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A distinguished author (J. R. L.) says: "You know how to write a delightful book. I have read it with very great pleasure."

The New-Year's Bargain' is the title of one of the most charming of the many charming books for the young, which loving, wise and witty spirits are inventing in these days, and which make us wish we were children, or rather make us children again. This is one of the latest of the rich collection of choice books issued by the enterprising and tasteful house of Roberts Brothers, and comes out in a style of print and illustration worthy of its delightful contents."

"Miss Coolidge's name is not known to us, but we prophecy that her hooks will be great favorites with children. She knows just what pleases them. This is the story of a little German boy, to whom every month came with a story and a present. It is a dozen tales bound together in one."

"This jolly little book should be in the hands of every clever little child. But children of a riper growth will enjoy it quite as much. It would be a pity to tell the tale, which is framed on a quaint and novel device, worthy of Hawthorne. Suffice it to say, that the reader will be as much charmed with it as he was with 'Alice in Wonder Land.' To our thinking, it is the best of the two, for it is full of true life, true childhood, true fun, and beside it 'Alice' seems a little artificial."

"We do not hesitate to say that 'The New-Year's Bargain,' by Susan Coolidge, is one of the most charming juvenile books of the period, uniting, as it does, the unreal and the practical. It is a series of stories, funny and fantastic, told by the months to two children in the Black Forest, and will not fail to interest grown-up folks as well. It is full of picturesque effects, aside from the illustrations, which are exceedingly pretty, while it is one of those books so useful to the young, which abounds in poetic suggestion."

''Sold everywhere. Mailed, post-paid, on receipt of the price, by the Publishers,''