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and girls who have a chance to read it."--_Sunday Afternoon,
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and direct in style, without waste of words or timidity of opinion. The
book represents a great deal of patient labor and conscientious
study."--_Courant, Hartford (Conn.)._

"Miss Kirkland has composed her 'Short History of France' in the way in
which a history for young people ought to be written; that is, she has
aimed to present a consecutive and agreeable story, from which the
reader can not only learn the names of kings and the succession of
events, but can also receive a vivid and permanent impression as to the
characters, modes of life, and the spirit of different periods."--_The
Nation, New York._

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LAUREL-CROWNED TALES.

Abdallah; or, The Four-Leaved Shamrock. By Edouard Laboulaye. Translated
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Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. By Samuel Johnson.

Raphael; or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty. From the French of
Alphonse de Lamartine.

The Vicar of Wakefield. By Oliver Goldsmith.

The Epicurean. By Thomas Moore.

Picciola. By X. B. Saintine.

An Iceland Fisherman. By Pierre Loti.

_Other volumes in preparation._

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It is the intent to admit to the series only such tales as have for
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fastidious and the critical, but also to the great multitude of the
refined reading public,--tales, in short, which combine purity and
classical beauty of style with perennial popularity.

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A.C. McCLURG & CO., Publishers,
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