The Carved Lions Read online

  A NEW UNIFORM EDITIONOFMRS. MOLESWORTH'SSTORIES FOR CHILDREN

  WITHILLUSTRATIONS BY WALTER CRANE AND LESLIE BROOKE.

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  In Ten Volumes. 12mo. Cloth. One Dollar a Volume.

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  Tell Me a Story, and Herr Baby. "Carrots," and A Christmas Child. Grandmother Dear, and Two Little Waifs. The Cuckoo Clock, and The Tapestry Room. Christmas-Tree Land, and A Christmas Posy. The Children of the Castle, and Four Winds Farm. Little Miss Peggy, and Nurse Heatherdale's Story, "Us," and The Rectory Children. Rosy, and The Girls and I. Mary. Sheila's Mystery. Carved Lions.

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  THE SET, TWELVE VOLUMES, IN BOX, $12.00.

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  "It seems to me not at all easier to draw a lifelike child than to drawa lifelike man or woman: Shakespeare and Webster were the only two menof their age who could do it with perfect delicacy and success; atleast, if there was another who could, I must crave pardon of his happymemory for my forgetfulness or ignorance of his name. Our own age ismore fortunate, on this single score at least, having a larger and farnobler proportion of female writers; among whom, since the death ofGeorge Eliot, there is none left whose touch is so exquisite andmasterly, whose love is so thoroughly according to knowledge, whosebright and sweet invention is so fruitful, so truthful, or so delightfulas Mrs. Molesworth's. Any chapter of _The Cuckoo Clock_ or theenchanting _Adventures of Herr Baby_ is worth a shoal of the very bestnovels dealing with the characters and fortunes of mere adults."--MRS.A. C. SWINBURNE, in _The Nineteenth Century_.