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“This is really my fairy book,” says the author of Little Lord Fauntleroy in the introduction. She tells how she got it, lost it, and found it again. Then the part by Frances Browne begins:

“In an old time, long ago, when fairies were in the world—”

There you are! like Snowflower, your cheek is on Granny’s chair, and the wonderful clear voice from under the cushion is telling of King Winwealth, and Princess Greedalind, and the many curious people of this delightful magic land.

The book costs $1.50, with 8 pictures in colors by Edith Truman, in a handsome red and gold cover.

is a child-story by Mrs, Burnett herself—the first in ten years.

It is a fairy-ghost story about Judith, a janitor’s little daughter, strangely different from her plain father and mother.

The family moves to a Big House, where there is a Closed Room, which the others cannot enter. But it opens to Judith. In it wonders await her.

Grown people—especially those who have children of their own—will read with throbs this story of the borderland between the spitit-world and ours.

''Jessie Willcox Smith has made 8 beautiful color-picrures for the book, It is on toned paper, with wide margins, decorated in color. $1.50.''



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