COSEY CORNER; or, How they Kept a Farm. By L. T. MEADE. With eighteen Illustrations by Percy Tarrant. 3/6
Mrs L. T. Meade, in her best vein, here tells how four children show great ingenuity and cleverness in playing at keeping a farm, and manage to support themselves for a time from the proceeds. It is a wholesome lesson in self-help, and the reader will be inclined to agree with one of the children that 'there never was anything so nice in all the world as was life at Cosey Corner.' Honeysuckle Farm, the farmer and his wife, and the life there are prettily described, and the story is further helped by the eighteen charming illustrations by Mr Percy Tarrant.
'MY PRETTY' AND HER BROTHER 'TOO.' And other Stories. By Mrs MOLESWORTH. Charmingly Illustrated by Lewis Baumer. 3/6
Mrs Molesworth, always happily inspired when she writes for or about children, here presents ten short stories, in which little children are depicted in her inimitable style. Some of them have a Christmas flavour; all convey in an attractive form some lessons which young folks, and old folks too, would be none the worse for learning, as in 'My Pretty,' 'The Gold Scissors,' and 'The Princess and the Fairy,' in which the receipt for happiness is given as unselfishness and shared blessings.
JERRY DODDS, MILLIONAIRE: A School Yarn of Merriment and Mystery. By H. BARROW-NORTH. With six Illustrations by Harold Copping. 3/6
Jerry Dodds is the good-hearted and open-handed son of a South African millionaire, and his fortunes are traced from the time he enters Westpool School until he is kidnapped, and recovered in a marvellous way. There are lively times at Westpool--a fire, a steamer adventure, a feast to his school chums given by Jerry Dodds, and abundant adventures, which any boy will follow with breathless interest. The youth of Westpool School are as bright, healthy, mischief-making, and mirth-provoking youngsters as any boy might wish to know. Out of one prank into another seems to have been their motto.
[_From_ THE KOPJE GARRISON, _by G. M. Fenn; price 5s._]
[Illustration: In a very short time he was once more on a pony, with the sergeant keeping him in his place.]
THE ARGONAUTS OF THE AMAZON. By C. R. KENYON. With six Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 3/6