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a' alone ought to give her a kind of pre-emptive right to the love and gratitude of our young folks. It requires genius to conceive a purely imaginary work which must of necessity deal with the supernatural, without running into a mere riot of fantastic absurdity; but genius Miss Ingelow has, and the story of Jack is as careless and joyous, but as delicate, as a picture of childhood. "The young people should be grateful to Jean Ingelow and those other noble writers, who, in our day, have taken upon themselves the task of supplying them with literature, if for no other reason, that these writers have saved them from the ineffable didacticism which, till within the last few years, was considered the only food fit for the youthful mind."--_Eclectic._ _Sold everywhere. Mailed, postpaid, by the Publishers._ ROBERTS BROTHERS, BOSTON. * * * * * _Messrs. Roberts Brothers' Publications._ CASTLE BLAIR: A STORY OF YOUTHFUL DAYS. BY FLORA L. SHAW. 16mo. Cloth. Price $1.00 "There is quite a lovely little book just come out about children,--'Castle Blair!' ... The book is good, and lovely, and true, having the best description of a noble child in it (Winnie) that I ever read; and nearly the best description of the next best thing,--a noble dog," says John Ruskin, the distinguished art critic. "'Castle Blair,' a story of youthful days, by Flora L. Shaw, is an Irish story. A charming young girl--half French, half English--comes from France, at the age of eighteen, to live with her bachelor uncle at Castle Blair, which is in possession of five children of an absent brother of this uncle. The children are in a somewhat wild and undisciplined condition, but they are as interesting children as can be imagined, and some of them winning to an extraordinary degree. They are natural children, in manner and in talk; but the book differs from some American books about children, in that it is pervaded by an air of refinement and good-breeding. The story is altogether delightful, quite worthy, from an American point of view, of all Mr. Ruskin says of it; and if circulation were determined by merit, it would speedily outstrip a good many now popular children's books which have a vein of commonness, if not of vulgarity."--_Hartford Courant._ "It
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