“No English writer of childish stories has a better reputation than Mrs. Molesworth, and none with whose stories we are familiar deserves it better. She has a motherly knowledge of the child nature, a clear sense of character, the power of inventing simple incidents that interest, and the ease which comes of continuous practice.”—_Mail and Express._ “Christmas would hardly be Christmas without one of Mrs. Molesworth’s stories. No one has quite the same power of throwing a charm and an interest about the most commonplace every-day doings as she has, and no one has ever blended fairy-land and reality with the same skill.”—_Educational Times._ “Mrs. Molesworth is justly a great favorite with children; her stories for them are always charmingly interesting and healthful in tone.”—_Boston Home Journal._ “Mrs. Molesworth’s books are cheery, wholesome, and particularly well adapted to refined life. It is safe to add that Mrs. Molesworth is the best English prose writer for children.... A new volume from Mrs. Molesworth is always a treat.”—_The Beacon._ “No holiday season would be complete for a host of young readers without a volume from the hand of Mrs. Molesworth.... It is one of the peculiarities of Mrs. Molesworth’s stories that older readers can no more escape their charm than younger ones.”—_Christian Union._ “Mrs. Molesworth ranks with George Macdonald and Mrs. Ewing as a writer of children’s stories that possess real literary merit.”—_Milwaukee Sentinel._ THE SET, TEN VOLUMES, IN BOX, $10.00. TELL ME A STORY, and HERR BABY. “So delightful that we are inclined to join in the petition, and we hope she may soon tell us more stories.”—_Athenæum._ “CARROTS”; Just a Little Boy. “One of the cleverest and most pleasing stories it has been our good fortune to meet with for some time. Carrots and his sister are delightful little beings, whom to read about is at once to become very fond of.”—_Examiner._ A CHRISTMAS CHILD; A Sketch of a Boy’s Life. “A very sweet and tenderly drawn sketch, with life and reality manifest throughout.”—_Pall Mall Gazette._ “This is a capital story, well illustrated. Mrs. Molesworth is one of those sunny, genial writers who has genius for writing acceptably for the young. She has the happy faculty of blending enough real with romance to make her stories very practical for good without robbing them of any of their exciting interest.”—_Chicago Inter-Ocean._