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 * . With illustrations by Alice Beard.
 * Decorated cloth, 12mo.

Here is told the very human story of a little girl in the period immediately following the Civil War. There is something decidedly real about her experiences, the way in which she gets lost or goes visiting or celebrates the Fourth; there is something intimate in the presentation of the characters, father, mother, brother, playmates and the neighbors. Through it all, too, there runs the quality of suspense in the search for the brother who was reported missing after Gettysburg and whose romantic re-union with his  folks furnishes an incident of tremendous charm and appeal. Elizabeth Bess is a story that young people will enjoy and from which they will get at the same time an accurate picture of life in history making days in this country.


 * By and, Authors of “A Maid of ’76.” With illustrations by Mrs.  Knipe. Decorated cloth, 12mo.

This is a story of New York when it was New Amsterdam and Peter Stuyvesant ruled with a high hand. Annetje, the “maid” of the title, is a little girl who through a series of misfortunes has  become separated from her people and is brought up for a time by  the Indians and later by a good Dutch “Vrouw.” Her unusual  adventures, her services to her governor—“His High Mightiness”  Peter Stuyvesant—and the finding of her family through the discovery of insignia which the old Indians had woven in the doe-skin  clothes which she wore when she left their encampment as a little  girl, are all charmingly set forth, while the beginning of a romance  between Annetje and the governor’s son is sketched. Annetje’s loyal Indian guards, her pet raccoon and the mysterious peddler  who plays an important part in the solution of the mystery of  Annetje’s parentage, add interest to an altogether enjoyable tale.