"Suggestive, truthful, amusing, and racy, in a certain simplicity of style which very few are capable of producing. It is the history of only six months' school-life of a dozen boys, but is full of variety and vitality, and the having girls with the boys is a charming novelty, too. To be very candid, this book is so thoroughly good that we hope Miss Alcott will give us another in the same genial vein, for she understands children and their ways."--_Phil. Press._ A specimen letter from a little woman to the author of "Little Men." June 17, 1871. DEAR MISS ALCOTT,--We have just finished "Little Men," and like it so much that we thought we would write and ask you to write another book sequel to "Little Men," and have more about Laurie and Amy, as we like them the best. We are the Literary Club, and we got the idea from "Little Women." We have a paper two sheets of foolscap and a half. There are four of us, two cousins and my sister and myself. Our assumed names are: Horace Greeley, President; Susan B. Anthony, Editor; Harriet B. Stowe, Vice-President; and myself, Anna C. Ritchie, Secretary. We call our paper the "Saturday Night," and we all write stories and have reports of sermons and of our meetings, and write about the queens of England. We did not know but you would like to hear this, as the idea sprang from your book; and we thought we would write, as we liked your book so much. And now, if it is not too much to ask of you, I wish you would answer this, as we are very impatient to know if you will write another book; and please answer soon, as Miss Anthony is going away, and she wishes very much to hear from you before she does. If you write, please direct to ---- Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. Yours truly, ALICE ----. _Mailed to any address, postpaid, on receipt of the advertised price, by the Publishers_, ROBERTS BROTHERS, BOSTON Transcriber's Note -Italic text displayed as _text_. -Silently changed mismatched single/double quotes. -The typesetter varied usage of "'T is" and "'Tis". I have changed all occurrences to the latter. -The typesetter indicated elliptical breaks between paragraphs and stanzas with a row of dots. I have indicated these with a row of five mid-line dots. -Change the ligature [oe] to "oe". -Page 192: For the paragraph starting "One's foes...", I moved the final quote to the end of the paragraph. I found this quoted in two other sources: "An Oracle of our Day," _The Century: A Popular Quarterly,_ Vol. 5, 1873, p. 517, and Franklin Benjamin Sandborn and William Torrey Harris, _A. Bronson Alcott: His Life and Philosophy_, Vol. 2, 1893, p. 411. -Spelling and word usage retained as they appear in the original publication, except as follows: