"It is true that Marion _did_ seem rather disagreeable at first, and perhaps I didn't try to like him because I was so disappointed that he was not a girl. But now--well, I only hope Chris and Rudolph will know as much as he does when they are his age. So I told Aunt Caroline that the whole trouble had been that I didn't try to understand him at first. Then she smiled, and added, 'Marion is sure that he has learned a great deal from you, especially how to govern his temper. But he says particularly, that no one is to thank him for these things. It is as if you had bought them yourself, for everything in the box is something he heard you admire, when you and he were out together. I believe there's something from every city we have been in. He says the money part doesn't count at all for everything there represents your taste.'
"But I think I shall find some way of thanking him, if not now, sometime when our trip is over, and really, if it hadn't been for Marion, I am sure that I should not have had half as much fun."
Author of "Amy in Acadia," The "Brenda" Books, etc.
Illustrated by Clara E. Atwood. 12mo. $1.25
A brightly written story about children from eleven to thirteen years of age, who live in a suburban town, and attend a public grammar school. The book is full of incident of school and home life.
The story deals with real life, and is told in the simple and natural style which characterized Miss Reed's popular "Brenda" stories.--_Washington Post._
There are little people in this sweetly written story with whom all will feel at once that they have been long acquainted, so real do they seem, as well as their plans, their play, and their school and home and everyday life.--_Boston Courier._
Her children are real; her style also is natural and pleasing.--_The Outlook_, New York.
Miss Reed's children are perfectly natural and act as real girls would under the same circumstances. Nap is a lively little dog, who takes an important part in the development of the story.--_Christian Register_, Boston.
A clever story, not a bit preachy, but with much influence for right living in evidence throughout.--_Chicago Evening Post._
The author is one of the best equipped of our writers for girls of larger growth. Her stories are strong, intelligent, and wholesome.--_The Outlook_, New York.