"It is a very joyous book, and the writer's powers of characterization are much out of the common."--_The Dial._

"A good, clean, straightforward bit of fiction, with likable people in it, and enough action to keep up the suspense throughout."--_Minneapolis Journal._

"The reader will search contemporary fiction far before he meets a novel which will give him the same frank pleasure and amus.e.m.e.nt."--_London Bookman._

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SCOTTIE AND HIS LADY

By MARGARET MORSE

"The story of a handsome, intelligent collie dog. It is entertainingly and sympathetically told, and sure of the absorbed interest of every young lover of animals."--_Chicago Daily News._

"Instantly deserves a place with Richard Harding Davis's 'Bar Sinister,' Alfred Ollivant's 'Bob, Son of Battle,' and Jack London's 'Call of the Wild.'"--_Boston Transcript._

"A delightful love story is woven in with the joys and trials of Scottie, who finds perfect satisfaction in the happy culmination of the romance of his lady."--_Chicago Record-Herald._

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JOHN WINTERBOURNE'S FAMILY

By ALICE BROWN

"A delightful and unusual story. The manner in which the hero's male solitude is invaded and set right is amusing and eccentric enough to have been devised by the late Frank Stockton. It is a story that is well worth reading."--_New York Sun._

"Is to be counted among the best novels of this entertaining writer ... written with a skilful and delicate touch."--_Springfield Republican._

"In its literary graces, in its portrayal of characters that are never commonplace though genuinely human, and in its development of a singular social situation, the book is one to give delight."--_Philadelphia Press._

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THE PROFESSIONAL AUNT

By MARY C. E. WEMYSS

"One of the most delightful stories that has ever crossed the water."--_Louisville Courier-Journal._

"The legitimate successor of 'Helen's Babies.'"--_Clara Louise Burnham._

"A cla.s.sic in the literature of childhood."--_San Francisco Chronicle._

"Mrs. Wemyss is a formidable rival to E. Nesbit, who hitherto has stood practically alone as a charmingly humorous interpreter of child life."--_Chicago Inter-Ocean._

"A charming, witty, tender book."--_Kate Douglas Wiggin._

"It is a sunny, warm-hearted humorous story, that leaves the reader with a sense of time well spent in its perusal."--_Brooklyn Eagle._

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