a place
amongst the most famous animals in fiction.

=Miriam's Ambition:= A Story for Children. By Evelyn
Everett-Green.

Miriam's ambition is to make some one happy, and her endeavour to
carry it out in the case of an invalid boy, carries with it a
pleasant train of romantic incident, solving a mystery which had
thrown a shadow over several lives. A charming foil to her grave
and earnest elder sister is to be found in Miss Babs, a small
coquette of five, whose humorous child-talk is one of the most
attractive features of an excellent story.

=White Lilac:= Or The Queen of the May. By Amy Walton.

When the vicar's wife proposed to call Mrs. White's daughter by the
heathen name of Lilac, all the villagers shook their heads; and
they continued to shake them sagely when Lilac's father was shot
dead by poachers just before the christening, and when, years
after, her mother died on the very day Lilac was crowned Queen of
the May. And yet White Lilac proved a fortune to the relatives to
whose charge she fell--a veritable good brownie, who brought luck
wherever she went. The story of her life forms a most readable and
admirable rustic idyl, and is told with a fine sense of rustic
character.

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=Little Lady Clare.= By Evelyn Everett-Green.

"Certainly one of the prettiest, reminding us in its quaintness and
tender pathos of Mrs. Ewing's delightful tales. This is quite one
of the best stories Miss Green's clever pen has yet given
us."--_Literary World._

"We would particularly bring it under the notice of those in charge
of girls' schools. The story is admirably told."--_Schoolmaster._

=The Eversley Secrets.= By Evelyn Everett-Green.

"Is one of the best children's stories of the year."--_Academy._

"A clever and well-told story. Roy Eversley is a very touching
picture of high principle and unshrinking self-devotion in a good
purpose."--_Guardian._

=The Brig "Audacious."= By Alan Cole.

"This is a real boys' book. We have great pleasure in recommending
it."--_English Teacher._

"Bright and vivacious in style, and fresh and wholesome as a breath
of sea air in tone."--_Court Journal._

=The Saucy May.= By H. Frith.

"The book is certainly both interesting and
exciting."--_Spectator._

"Mr. Frith