on the family life in the "little brown house."

And now the pressure is brought to bear for a book showing the Little
Peppers over the ocean, recorded in "Five Little Peppers Midway." And
the author is very glad to comply again; for foreign travel throws a
wholly different side-light upon the Pepper family. So here is the
book.

It is in no sense to be taken as a story written for a guide-book,
--although the author lives in it again her repeated enjoyment of the
sights and scenes which are accurately depicted. A "Baedeker," if
carefully studied, is really all that is needed as a constant companion
to the traveller; while for supplementary helps and suggestions, there
are many valuable books along the same line. This volume is given up to
the Peppers; and they must live their own lives and tell their own
story while abroad just as they choose.

As the author has stated many times, her part is "simply to set down
what the Peppers did and said, without trying to make them say or do
anything in particular." And so over the ocean they are just as much
the makers of their own history as when they first opened the door of
the "little brown house" to

MARGARET SIDNEY.




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