Thinking of Brenda in this light, dwelling on the affection that had so increased as the two cousins had come to understand each other, Julia became more cheerful. She felt that she no longer stood alone, for even setting aside her circle of warm friends (how had she dared to overlook them?), was she not in her aunt's household a fourth daughter, and loved as well--almost as well--as Caroline, or Agnes, or Brenda? LITTLE, BROWN, & COMPANY, _Publishers_ 254 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MASS. * * * * * HELEN LEAH REED'S "BRENDA" BOOKS BRENDA, HER SCHOOL AND HER CLUB Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. 12mo. $1.50. _The Boston Herald_ says: "Miss Reed's girls have all the impulses and likes of real girls as their characters are developing, and her record of their thoughts and actions reads like a chapter snatched from the page of life. It is bright, genial, merry, wholesome, and full of good characterizations." BRENDA'S SUMMER AT ROCKLEY Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. 12mo. $1.50. A charming picture of vacation life along the famous North Shore of Massachusetts. The _Outlook_ says: "The author is one of the best equipped of our writers for girls of larger growth. Her stories are strong, intelligent, and wholesome." BRENDA'S COUSIN AT RADCLIFFE Illustrated by Alice Barber Stephens. 12mo. $1.20 _net._ A remarkably real and fascinating story of a college girl's career, excelling in interest Miss Reed's first "Brenda" book. The _Providence News_ says of it: "No better college story has been written." The author is a graduate of Radcliffe College which she describes. BRENDA'S BARGAIN Illustrated. 12mo. $1.20 _net._ The fourth of the "Brenda" books by Helen Leah Reed, which will bring this popular series to a close. It introduces a group of younger girls, pupils in the domestic science school conducted by Brenda's cousin and her former teacher, Miss South. The story also deals with social settlement work. * * * * * _Anna Chapin Ray's "Teddy" Stories_ TEDDY: HER BOOK. A Story of Sweet Sixteen Illustrated by Vesper L. George. 12mo. $1.50. Miss Ray's work draws instant comparison with the best of Miss Alcott's: first, because she has the same genuine sympathy with boy and girl life; secondly, because she creates real characters, individual and natural, like the young people one knows, actually working out the same kind of problems; and, finally, because her style of writing is equally unaffected and straightforward.--_Christian Register_, Boston. PHEBE: HER PROFESSION A Sequel to "Teddy: Her Book" Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill. 12mo. $1.50. This is one of the few books written for young people in which there is to be found the same vigor and grace that one demands in a good story for older people.--_Worcester Spy._ TEDDY: HER DAUGHTER A Sequel to "Teddy: Her Book," and "Phebe: Her Profession" Illustrated by J. B. Graff. 12mo. $1.50.