The Story Book Girls
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BOOKS FOR GIRLS.
By BESSIE MARCHANT
A Girl of the Northland
Illustrated in Colour, by N. TENISON. Crown 8vo, cloth, olivine edges.5s.
The scene of this story is the Stikine country of Western America, andthe contrast between the small mining town at a time of boom, and thesame town when the boom is over, is very vivid. Mr. Scarth, aninhabitant of this town, learns of the whereabouts of what is alleged tobe a valuable gold find. He starts to make his fortune, and in hisabsence his family have great difficulty in making ends meet. One dayan empty canoe is brought down the river, which is quickly recognized asthe one in which Mr. Scarth went away; and in it is a packet of whatappears to be gold, but which an Alaskan miner pronounces to be "falsehope." Finally word is brought by an Indian runner that Mr. Scarth isin dire straits in the ice and snow; and it is only after many excitingadventures that one of his daughters manages to rescue him.