book I do not believe you would withdraw your hand

where you could do good. ... I never thought of or read of the electric force (or spirit) in every human being before, but I do believe in it after reading your book, and
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you have made the fiext world a living thing to me^ and
raised my feelings above the disappointments and trials of
this life. . . . Your book was put into my hands at a
time when I was deeply distressed and in trouble about
my future ; but you have shown me how small a thing this
future of our life is. . . . Would it be asking too
much of you to name any books you think might help
me in this new vein of thought you have given me ?
Apologizing for having written, believe me,
Yours sincerely,
'* B. W. L.-^
[I answered to the best of my ability the writer of the above, and later on received another letter as fol- lows :]
" Forgive my writing to you again on the subject of your * Romance,' but I read it so often and think of it so much. I cannot say the wonderful change your book has wrought in my life, and though very likely you are constantly hearing of the good it has done, yet it cannot but be the sweetest thing you can hear — that the seed you have planted is bringing forth so much fruit. . . . The Bible is a new book to me since your work came into my hands.'*
LETTER III.
[The following terribly pathetic avowal is from a clergy- man of the Church of England :]
" Madam,
"Your book, the * Romance of Two Worlds,* has stopped me on the brink of what is doubtless a crime, and yet I had come to think it tiie only way out of im-
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pending madness. I speak of self-destruction — suicide. And while writing the word, I beg of you to accept my gratitude for the timely rescue of my soul. Once I be- lieved in the goodness of God — but of late years the cry of modern scientific atheism, ' There is no God,' has rung in my ears till my brain has reeled at the nothingness of the Universe. No good, no hope, no satisfaction in any- thing— this world only with all its mockery and failure — and afterwards annihilation ! Could a God design and create so poor and cruel a jest ? So I thought — and the misery of the thought was more than I could bear. I had resolved to make an end. No one knew, no one guessed my intent, till one Sunday afternoon a friend lent me your book. I began to read, and never left it till I had finished the last page — then I knew I was saved. Life smiled again upon me in consoling colours, and I write to tell you that whatever other good your work may do and is no doubt doing, you have saved both the life and reasoi^ of one grateful human being. If you will write to me a few lines I shall be still more grateful, for I feel you can help me. I seem to have read Christ's mission wrong — but with patience and prayer it is possible to redeem my error. Once more thanking you, I am,
** Yours with more thankfulness than I can write,
" L. E. F."
[I lost no time in replying to this letter, and since then have frequently corresponded with +he writer, from whose troubled mind the dark cloud has now entirely departed. And I may here venture to remark that the evils of '■'■ mod- ern scientific atheism " are far more widely spread and deeply rooted than the majority of persons are aware of, and that many of the apparently inexplicable cases of self- slaughter on which the formal verdict, ** Suicide during a state of temporary insanity," is passed, have been caused by long and hopeless brooding on the *' nothingness of the Universe "— which, if it were a true theory, would ia»
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deed make of Creation a bitter, nay, even a senseless jest. The cruel preacliers of such a creed have much to answer for. The murderer who destroys human life for wicked passion and wantonness is less criminal than the proudly learned, yet egotistical, and therefore densely ignorant scientist, who, seeking to crush the soul by his feeble narrow-minded arguments, and denying its imperishable nature, dares to spread his poisonous and corroding doc- trines of despair through the world, draining existence of all its brightness, and striving to erect barriers of distrust between the creature and the Creator. No sin can be greater than this ; for it is impossible to estimate the measure of evil that may thus be brought into otherwise innocent and happy lives. The attitude of devotion and faith is natural to Humanity, while nothing can be more 2^;znatural and disastrous to civilization, morality, and law than delibrate and determined Atheism.^ Author.]
LETTER IV
" Dear Madam,
" I dare say you have had many letters, but I must add mine to the number to thank you for your book, the * Romance of Two Worlds.' I am deeply interested in the wonderful force we possess, all in a greater or lesser degree — call it influence, electricity, or what you will. I have thought much on Theosophy and Psychical Research — but what struck me in your book was the glorious self- lessness inculcated and the perfect Majesty of the Divinity clear throughout — no sweeping away of the Crucified One. I felt a better woman for the reading of it twice ; and I know others, too, who are higher and better women for such noble thoughts and teachings. . . . People for
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the most part dream away their lives ; one meets so few who really believe in electrical affinity, and I have felt it so often and for so long. Forgive my troubling you with this letter, but I am grateful for your labour of love towards raising men and women. Sincerely yours,
R. H."
LETTER V.
" I should like to know if Marie Corelli honestly be- lieves the theory which she enunciates in her bonk, * The Romance of Two Worlds ; ' and also if she has any proof on which to found the same theory? — if so, the authoress will greatly oblige an earnest seeker after Truth if she will give the mformation sought to "A. S."
[I sent a brief affirmative answer to the above note ; the " proof " of the theories set forth in the " Romance " is, as I have already stated, easily to be found in the New Testament. But there are those who do not and will not believe the New Testament, and for them there are no " proofs" of any existing spirituality in earth or heaven. " Having eyes they see not, and hearing they do not under » stand,''— Author,
LETTER VL
" Dear Madam,
" I have lately been reading with intense pleasure your • Romance of Two Worlds,* and I must crave your lor- bearance towards me when I tell you that it has filled me with envy and wonder. I feel sure that many people must have plied you with questions on the subject already, but I am certain that you are too earnest and too sympa- thetic to feel bored by what is in no sense idle curiosity, but
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rather a deep and genuine longing to know the truth. . . . To some minds it would prove such a comfort and such a relief to have their vague longings and beliefs confirmed and made tangible, and, as you know, at the present day so-called Religion, which is often a mere mixture of dog- ma and superstition, is scarely sufficient to do this. . . , I might say a great deal more and weary your patience, which has already been tried, I fear. But may I venture to hope that you have some words of comfort and assur- ance out of your own experience to give me ? With your expressed belief in the good influence which each may ex- ert over the other, not to speak of a higher and holier in- centive in the example of One (in whom you also believe) who bids us for His sake to * Bear one another's burdens,* you cannot, I think, turn away in impatience from the seeking of a very earnest soul.
" Yours sincerely, B. D."
[I have received about fifty letters written in precisely the same tone as the above — all more or less complaining of the insufficiency of " so-called Religion, which is often a mere mixture of dogma and superstition "--and I ask — What are the preachers of Christ's clear message about, that there should be such plaintively eager anxious souls as these, who are evidently ready and willing to live noble lives if helped and encouraged ever so little ? Shame on those men who presume to take up the high vocation of the priesthood for the sake of self-love, self interest, worldly advancement, money or position ! These things are not among Christ's teachings. If there are members of the clergy who can neither plant faith, nor consolation, nor proper comprehension of God's infinite Beauty and Goodness in the hearts of their hearers, I say that their continuance in such sacred office is an offence to the Master whom they profess to serve. " It must needs be that offences come, but woe to that man by
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whom the offence cometh ! " To such may be ad- dressed the words " Hypocrites ! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men ; ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in." — Author.]
LETTER VII. " Madam,
" I hope you will not think it great presumption my writing to you. My excuse must be that I so much want to believe in the Great Spirit that * makes for righteousness,' and I cannot ! Your book puts it all so clearly that if I can only know it to be a true experience of your own, it will go a long way in dispersing the fog that modern writings surround one with. . . .
" Apologizing for troubling you, I am faithfully yours,
" C. M. E."
LETTER VIII.
" Madam,
^* I trust you will pardon the liberty I take in writing to
you. My excuse must be the very deep interest your book, * A Romance of Two Worlds,* has excited in me .1, of course, understand that the story itself is a romance^ but in reading it carefully it seems to me that it is a book written with a purpose. . . . The Electric Creed respecting Religion seems to explain so much in Scripture which has always seemed to me impossible to accept blindly without explanation of any kind ; and the theory that Christ came to die and to suffer for us as an Exam- ple and a means of communication with God, and not as a Sacrifice y clears up a point which has always been to me
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personally a stumbling-block. I cannot say how grateful I shall be if you can tell me any means of studying this subject further ; and trusting you will excuse me for troubling you, I am, Madam,
"Yours truly, H. B."
[Once more I may repeat that the idea of a sacrifice to appease God's anger is purely Jeiutshy and has nothing whatever to do with Christianity according to Christ. He Himself says, " I am the Way^ the Truth, and the Life ; no man cometh to the Father but by Me.'* Surely these words are plain enough, and point unmistakably to the means of communicatio7i through Christ between the Crea- tor and this world. Nowhere does the Divine Master say that God is so furiously angry that he must have the bleeding body of His own messenger, Christ, hung up be- fore Him as a human sacrifice, as though He could only be pacified by the scent of blood ! Horrible and profane idea ! and one utterly at variance with the tenderness and goodness of '' Our Father " as pictured by Christ in these gentle words — " Fear not, little flock ; it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom." Whereas that Christ should come to dravv us closer to God by the strong force of His own Divinity, and by His Resurrec- tion prove to us the reality of the next life, is not at all a strange or ungodlike mission, and ought to make us understand more surely than ever how infinitely pitying and forbearing is the All-Loving One, that He should, as it were, with such extreme affection show us a way by which to travel through darkness into light. To those who cannot see this perfection of goodness depicted in Christ's own words, I would say in the terse Oriental maxim :
Diving, and finding no pearls in the sea, Blame not the ocean, the fault is in iJue**
Author.]
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LETTER IX.
"Dear Madam,
" I have lately been reading your remarkable book, * A' Romance of Two Worlds,' and I feel that I must write to you about it. I have never viewed Christianity in the broadly transfigured light you throw upon it, and I have since been studying carefully the four Gospels and com- paring them with the theories in your book. The resuk has been a complete and happy change in my ideas of religion, and I feel now as if I had, like a leper of old, touched the robe of Christ and been healed of a long- standing infirmity. Will you permit me to ask if you have evolved this new and beneficent lustre from the Gospel yourself ? or whether some experienced student in mystic matters has been your instructor ? I hear from persons who have seen you that you are quite young, and I can- not understand how one of your sex and age seems able so easily to throw light on what to many has been, and is still, impenetrable darkness. I have been a preacher for some years, and I thought the Testament was old and familiar to me ; but you have made it a new and marvel- lous book full of the most precious meanings, and I hope I may be able to impart to those whom it is my duty to instruct, something of the great consolation and hope your writing has filled me with. " Believe me,
" Gratefully yours,
« T. M."
LETTER X.
" Madam,
"Will you tell me what ground you have for the foun- dation of the religious theory contained in your book, * A
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Romance of Two Worlds ?* Is it a part of your own be- lief ? 1 am most anxious to know this, and I am sure you will be kind enough to answer me. Till I read your book I thought myself an Agnostic, but now I am not quite sure of this. I do not believe in the Deity as depicted by the Churches. I camiot. Over and over again I have asked myself — If there is a God, why should He be angry ? It would surely be easy for Him to destroy this world entirely as one would blow away an offending speck of dust, and it would be much berter and braver for Him to do this than to torture His creation. For I call life a torture, and certainly a useless and cruel torture if it is to end in annihilation. I know I seem to be blasphemous in these remarks, yet if you only knew what I suffer some- times ! I desire, I lo7ig to believe. You seem so certain of your Creed — a Creed so noble, reasonable and humane — the God you depict so worthy of the adoration of a Universe. I beg of you to tell me — do you feel sure of this beneficent a!I-pervading Love concerning which you write so eloquently ? I do not wish to seem an intruder on your most secret thought. I want to believe that you believe — and if I felt this, the tenor of my whole life might change. Help me if you can — I stand in real need of help. You may judge I am very deeply in earnest, or i siiould not have written to you.
" Yours faithfully,
"A.W. L.-
[Of such letters as these I have received enough to make a volume of themselves ; but I think the ten I have selected are suf^cient to show how ardent and inextin- guishable is the desire or straini?ig upward like a flower to the light, of the human Soul for those divine things which nourish it. Scarcely a day passes without my re-
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ceiving more of these earnest and often pathetic appeals for a little help, a little comfort, a little guidance, enough to make one s heart ache at the thought of so much doubt and desolation looming cloud-li.ce over the troubled minds of many who v/ould otherwise lead not only happy but noble and useful lives. When will the preachers learn to preach Christ simply — Christ without human dogmas or differences ? When shall we be able to enter a build- ing set apart for sacred worship — a building of finest architectural beaut}^ •* glorious without and within," like the *' King's Daughter " of David's psalm — glorious with light, music, flowers, and art of the noblest kind (for Art is God's own inspiration to men, and through it He should be served), there to hear the pure, unselfish doc- trine of Christ as He Himself preached it? For such a temple, the time has surely come — a nook sacred to God, and untainted by the breath of Mammon, where we could acore our Creator " in spirit and in truth." The evils of nineteenth-century cynicism and general flippancy of thought — great evils as they are and sure prognostications of worse evils to come— cannot altogether crush out the Divine flame burning in the " few " that are "chosen," though these few are counted as fools and dreamers. Yet they shall be proved wise and watchful ere long. The signs of the times are those that indicate an ap- proaching great upheaval and change in human destinies. This planet we call ours is in some respects like ourselves; it was born ; it has had its infancy, its youth ; its full prime ; and now its age has set in, and with age the first beginnings of decay. Absorbed once more into the Crea- tive Circle it must be ; and when again thrown forth among its companion-stars, our race will no more inhabit it. We shall have had our day — our little chance — we shall have lost or won. Christ said, *' This generation shall not pass away till all My words be fulfilled," the word " generation " thus used meaning simply the huxnaa
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race. Wc put a very narrow limit to the significance of the Saviour's utterance when we imagine that the gener- ation He alluded to implied merely the people living in His own day. In the depths of His Divine wisdom He was acquainted with all the secrets of the Past and Future ; He had no doubt seen this very world peopled by widely different beings to ourselves, and knew that what we call the human race is nothing but a passing tribe permitted for a time 10 sojourn here. What a strangely presumptuous idea is that which pervades the minds of the majority of persons — namely, that Mankind, as we know it, must be the highest form of creation, sim- ply because it is the highest form we can see ! How absurd it is to be so controlled by our limited vision, when we cannot even perceive the minute wonders that a butterfly beholds, or pierce the sunlit air with anything like the facility possessed by the undazzled eyes of an upward-soaring bird ! Nay, we cannot examine the wing of a common house-fly without the aid of a microscope — to observe the facial expression of our own actors on the stage we look through opera-glasses — to form any idea of the wonders of the stars we construct telescopes to assist our feeble and easily-deluded sight ; and yet — yet we continue to parcel out the infinite gradations of creative Force and Beauty entirely to suit our own private opin- ions, and conclude that We are the final triumph of the Divine Artist's Supreme Intelligence ! Alas ! in very truth we are a sorry spectacle both to our soberly think- ing selves and the Higher Powers, invited, as it were, to spend our life's brief day in one of God's gardens as His friends and guests, who certainly are not expected to abuse their Host's hospitality, and, ignoring Him, ca'l themselves the owners and masters of the ground ! For we are but wanderers beneath the sun ; a " generation '* which must most surely and rapidly *' pass away" to make room for another ; and as the work of the Universe
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is always progressive, that other will be of nobler capacity and larger accomplishment. So while we are here, let us think earnestly of the few brief chances remaining to us — they grow fewer every hour. On one side is the end- less, glorious heritage of the purely aspiring. Immortal Spirit ; on the other the fleeting Mirage of this our pres- ent existence; and, midway between the two, the swinging pendulum of Human Will, which decides our fate. God does not choose for us, or compel our love — we are free to fashion out our own futures ; but in making our final choice we cannot afford to waste one moment of our precious, unreturning time.]
Marie Corixll
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"This is a pretty narrative of child life, describing the simple doings and sayings of a very charming and rather precocious child. This Is a delightful book for young p(M)ple." — Gazette.
For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the pQblisber, A. L. BURT, 62-M Duane Street, New York.
A. L. «DRT*a HOOKS FOU TOUNG PEOPLE.
BOOKS FOR GIRLS.
Esther's Charge. A Story for Girls. By Ellen Everett
Orkkn. l2uio, cldlli, illiistraUHl, price $1.00.
"... This Is a story showing in a charming way how one little
^rl's Jealousy and bad temper were conquered; one of the b«>Bt, moat
suggostlye aud Improving of the Christmas juveniles." — New York Trib- une.
Fairy Land of Science. By Arabella B. Buckley.
12mo, cloth, illustrated, price SI -00.
"We can highly rooonimond it; not only for the valuable Information It gives on the special subjects to which it is dedicated, but also as a book teaching natural sciences In nn Interesting way. A fascinating little volume, which will make friends in every household in which there «re children." — Daily Newe.
Merle's Crusade. By Rosa N. Carey. 12mo, cloth,
illustrated, price $1.00.
"Among the books for young people we have seen nothing more unique than this book. Like all of this author's stories it will please young read- ers by the very attractive aud charming style in which it is written." — 'ToumaL
Birdie: A Tale of Child Life. By H. L. Childe-
Pbmberton. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents.
"The story Is quaint and simple, but there is a freshness about It that makes one hear again the ringing laugh and the cheery shout of chil- dren at play which charmed his earlier years." — New York Express.
The Days of Bruce: A Story from Scottish History.
By Grace Aotni^R. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00.
"There is a delightful freshness, sincerity and vivacity about all of Grace Agullar's stories which cannot fail to win the Interest and admiration of every lover of good reading." — Boston Beacon.
Three Bright Girls : A Story of Chance and Mischance.
By AxNiE E. Armstrong. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00.
"The charm of the story lies in the cheery helpfulness of spirit devel- oi)ed in the girls by their changed circumstances; while the author finds a pltusiint ending to all their happy makeshifts. The story Is charmingly told, and the book can be warmly recommended as a present for girls.' — Standard.
Giannetta : A GirFs Story of Herself. By Eosa Mul-
HOLXJiND. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00.
"Extremely well told and full of Interest. Giannetta is a true heroine- warm-hearted, self-sacrificing, aud, as all good women nowadays are, largely touched with enthusiasm of humanity. The illustrations are un- usually good. One of the most attractive gift books of the season." — Tb« Aoadenry.
Margery Merton's Girlhood. By Alice Corkran.
12ino, cloth, illustrated, price Jl.OO.
"The experiences of an orphan girl who in infancy is left by her father to the care of an elderly aunt residing near Paris. The accounts of the various persons who have an after Influence on the story are sin- gularly vivid. There is a subtle attraction about the book which will make It a great favorite with thoughtful girls." — Saturday Review.
For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price by th* pabllaber. A. L. BJJB.T, 52-58 Duane Street, New York.
6 A. L. hurt's books foe young pboplb. BOOKS FOR GIRLS^ ~*
Under False Colors: A Story from Two Girls' Lives.
By Sarah Doudney. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, pi ice f 1.00.
"Sarah Doudney has no saperior as a writor of high-toned stories — pare In style, original in conception, and with Bkillfally wrought out plots; but we have seen nothing equal in dramatic energy to this book."— Christian Leader.
Down the Snow Stairs; or, From Good-night to Good-
morning. By Alice ConKRAN. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents "Among all the Christmas volumes which the year has brought to our table this one stands out facile prinoepa — a gem of the first water, bearing upon every one of its pages the signet mark of genius. . . . All Is told with such simplicity and perfect naturalness that the dream appears to be a solid reality. It ia indeed a Little Pilgrim's Progress."— Christian Leader.
The Tapestry Room: A Child's Romance. By Mrs.
MoLESWORTH. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents.
"Mrs. Molesworth Is a charming painter of the nature and ways of children; and she has done good service in giving us this charming juvenile which will delight the young people."— Athenaum, London.
Little Miss "Peggy: Only a Nursery Story. By Mrs.
Molesworth. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents.
Mrs. Molesworth's children are finished studies. A Joyous earnest spirit pervades her work, and her sympathy Is unbounded. She loves them with her whole heart, while she lays bare their little minds, and expresses their foibles, their faults, their virtues, their inward struggles, their conception of duty, and their instinctive knowledge of the right and wrong of things. She knows their characters, she understands their wants, and she desires to help them.
Polly: A New Fashioned Girl. By L. T. Meade.
12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1 .00.
Few authors have achieved a popularity equal to Mrs. Meade as a writer of stories for young girls. Her characters are living beings of flesh and blood, not lay figures of conventional type. Into the trials and crosses, and everyday experiences, the reader enters at once with zest and hearty sympathy. While Mrs. Meade always writes with a blgb moral purpose, her lessons of life, purity and nobility of character are rather Inculcated by example than Intruded as sermons.
One of a Covey. By the author of "Miss Toose/s
Mission." 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents.
"Full of spirit and life, so well sustained throughout that grown-up readers mar enjoy It as much as children. This 'Covey' consists of the twelve children of a hard-pressed Dr. Partridge out of which Is chosen a little girl to be adoptfMl by a spoiled, fine lady. We have rarely read a storv for boys and girla with greater pleasure. One of the chief cbar- actpra'wonld riot have disgraced Dickens* pen." — Literary World.
The little Princess of Tower Hill. By L. T. Meade,
l2mo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents.
"This la one of the prettiest books for children published, as pretty as a pond-Illy, and quite as fragrant. Nothing could be imagined more iittrartiv*' to' young people than such a combination of fresh pages and fr bctt(>r tlinn crying for It — it Is a book that can be read with pleasure ^von by older hoys nnd girls." — Boston Advertiser.
iJ'or Hale by all bookReliors, or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the pubilslier. A." L. BURT. 62-68 Duane Street. New York.
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BOOKS FOR GIRLS.
Boey. By Mus. Moles worth. 12mo, cloth, illustrated,
price 76 cents.
Mrs. Molesworth, consldorlnc the qanllty and quantity of her labors, la the best story-teller for cbiulreD England has yet known.
"This Is a very pretty story. The writer knows children, and thoir ways well. The illuatrutlons are exceedingly well drawn."— Speotator.
Esther: A Book for Girls. By Rosa N. Carey. 12mo,
cloth, illustrated, price 01.00.
"She inspires her readers simply by bringing them In contact with the characters, who are in therasolvos inspiring. Her simple stories are woven in order to give her an opportunity to describe her characters by their owr conduct in seasons of trial." — Chioago Times.
Sweet Content. By Mrs. Molesworth. 12mo, cloth;
illustrated, price 75 cents.
"It seems to me not at all easier to draw a lifelike child than to draw a lifelike man or woman: Shakespeare and Webster were the only two men of their age who could do It with perfect delicacy and success. Our own age is more fortunate, on this single score at least, having a larger and far nobler proportion of female writers; among whom, since the death of George Eliot, there is none left whose touch is so exquisite and masterly, whose love is so thoroughly according to knowledge, whose bright and sweet invontion is so fruitful, so truthful, or so delightful as Mrs. Molesworth's." — A. C. Swinbourne.
Honor Bright ; or, The Four-Leaved Shamrock. By the
author of " Miss Toosey's Mission." 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1 00.
"It requires a special talent to describe the sayings and doings of children, and the author of 'Honor Bright,* 'One of a Covey,' possesses that talent in no small degree. A cheery, sensible, and healthy tale." — Th« Times.
The Cuckoo Clock. By Mrs. Molesworth. 12mo,
cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents.
"A beautiful little story. It will be read with delight by every child Into whose hands it is placed. . . . The author deserves all the praise that has been, is, and will be bestowed on 'The Cuckoo Clock.' Children's stories are plentiful, but one like this is not to be met with every day." — Pall Mall Gazette.
The Adventures of a Brownie. As Told to my Child.
By Miss MtiLOCK. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents.
"The author of this delightful little book leaves it in doubt all throagh whether there actually is such a creature in existence as n Brownie, but ahe makes ns hope that there might be." — Chicago Standard.
Only a Girl: A Tale of Brittany. From the French
by C. A Jones. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price Jl.OO,
"We can thoroughly recommend this brightly written and homely nar- rative."— Saturday Review.
Little Rosehnd; or, Things Will Take a Turn. By
Beatrice Harraden. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents.
"A most delightful little book. . . . Miss Harraden is so bright, so healthy, and so natural withal that the book ought, as a matter of duty, to be added to every girl's library in the land." — Boston Transcript.
For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the publlalier, A. L. BITBT, 62-51 Duane Street, New York.
8 A. L. BUET'S books foe rODNG PEOPLE).
BOOKS FOR GIRLS.
Girl Neighbors ; or, The Old Fashion and the New. By
Sarah Tytler. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price |1.00.
"One of the moat effective and quietly humorous of Miss Ty tier's storlei. 'Girl Neighbors' is a pleasant comedy, not so much of errors as of preju- dices grot rid of, very healthy, very agreeable, and very well written.— Spectator.
The Little Lame Prince and His Traveling Cloak. By
Miss Mulock. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents.
"No sweeter — that is the proper word — Christmas story for the little folks could easily be found, and it is as delightful for older readers as well. There is a moral to it which the reader can find out for himself. If he chooses to think." — Cleveland Herald.
Little Miss Joy. By Emma Marshall. 12mo, cloth,
illustrated, pi-ice 75 cents.
"A very pleasant and instructive story, told by a very charming writer in such an attractive way as to win favor among its young readers. The Illustrations add to the beauty of the book." — Utica Herald.
The House that Grew. A Girl's Story. By Mes. Moles- worth. ISmo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents. "This is a very pretty story of English life. Mrs. Moleswortb is one
of the most popular and charming of English story-writers for children.
Her child characters are true to life, always natural and attractive,
and her stories are wholesome and interesting." — Indianapolis Journal.
The House of Surprises. By L. T. Meade. 12mo,
doth, illustrated, price 75 cents.
"A charming tale of charming children, who are naughty enough to be Interesting, and natural enough to be lovable; and very prettily their story Is told. The quaintest yet most natural stories of child Ufe. Simply delightful." — Vanity Fair.
The Jolly Ten: and their Year of Stories. By Agnes
Carr Sagk. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents.
The story of a band of cousins who were accustomed to meet at the "Pinery," with "Aunt Roxy." At her fireside they play merry games, have suppers flavored with innocent fun, and listen to stories — eacn with Its lesson calculated to make the ten not less jolly, but quickly re- sponsive to the calls of duty and to the needs of others.
Little Miss Dorothy. The Wonderful Adventures of
Two Little People. By Martha James. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price 75c.
"This is a charming little juvenile story from the pen of Mrs. Jameo, detailing the various adventures of a couple of young children. Their many adventures are told in a charming manner, and the book will please young girls and boys." — Montreal Star.
Pen's Venture. A Story for Girls. By Elvieton
Wright. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price 75 cents.
Something Pen saw in the condition of the cash girls In a certain store gave her a thought; the thought became a plan; the plan became a ven. ture — Pen's venture. It Is amusing, touching, and instructive to read about It.
For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of prlc«» t^ \**# Dubllsber, A. L. BTJBT, 52-58 Duane Street, New York.