New Stories for Girls
Peggy Stewart at Home
By Gabrielle E. Jackson. New edition with frontispiece.
An interesting companion story to Mrs. Jackson’s Peggy Stewart at School is this new edition, with frontispiece, of a book published last year under the title of Peggy Stewart. Those who read the later chronicles of Peggy will most certainly want to see their adorable heroine at Severndale, the broad green fields of which the reader catches but few glimpses of in Peggy Stewart at School. Though the content of the tale is of necessity far different from its sequel, there is in Peggy Stewart at Home a fascinating wealth of adventure and a circle of young people quite as pleasing as those who flutter around Peggy away from home. Moreover, while a reading of Peggy Stewart at Home isn’t necessary to an understanding of Peggy Stewart at School, it will be found a distinctly pleasant introduction to it.
Peggy Stewart at School
By Gabrielle E. Jackson, author of “Peggy Stewart at Home.” With illustrations by Alice Beard.
In this book Peggy leaves the broad expanses of Severndale, the estate which has been her home all her life, and goes away to Columbia Heights boarding school. Of course Polly goes with her, for any chronicle of Peggy would be incomplete without her companion. The new friends which the two girls make, the pranks which they indulge in, and more, the good times which Polly’s lively aunt, Mrs. Harold, gives them, comprise a book which is fully as interesting and perhaps even more entertaining than Peggy Stewart at Home—which is saying a good deal. As in that former book a not inconsiderable part of the interest was supplied by Peggy’s animal friends, so in this, Shashai and Star, the horses which Peggy and Polly bring with them to the school, and Tzaritza, Peggy’s dog, play parts of some importance in the development of the plot.
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Publishers 64–66 Fifth Avenue New York
THE SECRET OF THE CLAN
A Story for Girls
By ALICE BROWN
Imagine four girls of fifteen or thereabouts, a delightful grandmother with whom they live and who believes that young people should have some secrets and do things their own way, a governess who knows how to dance and how to get up amateur plays, an uncle who wants to appear gruff, but in reality loves the “imps,” as he calls his nieces, and you have the fundamentals out of which Miss Brown’s wholly absorbing story is built. The secret which the girls have and to which, following the custom of their improvised Indian tribe, they do not admit their grandmother, is the cause of all the trouble and it threatens to be serious trouble for a time. But it comes out happily in the end for every one concerned, particularly for Uncle Terry and the governess.
“Alice Brown has written a decidedly original story of girl life in ‘The Secret of the Clan’ for it is perhaps the first time that any one has recognized that side of healthy girl character which delights in making believe on a large scale.”—Town Talk, San Francisco.
“It is a bright story delightfully told.”—Chicago News.
“A story with unfailing vivacity and much literary charm.”—Pittsburgh Post.
“The author shows an unfailing understanding of the heart of girlhood.”—Christian Advocate.
“Alice Brown has endeared herself to every girl of high school age by many a charming little story of girl life and friendships, but ‘The Secret of the Clan,’ her new book, comes pretty near to being the best ever.”—Boston Globe.
“One of the best stories for girls we have seen for years.”—Outlook.