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A Christmas Posy

Chapter 25: THE END
By Mrs. Molesworth
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A collection of gentle short stories for children centered on family life and small adventures, mixing realistic domestic scenes with moments of fantasy and moral reflection. Episodes range from a child's imaginative play with prized shells and a treasured watch to tales of lost pets, charitable princesses, modest heroism, musical mishaps, missing sweets, and tiny blue dwarfs. Each piece emphasizes kindness, sympathy, and the inner life of children, often told in a quiet, sentimental voice and accompanied by decorative illustrations that complement the playful and didactic episodes.

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Printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

Mr. Edward Salmon, writing in the Nineteenth Century, October 1887, said: "I have left till the last any mention of the lady who, by right of merit, should stand first. Mrs. Molesworth is, in my opinion, considering the quality and quantity of her labours, the best story-teller for children England has yet known. This is a bold statement and requires substantiation. Mrs. Molesworth, during the last six years, has never failed to occupy a prominent place among the juvenile writers of the season. . . . Mrs. Molesworth's great charm is her realism—realism, that is, in the purest and highest sense. . . . Mrs. Molesworth's children are finished studies. She is never sentimental, but writes common sense in a straightforward manner. A joyous earnest spirit pervades her work, and her sympathy is unbounded. She loves them with her whole heart, while she lays bare their little minds, and expresses their foibles, their faults, their virtues, their inward struggles, their conception of duty, and their instinctive knowledge of the right and wrong of things. She knows their characters, she understands their wants, and she desires to help them. The only sure talisman against domestic trouble she evidently believes to be the absolute trust of a child in its parents."

MRS. MOLESWORTH'S

STORY BOOKS FOR CHILDREN.

With Illustrations by Walter Crane.

In Crown 8vo.        Price 4s. 6d. each.
Four Winds Farm.      Christmas Tree Land.
Two Little Waifs.

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In Globe 8vo.       2s. 6d. each.
Little Miss Peggy.
Tell me a Story.
The Tapestry Room: A Child's Romance.
A Christmas Child: A Sketch of Boy Life.
"Us:" An Old-Fashioned Story.
Grandmother Dear.
Rosy.
"Carrots," Just a Little Boy.
The Cuckoo Clock.
The Adventures of Herr Baby.

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Summer Stories for Boys and Girls. 4s. 6d.

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MACMILLAN AND CO., LONDON.

MACMILLAN AND CO.'S PUBLICATIONS.

By MRS. MOLESWORTH.

Four Ghost Stories.     Crown 8vo.       6s.

The Scotsman says:—"They are all curious and interesting specimens of their class, and the circumstances in which they manifest themselves are contrived with the skill of an accomplished writer. The earnestness and natural simplicity of this gifted writer's style are seen to excellent advantage in the book, and serve well to heighten the effect and illusion of the supernatural passages. The stories will be heartily enjoyed by every reader who is fond of a pleasant shiver."

The Scottish Leader says:—"The stories are very well told. There is enough of the uncanny about them to give a pleasant thrill to the reader's nerves, while the supernatural element is not so overdone as to make its unreality palpable. . . . They are vividly told, and attest Mrs. Molesworth's remarkable range as a raconteur."

The Morning Post says:—"Expectation is fairly worked up, if not to fever heat, at least to a considerable degree."

The Literary World says:—"The stories are very well told."


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By Charlotte M. Yonge.       With Illustrations, Globe 8vo.       4s. 6d. each.
The Little Duke. New Edition.
The Prince and the Page.
P's and Q's. New Edition.
Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe. New Edition.
The Lances of Lynwood.

With Upwards of One Hundred Pictures by Walter Crane.

Grimm's Fairy Tales. A Selection from the Household Stories. Translated from the German by Lucy Crane. Crown 8vo. 6s.
With 100 Pictures by Mr. Linley Sambourne.

The Water Babies. By Charles Kingsley. A New Edition. With 100 Pictures by Linley Sambourne. Fcap. 4to. 12s. 6d.

The Adventures of a Brownie. By the Author of "John Halifax, Gentleman." With Illustrations by Mrs. Allingham. New Edition. Globe 8vo. 4s. 6d.

Alice Learmont: A Fairy Tale. By the Author of "John Halifax, Gentleman." With Illustrations by James Godwin. New Edition, revised by the Author. Globe 8vo. 4s. 6d.
A Book for Children, by the Author of "Robert Elsmere."

Milly and Olly; or A Holiday among the Mountains. By Mrs. Humphry Ward. Illustrated by Mrs. Alma Tadema. New and cheaper Edition. Globe 8vo. 2s. 6d.

The Morning Post says it is "A very good book for children."



Anyhow Stories, Moral and Otherwise. By Mrs. W. K. Clifford, Illustrated by Dorothy Tennant. Crown 8vo. 1s. Cloth, 1s. 6d.

Tales of the Birds. By W. Warde Fowler, M.A., Sub-Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford. Author of "A Year with the Birds." With Illustrations by Bryan Hook. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.

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