"We can heartily recommend this attractive little volume. The stories are genuine, life-like, and entertaining. The lessons are skilfully interwoven with the narrative."--_Record._ VIOLET DOUGLAS; or, The Problems of Life. "A pleasant, healthy story of English life, full of sound religious teaching."--_Standard._ THE OLD GATEWAY; or, The Story of Agatha. "It is pleasant and gracefully written, and Roland Bruce is a character of no ordinary beauty."--_Guardian._ EDWARD'S WIFE; or, Hard Judgments. A Tale. "This is a very charming" story, fresh, natural, and touching."--_Christian Advocate._ JOB SINGLETON'S HEIR, and other Stories. LADY ALICE; or, Two Sides of a Picture. JOANNA'S INHERITANCE: a Story of Young Lives. LIFE'S AFTERMATH: a Story of a Quiet People. "The story is admirably told, and the interest well sustained throughout. The descriptions of English scenery are in many instances beautiful."--_Christian Observer._ A HISTORY OF FRANCE: Adapted from the French, for the use of English Children. NOW-A-DAYS; or, King's Daughters. A Tale. "We have seldom met with a more pleasing specimen of what a wholesome work of light literature should be."--_Record._ A LILY AMONG THORNS. "This volume is clever, and very naturally written. It is a book to read and to recommend."--_Watchman._ MRS. MAINWARING'S JOURNAL. "Rarely have we come across a more touching volume. It appeals to everyone who has the least feeling."--_John Bull._ HEIGHTS AND VALLEYS: a Tale. BROTHERS AND SISTERS; or, True of Heart. "The hopes and fears of a large family in a cathedral city are drawn with much spirit. The dialogue is easy, and the tale above the average."--_Guardian._ TALES BY MISS WINCHESTER. PEARL OF THE SEA. 'A charming conception.'--_Saturday Review._ A CRIPPLED ROBIN. 'A pretty story, and there is fun as well as feeling in many of the chapters.'--_Times._ A CITY VIOLET. 'Miss Winchester, whose power of delineating character is giving her an honourable place among the writers of serious fiction, has never done anything better than this.'--_Spectator._ A NEST OF SPARROWS. 'Miss Winchester not only writes with skill, but writes from the heart, and with full knowledge of her subject. Her story is most genuine, pathetic, without being sad.'--_Pall Mall Gazette._ UNDER THE SHIELD. A Tale. 'We wish all religious stories were written in the same simple and natural way. We can conceive no more healthy reading for children.'--_Academy._ 'We welcome with real pleasure another book by the author of "A Nest of Sparrows." "Under the Shield" is to be noted for its purity of tone and high aspirations.... There is true fun in the book, too.'--_Athenaeum._ THE CABIN ON THE BEACH. A Tale.