abbath Schools.

Sold by all booksellers and newsdealers, and sent by mail, post-paid,
on receipt of price.

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LEE & SHEPARD, Publishers, Boston.

LEE & SHEPARD'S JUVENILE PUBLICATIONS.

SOPHIE MAY'S BOOKS.

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LITTLE PRUDY STORIES.

_Six volumes. Illustrated. In Sets or separate. Per volume, 75 cents._

LITTLE PRUDY.
LITTLE PRUDY'S Sister Susy.
LITTLE PRUDY'S Captain Horace.
LITTLE PRUDY'S Cousin Grace.
LITTLE PRUDY'S Story Book.
LITTLE PRUDY'S Dotty Dimple.

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DOTTY DIMPLE STORIES.

By the author of "Little Prudy Stories."

_Six volumes. Illustrated. In Sets or separate. Per volume, 75 cents._

DOTTY DIMPLE at her Grandmother's.
DOTTY DIMPLE at Home.
DOTTY DIMPLE out West.
DOTTY DIMPLE at Play.
DOTTY DIMPLE at School.
DOTTY DIMPLE'S Flyaway.

Read the high commendation of the _North American Review_, which
places Sophie May's Books at the

Head of Juvenile Literature.

"Genius comes in with 'Little Prudy.' Compared with her, all other
book-children are cold creations of Literature only; she alone is the
real thing. All the quaintness of childhood, its originality, its
tenderness and its teasing,--its infinite, unconscious drollery, the
serious earnestness of its fun, the fun of its seriousness, the natural
religion of its plays, and the delicious oddity of its prayers,--all
these waited for dear Little Prudy to embody them. Sam Weller is not
more piquant; Hans Anderson's nutcrackers and knitting-needles are not
more thoroughly charged with life. There are six little green volumes
in the series, and of course other _dramatis personae_ must figure; but
one eagerly watches for every reappearance of Prudy, as one watches at
the play for Owens or Warren to re-enter upon the stage. Who is our
benefactress in the authorship of these books, the world knows not.
Sophie May must doubtless be a fancy name, by reason of the spelling,
and we have only to be grateful that the author did not inflict on us
the customary alliteration in her pseudonyme. The rare gift of
delineating childhood is hers, and may the line of 'Little Prudy' go
out to the end of the earth.... To th