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  By L. B. WALFORD

  A Sage of Sixteen

  New Edition. Illustrated in Colour by JAMES BURDEN.

  Elma, the heroine of this story, is called a sage by her wealthy andsophisticated relations in Park Lane, with whom she spends ahalf-holiday every week, and who regard her as a very wise young person.The rest of her time is passed at a small boarding-school, where, asmight be supposed, Elma's friends look upon her rather as an ordinaryhealthy girl than as one possessing unusual wisdom. The story tells ofElma's humble life at school, her occasional excursions into fashionablesociety; the difficulties she experiences in her endeavour to reconcilethe two; and the way in which she eventually wins the hearts of thosearound her in both walks of life.