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Title: The Dumpy Books for Children;
No. 7. A Flower Book

Author: Eden Coybee

Illustrator: Nellie Benson

Release Date: November 3, 2007 [EBook #23302]

Language: English

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A
FLOWER
BOOK

EDEN COYBEE &
NELLIE BENSON

London: GRANT RICHARDS,
9 Henrietta Street, W.C.

The Dumpy Books for Children

No. 7. A FLOWER BOOK

* * * * *

THE DUMPY BOOKS
FOR CHILDREN.

_Cloth, Royal 32mo, 1/6 each._

1. THE FLAMP, THE AMELIORATOR,
AND THE SCHOOLBOY'S
APPRENTICE. By E. V. LUCAS.
(_Seventh Thousand._)

2. MRS. TURNER'S CAUTIONARY
STORIES. (_Fifth Thousand._)

3. THE BAD FAMILY. By MRS.
FENWICK. (_Third Thousand._)

4. THE STORY OF LITTLE BLACK
SAMBO. Illustrated in Colours by
HELEN BANNERMAN. (_Twenty-seventh
Thousand._)

5. THE BOUNTIFUL LADY. By
THOMAS COBB. (_Fourth Thousand._)

6. A CAT BOOK. Portraits by H.
OFFICER SMITH. Characteristics by
E. V. LUCAS. (_Eighth Thousand._)

7. A FLOWER BOOK. Illustrated in
Colours by NELLIE BENSON. Story by
EDEN COYBEE.

* * * * *

A Flower Book

THE STORY BY

EDEN COYBEE

THE PICTURES BY

NELLIE BENSON

LONDON:
GRANT RICHARDS
1901

London

Engraved & Printed

at the

_Racquet Court Press_

by

_Edmund Evans_

* * * * *

_In the history of men's love for God or for God's creatures there
comes one hour of divine uplifting when a symbol must stand for the
unspoken word._

_That symbol is ever a flower._

_There is a path of flowers through all science_.

_In order that each flower of my little story book should not
masquerade in vain meaningless