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 MESSRS. ROBERTS BROTHERS PUBLICATIONS.

NO NAME (THIRD) SERIES.

LITTLE SISTER.

"Tin s last volume of the new No Name series is a tender little story. It stands by itself in the series. So far as we remember, there is not, in the whole long list of the very unequal and much-named No Names, another of its order. It is a bit of faithful and delicate genre work, a sort of work too much neglected by our story- wrights. Their neglect of it is perhaps only the natural result of the law of supply and demand; so large a proportion of readers belong to the class of that excellent old lady who, knowing no better health-test than her appetite for sensational narratives, remarked sadly one day that she was sure she must be ill, for she had lost all her relish for the murders in the newspapers. By readers of this class stories like Little Sister are thrown away, dismissed as dull, with a hasty contempt which would be much surprised, no doubt, at being told that the very quality for which it had rejected books was their one excellence, namely, every-dayness, simplicity, slenderness of plot. There is also in Little Sister an undertone of clear-hearted spirituality. This, without taking shape in technical religious phrase, makes itself felt in every emergency and crisis through which the characters are carried, and is far more likely to cast its weight on the right side of balances for the very silence and reserve in which its presence is wrapped."—"H. H" in The Critic.

"Little Sister is a recent addition to that deservedly popular series whose name is 'No Name.' It is a bright, sweet, simple story. There is no villain and no adventuress. The plot is just such a one as is woven daily by the incidents, sorrows, joys, common to the majority of lives. The unassuming little heroine is what every woman should be, a silent power for good. She illustrates in her quiet life the beauty of unselfishness. There are sparkles of bubbling laughter and touches of tender grief, and on every page some useful lesson to sink into the heart and bear fruit."—The Chicago Tribune.

"It is not every day that brings a novel so wholesome, so homely (in the best sense of the word), so simple, so true to life, so full of common sense, so bright, and so interesting as Little Sister. There is not a character in it whom one would not like to know; and that is the greatest compliment, because the scene is laid in Philadelphia.… It is a genuinely match-making book, but withal the story is so healthy that it might well prove infectious. It is the kind of a novel that makes one feel that life is worth living."…The Philadelphia Press.

One volume, 16mo, brown cloth. Price, $1.00.

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ROBERTS BROTHERS, BOSTON.