The demand for this series has been so great that the author has yielded to many requests and has added two volumes as follows:
Telling how they got home from the seashore; went to school and were promoted, and of their many trials and tribulations.
Telling of the winter holidays, and of the many fine times and adventures the twins had at a winter lodge in the big woods.
Two companion stories for American girls, by one of the most popular writers of fiction for girls' reading. They are bright, winsome and thoroughly wholesome stories.
DOROTHY CHESTER. The Haps and Mishaps of a Foundling.
The first volume tells how Dorothy was found on the doorstep, taken in, and how she grew to be a lovable girl of twelve; and was then carried off by a person who held her for ransom. She made a warm friend of Jim, the nobody; and the adventures of the pair are as interesting as they are surprising.
Shows Dorothy at her country home near the Highlands of the Hudson. Here astonishing adventures befell her, and once again Jim, the nobody, comes to her assistance.
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These are Copyrighted Stories which cannot be obtained elsewhere. They are the stories last written by this famous author.
THE YOUNG BOOK AGENT Or Frank Hardy's Road to Success
A plain but uncommonly interesting tale of everyday life, describing the ups and downs of a boy book-agent.
FROM FARM TO FORTUNE Or Nat Nason's Strange Experience
Nat was a poor country lad. Work on the farm was hard, and after a quarrel with his uncle, with whom he resided, he struck out for himself.
OUT FOR BUSINESS Or Robert Frost's Strange Career
Relates the adventures of a country boy who is compelled to leave home and seek his fortune in the great world at large.
FALLING IN WITH FORTUNE Or The Experiences of a Young Secretary
This is a companion tale to "Out for Business," but complete in itself, and tells of the further doings of Robert Frost as private secretary.
YOUNG CAPTAIN JACK Or The Son of a Soldier
The scene is laid in the South during the Civil War, and the hero is a waif who was cast up by the sea and adopted by a rich Southern planter.
Mr. Alger is always at his best in the portrayal of life in New York City, and this story is among the best he has given our young readers.
