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EDGEWORTH, MARIA
Tales from Maria Edgeworth.
Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
Stokes. 1.50

Austin Dobson, in his introduction, gives us a sketch of Maria
Edgeworth's upbringing and of the conditions which helped to produce
the famous Parent's Assistant, from which twelve of the sixteen
stories are here reprinted, accompanied by Mr. Thomson's delightful
pictures.

"Fairies were not much in her line," says Mrs. Richmond Ritchie,
Thackeray's daughter, "but philanthropic manufacturers, (p. 111)
liberal noblemen, and benevolent ladies in travelling carriages,
do as well and appear in the nick of time to distribute rewards
or to point a moral."--_Introduction._

HALE, L.P.
*The Peterkin Papers.
Houghton. 1.50

"Mr. Peterkin, Agamemnon, and Solomon John, took the postal card
to the post-office early one morning.... It must have been read
along its way: for by each mail came piles of postals and letters
from town after town, in answer to the question, and all in the
same tone: 'Yes, yes; publish the adventures of the Peterkin
family.'"

The trials and troubles of the Peterkins and the helpful suggestions
of the resourceful lady from Philadelphia will long be a source of
amusement to folks both old and young.

JENKS, A.E.
The Childhood of Ji-shib, the Ojibwa.
Illustrated by the Author.
The American Thresherman. 1.00

The story is written with no other thought than to have
constantly in mind what the Ojibwa child believes about the
events of his every-day life as given in the story. And the
following incidents are taken directly from the common life of
the tribe.
A.E. JENKS.

And now comes Dr. Jenks with a story of a Red Child, in which he
displays deep insight into Indian character, and describes the
Red Child as that interesting person might have described himself
in his own wigwam and to his own grandchildren in the evening of
his life. May many White Children read the story and learn
therein of our passing race.
W.J. McGEE.

This mysterious tale of Ji-shib the Chippewa, and A-mi-kons the (p. 112)
little beaver, his totem, follows Indian life from birth to early
manhood. Dr. Jenks has