New Illustrated Editions of Miss Alcott’s Famous Stories
Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys
“Little Men” has never been given to an admiring public in any form so charming as this one. All that was needed to make the tale quite irresistible was such illustrations as are here supplied, fifteen full-page ones instinct with life and movement and charm.—Boston Budget.
Little women: or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy
“Books may come and books may go, but ‘Little Women’ still remains the ideal book for young girls, the best representation of bright, lovable girlhood,” say the Brooklyn Eagle; and the Philadelphia Telegraph speaks of the pictures as follows: “In drawing women of the Civil War period, Alice Barber Stephens is in her element, and her illustrations are all that can be desired.”
AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL
Of the third book in illustrated edition of the “Little Women” Series, the Saturday Evening Gazette, Boston, says: “No better portraits of Polly and Tom could be imagined than those which appear in these pages.... No book of its lamented author has more endearing qualities.”
JO’S BOYS, and How They Turned Out
Those who were fascinated by the story of the Marsh family in “Little Men” will take a keen interest in the experiences of Mrs. Jo’s boys. “The boys are as entertaining as their elders were in their time,” says the Worcester Spy, “and the story has plenty of life and incident, fun and pathos; its atmosphere is fresh, pure, and wholesome.”