GOOD NEWS.
I don't suppose there was anything really infectious about my illness,
though nowadays whenever there is any sort of sore throat people are
very much on their guard. Perhaps they were not so cautious long ago.
However that may have been, Myra was not banished from my room for very
long. I rather think, indeed, that she used to creep in and sit like a
little mouse behind the curtains before I was well enough to notice her.
But everything for a time seemed dreamy to me. The first event I can
quite clearly recall was my being allowed to sit up for an hour or two,
or, more correctly speaking, to _lie_ up, for I was lifted on to the
sofa and tucked in almost as if I were still in bed.
That was a very happy afternoon. It was happy for several reasons, for
that morning had brought me the first letter I had had from dear mamma
since she had heard of my bold step in running away from school! Lying
still and silent for so many hours as I had done, things had grown to
look differently to me. I began to see where and how I had been wrong,
and to think that if I had been more open about my troubles, more
courageous--that is to say, if I had gone to Miss Ledbury and told her
everything that was on my mind--I need not have been so terribly unhappy
or caused trouble and distress to others.
A little of this mamma pointed out to me in her letter, which was,
however, so very kind and loving, so full of sorrow that I had been so
unhappy, that I felt more grateful than I knew how to express.
Afterwards, when we talked it all over, years afterwards even, for we
often talked of that time after I was grown up and married, and had
children of my own, mamma said to me that she _could_ not blame me
though she knew I had not done right, for she felt so broken-hearted at
the thought of what I had suffered.
It had been a mistake, no doubt, to send me to Green Bank, but mistakes
are often overruled for good. I am glad to have had the experience of
it, as I think it made me more sympathising with others. And it made me
determine never to send any child of mine, or any child I had the care
of, to a school where there was so little feeling of _home_, so little
affection and gentleness--above all, that dreadful old-world rule of
letters being read, and the want of trust and confidence in the pupils,
which showed in so many ways.
A few days after I received mamma's letter I was allowed to write to
her. It was slow and tiring work, for I was only able to write a few
lines at a time, and that in pencil. But it was delightful to be free to
say just what I wanted to say, without the terrible feeling of Miss
Aspinall, or worse still Miss Broom, judging and criticising every line.
I thanked mamma with my whole heart for not being angry with me, and to
show her how truly I meant what I said, I promised her that when I was
well again and able to go back to school I would try my very, very best
to get on more happily.
But I gave a deep sigh as I wrote this, and Myra, who was sitting beside
me, looked up anxiously, and asked what was the matter.
"Oh, Myra," I said, "it is just that I can't bear to think of going back
to school. I'd rather never get well if only I could stay here till
mamma comes home."
"Dear little Geraldine," said Myra--she often called me "little" though
she was _scarcely_ any taller than I--"dear little Geraldine, you
mustn't say that. I don't think it's right. And, you know, when you are
quite well again things won't seem so bad to you. I remember once when I
was ill--I was quite a little girl then,"--Myra spoke as if she was now
a very big girl indeed!--"I think it was when I had had the measles, the
least thing vexed me dreadfully. I cried because somebody had given me a
present of a set of wooden tea-things in a box, and the tea ran out of
the cups when I filled them! Fancy crying for that!"
"I know," I said, "I've felt like that too. But this is a _real_
trouble, Myra--a real, very bad, dreadful trouble, though I've promised
mamma to try to be good. Do you think, Myra, that when I'm back at
school your grandmamma will sometimes ask me to come to see you?"
"I'm sure----" my little friend began eagerly. But she was interrupted.
For curiously enough, just at that moment Mrs. Cranston opened the door
and came in. She came to see me every day, and though at first I was
just a tiny bit afraid of her--she seemed to me such a very old lady--I
soon got to love her dearly, and to talk to her quite as readily as to
kind Miss Fenmore.
"What is my little girl sure about?" she said. "And how is my other
little girl to-day? Not too tired," and she glanced at my letter. "You
have not been writing too much, dearie, I hope?"
"No, thank you," I replied, "I'm not tired."
"She's only rather unhappy, granny," said Myra.
"I think that's a very big 'only,'" said Mrs. Cranston. "Can't you tell
me, my dear, what you are unhappy about?"
I glanced at Myra, as if asking her to speak for me. She understood.
"Granny," she said, "poor little Geraldine is unhappy to think of going
away and going back to school."
Mrs. Cranston looked at me very kindly.
"Poor dear," she said, "you have not had much pleasure with us, as you
have been ill all the time."
"I don't mind," I said. "I was telling Myra, only she thought it was
naughty, that I'd rather be ill always if I was with kind people,
than--than--be at school where nobody cares for me."
"Well, well, my dear, the troubles we dread are often those that don't
come to pass. Try to keep up your spirits and get quite well and
strong, so that you may be able to enjoy yourself a little before both
you and Myra leave us."
"Oh, is Myra going away?" I said. "I thought she was going to live here
always," and somehow I felt as if I did not mind _quite_ so much to
think of going away myself in that case.
"Oh no," said the old lady, "Myra has her own home where she must spend
part of her time, though grandfather and I hope to have her here a good
deal too. It is easy to manage now Miss Fenmore is with her always."
In my heart I thought Myra a most fortunate child--_two_ homes were
really hers; and I--I had none. This thought made me sigh again. I don't
know if Myra guessed what I was thinking of, but she came close up to me
and put her arms round my neck and kissed me.
"Geraldine," she whispered, by way of giving me something pleasant to
think of, perhaps, "as soon as you are able to walk about a little I
want you to come downstairs with me to see the lions."
"Yes," I said in the same tone, "but you did give them my message,
Myra?"
"Of course I did, and they sent you back their love, and they are very
glad you're better, and they want you very much indeed to come to see
them."
Myra and I understood each other quite well about the lions, you see.
I went on getting well steadily after that, and not many days later I
went downstairs with Myra to the big show-room to see the lions. It gave
me such a curious feeling to remember the last time I had been there,
that rainy evening when I crept in, as nearly broken-hearted and in
despair as a little girl could be. And as I stroked the lions and looked
up in their dark mysterious faces, I could not get rid of the idea that
they knew all about it, that somehow or other they had helped and
protected me, and when I tried to express this to Myra she seemed to
think the same.
After this there were not many days on which we did not come downstairs
to visit our strange play-fellows, and not a few interesting games or
"actings," as Myra called them, did we invent, in which the lions took
their part.
We were only allowed to be in the show-rooms at certain hours of the
day, when there were not likely to be any customers there. Dear old Mrs.
Cranston was as particular as she possibly could be not to let me do
anything or be seen in any way which mamma could possibly have disliked.
And before long I began to join a little in Myra's lessons with Miss
Fenmore--lessons which our teacher's kind and "understanding" ways made
delightful. So that life was really very happy for me at this time,
except of course for the longing for mamma and father and Haddie, which
still came over me in fits, as it were, every now and then, and
except--a still bigger "except"--for the dreaded thought of the return
to school which must be coming nearer day by day.
Myra and I never spoke of it. I tried to forget about it, and she seemed
to enter into my feeling without saying anything.
I had had a letter from mamma in answer to the one I wrote to her just
after my illness. In it she said she was pleased with all I said, and my
promise to try to get on better at Green Bank, but "in the meantime,"
she wrote, "what we want you to do is to get _quite_ strong and well, so
put all troubling thoughts out of your head and be happy with your kind
friends."
That letter had come a month ago, and the last mail had only brought me
a tiny little note enclosed in a letter from mamma to Mrs. Cranston,
with the promise of a longer one "next time." And "next time" was about
due, for the mail came every fortnight, one afternoon when Myra and I
were sitting together in our favourite nook in the show-room.
"I have a fancy, Myra," I said, "that something is going to happen. My
lion has been so queer to-day--I see a look on his face as if he knew
something."
For we had each chosen one lion as more particularly our own.
"I think they always look rather like that," said Myra dreamily. "But I
suppose something must happen soon. I shall be going home next week."
"Next week," I repeated. "Oh, Myra!"
I could not speak for a moment. Then I remembered how I had made up my
mind to be brave.
"Do you mind going home?" I asked. "I mean, are you sorry to go?"
"I'm always sorry to leave grandpapa and grandmamma," she said, "and the
lions, and this funny old house. But I'm very happy at home, and I shall
like it still better with Miss Fenmore. No, I wouldn't be unhappy--I'd
be very glad to think of seeing father and mother and my little brothers
again--I wouldn't be unhappy, except for--you know, Geraldine--for
leaving you," and my little friend's voice shook.
"Dear Myra," I said. "But you mustn't mind about me. I'm going to
try----" but here I had to stop to choke down something in my throat.
"After all," I went on, after a moment or two, "more than a quarter of
the time that father and mamma have to be away is gone. And perhaps in
the summer holidays I shall see Haddie."
"I wish----" Myra was beginning, but a voice interrupted her. It was
Miss Fenmore's.
"I have brought you down a letter that has just come by the second post,
Geraldine, dear," she said; "a letter from South America."
"Oh, thank you," I said, eagerly seizing it.
Miss Fenmore strolled to the other side of the room, and Myra followed
her, to leave me alone to read my letter. It was a pretty long one, but
I read it quickly, so quickly that when I had finished it, I felt
breathless--and then I turned over the pages and glanced at it again. I
felt as if I could not believe what I read. It was too good, too
beautifully good to be true.
"Myra," I gasped, and Myra ran back to me, looking quite startled. I
think I must have grown very pale.
"No, no," I went on, "it's nothing wrong. Read it, or ask Miss
Fenmore--she reads writing quicker. Oh, Myra, isn't it beautiful?"
They soon read it, and then we all three kissed and hugged each other,
and Myra began dancing about as if she had gone out of her mind.
"Geraldine, Geraldine, I can't believe it," she kept saying, and Miss
Fenmore's pretty eyes were full of tears.
I wonder if any of my readers can guess what this delightful news was?
It was not that mamma was coming home--no, that could not be yet. But
next best to that it certainly was.
It was to tell me this--that _till_ dear father and she returned, my
home was to be with Myra, and I was to be Miss Fenmore's pupil too.
Wherever Myra was, there I was to be--principally at her father's
vicarage in the country, but some part of the year with her kind
grandparents at Great Mexington. It was all settled and arranged--of
course I did not trouble my head about the money part of it, though
afterwards mamma told me that both Mr. and Mrs. Raby and the Cranstons
had been most exceedingly kind, making out that the advantage of a
companion for their little girl would be so great that all the thanking
should be on their side, though, of course, they respected father too
much not to let him pay a proper share of all the expense. And it really
cost less than my life at Green Bank, though father was now a good deal
richer, and would not have minded paying a good deal more to ensure my
happiness.
There is never so much story to tell when people are happy, and things
go rightly; and the next year or two of my life, except of course for
the separation from my dear parents, were _very_ happy. Even though
father's appointment in South America kept him and mamma out there for
nearly three years instead of two, I was able to bear the disappointment
in a very different way, with such kind and sympathising friends at hand
to cheer me, so that there is nothing bitter or sad to look back to in
that part of my childhood. Haddie spent the summer holidays with me,
either at Crowley vicarage, or sometimes at the sea-side, where Miss
Fenmore took care of us three. Once or twice he and I paid a visit to
Mrs. Selwood, which we enjoyed pretty well, as we were together, though
otherwise it was rather dull.
And oh, how happy it was when father and mamma at last came home--no
words can describe it. It was not _quite_ unmixed pleasure--nothing ever
is, the wise folk say--for there was the separation from Myra and her
family. But after all, that turned out less than we feared. Miss Fenmore
married soon after, and as father had now a good post in London, and we
lived there, it was settled that Myra should be with us, and join in my
lessons for a good part of the year, while I very often went back to
Crowley with her for the summer holidays. And never without staying a
few days at Great Mexington, to see Mr. and Mrs. Cranston and the lions!
* * * * *
Many years have passed since I went there for the last time. Myra's
grandparents have long been dead--my own dear father and mother are dead
too, for I am growing quite old. My grandchildren are older now than I
was when I ran away from the school at Green Bank. But once, while mamma
was still alive and well, she and I together strolled through the
streets of the grim town, which had for a time been our home, and lived
over the old days again in fancy. I remember how tightly I clasped her
hand when we passed the corner where once was the old Quakeress's
shop--all changed now--and walked down the street, still not very
different from what it had been, where we used to live.
There was no use in going to Mr. Cranston's show-rooms--they had long
been done away with. But the lions are still to be seen. They stand in
the hall of Myra's pretty house in the country, where she and Haddon,
her husband, have lived for many years, ever since my brother left the
army and they came home for good from India.
I spend a part of every year with them, for I am alone now. They want me
to live with them altogether, but I cling to a little home of my own.
Our grandchildren know the lions well, and stroke their smooth sides,
and gaze up into their dark faces just as Myra and I used to do. So I
promised them that sometime I would write out the simple story that I
have now brought to a close.
THE END.
A NEW UNIFORM EDITION
OF
MRS. MOLESWORTH'S
STORIES FOR CHILDREN
WITH
ILLUSTRATIONS BY WALTER CRANE AND LESLIE BROOKE.
* * * * *
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* * * * *
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MRS. MOLESWORTH'S
STORIES FOR CHILDREN.
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had also been a close student of the German and Russian, and had some
way, catching and holding the spirit of all, created a method and tone
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With a light, yet forcible touch, she paints sweet and artless, yet
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nature that are sure to charm small people. Her stories are so likely to
have been true that men 'grown up' do not disdain them."--_Home
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Molesworth, and none with whose stories we are familiar deserves it
better. She has a motherly knowledge of the child nature, a clear sense
of character, the power of inventing simple incidents that interest, and
the ease which comes of continuous practice."--_Mail and Express._
"Christmas would hardly be Christmas without one of Mrs. Molesworth's
stories. No one has quite the same power of throwing a charm and an
interest about the most commonplace every-day doings as she has, and no
one has ever blended fairyland and reality with the same
skill."--_Educational Times._
"Mrs. Molesworth is justly a great favorite with children; her stories
for them are always charmingly interesting and healthful in
tone."--_Boston Home Journal._
"Mrs. Molesworth's books are cheery, wholesome, and particularly well
adapted to refined life. It is safe to add that Mrs. Molesworth is the
best English prose writer for children.... A new volume from Mrs.
Molesworth is always a treat."--_The Beacon._
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a volume from the hand of Mrs. Molesworth.... It is one of the
peculiarities of Mrs. Molesworth's stories that older readers can no
more escape their charm than younger ones."--_Christian Union._
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of children's stories that possess real literary merit."--_Milwaukee
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* * * * *
"CARROTS"; Just a Little Boy.
"One of the cleverest and most pleasing stories it has been our good
fortune to meet with for some time. Carrots and his sister are
delightful little beings, whom to read about is at once to become very
fond of."--_Examiner._
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A CHRISTMAS CHILD; A Sketch of a Boy's Life.
"A very sweet and tenderly drawn sketch, with life and reality manifest
throughout."--_Pall Mall Gazette._
"This is a capital story, well illustrated. Mrs. Molesworth is one of
those sunny, genial writers who has genius for writing acceptably for
the young. She has the happy faculty of blending enough real with
romance to make her stories very practical for good without robbing them
of any of their exciting interest."--_Chicago Inter-Ocean._
"Mrs. Molesworth's _A Christmas Child_ is a story of a boy-life. The
book is a small one, but none the less attractive. It is one of the best
of this year's juveniles."--_Chicago Tribune._
"Mrs. Molesworth is one of the few writers of tales for children whose
sentiment though of the sweetest kind is never sickly; whose religious
feeling is never concealed yet never obtruded; whose books are always
good but never 'goody.' Little Ted with his soft heart, clever head, and
brave spirit is no morbid presentment of the angelic child 'too good to
live,' and who is certainly a nuisance on earth, but a charming
creature, if not a portrait, whom it is a privilege to meet even in
fiction."--_The Academy._
* * * * *
THE CUCKOO CLOCK.
"A beautiful little story.... It will be read with delight by every
child into whose hands it is placed."--_Pall Mall Gazette._
* * * * *
GRANDMOTHER DEAR.
"The author's concern is with the development of character, and seldom
does one meet with the wisdom, tact, and good breeding which pervades
this little book."--_Nation._
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TWO LITTLE WAIFS.
"Mrs. Molesworth's delightful story of _Two Little Waifs_ will charm all
the small people who find it in their stockings. It relates the
adventures of two lovable English children lost in Paris, and is just
wonderful enough to pleasantly wring the youthful heart."--_New York
Tribune._
"It is, in its way, indeed, a little classic, of which the real beauty
and pathos can hardly be appreciated by young people.... It is not too
much to say of the story that it is perfect of its kind."--_Critic and
Good Literature._
"Mrs. Molesworth is such a bright, cheery writer, that her stories are
always acceptable to all who are not confirmed cynics, and her record of
the adventures of the little waifs is as entertaining and enjoyable as
we might expect."--_Boston Courier._
"_Two Little Waifs_ by Mrs. Molesworth is a pretty little fancy,
relating the adventures of a pair of lost children, in a style full of
simple charm. It is among the very daintiest of juvenile books that the
season has yet called forth; and its pathos and humor are equally
delightful. The refined tone and the tender sympathy with the feelings
and sentiments of childhood, lend it a special and an abiding
charm."--_Boston Saturday Evening Gazette._
"This is a charming little juvenile story from the pen of Mrs.
Molesworth, detailing the various adventures of a couple of motherless
children in searching for their father, whom they had missed in Paris
where they had gone to meet him."--_Montreal Star._
"Mrs. Molesworth is a popular name, not only with a host of English, but
with a considerable army of young American readers, who have been
charmed by her delicate fancy and won by the interest of her style. _Two
Little Waifs_, illustrated by Walter Crane, is a delightful story, which
comes, as all children's stories ought to do, to a delightful
end."--_Christian Union._
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THE TAPESTRY ROOM.
"Mrs. Molesworth is the queen of children's fairyland. She knows how to
make use of the vague, fresh, wondering instincts of childhood, and to
invest familiar things with fairy glamour."--_Athenaeum._
"The story told is a charming one of what may be called the neo-fairy
sort.... There has been nothing better of its kind done anywhere for
children, whether we consider its capacity to awake interest or its
wholesomeness."--_Evening Post._
"Among the books for young people we have seen nothing more unique than
_The Tapestry Room_. Like all of Mrs. Molesworth's stories it will
please young readers by the very attractive and charming style in which
it is written."--_Presbyterian Journal._
"Mrs. Molesworth will be remembered as a writer of very pleasing stories
for children. A new book from her pen will be sure of a welcome from all
the young people. The new story bears the name of _The Tapestry Room_
and is a child's romance.... The child who comes into possession of the
story will count himself fortunate. It is a bright, wholesome story, in
which the interest is maintained to the end. The author has the faculty
of adapting herself to the tastes and ideas of her readers in an unusual
way."--_New Haven Paladium._
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CHRISTMAS-TREE LAND.
"It is conceived after a happy fancy, as it relates the supposititious
journey of a party of little ones through that part of fairyland where
Christmas-trees are supposed to most abound. There is just enough of the
old-fashioned fancy about fairies mingled with the 'modern improvements'
to incite and stimulate the youthful imagination to healthful action.
The pictures by Walter Crane are, of course, not only well executed in
themselves, but in charming consonance with the spirit of the
tale."--_Troy Times._
"_Christmas-Tree Land_, by Mrs. Molesworth, is a book to make younger
readers open their eyes wide with delight. A little boy and a little
girl domiciled in a great white castle, wander on their holidays through
the surrounding fir-forests, and meet with the most delightful
pleasures. There is a fascinating, mysterious character in their
adventures and enough of the fairy-like and wonderful to puzzle and
enchant all the little ones."--_Boston Home Journal._
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A CHRISTMAS POSY.
"This is a collection of eight of those inimitable stories for children
which none could write better than Mrs. Molesworth. Her books are prime
favorites with children of all ages and they are as good and wholesome
as they are interesting and popular. This makes a very handsome book,
and its illustrations are excellent."--_Christian at Work._
"_A Christmas Posy_ is one of those charming stories for girls which Mrs
Molesworth excels in writing."--_Philadelphia Press._
"Here is a group of bright, wholesome stories, such as are dear to
children, and nicely tuned to the harmonies of Christmas-tide. Mr. Crane
has found good situations for his spirited sketches."--_Churchman._
"_A Christmas Posy_, by Mrs. Molesworth, is lovely and fragrant. Mrs.
Molesworth succeeds by right to the place occupied with so much honor by
the late Mrs. Ewing, as a writer of charming stories for children. The
present volume is a cluster of delightful short stories. Mr. Crane's
illustrations are in harmony with the text."--_Christian
Intelligencer._
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THE CHILDREN OF THE CASTLE.
"_The Children of the Castle_, by Mrs. Molesworth, is another of those
delightful juvenile stories of which this author has written so many. It
is a fascinating little book, with a charming plot, a sweet, pure
atmosphere, and teaches a wholesome moral in the most winning
manner."--_B. S. E. Gazette._
"Mrs. Molesworth has given a charming story for children.... It is a
wholesome book, one which the little ones will read with
interest."--_Living Church._
"_The Children of the Castle_ are delightful creations, actual little
girls, living in an actual castle, but often led by their fancies into a
shadowy fairyland. There is a charming refinement of style and spirit
about the story from beginning to end; an imaginative child will find
endless pleasure in it, and the lesson of gentleness and unselfishness
so artistically managed that it does not seem like a lesson, but only a
part of the story."--_Milwaukee Sentinel._
"Mrs. Molesworth's stories for children are always ingenious,
entertaining, and thoroughly wholesome. Her resources are apparently
inexhaustible, and each new book from her pen seems to surpass its
predecessors in attractiveness. In _The Children of the Castle_ the best
elements of a good story for children are very happily combined."--_The
Week._
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FOUR WINDS FARM.
"Mrs. Molesworth's books are always delightful, but of all none is more
charming than the volume with which she greets the holidays this season.
_Four Winds Farm_ is one of the most delicate and pleasing books for a
child that has seen the light this many a day. It is full of fancy and
of that instinctive sympathy with childhood which makes this author's
books so attractive and so individual."--_Boston Courier._
"Like all the books she has written this one is very charming, and is
worth more in the hands of a child than a score of other stories of a
more sensational character."--_Christian at Work._
"Still more delicately fanciful is Mrs. Molesworth's lovely little tale
of the _Four Winds Farm_. It is neither a dream nor a fairy story, but
concerns the fortune of a real little boy, named Gratian; yet the dream
and the fairy tale seem to enter into his life, and make part of it. The
farm-house in which the child lives is set exactly at the meeting-place
of the four winds, and they, from the moment of his birth, have acted as
his self-elected godmothers.... All the winds love the boy, and, held in
the balance of their influence, he grows up as a boy should, simply and
truly, with a tender heart and firm mind. The idea of this little book
is essentially poetical."--_Literary World._
"This book is for the children. We grudge it to them. There are few
children in this generation good enough for such a gift. Mrs. Molesworth
is the only woman now who can write such a book.... The delicate welding
of the farm life about the child and the spiritual life within him, and
the realization of the four immortals into a delightful sort of
half-femininity shows a finer literary quality than anything we have
seen for a long time. The light that never was on sea or land is in this
little red and gold volume."--_Philadelphia Press._
* * * * *
NURSE HEATHERDALE'S STORY.
"_Nurse Heatherdale's Story_ is all about a small boy, who was good
enough, yet was always getting into some trouble through complications
in which he was not to blame. The same sort of things happens to men and
women. He is an orphan, though he is cared for in a way by relations,
who are not so very rich, yet are looked on as well fixed. After many
youthful trials and disappointments he falls into a big stroke of good
luck, which lifts him and goes to make others happy. Those who want a
child's book will find nothing to harm and something to interest in this
simple story."--_Commercial Advertiser._
* * * * *
"US."
"Mrs. Molesworth's _Us, an Old-Fashioned Story_, is very charming. A
dear little six-year-old 'bruvver' and sister constitute the 'us,' whose
adventures with gypsies form the theme of the story. Mrs. Molesworth's
style is graceful, and she pictures the little ones with brightness and
tenderness."--_Evening Post._
"A pretty and wholesome story."--_Literary World._
"_Us, an Old-Fashioned Story_, is a sweet and quaint story of two little
children who lived long ago, in an old-fashioned way, with their
grandparents. The story is delightfully told."--_Philadelphia News._
"_Us_ is one of Mrs. Molesworth's charming little stories for young
children. The narrative ... is full of interest for its real grace and
delicacy, and the exquisiteness and purity of the English in which it is
written."--_Boston Advertiser._
"Mrs. Molesworth's last story, _Us_, will please the readers of that
lady's works by its pleasant domestic atmosphere and healthful moral
tone. The narrative moves forward with sufficient interest to hold the
reader's attention; and there are useful lessons for young people to be
drawn from it."--_Independent._
"Mrs. Molesworth's story ... is very simple, refined, bright, and full
of the real flavor of childhood."--_Literary World._
* * * * *
THE RECTORY CHILDREN.
"It is a book written for children in just the way that is best adapted
to please them."--_Morning Post._
"In _The Rectory Children_ Mrs. Molesworth has written one of those
delightful volumes which we always look for at Christmas
time."--_Athenaeum._
"A delightful Christmas book for children; a racy, charming home story,
full of good impulses and bright suggestions."--_Boston Traveller._
"Quiet, sunny, interesting, and thoroughly winning and
wholesome."--_Boston Journal._
"There is no writer of children's books more worthy of their admiration
and love than Mrs. Molesworth. Her bright and sweet invention is so
truthful, her characters so faithfully drawn, and the teaching of her
stories so tender and noble, that while they please and charm they
insensibly distil into the youthful mind the most valuable lessons. In
_The Rectory Children_ we have a fresh, bright story, that will be sure
to please all her young admirers."--_Christian at Work._
"_The Rectory Children_, by Mrs. Molesworth, is a very pretty story of
English life. Mrs. Molesworth is one of the most popular and charming of
English story-writers for children. Her child characters are true to
life, always natural and attractive, and her stories are wholesome and
interesting."--_Indianapolis Journal._
* * * * *
ROSY.
"_Rosy_, like all the rest of her stories, is bright and pure and
utterly free from cant,--a book that children will read with pleasure
and lasting profit."--_Boston Traveller._
"There is no one who has a genius better adapted for entertaining
children than Mrs. Molesworth, and her latest story, _Rosy_, is one of
her best. It is illustrated with eight woodcuts from designs by Walter
Crane."--_Philadelphia Press._
"An English story for children of the every-day life of a bright little
girl, which will please those who like 'natural' books."--_New York
World._
"Mrs. Molesworth's clever _Rosy_, a story showing in a charming way how
one little girl's jealousy and bad temper were conquered; one of the
best, most suggestive and improving of the Christmas juveniles."--_New
York Tribune._
"_Rosy_ is an exceedingly graceful and interesting story by Mrs.
Molesworth, one of the best and most popular writers of juvenile
fiction. This little story is full of tenderness, is fragrant in
sentiment, and points with great delicacy and genuine feeling a charming
moral."--_Boston Gazette._
* * * * *
THE GIRLS AND I.
"Perhaps the most striking feature of this pleasant story is the natural
manner in which it is written. It is just like the conversation of a
bright boy--consistently like it from beginning to end. It is a boy who
is the hero of the tale, and he tells the adventures of himself and
those nearest him. He is, by the way, in many respects an example for
most young persons. It is a story characterized by sweetness and
purity--a desirable one to put into the hands of youthful
readers."--_Gettysburg Monthly._
"Jack himself tells the story of _The Girls and I_, assisted of course
by Mrs. Molesworth, whose name will recall to the juveniles pleasant
memories of interesting reading, full of just the things that children
want to know, and of that which will excite their ready sympathies.
Jack, while telling the story of the girls, takes the readers into his
own confidence, and we like the little fellow rather better than the
girls. The interest is maintained by the story of a lost jewel, the
ultimate finding of which, in the most unexpected place, closes the
story in a very pleasant manner. Jack, otherwise Mrs. Molesworth, tells
the tale in a lively style, and the book will attract attention."--_The
Globe._
"A delightful and purposeful story which no one can read without being
benefited."--_New York Observer._
* * * * *
MARY.
"Mrs. Molesworth's reputation as a writer of story-books is so well
established that any new book of hers scarce needs a word of
introduction."--_Home Journal._
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=ADVENTURE SERIES, THE.= Large 12mo. Fully Illustrated. $1.50 each
volume.
=Adventures of a Younger Son.= By JOHN EDWARD TRELAWNY. With an
Introduction by EDWARD GARNETT.
=Madagascar; or, Robert Drury's Journal= During Fifteen Years'
Captivity on that Island, and a Further Description of Madagascar
by the Abbe ALEXIS ROCHON. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes,
by Captain S. PASFIELD OLIVER, F.S.A., author of "Madagascar."
=Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp=, Late
Lieutenant in His Majesty's 87th Regiment. Written by Himself. With
an Introduction by Major H. M. CHICHESTER.
=The Adventures of Thomas Pellow=, of Penryn, Mariner, Twenty-three
Years in Captivity among the Moors. Written by Himself; and Edited,
with an Introduction and Notes, by Dr. ROBERT BROWN. Illustrated
from Contemporaneous Prints.
=The Buccaneers and Marooners of America.= Being an Account of the
Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Certain Notorious Freebooters
of the Spanish Main. Edited and Illustrated by HOWARD PYLE.
=The Log of a Jack Tar; or, The Life of James Choyce, Master
Mariner.= Now first published, with O'Brien's Captivity in France.
Edited by Commander V. LOVETT CAMERON, R.N., C.B., D.C.L. With
Introduction and Notes.
=The Story of the Filibusters.= By JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE. To which is
added "The Life of Colonel David Crockett." With Illustrations.
"Mr. Roche has faithfully compared and sifted the statements of
those who took part in the various expeditions, and he has also
made effectual use of periodicals and official documents. The
result is what may safely be regarded as the first complete and
authentic account of the deeds of the modern Vikings, who continue
to be wonderfully romantic figures even after the gaudy trappings
of myth, prejudice, and fiction have been stripped away."--_Boston
Beacon._
=The Voyages and Adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto, the
Portuguese.= Done into English by HENRY COGAN, with an Introduction
by ARMINIUS VAMBERY.
"It is decidedly reading of the most attractive kind, brimful of
adventure piquantly related, and of rare interest in its recital of
the experienced of the author, who 'five times suffered shipwreck,
was sixteen times sold, and thirteen times made a slave.'"--_Boston
Saturday Evening Gazette._
=A Master Mariner.= Being the Life and Adventures of Captain Robert
William Eastwick. Edited by HERBERT COMPTON. With Illustrations.
=Hard Life in the Colonies, and Other Adventures by Sea and Land.=
Now first printed. Compiled from Private Letters by C. CASLYON
JENKYNS. With Illustrations. Large 12mo. $1.50.
=AESOP'S FABLES.= Illustrated. 50 cents.
=ANDERSEN= (HANS CHRISTIAN). =Fairy Tales and Sketches.= Translated by
C. C. PEACHY, H. WARD, A. PLESNER, etc. With numerous Illustrations by
OTTO SPECKTER and others. Seventh thousand. Handsomely bound. 12mo.
$1.50.
"The translation most happily hits the delicate quaintness of
Andersen--most happily transposes into simple English words the
tender precision of the famous story-teller; in a keen examination
of the book we scarcely recall a single phrase or turn that
obviously could have been bettered."--_Daily Telegraph._
=Tales for Children.= With 48 Full-page Illustrations by WEHNERT, and
57 small Engravings on wood by W. THOMAS. Thirteenth thousand.
Handsomely bound. 12mo. $1.50.
This volume contains several tales that are in no other edition
published in this country, and with the preceding volume it forms
the most complete English edition.
=ARIOSTO. Paladin and Saracen.= Stories from Ariosto. By W. C.
HOLLWAY-CALTHROP. With Illustrations. $1.50.
=ATKINSON. The Last of the Giant Killers.= By the Rev. J. C. ATKINSON,
author of "A Moorland Parish." _Shortly._
=AWDRY (F.). The Story of a Fellow Soldier.= A Life of Bishop Patteson for
the Young. 16mo. $1.00.
=BAKER. Wild Beasts and Their Ways.= Reminiscences in Asia, Africa, and
America. By Sir SAMUEL W. BAKER, F.R.S., etc., author of "Albert
Nyanza," etc. With numerous Illustrations. Large 12mo. Cloth extra.
Gilt. $3.50.
"A book which is destined not only to serve as a chart and compass
for every hunter of big game, but which is likewise a valuable
study of natural history, placed before the public in a practical
and interesting form."--_New York Tribune._
=BEESLY= (Mrs.). =Stories from the History of Rome.= 16mo. 60 cents.
"Of all the stories we remember from history none have struck us as
so genuinely good--with the right ring--as those of Mrs.
Beesly."--_Educational Times._
=BERTZ= (E.). =The French Prisoners:= A Story for Boys. $1.25.
"Written throughout in a wise and gentle spirit, and omits no
opportunity to deprecate war as a barbaric survival, wholly
unnecessary in a civilized age."--_Independent._
"The story is an extremely interesting one, full of incident, told
in a quiet, healthful way, and with a great deal of pleasantly
interfused information about German and French boys."--_Christian
Union._
=BUNCE= (J. T.). =Fairy Tales: Their Origin and Meaning.= 16mo. 75 cents.
=CARPENTER. Truth in Tale.= Addresses Chiefly to Children. By W. BOYD
CARPENTER, D.D., Bishop of Ripon. $1.00.
"These ingenious and interesting tales by Bishop Carpenter are full
of poetic beauty and of religious truth.... We would like to see a
copy in every Sunday-school library."--_Sunday School Banner._
=CARROLL.= WORKS BY LEWIS CARROLL.
=Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.= With 42 Illustrations by TENNIEL.
12mo. $1.00.
A German Translation. 12mo. $2.00.
A French Translation. 12mo. $2.00.
An Italian Translation. 12mo. $2.00.
"An excellent piece of nonsense."--_Times._
"That most delightful of children's stories."--_Saturday Review._
"Elegant and delicious nonsense."--_Guardian._
=Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There.= 50
Illustrations by TENNIEL. 12mo. $1.00.
"Will fairly rank with the tale of her previous
experience."--_Daily Telegraph._
"Many of Mr. Tenniel's designs are masterpieces of wise
absurdity."--_Athenaeum._
"Whether as regarding author or illustrator, this book is a jewel
rarely to be found nowadays."--_Echo._
=Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.= In
1 vol. With TENNIEL's Illustrations. 12mo. $1.25.
=Rhyme? and Reason?= With 65 Illustrations by ARTHUR B. FROST, and
nine by HENRY HOLIDAY. 12mo. $1.50.
This book is a reprint, with additions, of the comic portions of
"Phantasmagoria, and other Poems," and of the "Hunting of the
Snark."
=A Tangled Tale.= Reprinted from the "Monthly Packet." With
Illustrations. 12mo. $1.50.
=Alice's Adventures under Ground.= Being a Fac-simile of the original
MS. Book afterward developed into "Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland." With 37 Illustrations. 12mo. $1.50.
=The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits.= By LEWIS CARROLL.
With nine Illustrations by HENRY HOLIDAY. New Edition. 12mo. $1.00.
=Sylvie and Bruno.= With 46 Illustrations by HARRY FURNISS. 12mo.
$1.50.
"Alice was a delightful little girl, but hardly more pleasing than
are the hero and heroine of this latest book from a writer in whose
nonsense there is far more sense than in the serious works of many
contemporary authors."--_Morning Post._
"Mr. Furniss's illustrations, which are numerous, are at once
graceful and full of humor. We pay him a high compliment when we
say he proves himself a worthy successor to Mr. Tenniel in
illustrating Mr. Lewis Carroll's books."--_St. James Gazette._
=The Nursery "Alice."= Containing 20 coloured enlargements from
TENNIEL's Illustrations to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," with
Text adapted to Nursery Readers, by LEWIS CARROLL. 4to. $1.50.
"Let the little people rejoice! the most charming book in the world
has appeared for them. 'The Nursery Alice,' with its wealth of
colored illustrations from Tenniel's Pictures, is certainly the
most artistic juvenile that has been seen for many and many a
day."--_Boston Budget._
=CHURCH.= WORKS BY THE REV. A. J. CHURCH.
=The Story of the Iliad.= With Coloured Illustrations. 12mo. $1.00.
=The Story of the Odyssey.= With Coloured Illustrations. 12mo. $1.00.
=Stories from the Bible.= With Illustrations after JULIUS SCHNORR.
12mo. $1.50.
"Of all the books of this kind, this is the best we have
seen."--_Examiner._
"The book will be of infinite value to the student or teacher of
the Scriptures, and the stories are well arranged for interesting
reading for children."--_Boston Traveller._
=Stories from Bible.= Illustrated. Second Series. _Shortly._
=The Greek Gulliver.= Stories from Lucian. With Illustrations by
C. O. MURRAY. New edition. 16mo. Paper. 40 cents.
"A curious example of ancient humor."--_Chicago Standard._
=The Burning of Rome.= A Story of the Times of Nero. With
Illustrations. 12mo. $1.00.
=CLIFFORD= (Mrs. W. K.). =Anyhow Stories, Moral and Otherwise.= With
Illustrations. $1.00.
=CRAIK.= Works by MRS. CRAIK, author of "John Halifax, Gentleman."
=Sermons out of Church.= New Edition. 12mo. $1.75.
=Children's Poetry.= Globe 8vo. $1.25.
=The Little Lame Prince and His Travelling Cloak.= A Parable for
Young and Old. With Illustrations. 12mo. $1.25.
=Little Sunshine's Holiday.= Globe 8vo. $1.00.
=Adventures of a Brownie.= With Illustrations. 16mo. $1.00.
=Alice Learmont.= A Fairy Tale. With Illustrations. 16mo. $1.00.
=Our Year: a Child's Book.= Illustrated. 16mo. $1.00.
=The Fairy Book.= The Best Popular Fairy Stories. Selected and
rendered anew. _Golden Treasury Series._ 18mo. $1.25.
=DEFOE. The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.= Edited from the Original
Edition by HENRY KINGSLEY. _Globe Edition._ $1.25.
_Golden Treasury Series._ 18mo. $1.00.
=DE MORGAN. The Necklace of Princess Florimonde, and other Stories.= By
MARY DE MORGAN. Illustrated by WALTER CRANE. New and cheaper Edition,
cloth extra. $1.25.
"The stories display considerable originality, and Mr. Walter
Crane's characteristic illustrations combine with Miss De Morgan's
pretty fancies in forming a charming gift-book."--_Graphic._
"A real gem."--_Punch._
=ENGLISH MEN OF ACTION SERIES.= 12mo. Cloth, limp, 60 cents; cloth, uncut
edges, 75 cents.
"An admirable set of brief biographies.... The volumes are small,
attractive, and inexpensive."--_Dial._
"The 'English Men of Action' promises to be a notable series of
short biographies. The subjects are well chosen, and the authors
almost as well."--_Epoch._
=Gordon.= By Col. Sir W. BUTLER.
=Henry the Fifth.= By the Rev. A. J. CHURCH.
=Livingstone.= By THOMAS HUGHES.
=Lord Lawrence.= By Sir R. TEMPLE.
=Wellington.= By GEORGE HOOPER.
=Dampier.= By W. CLARK RUSSELL.
=Monk.= By JULIAN CORBETT.
=Strafford.= By H. D. TRAILL.
=Warren Hastings.= By Sir ALFRED LYALL, K.C.B.
=Peterborough.= By WILLIAM STEBBING.
=Captain Cook.= By WALTER BESANT.
=Havelock.= By ARCHIBALD FORBES.
=Clive.= By Col. Sir CHARLES WILSON.
=Drake.= By JULIAN CORBETT.
=Warwick, the King Maker.= By C. W. OMAN.
=Napier.= By Col. Sir WILLIAM BUTLER.
=Rodney.= By D. G. HANNAY.
=Montrose.= By MOWBRAY MORRIS. _Shortly._
=EWING= (J. H.). =We and the World.= A Story for Boys. By the late JULIANA
HORATIO EWING. With seven Illustrations by W. L. Jones, and a Pictorial
Design on the Cover. 4th Edition. 12mo. $1.00.
Cheap Illustrated Edition. 4to. In paper boards, 35 cents.
"A very good book it is, full of adventure graphically told. The
style is just what it should be; simple but not bold, full of
pleasant humor, and with some pretty touches of feeling. Like all
Mrs. Ewing's tales, it is sound, sensible, and
wholesome."--_Times._
=A Flat Iron for a Farthing;= or, Some Passages in the Life of an
Only Son. With 12 Illustrations by H. ALLINGHAM, and Pictorial
Design on the Cover. 16th Edition. 12mo. $1.00.
Cheap Illustrated Edition. 4to. In paper boards, 35 cents.
"Let every parent and guardian who wishes to be amused, and at the
same time to please a child, purchase 'A Flat Iron for a Farthing;
or, Some Passages in the Life of an Only Son,' by J. H. Ewing. We
will answer for the delight with which they will read it
themselves, and we do not doubt that the young and fortunate
recipients will also like it. The story is quaint, original, and
altogether delightful."--_Athenaeum._
=Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances.= Illustrated with nine fine
full-page Engravings by PASQUIER, and Frontispiece by WOLF, and
Pictorial Design on the Cover. 4th Edition. 12mo. $1.00.
Cheap Illustrated Edition. 4to. In paper boards, 35 cents.
"It is not often nowadays the privilege of a critic to grow
enthusiastic over a new work; and the rarity of the occasion that
calls forth the delight is apt to lead one into the sin of
hyperbole. And yet we think we shall not be accused of extravagance
when we say that, without exception, 'Mrs. Overtheway's
Remembrances' is the most delightful work avowedly written for
children that we have ever read."--_Leader._
=Six to Sixteen.= A Story for Girls. With 10 Illustrations by Mrs.
ALLINGHAM. 7th Edition. 12mo. $1.00.
Cheap Illustrated Edition. 4to. In paper boards, 35 cents.
"It is scarcely necessary to say that Mrs. Ewing's book is one of
the best of the year."--_Saturday Review._
=A Great Emergency.= (A very Ill-Tempered Family; Our Field; Madame
Liberality.) With four Illustrations. 3d Edition. 12mo. $1.00.
Cheap Illustrated Edition. 4to. In paper boards, 35 cents.
"Never has Mrs. Ewing published a more charming volume of stories,
and that is saying a very great deal. From the first to the last
the book overflows with the strange knowledge of child-nature which
so rarely survives childhood; and, moreover, with inexhaustible
quiet humor, which is never anything but innocent and well-bred,
never priggish, and never clumsy."--_Academy._
=Jan of the Windmill.= A Story of the Plains. With 11 Illustrations
by Mrs. ALLINGHAM and design on the cover. 5th Edition. 12mo.
$1.00.
Cheap Illustrated Edition. 4to. In paper boards, 35 cents.
"The life and its surroundings, the incidents of Jan's childhood,
are described with Mrs. Ewing's accustomed skill; the village
schoolmaster, the miller's wife, and the other children, are
extremely well done."
=Melchior's Dream.= (The Blackbird's Nest; Friedrich's Ballad; A Bit
of Green; Monsieur the Viscount's Friend; The Yew Lane Ghosts; A
Bad Habit; A Happy Family.) With eight Illustrations by GORDON
BROWNE. 6th Edition. 12mo. $1.00.
Cheap Illustrated Edition. 4to. In paper wrapper, 35 cents.
"'Melchior's Dream' is an exquisite little story, charming by
original humor, buoyant spirits, and tender pathos."--_Athenaeum._
=Lob-lie-by-the-fire; or, the Luck of Lingborough, and Other Tales.=
With three Illustrations by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. 4th Edition. 16mo.
$1.00.
"Mrs. Ewing has written as good a story as her 'Brownies,' and that
is saying a great deal. 'Lob-lie-by-the-fire' has humor and pathos,
and teaches what is right without making children think they are
reading a sermon."--_Saturday Review._
=The Brownies.= (The Land of Lost Toys; Three Christmas Trees; An
Idyl of the Wood; Christmas Crackers; Amelia and the Dwarfs;
Timothy's Shoes; Benjy in Beastland.) Illustrated by GEORGE
CRUIKSHANK. 7th Edition. 16mo. $1.00.
Cheap Illustrated Edition. Fcap. 4to. In paper wrapper, 35 cents.
"If a child once begins 'The Brownies,' it will get so deeply
interested in it that when bedtime comes it will altogether forget
the moral, and will weary its parents with importunities for just a
few minutes more to see how everything ends."--_Saturday Review._
=FREILIGRATH-KROEKER. Alice,= and other Fairy Plays for Children,
including a Dramatised Version (under sanction) of Lewis Carroll's
"Alice in Wonderland," and three other Plays. By Mrs.
FREILIGRATH-KROEKER, with eight original full-page Plates. Cloth, extra
gilt. Gilt edges. 2d Edition. 12mo. $1.25.
"They have stood a practical ordeal, and stood it
triumphantly."--_Times._
=GASKOIN= (Mrs. H.). =Children's Treasury of Bible Stories.= Edited by the
Rev. G. F. MACLEAR, D.D. 18mo. Each, 30 cents.
Part I. Old Testament. II. New Testament. III. Three Apostles: St.
James, St. Paul, St. John.
=GATTY= (Mrs.). =Parables from Nature.= With Illustrations by BURNE-JONES,
HOLMAN HUNT, TENNIEL, WOLF, and others. Two Series. Each, 35 cents.
=GOLDEN TREASURY SERIES.= Uniformly printed in 18mo, with Vignette Titles
by J. E. MILLAIS, Sir NOEL PATON, T. WOOLNER, W. HOLMAN HUNT, ARTHUR
HUGHES, etc. Engraved on Steel. 18mo. Cloth. Each, $1.00.
Also bound in half morocco, $2.50.
Half calf, $2.50. Padded calf, $3.00.
Or beautifully bound in full morocco, padded, solid gilt edges, in
boxes, $2.50.
=The Children's Garland from the Best Poets.= Selected and arranged
by COVENTRY PATMORE, with a Vignette by T. WOOLNER.
"Mr. Patmore deserves our gratitude for having searched through the
wide field of English Poetry for these flowers which youth and age
can equally enjoy, and woven them into 'The Children's
Garland.'"--_London Review._
=The Pilgrim's Progress, from this World to that which is to come.=
By JOHN BUNYAN, with a Vignette by W. HOLMAN HUNT.
"A beautiful and scholarly reprint."--_Spectator._
=The Fairy Book.= The best popular Fairy Tales. Selected and rendered
anew by the Author of "John Halifax, Gentleman," with a Vignette by
Sir NOEL PATON.
"Miss Mulock has the true instinct into the secret of a perfect
Fairy Tale ... delightful selection in a delightful external
form."--_Spectator._
=The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.= Edited by J. W. CLARK, M.A.,
with a Vignette by Sir J. E. MILLAIS.
"This cheap and pretty copy, rigidly exact to the original, will be
a prize to many book buyers."--_Examiner._
=The Sunday Book of Poetry for the Young.= Selected and arranged by
C. F. ALEXANDER.
=A Book of Golden Deeds= of All Times and All Countries. Gathered and
Narrated Anew. By the Author of "The Heir of Redclyffe."
=Children's Treasury of English Song.= Edited by F. T. PALGRAVE.
=Tom Brown's School Days.= By an OLD BOY.
=Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare.= Edited by the Rev. A. AINGER.
=GOLDSMITH. The Vicar of Wakefield.= By OLIVER GOLDSMITH. With 182
Illustrations by HUGH THOMSON, and a Preface by AUSTIN DOBSON. Uniform
with the Randolph Caldecott Edition of Washington Irving's "Bracebridge
Hall" and "Old Christmas." 12mo. Cloth extra. $2.00.
"Mr. Thomson hits the exact line of humor which lies in Goldsmith's
creations. His work is refined, much of it graceful and dignified,
but the humor of the situation never escapes him. The work is
English line work, very beautiful, delicate, and effective, with a
very perceptible touch of old-time quality, life, and costume in
it. The volume itself is such as lovers of good books delight to
hold in their hands."--_Independent._
"A more bewitching bit of book work has not reached us for many a
day."--_New York Tribune._
=GREENWOOD. The Moon Maiden, and Other Stories.= By JESSY E. GREENWOOD.
12mo. $1.25.
"A collection of brightly written and distinctly original stories
in which fairy lore and moral allegory are deftly and pleasantly
mingled."--_Christian Union._
=GRIMM'S Fairy Tales.= The Household Stories. Translated by LUCY CRANE,
and done into pictures by WALTER CRANE. 12mo. $1.25.
=HALLWARD= (R. F.). =Flowers of Paradise.=
Music--Verse--Design--Illustration. Printed in colors by Edmund Evans.
Royal 4to. $2.00.
"To our mind one of the prettiest--if not the prettiest--of this
year's picture books. The pages are very Blake-like in effect, the
drawings harmoniously blending with the music and words, and some
of the larger pictures are quite beautiful in thought and feeling
as well as in coloring. We ought soon to hear of Mr. Hallward
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