A Maid at King Alfred's Court: A Story for GirlsMadison, Lucy Foster
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A Maid at King Alfred's Court: A Story for Girls
Madison, Lucy Foster
Alfred, King of England, 849-899 -- Juvenile fiction
A series of books for young people that contains the latest and best
works of the most popular writers for boys and girls. The stories are
not only told in an interesting and charming manner, but most of them
contain something in the way of information or instruction, and all are
of a good moral tone. For this reason they prove doubly good reading;
for, while the child is pleasantly employing his time, he is also
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*STORIES FOR GIRLS*
*The Ferry Maid of the Chattahoochee*
*By Annie M. Barnes. Illustrated by Ida Waugh.*
An heroic little Georgia girl, in her father’s extremity, takes charge
of his ferry, and through many vicissitudes and several impending
calamities, succeeds in carrying out her purpose of supporting her
invalid parent and his family. The heroine’s cheerfulness and hearty
good humor, combined with an unflinching zeal in her determination to
accomplish her work, make a character which cannot fail to appeal to
young people.
*A Maid of the First Century*
*By Lucy Foster Madison. Illustrated by Ida Waugh.*
A little maid of Palestine goes in search of her father, who for
political reasons, has been taken as a slave to Rome. She is shipwrecked
in the Mediterranean, but is rescued by a passing vessel bound for
Britain. Eventually an opportunity is afforded her for going to Rome,
where, after many trying and exciting experiences, she and her father
are united and his liberty is restored to him.
*My Lady Barefoot*
*By Mrs. Evelyn Raymond. Illustrated by Ida Waugh.*
A beautifully told story of the trials of a little backwoods girl who
lives in a secluded place with an eccentric uncle, until his death. The
privations she undergoes during his life-time, her search for other
relatives, her rather uncongenial abode with them, her return to her
early home to acquire her uncle’s estate, and thus to enjoy a useful and
happy life, form a most interesting narrative of a girl whose ruggedness
and simplicity of character must appeal to the admiration of all
readers.
*Dorothy Day*
*By Julie M. Lippmann. Illustrated by Ida Waugh.*
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