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ne square 16mo volume. Handsome cloth. Price, $2.00. * * * * * ROBERTS BROTHERS, Publishers. BOSTON SUSAN COOLIDGE'S POPULAR BOOKS. [Illustration] NOT QUITE EIGHTEEN. By SUSAN COOLIDGE, author of "What Katy Did," "The Barberry Bush," "A Guernsey Lily," etc. 16mo. Cloth. Illustrated. Price, $1.25 * * * * * ROBERTS BROTHERS. PUBLISHERS, BOSTON, MASS. Messrs. Roberts Brothers' Publications. NELLY'S SILVER MINE. BY H. H. With Illustrations. 16mo, cloth. Price $1.50. "The sketches of life, especially of its odd and out-of-the-way aspects, by H. H. always possess so vivid a reality that they appear more like the actual scenes than any copy by pencil or photograph. They form a series of living pictures, radiant with sunlight and fresh as morning dew. In this new story the fruits of her fine genius are of Colorado growth, and though without the antique flavor of her recollections of Rome and Venice, are as delicious to the taste as they are tempting to the eye, and afford a natural feast of exquisite quality."--_N. Y. Tribune._ "This charming little book, written for children's entertainment and instruction, is equally delightful to the fathers and mothers. It is life in New England, and the racy history of a long railway journey to the wilds of Colorado. The children are neither imps nor angels, but just such children as are found in every happy home. The pictures are so graphically drawn that we feel well acquainted with Rob and Nelly, have travelled with them and climbed mountains and found silver mines, and know all about the rude life made beautiful by a happy family, and can say of Nelly, with their German neighbor, Mr. Kleesman, 'Ach well, she haf better than any silver mine in her own self.'"--_Chicago Inter-Ocean._ "In 'Nelly's Silver Mine' Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson has given us a true classic for the nursery and the school-room, but its readers will not be confined to any locality. Its vivid portraiture
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