re my own cousin, you
know."

Elsie went up to her cousin, and put her arms round her. That was such
an unusual proceeding from cold, undemonstrative Elsie that Marjorie
was speechless with astonishment.

"I believe you are the best girl in the world, Marjorie," she said,
unsteadily. "I'm not worthy of your friendship, but if you will really
love me, and forgive me for all the mean, hateful things I've done, I
will try to deserve it--I will indeed."

THE END

DOROTHY BROWN

By NINA RHOADES

Illustrated by Elizabeth Withington Large 12mo
Cloth $1.50

[Illustration]

THIS is considerably longer than the other books by this favorite
writer, and with a more elaborate plot, but it has the same winsome
quality throughout. It introduces the heroine in New York as a little
girl of eight, but soon passes over six years and finds her at a select
family boarding school in Connecticut. An important part of the story
also takes place at the Profile House in the White Mountains. The charm
of school-girl friendship is finely brought out, and the kindness of
heart, good sense and good taste which find constant expression in the
books by Miss Rhoades do not lack for characters to show these best of
qualities by their lives. Other less admirable persons of course appear
to furnish the alluring mystery, which is not all cleared up until the
very last.

"There will be no better book than this to put
into the hands of a girl in her teens and none
that will be better appreciated by
her."--_Kennebec Journal._

MARION'S VACATION

By NINA RHOADES

Illustrated by Bertha G. Davidson 12mo Cloth $1.25

[Illustration]

THIS book is for the older girls, Marion being thirteen. She has for ten
years enjoyed a luxurious home in New York with the kind lady who feels
that the time has now come for this aristocratic though lovable little
miss to know her own nearest kindred, who are humble but most excellent
farming people in a pretty Vermont village. Thither Marion is sent for a
summer, which proves to be a most important one to her in all its
lessons.

"More wholesome reading for half grown girls it
would be hard to find; some of the same lessons
that proved so helpful in that classic of the last
generation 'An Old Fashioned Girl' are brought
home to the youthful readers of this sweet and