"_Thanks for the book. I sat up nearly all night to read it, and think it very charming.... I hope she will soon write again; for we need just such simple, pure, and cheerful stories here in America, where even the nursery songs are sensational, and the beautiful old books we used to love are now called dull and slow. I shall sing its praises loud and long, and set all my boys and girls to reading 'Off the Skelligs,' sure that they will learn to love it as well as they do her charming Songs. If I could reach so far, I should love to shake hands with Miss Ingelow, and thank her heartily for this delightful book._" Sold everywhere. Mailed, postpaid, by the Publishers, ROBERTS BROTHERS, BOSTON. MESSRS. ROBERTS BROTHERS' PUBLICATIONS. AUNT JO'S SCRAP-BAG. BY LOUISA M. ALCOTT. Vol. I. Comprising "My Boys," &c. 16mo. Cloth, gilt. Price $1.00. _From the London Athenaeum._ A collection of fugitive tales and sketches which we should have been sorry to lose. Miss Alcott's boys and girls are always delightful in her hands. She throws a loving glamour over them; and she loves them herself so heartily that it is not possible for the reader to do otherwise. We have found the book very pleasant to read. _From the New York Tribune._ The large and increasing circle of juveniles who sit enchanted year in and out round the knees of Miss Alcott will hail with delight the publication of "Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag." The most taking of these taking tales is, to our fancy, "My Boys;" but all possess the quality which made "Little Women" so widely popular, and the book will be welcomed and read from Maine to Florida. _Mrs. Hale, in Godey's Lady's Book._ These little stories are in every way worthy of the author of "Little Women." They will be read with the sincerest pleasure by thousands of children, and in that pleasure there will not be a single forbidden ingredient. "My Boys," which, opening upon by chance, we read through at a sitting, is charming. Ladislas, the noble, sweet-tempered Pole, is the original of Laurie, ever to be remembered by all "Aunt Jo's" readers. _From the Providence Press._ Dear Aunt Jo! You are embalmed in the thoughts and loves of thousands of little men and little women. Your scrap-bag is rich in its stores of good things. Pray do not close and put it away quite yet. This is Louisa Alcott's Christmas tribute to the young people, and it is, like herself, _good_. In making selections, "Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag" must not be forgotten. There will be a vacant place where this little volume is not. _Sold everywhere. Mailed, postpaid, by the Publishers,_ ROBERTS BROTHERS, BOSTON. MESSRS. ROBERTS BROTHERS' PUBLICATIONS. THE DOLL-WORLD SERIES. BY MRS. ROBERT O'REILLY. Comprising "Doll World," "Deborah's Drawer," and "Daisy's Companions." Three beautiful volumes, illustrated and bound in cloth, black and gilt lettered, and put up in a neat box. Price $3.00; or, separately, $1.00 each.