Two of the most popular writers for children were A.L.O.E. and Mrs Ewing. A.L.O.E. or A Lady of England, was the pseudonym of =Charlotte Maria Tucker (1821-1893)=, who after many years of successful literary labour, went out to India for the Church Missionary Society, at the age of fifty-four. Miss Tucker's most popular stories were "Pride and his Pursuers," "Exiles in Babylon," "House Beautiful," and "Cyril Ashley." Scarcely less popular was =Mrs Ewing (1841-1885)=, whose mother, Mrs Gatty, edited _Aunt Judy's Magazine_. It was in this magazine that Mrs Ewing's "Remembrances of Mrs Overtheway" made their appearance. Another writer of great popularity, =Mrs Charles (1828-1896)=, secured an immense success with "The Schönberg-Cotta Family," "Kitty Trevelyan's Diary," and other books of a semi-religious, semi-historical tendency. It is a natural association, not derived from similarity of name, to mention =Maria Louisa Charlesworth (1819-1880)= at the same time, because Miss Charlesworth's "Ministering Children" had an enormous success with the religious public of England,--the public which supports Missionary Societies and Sunday Schools. I might easily devote many pages to the living women novelists who have impressed themselves upon the era; but that scarcely comes within the scope of this little book. There are, to name but a few, Mrs Lynn Linton, Mrs Humphry Ward, Ouida, Miss Braddon, Miss Marie Corelli, Miss Olive Schreiner, Miss Rhoda Broughton, Edna Lyall, Lucas Malet, Miss Charlotte Yonge, Miss Adeline Sergeant, Mrs Macquoid, Mrs Alexander, Mrs W. K. Clifford--names which recall to thousands of readers many familiar books and some of the happiest hours they have ever spent.