This is considerably longer than the other books by this favorite writer, and with a more elaborate plot, but it has the same winsome quality throughout. It introduces the heroine in New York as a little girl of eight, but soon passes over six years and finds her at a select family boarding school in Connecticut. An important part of the story also takes place at the Profile House in the White Mountains. The charm of school-girl friendship is finely brought out, and the kindness of heart, good sense and good taste which find constant expression in the books by Miss Rhoades do not lack for characters to show these best of qualities by their lives. Other less admirable persons of course appear to furnish the alluring mystery, which is not all cleared up until the very last. [Illustration] “There will be no better book than this to put into the hands of a girl in her teens and none that will be better appreciated by her.”--_Kennebec Journal._ MARION’S VACATION By NINA RHOADES Illustrated by Bertha G. Davidson 12mo This book is for the older girls, Marion being thirteen. She has for ten years enjoyed a luxurious home in New York with the kind lady who feels that the time has now come for this aristocratic though lovable little miss to know her own nearest kindred, who are humble but most excellent farming people in a pretty Vermont village. Thither Marion is sent for a summer, which proves to be a most important one to her in all its lessons. [Illustration] “More wholesome reading for half grown girls it would be hard to find; some of the same lessons that proved so helpful in that classic of the last generation ‘An Old Fashioned Girl’ are brought home to the youthful readers of this sweet and sensible story.”--_Milwaukee Free Press._ _For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the publishers_ LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO., Boston TOP-OF-THE-WORLD STORIES Translated from the Scandinavian Languages By EMILIE POULSSON and LAURA POULSSON Illustrated in two colors by Florence Liley Young These stories of magic and adventure come from the countries at the “top of the world,” and will transport thither in fancy the children who read this unusual book. They tell of Lapps and reindeer (even a golden-horned reindeer!), of prince and herd-boy, of knights and wolves and trolls, of a boy who could be hungry and merry at the same time--of all these and more besides! Miss Poulsson’s numerous and long visits to Norway, her father’s land, and the fact that she is an experienced writer for children are doubtless the reasons why her translations are sympathetic and skilful, and yet entirely adapted to give wholesome pleasure to the young public that she knows so well. [Illustration]