Illustrated by Elizabeth Withington Large 12mo Cloth $1.35 _net_
THIS is considerably longer than the other books by this favoritewriter, and with a more elaborate plot, but it has the same winsomequality throughout. It introduces the heroine in New York as a littlegirl of eight, but soon passes over six years and finds her at a selectfamily boarding school in Connecticut. An important part of the storyalso takes place at the Profile House in the White Mountains. The charmof school-girl friendship is finely brought out, and the kindness ofheart, good sense and good taste which find constant expression in thebooks by Miss Rhoades do not lack for characters to show these best ofqualities by their lives. Other less admirable persons of course appearto furnish the alluring mystery, which is not all cleared up until thevery last.
"There will be no better book than this to put into the hands of a girl in her teens and none that will be better appreciated by her."--_Kennebec Journal._
MARION'S VACATION
By NINA RHOADES
Illustrated by Bertha G. Davidson 12mo $1.25 _net_
THIS book is for the older girls, Marion being thirteen. She has for tenyears enjoyed a luxurious home in New York with the kind lady who feelsthat the time has now come for this aristocratic though lovable littlemiss to know her own nearest kindred, who are humble but most excellentfarming people in a pretty Vermont village. Thither Marion is sent for asummer, which proves to be a most important one to her in all itslessons.
"More wholesome reading for half grown girls it would be hard to find; some of the same lessons that proved so helpful in that classic of the last generation 'An Old Fashioned Girl' are brought home to the youthful readers of this sweet and sensible story."--_Milwaukee Free Press._
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