[PUBLISHER'S NOTE. Mrs. Ewing did not live to complete "The Owl in the Ivy Bush." This, and "Tiny's Tricks and Toby's Tricks" were first published after her death.] * * * * * _Roberts Brothers Juvenile Books._ DEAR DAUGHTER DOROTHY. _BY MISS A. G. PLYMPTON._ With seven illustrations by the author. Small 4to. Cloth. PRICE, $1.00. [Illustration: DEAR DAUGHTER DOROTHY.] "The child is father of the man,"--so Wordsworth sang; and here is a jolly story of a little girl who was her father's mother in a very real way. There were hard lines for him; and she was fruitful of devices to help him along, even having an auction of the pretty things that had been given her from time to time, and realizing a neat little sum. Then her father was accused of peculation; and she, sweetly ignorant of the ways of justice, went to the judge and labored with him, to no effect, though he was wondrous kind. Then in court she gave just the wrong evidence, because it showed how poor her father was, and so established a presumption of his great necessity and desperation. But the _Deus ex machina_--the wicked partner--arrived at the right moment, and owned up, and the good father was cleared, and little Daughter Dorothy was made glad. But this meagre summary gives but a poor idea of the ins and outs of this charming story, and no idea of the happy way in which it is told.--_Christian Register._ ROBERTS BROTHERS, Boston. * * * * * LOUISA M. ALCOTT'S WRITINGS. _Miss Alcott is really a benefactor of households_--H H _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_--MRS SARAH J HALE _Dear Aunt Jo! You are embalmed in the thoughts and loves of thousands of little men and women_--EXCHANGE Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy With illustrations 16mo $1.50 Hospital Sketches, and Camp and Fireside Stories With illustrations 16mo 1.50 An Old-Fashioned Girl With illustrations 16mo 1.50 Little Men Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys With illustrations 16mo 1.50 Jo's Boys and How they Turned Out A sequel to Little Men With portrait of Aunt Jo 16mo 1.50 Eight Cousins, or The Aunt Hill With illustrations 16mo 1.50 Rose in Bloom A sequel to Eight Cousins 16mo 1.50 Under the Lilacs With illustrations 16mo 1.50