ne square 16mo volume. Handsome
cloth. Price, $2.00.
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ROBERTS BROTHERS, Publishers.
BOSTON
SUSAN COOLIDGE'S POPULAR BOOKS.
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NOT QUITE EIGHTEEN.
By SUSAN COOLIDGE, author of "What Katy Did," "The
Barberry Bush," "A Guernsey Lily," etc. 16mo.
Cloth. Illustrated. Price, $1.25
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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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