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BOOKS BY MARGARET SIDNEY
A LITTLE MAID OF CONCORD TOWN _Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill_
A LITTLE MAID OF BOSTON TOWN _Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill_
THE FAMOUS PEPPER BOOKS
IN ORDER OF PUBLICATION
_Twelve Volumes_ _Illustrated_
FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS AND HOW THEY GREW FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS MIDWAY FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS GROWN UP PHRONSIE PEPPER THE STORIES POLLY PEPPER TOLD THE ADVENTURES OF JOEL PEPPER FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS ABROAD FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS AT SCHOOL FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS AND THEIR FRIENDS BEN PEPPER FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS IN THE LITTLE BROWN HOUSE OUR DAVIE PEPPER
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THE FAMOUS PEPPER BOOKS
Five Little Peppers and How they Grew.
This was an instantaneous success; it has become a genuine childclassic.
Five Little Peppers Midway.
"A perfect Cheeryble of a book."--_Boston Herald._
Five Little Peppers Grown Up.
This shows the Five Little Peppers as "grown up," with all the strugglesand successes of young manhood and womanhood.
Phronsie Pepper.
It is the story of Phronsie, the youngest and dearest of all thePeppers.
The Stories Polly Pepper Told.
Wherever there exists a child or a "grown-up," there will be a welcomefor these charming and delightful "Stories Polly Pepper told."
The Adventures of Joel Pepper.
As bright and just as certain to be a child's favorite as the others inthe famous series. Harum-scarum "Joey" is lovable.
Five Little Peppers Abroad.
The "Peppers Abroad" adds another most delightful book to this famousseries.
Five Little Peppers at School.
Of all the fascinating adventures and experiences of the "Peppers," nonewill surpass those contained in this volume.
Five Little Peppers and Their Friends.
The friends of the Peppers are legion and the number will be furtherincreased by this book.
Ben Pepper.
This story centres about Ben, "the quiet, steady-as-a-rock boy," whilethe rest of the Peppers help to make it as bright and pleasing as itspredecessors.
Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House.
Here they all are, Ben, Polly, Joel, Phronsie, and David, in the loved"Little Brown House," with such happenings crowding one upon the otheras all children delightedly follow, and their elders find no lessinteresting.
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THE JUDGES' CAVE
_A Romance of the New Haven Colony in the Days of the Regicides_
There are few more fascinating phases of colonial history than thatwhich tells the wanderings and adventures of the two judges who, becausethey sat in judgment over that royal criminal, Charles the First ofEngland, were hunted out of England into hiding in New England, andthere remained, a mystery and fugitives, in their celebrated cave in NewHaven Colony. Marcia, the heroine, is a strong and delightful character,and the book easily takes high rank among the most effective andabsorbing stories based upon a dramatic phase of American history.
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THE LITTLE MAID OF CONCORD TOWN
_A Romance of the American Revolution_
A delightful revolutionary romance of life, love, and adventure in oldConcord. The author knows the interesting town thoroughly.
Debby Parlin, the heroine, lived in a little house on the LexingtonRoad, still standing, and was surrounded by all the stir and excitementof the months of preparation and the days of action at the beginning ofour struggle for freedom.
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SALLY, MRS. TUBBS
_An amusing and sympathetic study of a New England woman of humblestation, but noble character._
CHICAGO RECORD-HERALD says:
What can be said is, that those who have read "Mrs. Wiggs" will purchase"Sally, Mrs. Tubbs." The author of this pleasant story, who is MargaretSidney of the "Pepper" books renown, has rightly dedicated this tale forgrown-ups to "all who love simplicity, truth, and cheerfulness." Thesevirtues characterize Sally Plunkett, whose soul-devouring ambition was"to have 'Bijah Tubbs fer life."
As a chapter out of human life "Sally, Mrs. Tubbs" is, perhaps, as goodas "Mrs. Wiggs." Regarded artistically, it shows the workmanship of amore practised hand; it has a plot, and this plot pleasantlycomplicated, and thus differs from its next of kin. We judge that Sallyand her 'Bijah, who, though little, is "sizable" enough to meet herwants, will make the acquaintance of those who like a book that is notover-intellectualized nor yet lacking in soundness of heart andpenetrating vision into human nature. "Sally, Mrs. Tubbs" will furnish ahearty laugh and a quickened sensibility.
BOSTON TRANSCRIPT says:
As a brief character-sketch, "Sally, Mrs. Tubbs" deserves no littlepraise for its geniality and its humor.
BOSTON HERALD says:
This short story of 180 pages is captivating from start to finish, andthe masculine reader takes off his hat, and the feminine readercourtesies, to this matron of the tubs, with her homely heroism and truekindness of heart.
By EDITH DUNHAM
Fifty Flower Friends
_With Familiar Faces_
A FIELD BOOK FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
With twelve full-page colored plates, decorations and fifty textillustrations from nature by W. I. BEECROFT.
Children cannot too soon begin to know the wild flowers, and here theyare told in a charming way where and when to look for each of fiftywidely distributed common flowering plants; also how they get theirnames, and how to know them from the remarkably accurate drawings of Mr.Beecroft, a skilled botanist and superior artist. Each of the fiftyflowers has a page of accurate botanical description in addition to itsstory. Thus the book is suited for varying ages.
"The greatest praise can be bestowed upon and every mother and father should have one and by it better educate their children in nature, which will prove not only an enjoyable study, but an instructive one."--_Providence News._
"Good brief descriptions, good clear pictures, portraits almost, of each flower friend, a beautiful cover, convenient arrangement, and fine large print, make a perfect book to own, or to give to any one, especially a child."--_Universalist Leader._
"If the children do not learn something new about flowers this summer it may be because their unkind parents have not bought them Miss Edith Dunham's 'Fifty Flower Friends.'"--_New York Times._
"The boy or girl into whose hands this book is placed can hardly fail to acquire a real and lasting interest in our everyday wild flowers."--_The Dial._
"It has no rival in books of its kind, either in text or illustration."--_Boston Budget._