Chapter VIII: Part 8

Thinking of Brenda in this light, dwelling on the affection that had so increased as the two cousins had come to understand each other, Julia became more cheerful. She felt that she no longer stood alone, for even setting aside her circle of warm friends (how had she dared to overlook them?), was she not in her aunt's household a fourth daughter, and loved as well--almost as well--as Caroline, or Agnes, or Brenda?

LITTLE, BROWN, & COMPANY, _Publishers_

254 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MASS.

* * * * *

HELEN LEAH REED'S "BRENDA" BOOKS

BRENDA, HER SCHOOL AND HER CLUB

Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. 12mo. $1.50.

_The Boston Herald_ says: "Miss Reed's girls have all the impulses and likes of real girls as their characters are developing, and her record of their thoughts and actions reads like a chapter snatched from the page of life. It is bright, genial, merry, wholesome, and full of good characterizations."

BRENDA'S SUMMER AT ROCKLEY

Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. 12mo. $1.50.

A charming picture of vacation life along the famous North Shore of Massachusetts.

The _Outlook_ says: "The author is one of the best equipped of our writers for girls of larger growth. Her stories are strong, intelligent, and wholesome."

BRENDA'S COUSIN AT RADCLIFFE

Illustrated by Alice Barber Stephens. 12mo. $1.20 _net._

A remarkably real and fascinating story of a college girl's career, excelling in interest Miss Reed's first "Brenda" book. The _Providence News_ says of it: "No better college story has been written." The author is a graduate of Radcliffe College which she describes.

BRENDA'S BARGAIN

Illustrated. 12mo. $1.20 _net._

The fourth of the "Brenda" books by Helen Leah Reed, which will bring this popular series to a close. It introduces a group of younger girls, pupils in the domestic science school conducted by Brenda's cousin and her former teacher, Miss South. The story also deals with social settlement work.

* * * * *

_Anna Chapin Ray's "Teddy" Stories_

TEDDY: HER BOOK. A Story of Sweet Sixteen

Illustrated by Vesper L. George. 12mo. $1.50.

Miss Ray's work draws instant comparison with the best of Miss Alcott's: first, because she has the same genuine sympathy with boy and girl life; secondly, because she creates real characters, individual and natural, like the young people one knows, actually working out the same kind of problems; and, finally, because her style of writing is equally unaffected and straightforward.--_Christian Register_, Boston.

PHEBE: HER PROFESSION

A Sequel to "Teddy: Her Book"

Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill. 12mo. $1.50.

This is one of the few books written for young people in which there is to be found the same vigor and grace that one demands in a good story for older people.--_Worcester Spy._

TEDDY: HER DAUGHTER

A Sequel to "Teddy: Her Book," and "Phebe: Her Profession"

Illustrated by J. B. Graff. 12mo. $1.50.

Introduces a new generation of girls and boys, all well bred and gifted with good manners, takes them through much fun and such adventures as one may find on a small sandy island, and gives the girl a page or two of saving common sense about her duties to boys and her obligation to be true and womanly.--_New York Times Saturday Review._

NATHALIE'S CHUM

Illustrated by Ellen Bernard Thompson. 12mo. $1.20 _net._

A charming story of a courageous fifteen-year-old girl's effort to help her older brother support an orphaned family of five. "Nathalie is the sort of a young girl whom other girls like to read about," says the _Hartford Courant_.

URSULA'S FRESHMAN. A Sequel to "Nathalie's Chum"

Illustrated by Harriet Roosevelt Richards. 12mo. $1.20 _net._

A hot-tempered, domineering girl, yet full of common sense and capable of loyal love, and Jack, her cousin, who stoically accepts the loss of his father's fortune, and begins to earn his own way through Yale, are the two principal characters in Miss Ray's new book.

* * * * *

_Myra Sawyer Hamlin's Stories_

NAN AT CAMP CHICOPEE; or, Nan's Summer with the Boys

Illustrated by Jessie McDermott. 16mo. $1.25.

The story is one of free, outdoor life, characterized by a deal of fine descriptive writing and many bits of local color that invest the whole book with an atmosphere which is actually fragrant.--_Bangor Commercial._

NAN IN THE CITY; or, Nan's Winter with the Girls

Illustrated by L. J. Bridgman. 16mo. $1.25.

A bright story in which children and animals play an equal part.--_The Outlook._

She is a womanly girl, and we have met her like outside of story-books. A wonderfully healthy, thoroughly womanly maiden, standing at the point in life where childhood and womanhood meet, one follows with interest the account of her first winter at school in a great city, where she made new friends and found some old ones.--_Chicago Advance._

NAN'S CHICOPEE CHILDREN

Illustrated by L. J. Bridgman. 16mo. $1.25.

Myra Sawyer Hamlin's stories are full of outdoor life, redolent of the woods, the fields, and the mountain lakes, and her characters are very natural young folk.--_Cambridge Tribune._

Full of happiness and helpfulness, with experiences in doors and out that will interest all young people.--_Evening Standard, New Bedford._

CATHARINE'S PROXY. A Story of Schoolgirl Life

Illustrated by Florence E. Plaisted. 12mo. $1.20 _net._

An entertaining story of a very modern young American girl of wealth who fails to appreciate the advantages of an expensive education, and at the suggestion of her father gives her educational advantage to another girl, who for a year becomes her proxy.

The girl characters are from fifteen to seventeen years of age, the boys are preparing for college, and all are instilled with the spirit of modern life in our best schools.

* * * * *

NEW BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

JO'S BOYS, And How They Turned Out

A Sequel to "Little Men." By LOUISA M. ALCOTT. _New Illustrated Edition._ With ten full-page plates by Ellen Wetherald Ahrens. Crown 8vo. $2.00.

_Uniform with Jo's Boys_

LITTLE WOMEN. Illustrated by Alice Barber Stephens.

LITTLE MEN. Illustrated by Reginald B. Birch.

AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.

The four volumes put up in box, $8.00.

THE GOLDEN WINDOWS

A Book of Fables for Old and Young. By LAURA E. RICHARDS. Illustrated. 12mo. $1.50.

This charming book will be a source of delight to those who love the best literature, and in its pages there is much that will be helpful in shaping children's lives. The stories are simply and gracefully told.

THE AWAKENING OF THE DUCHESS

By FRANCES CHARLES. With illustrations in color by I. H. Caliga. 12mo. $1.50.

A pretty and touching story of a lonely little heiress, Roselle, who called her mother, a society favorite, "the Duchess"; and the final awakening of a mother's love for her own daughter.

A DAUGHTER OF THE RICH

By M. E. WALLER, author of "The Little Citizen." Illustrated. 12mo. $1.50.

A delightful book, telling the story of a happy summer in the Green Mountains of Vermont and a pleasant winter in New York. The two girl characters are Hazel Clyde, the daughter of a New York millionaire, and Rose Blossom, a Vermont girl.

<pre id="pg-footer">