It is Mrs. Smith’s happy ability to take the incidents of child-life,--such a life as any child of bright mind and sweet character, blessed with the surroundings of a good home, might have,--and to record them with such faithfulness to the child’s character, and yet with such charm in the narrative, as to make them engagingly interesting to other children.--_Gazette and Courier_, Greenfield, Mass.
_Author of “The Jolly Good Times” Series_
THE YOUNG PURITANS OF OLD HADLEY. THE YOUNG PURITANS IN KING PHILIP’S WAR. THE YOUNG PURITANS IN CAPTIVITY. THE YOUNG AND OLD PURITANS OF HATFIELD.
Mrs. Smith deserves very hearty commendation for the admirable pictures of Puritan life which are drawn with a skilful hand in this book. She has chosen a representative Puritan village as the scene, and the period of very early settlement of western Massachusetts for her story, a village which retains many of its early features to this day. Mrs. Smith knows the people of whom she writes thoroughly, and holds them in high and loving esteem. Even the most prejudiced reader can hardly close this book without seeing in these genuine Puritan people a phase of human life at once fine in its courage, its endurance of terrible hardships, and not unbeautiful in its childlike acceptance of God’s dealings and its daily hunger and thirst after righteousness.--_The Churchman._
THE YOUNG PURITANS OF OLD HADLEY. 12mo. Cloth. Illustrated. $1.25.
A capital colonial story.--_Congregationalist_, Boston.
She catches the very spirit of Puritan life.--_Chicago Inter-Ocean._
The work has historic value as well as unique interest.--LILIAN WHITING, _in Chicago Inter-Ocean_.
An excellent book for school libraries.--_Literary News_, New York.
The adventures of the boys while hunting, the trapping of wolves and panthers, which infested the forests in those early days, the encounters with the Indians, friendly and otherwise, are incidents which make up a book which will fascinate all young readers.--_San Francisco Bulletin._
The author has studied her subject carefully; and the pictures of this life, extinct, yet still blood of our blood and bone of our bone, have unusual interest.--_Chicago Dial._
Mrs. Smith has proven that she can write as simple and natural a story of child-life when the scene is laid two hundred and fifty years ago as when she chooses to describe country life in the New England of the present century.--_Christian Register._