Ill.u.s.trated by Alice Barber Stephens.

No better college story has been written.--_Providence News._

Miss Reed is herself a Radcliffe woman, and she has made a sympathetic and accurate study of the woman's college at Cambridge.--_Chicago Evening Post._

The author is one of the best equipped of our writers for girls of larger growth. Her stories are strong, intelligent, and wholesome.--_The Outlook_, N. Y.

The book has the background of old Cambridge, a little of Harvard, and Boston in the distance.... The heroine is a fine girl, and the other characters are girls of many varieties and from many places.--_New York Commercial Advertiser._

She brings out all sides of the life, and, while making much of the fun and good fellowship, does not let it be forgotten that work and growth are the end and object of it all.--_Chicago Tribune._

BRENDA'S BARGAIN

Ill.u.s.trated by Ellen Bernard Thompson.

The story deals with social settlement work, under conditions with which the author is familiar.--_The Bookman_, New York.

AMY IN ACADIA

Ill.u.s.trated by Katherine Pyle.

A splendid tale for girls, carefully written, interesting and full of information concerning the romantic region made famous by the vicissitudes of Evangeline.--_Toronto Globe._

BRENDA'S WARD

Ill.u.s.trated by Frank T. Merrill.

The story details the experience of a Chicago girl at school in Boston, and very absorbing those experiences are--full of action and diversity.--_Chicago Post._

Pictures a Western girl's school life in Boston, and the story is told with spirit and fine sentiment.... The girls whose lives are told of are merry and of wholesome temperament.--_Portland_ (Ore.) _Oregonian_.

The story is full of seeing, doing, enjoying, and accomplishing.--_Kansas City Star._

The tale throughout is sweet and wholesome.... The character sketching is consistent and firm, and the dialogue natural.--_Boston Transcript._

The young Western girl who enters Brenda's life is sweet and charming, and will appeal to all.--_Philadelphia Ledger._

The characters are all brimful of wholesome human interest with Brenda as a paramount attraction.--_Pittsburg Bulletin._

A new Brenda book is always sure of a welcome.... Of all the stories for girls these books rank among the best. The movement of these narratives is rapid, there is an abundance of natural and entertaining incident, and the characters are sharply drawn and developed with masterly skill and rare powers of sympathetic a.n.a.lysis.--_Kennebec_ (Me.) _Journal_.

IRMA AND NAP

_A Story for Younger Girls_

Ill.u.s.trated by Clara E. Atwood.

A brightly written story about children from eleven to thirteen years of age, who live in a suburban town, and attend a public grammar school. The book is full of incident of school and home life.

The story deals with real life, and is told in the simple and natural style which characterized Miss Reed's popular "Brenda"

stories.--_Washington Post._

There are little people in this sweetly written story with whom all will feel at once that they have been long acquainted, so real do they seem, as well as their plans, their play, and their school and home and everyday life.--_Boston Courier._

Her children are real; her style also is natural and pleasing.--_The Outlook_, New York.

Miss Reed's children are perfectly natural and act as real girls would under the same circ.u.mstances. Nap is a lively little dog, who takes an important part in the development of the story.--_Christian Register_, Boston.

A clever story, not a bit preachy, but with much influence for right living in evidence throughout.--_Chicago Evening Post._