This is our favourite among a large number of tales any one of which is safe reading. =565. Jasmine Lee.= By C. FRASER TYTLER. (Strahan) 5_s._ The piteous story of a poor little abducted heiress. =566. Madeleine.= By JULIA KAVANAGH. (Chapman & Hall) 2_s._ The beautiful true tale of the French peasant girl who founded a hospital for incurables. =567. Gabrielle Vaughan.= (Seeley) 5_s._ A great favourite. =568. A Vantage-Ground for doing Good.= By FLORENCE WILFORD. (Masters) 4_s._ 6_d._ =569. A Maiden of Our Own Day.= By FLORENCE WILFORD. (Masters) 6_s._ Both excellent in their different lines. =570. Through Trial to Triumph.= By MAGGIE SYMINGTON. (Cassell) 2_s._ 6_d._ The troubles of a wife who cannot understand her husband. =571. A Young Philistine.= By ALICE CORKRAN. (Burns & Oates) Three charming tales, two of foreign life, all teaching tenderness for the feelings of others. =572. A Promise Kept.= By MARY E. PALGRAVE. (National Society) 3_s._ Unusually striking and beautiful. A girl, whose dreams inspire missionary ardour, yet who has not steadfastness or courage enough to follow out her own visions when they may become earnest. =573. By Northern Seas.= By MARY BELL. (Church Extension Society) Dissent is here treated justly and fairly, and the tale is thoroughly interesting, containing natural though striking characters. =574. Byewords.= By C. M. YONGE. (Macmillan) 6_s._ Short tales mostly reprinted from the Christmas numbers of the ‘Monthly Packet.’ =575. Uncle Max.= By R. N. CAREY. (Bentley) An excellent tale of village nursing. [Illustration] [Illustration] FAIRY TALES. There are certain fairy tales that are absolute classics, and a knowledge of which is absolutely necessary to understand common allusions. The grandmothers have ceased to tell them, and the little chap-books are no more, so that it has happened to me to pause on a mention of ‘Cinderella’ or ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ and find no one understand it, and I have kept a whole school interested while waiting for an entertainment by telling one of these. Therefore, a _small_ list is here given, for fairy tales should be regarded as treats, and only the superior ones put forth freely. It will generally be found that in the first stage of education they are despised, but that children of any imagination enjoy them. One or two _imaginative_ classics are added. =576. The Fairy Book.= Selected by the Author of ‘John Halifax.’ (Macmillan) 4_s._ 6_d._ These are the genuine old fairy tales, that ought to be known to everyone, simply told. =577. Grimm’s Fairy Tales.= Mrs. PAULL’S Selection. (Warne) 3_s._ 6_d._ or 2_s._ 6_d._ Globe edition (Macmillan) 2_s._ These two sets make up the real folk-lore tales—remnants of old myths, of more modern ones. =578. Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales.= Mrs. PAULL’S Selection. (Warne) 3_s._ 6_d._