“I do not mean _The Shuttle_ to be merely a story of international marriage, but to suggest a thousand other things. The international marriage must, however, result in being a strong factor, and in the hands of a writer of fiction it must play a prominent part--a leading part, so to speak--because it is the love story, and without it we are lost. For the matter of that, without it ‘the shouting and the tumult’ would die, ‘the captains and the kings depart.’
“Because I am English by birth and American by a sort of adoption, and because I have vibrated between the two continents for years, I have learned to be impersonal and unpartisan. I was neither American nor English when I told the story. I was merely an intensely interested person who had formed a habit of crossing the Atlantic twice a year.
“There have been disastrous international marriages and there have been successful ones; there is no reason why there should not be international marriages at once dignified and splendid--even history-making. Still, I wish I had had room to add to _The Shuttle_ pictures of the thousand other things I find absorbing.”
It is not possible to do more than make suggestions as to what books of Mrs. Burnett’s a reader should be sure to dip into. No two set of suggestions would be identical, in all likelihood, but grownups can acquire at least a respectable acquaintance with her work by reading _That Lass o’ Lowrie’s_, _A Fair Barbarian_, _Little Lord Fauntleroy_, _Sara Crewe_, _The Pretty Sister of José_, _In Connection With the De Willoughby Claim_, _The Shuttle_, _The Dawn of a To-Morrow_, _The Secret Garden_, _T. Tembaron_ and _Emily Fox-Seton_. No selective list for children is worth making; give them any or all!
_That Lass o’ Lowrie’s_, 1877. Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York. _Dolly, A Love Story_, 1877. _Kathleen_, 1877. Hurst. _Surly Tim and Other Stories_, 1877. Scribner. _Haworth’s_, 1879. Scribner. _Louisiana_, 1880. Scribner. _A Fair Barbarian_, 1881. Scribner. _Through One Administration_, 1883. Scribner. _Little Lord Fauntleroy_, 1886. Scribner. _Editha’s Burglar._ The Page Company, Boston. _Sara Crewe_, 1888. Scribner. _Little Saint Elizabeth_, 1889. _Two Little Pilgrims’ Progress_, 1896. Scribner. _The Pretty Sister of José_, 1896. Scribner. _A Lady of Quality_, 1896. Scribner. _His Grace of Ormonde_, 1897. Scribner. _The Captain’s Youngest_, 1898. _In Connection With the De Willoughby Claim_, 1899. Scribner. _The Making of a Marchioness_, 1901. Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York. _The Methods of Lady Walderhurst._ Stokes. _In the Closed Room_, 1904. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York. _A Little Princess_, 1905. Scribner. _Jarl’s Daughter_, 1906. Donohue. Given in the United States Catalogue of Books in Print (1912). _Queen Silverbell_, 1906. The Century Company, New York. Given in the United States Catalogue of Books in Print (1912). _Racketty-Packetty House_, 1906. Century. Given in the United States Catalogue of Books in Print (1912). _Earlier Stories_ (_Lindsay’s Luck_, etc.), 1907. Scribner. Given in the United States Catalogue of Books in Print (1912). _Giovanni and the Other: Children Who Have Made Stories_, 1907. Scribner. Given in the United States Catalogue of Books in Print (1912). _Emily Fox-Seton_ (Combining _The Making of a Marchioness_ and _The Methods of Lady Walderhurst_). Stokes. _Lindsay’s Luck._ Hurst. Given in the United States Catalogue of Books in Print (1912). _Miss Crespigny._ Donohue. Given in the United States Catalogue of Books in Print (1912). _Piccino and Other Child Stories._ Scribner. Given in the United States Catalogue of Books in Print (1912). _Pretty Polly Pemberton._ Hurst. Given in the United States Catalogue of Books in Print (1912). _Quiet Life._ Donohue. Given in the United States Catalogue of Books in Print (1912). _Theo._ Hurst. Given in the United States Catalogue of Books in Print (1912). _Vagabondia._ Scribner. Given in the United States Catalogue of Books in Print (1912). _The Shuttle_, 1907. Stokes. _The Cozy Lion_, 1907. Century. _Good Wolf_, 1908. Moffat, Yard & Company, New York. _Spring Cleaning_, 1908. Century. _The Dawn of a To-Morrow_, 1909. Scribner. _The Secret Garden_, 1909. Stokes. _My Robin_, 1912. Stokes. _T. Tembaron_, 1913. A. L. Burt Company, New York. _Barty Crusoe and His Man Saturday_, 1914. Moffat, Yard. _One I Knew The Best of All_, 1915. Scribner. _The Lost Prince_, 1915. Burt. _The Land of the Blue Flower_, 1916. Moffat, Yard. _The Little Hunchback Zia_, 1916. Stokes. _The Way to the House of Santa Claus_, 1916. Harper & Brothers, New York. _White People_, 1917. Harper. _The Head of the House of Coombe_, 1922. Stokes. _Robin_, 1922. Stokes.