Peggy, the heroine, is a most original little lady who says and does all sorts of interesting things. She has pluck and spirit, and a temper, but she is very lovable, and girls will find her delightful to read about.--_Louisville Evening Post._ New Illustrated Editions of Miss Alcott's Famous Stories THE LITTLE WOMEN SERIES By LOUISA M. ALCOTT. Illustrated Edition. With eighty-four full-page plates from drawings especially made for this edition by Reginald B. Birch, Alice Barber Stephens, Jessie Willcox Smith, and Harriet Roosevelt Richards. 8 vols. Crown 8vo. Decorated cloth, gilt, in box, $16.00. Separately as follows: 1. LITTLE MEN: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys With 15 full-page illustrations by Reginald B. Birch. $2.00. 2. LITTLE WOMEN: or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy With 15 full-page illustrations by Alice Barber Stephens. $2.00. 3. AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL With 12 full-page pictures by Jessie Willcox Smith. $2.00. 4. JO'S BOYS, and How They Turned Out A Sequel to "Little Men." With 10 full-page plates by Ellen Wetherald Ahrens. $2.00. 5. EIGHT COUSINS; or, the Aunt-Hill With 8 full-page pictures by Harriet Roosevelt Richards. 6. ROSE IN BLOOM A Sequel to "Eight Cousins." With 8 full-page pictures by Harriet Roosevelt Richards. $2.00. 7. UNDER THE LILACS With 8 original full-page pictures by Alice Barber Stephens. $2.00. 8. JACK AND JILL With 8 full-page pictures from drawings by Harriet Roosevelt Richards. $2.00. The artists selected to illustrate have caught the spirit of the originals and contributed a series of strikingly beautiful and faithful pictures of the author's characters and scenes.--_Boston Herald._ Alice Barber Stephens, who is very near the head of American illustrators, has shown wonderful ability in delineating the characters and costumes for "Little Women," They are almost startlingly realistic.--_Worcester Spy._ Miss Alcott's books have never before had such an attractive typographical dress as the present. They are printed in large type on heavy paper, artistically bound, and illustrated with many full-page drawings.--_Philadelphia Press_. LITTLE, BROWN, & COMPANY _Publishers_, 254 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MASS. Transcriber's Notes: Obsolete and alternate spellings were retained. Punctuation was standardized. Regional dialect was retained, e.g. 'tree' instead of 'three' 'hat' changed to 'that' ... think that she is no worse ... 'yo'd' changed to 'you'd' ... if you'd had to stay ...