Probably no living author has exerted an influence upon the American people at large, at all comparable with Pansy's. Thousands upon thousands of families read her books every week, and the effect in the direction of right feeling, right thinking, and right living is incalculable.
FOUR GIRLS AT CHAUTAUQUA. MODERN PROPHETS. CHAUTAUQUA GIRLS AT HOME. ECHOING AND RE-ECHOING. RUTH ERSKINE'S CROSSES. THOSE BOYS. ESTER RIED. THE RANDOLPHS. JULIA RIED. TIP LEWIS. KING'S DAUGHTER. SIDNEY MARTIN'S CHRISTMAS. WISE AND OTHERWISE. DIVERS WOMEN. ESTER RIED "YET SPEAKING." A NEW GRAFT. LINKS IN REBECCA'S LIFE. THE POCKET MEASURE. FROM DIFFERENT STANDPOINTS. MRS. SOLOMON SMITH. THREE PEOPLE. THE HALL IN THE GROVE. HOUSEHOLD PUZZLES. MAN OF THE HOUSE. AN ENDLESS CHAIN.
CUNNING WORKMEN. MISS PRISCILLA HUNTER and MY DAUGHTER SUSAN. GRANDPA'S DARLING. WHAT SHE SAID and PEOPLE WHO HAVEN'T TIME. MRS. DEAN'S WAY. DR. DEAN'S WAY.
NEXT THINGS. MRS. HARRY HARPER'S AWAKENING. PANSY SCRAP BOOK. NEW YEAR'S TANGLES. FIVE FRIENDS. SOME YOUNG HEROINES.
GETTING AHEAD. JESSIE WELLS. TWO BOYS. DOCIA'S JOURNAL. SIX LITTLE GIRLS. HELEN LESTER. PANSIES. BERNIE'S WHITE CHICKEN. THAT BOY BOB. MARY BURTON ABROAD. SIDE BY SIDE.
The Little Pansy Series, 10 vols. Boards, $3.00. Cloth, $4.00 Mother's Boys and Girls' Library, 12 vols. Quarto Boards, $3.00 Pansy Primary Library, 30 vol. Cloth. Price, $7.50. Half Hour Library. Octavo, 8 vols. Price, $3.20.
(_From the N. Y. Weekly Tribune, Nov. 14, 1883._)
Among publishers who have carried into their work serious convictions as to their duty to the public in the matter of supplying good literature, and who have resolutely resisted all temptations in the more lucrative direction of that which is simply sensational, an honorable place may be claimed for D. Lothrop & Co., who have accomplished in the United States a work second to that of no publishing house.
Little change can be made in the literary tastes of a generation which is passing off the stage. If there are evidences of dangerous tendencies in popular thought, or if an infection of the public mind is being spread by unwholesome reading, the antidote for all this, so far as the future is concerned, lies in the protection of the young by providing them with a literature which is at once attractive and wholesome.