth to endeavor to profit by the
examples of gentleness and honesty set before them in its pages. What
a delightful school 'Jo' did keep! Why, it makes us want to live
our childhood's days over again, in the hope that we might induce
some kind-hearted female to establish just such a school, and might
prevail upon our parents to send us, 'because it was cheap.'... We
wish the genial authoress a long life in which to enjoy the fruits of
her labor, and cordially thank her, in the name of our young people,
for her efforts in their behalf."--_Waterbury American._
"Miss Alcott, whose name has already become a household word among
little people, will gain a new hold upon their love and admiration by
this little book. It forms a fitting sequel to 'Little Women,' and
contains the same elements of popularity.... We expect to see it even
more popular than its predecessor, and shall heartily rejoice at the
success of an author whose works afford so much hearty and innocent
enjoyment to the family circle, and teach such pleasant and wholesome
lessons to old and young."--_N. Y. Times._
"Suggestive, truthful, amusing, and racy, in a certain simplicity of
style which very few are capable of producing. It is the history of
only six months' school-life of a dozen boys, but is full of variety
and vitality, and the having girls with the boys is a charming
novelty, too. To be very candid, this book is so thoroughly good that
we hope Miss Alcott will give us another in the same genial vein, for
she understands children and their ways."--_Phil. Press._