is not too much to say that nothing more interesting or more
wholesome is offered this year for older boys and girls. It is a
charming story, in which the author has delineated character as
carefully, and with as keen an artistic sense, as if she had
been writing a novel. Her book is a novel, indeed, with children
and the lives of children, instead of men and women and their
lives, for its theme."--_New York Evening Post._

_Our publications are to be had of all Booksellers. When not to be
found, send directly to_

ROBERTS BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, =BOSTON.=

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_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 of Colorado life and its truth to child-nature give
it a charm which the most experienced cannot fail to feel. It
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