“_The Rectory Children_, by Mrs. Molesworth, is a very pretty story of English life. Mrs. Molesworth is one of the most popular and charming of English story-writers for children. Her child characters are true to life, always natural and attractive, and her stories are wholesome and interesting.”—_Indianapolis Journal._ ROSY. “_Rosy_, like all the rest of her stories, is bright and pure and utterly free from cant,—a book that children will read with pleasure and lasting profit.”—_Boston Traveller._ “There is no one who has a genius better adapted for entertaining children than Mrs. Molesworth, and her latest story, _Rosy_, is one of her best. It is illustrated with eight woodcuts from designs by Walter Crane.”—_Philadelphia Press._ “... Mrs. Molesworth’s clever _Rosy_, a story showing in a charming way how one little girl’s jealousy and bad temper were conquered; one of the best, most suggestive and improving of the Christmas juveniles.”—_New York Tribune._ “_Rosy_ is an exceedingly graceful and interesting story by Mrs. Molesworth, one of the best and most popular writers of juvenile fiction. This little story is full of tenderness, is fragrant in sentiment, and points with great delicacy and genuine feeling a charming moral.”—_Boston Gazette._ THE GIRLS AND I. “Perhaps the most striking feature of this pleasant story is the natural manner in which it is written. It is just like the conversation of a bright boy—consistently like it from beginning to end. It is a boy who is the hero of the tale, and he tells the adventures of himself and those nearest him. He is, by the way, in many respects an example for most young persons. It is a story characterized by sweetness and purity—a desirable one to put into the hands of youthful readers.”—_Gettysburg Monthly._ “... A delightful and purposeful story which no one can read without being benefited.”—_New York Observer._ MARY. Mrs. Molesworth’s last story. _Just Ready._ “Mrs. Molesworth’s reputation as a writer of story-books is so well established that any new book of hers scarce needs a word of introduction.”—_Home Journal._ MACMILLAN & CO., 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. [Illustration: Book back cover.] Transcriber’s Notes --Copyright notice provided as in the original—this e-text is public domain in the country of publication. --Silently corrected palpable typos; left non-standard spellings and dialect unchanged. --Moved the frontispiece illustration to the corresponding place in the text, and adjusted the table of illustration accordingly. --Collated table of illustrations, checked page numbers, and added its captions to the illustrations.