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I. OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN. By the author of "Helen's Babies," $1 25
II. BUDGE AND TODDIE. An Illustrated Edition of "Other People's Children," 1 75
III. THE SCRIPTURE CLUB OF VALLEY REST; or, Sketches of Everybody's Neighbors, 1 00
THE STATESMAN, THE EDITOR, THE ARTIST, AND THE SCRIBBLER
NEW YORK G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS 182 FIFTH AVENUE 1878.
AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF
WITH AN EQUANIMITY WHICH FAIRLY ENTITLES HIM TO RECOGNITION
Melancholy as the admission must necessarily be to persons with aspirations toward literary Art, the authors are forced to acknowledge that most of the incidents recounted therein actually occurred during a canoeing cruise to the Northward, in which they were participants; that the localities described have a geographical existence, and that the persons introduced and the experiences recorded are, with trifling exceptions, true to the life. They frankly admit that they might not have been so truthful had they suffered from lack of incident, but their perplexities have arisen from too much good material instead of too little. Departures from strict veracity have been made solely on the ground of good fellowship.