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A Girl of To-day

Chapter 24: BOOKS FOR GIRLS.
By Ellinor Davenport Adams
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The narrative follows a spirited teenage girl who returns home from school to a small country village and renews her close companionship with her younger brother. Through a sequence of local episodes—schoolroom recollections, games, amateur photography, music and mumming, and village social gatherings—she meets friends and rivals, faces minor scandals and practical dilemmas, and grows more confident in judgment and responsibility. Encounters with a blacksmith, a doctor, and other townspeople introduce modest mysteries and rescues, while family duties and an eventual southern journey round out a portrait of emerging independence within rural community life.

BOOKS FOR GIRLS.

In crown 8vo, cloth elegant.

Banshee Castle. By Rosa Mulholland (Lady Gilbert). With 12 page Illustrations by John H. Bacon. 6s.

“One of the most fascinating of Miss Rosa Mulholland’s many fascinating stories.”—Athenæum.

Giannetta. By Rosa Mulholland (Lady Gilbert). With 8 page Illustrations by Lockhart Bogle. 5s.

“One of the most attractive gift-books of the season.”—The Academy.

A Girl’s Loyalty. By Frances Armstrong. With 8 page Illustrations by John H. Bacon. 5s.

“There is no doubt as to the good quality of A Girl’s Loyalty. The book is one which would enrich any girl’s book-shelf.”—St. James’s Gazette.

A Fair Claimant: Being a Story for Girls. By Frances Armstrong. Illustrated by Gertrude D. Hammond. 5s.

“As a gift-book for big girls it is among the best new books of the kind. The story is interesting and natural, from first to last.”—Westminster Gazette.

Adventures in Toyland. By Edith King Hall. With 8 page Pictures printed in Colour, and 70 Black-and-White Illustrations throughout the text, by Alice B. Woodward. Crown 4to, decorated cloth boards, gilt edges, 5s.

“One of the funniest as well as one of the daintiest books of the season. The Adventures are graphically described in a very humorous way.”—Pall Mall Gazette.

“The story is a capital ‘make-believe’, and exhibits real knowledge on the part of both author and illustrator of what children want, as well as an unusual power of supplying it.”—Literature.