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 CHRONICLES OF AVONLEA

In which Anne Shirley of Green Gables and Avonlea plays some party and which have to do with other personalities and events, including The Purchase of Sloane, The Baby Which Came to Jane, The Mystery of Her Fathers Daughter and of Tannis of the Flats, The Promise of Lucy Ellen, The Beau and Aunt Olivia, The Deferment of Hester, and finally of The Hurrying of Ludovic, All related by

L. M. Montgomery

Author of

"Anne of Green Gables" (32nd printing), "Anne of Avonlea" (16th printing), "Kilmeny of the Orchard" (8th printing), "The Story Girl" (6th printing).

12mo, cloth, with a new portrait in full color of Anne, by George Gibbs, net $1.25; postpaid $1.40

Anne Shirley is the very Anne of whom Mark Twain wrote in a letter to Francis Wilson: "In Anne Shirley, you will find the dearest and most moving and delightful child of fiction since the immortal Alice." Of Miss Montgomery's previous books, the reviewers have written as follows:

"I can hardly tell you how much I enjoyed the book, and I can heartily recommend it to my friends who are not ashamed when from time to time they rind the eyes suffuse and the page grow blurred at the pathos of the story." — Sir Louis H. Davies of the Supreme Court of Canada.

"I take it as a great test of the worth of the book that while the young people are rummaging all over the house looking for Anne, the head of the family has carried her off to read on his way to town." — Bliss Carman,

"Here we have a book as human as 'David Harum,' a heroine who out- charms a dozen princesses of fiction, and reminds you of some sweet girl you know, or knew back in the days when the world was young and you threw away your sponge that you might have to borrow hers to clean your slate." — San Francisco Bulletin.

"A book to lift the spirit and send the pessimist into bankruptcy!" — Meredith Nicholson.

"Miss Montgomery deserves more than ordinary praise for her clean simple style, and her power to convey the sweetness and charm of such a country and such a heroine." — Toronto News.

"The writer's style is careful and refined." — St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

"The art which pervades every page is so refined that the cultivated imagination will return to the story again and again in memory to find always something fresh to enjoy." — Toronto World.