We are six sisters and two brothers; and there were so many things in "Little Women" that seemed so natural, especially selling the rags. Eddie is the oldest; then there is Annie (our Meg), then Nelly (that's me), May and Milly (our Beths), Rosie, Rollie, and dear little Carrie (the baby). Eddie goes away to school, and when he comes home for the holidays we have lots of fun, playing cricket, croquet, base ball, and every thing. If you ever want to play any of those games, just come to our house, and you will find plenty children to play with you. If you ever come to ----, I do wish you would come and see us,--we would like it so much. I have named my doll after you, and I hope she will try and deserve it. I do wish you would send me a picture of you. I hope your health is better, and you are having a nice time. If you write to me, please direct ---- Ill. All the children send their love. With ever so much love, from your affectionate friend, NELLY. _Mailed to any address, postpaid, on receipt of the advertised price._ ROBERTS BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, _Boston_ AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL. BY LOUISA M. ALCOTT. With Illustrations. Price $1.50. "Miss Alcott has a faculty of entering into the lives and feelings of children that is conspicuously wanting in most writers who address them; and to this cause, to the consciousness among her readers that they are hearing about people like themselves, instead of abstract qualities labelled with names, the popularity of her books is due. Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy are friends in every nursery and schoolroom, and even in the parlor and office they are not unknown; for a good story is interesting to older folks as well, and Miss Alcott carries on her children to manhood and womanhood, and leaves them only on the wedding-day."--_Mrs. Sarah J. Hale in Godey's Ladies' Book._ "We are glad to see that Miss Alcott is becoming naturalized among us as a writer, and cannot help congratulating ourselves on having done something to bring about the result. The author of 'Little Women' is so manifestly on the side of all that is 'lovely, pure, and of good report' in the life of women, and writes with such genuine power and humor, and with such a tender charity and sympathy, that we hail her books with no common pleasure. 'An Old-Fashioned Girl' is a protest from the other side of the Atlantic against the manners of the creature which we know on this by the name of 'the Girl of the Period;' but the attack is delivered with delicacy as well as force."--_The London Spectator._ "A charming little book, brimful of the good qualities of intellect and heart which made 'Little Women' so successful. The 'Old-Fashioned Girl' carries with it a teaching specially needed at the present day, and we are glad to know it is even already a decided and great success."--_New York Independent._