cannot help themselves? EDITOR.


DEAR MR. EDITOR:

I wish to tell Grace of some good books. Three of C.M. Yonge's
books, "Dynevor Terrace," "The Daisy Chain," and its sequel,
"The Trial," are stories of English boys and girls, much like
"Little Women." Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' "Gypsy Breynton" series
are good. The last of the series "Gypsy's Year at the Golden
Crescent" is a boarding-school story. "The Five Little Peppers"
series by Margaret Sidney are her best books. The five little
Pepper boys and girls live in "the little brown house" with
"Mamsy." Their father is dead, and they are very poor. They gain
a rich friend, a very nice boy named Jasper, and all go to live
in his father's house, "Mamsy" becoming the housekeeper. It is
all written in a delightful and natural manner.

Flora Shaw's three books, "Hector," "Phyllis Browne," and
"Castle Blair," are also good. In the first, Hector, a little
English boy, goes to France to live with his little country
cousin Zélie. In the second a little Pole, Count Ladislas
Starinski, comes to England to live with his English cousins.
The last is the story of five Irish boys and girls, their big
dog Royal, and their two cousins Frankie and a French girl
Adrienne (whose name they could not pronounce, and so they
called her Nessa, after one of their dogs which had died, and
which they said looked like her).

Elizabeth Champney's "Witch Winnie" series are very interesting.