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A Girl of To-day

Chapter 29: LIBRARY OF FAMOUS BOOKS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
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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.

LIBRARY OF FAMOUS BOOKS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.

Illustrated. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 1s. 6d. each.

  • The Rifle Rangers. By Captain Mayne Reid.
  • Macaulay’s Essays on English History.
  • Autobiographies of Boyhood.
  • Holiday House. By Catherine Sinclair.
  • Log-book of a Midshipman.
  • Parry’s Third Voyage.
  • Passages in the Life of a Galley-Slave.
  • The Downfall of Napoleon. By Sir Walter Scott.
  • What Katy Did. By Susan Coolidge.
  • What Katy Did at School.
  • Wreck of the “Wager”.
  • Miss Austen’s Northanger Abbey.
  • Miss Edgeworth’s The Good Governess.
  • Martineau’s Feats on the Fiord.
  • Marryat’s Poor Jack.
  • The Snowstorm. By Mrs. Gore.
  • Life of Dampier.
  • The Cruise of the Midge. M. Scott.
  • Lives and Voyages of Drake and Cavendish.
  • Edgeworth’s Moral Tales.
  • Marryat’s The Settlers in Canada.
  • Michael Scott’s Tom Cringle’s Log.
  • Natural History of Selborne.
  • Waterton’s Wanderings in S. America.
  • Anson’s Voyage Round the World.
  • Autobiography of Franklin.
  • Lamb’s Tales from Shakspeare.
  • Southey’s Life of Nelson.
  • Miss Mitford’s Our Village.
  • Two Years Before the Mast.
  • Children of the New Forest.
  • Scott’s The Talisman.
  • The Basket of Flowers.
  • Marryat’s Masterman Ready.
  • Alcott’s Little Women.
  • Cooper’s Deerslayer.
  • The Lamplighter. By Miss Cummins.
  • Cooper’s Pathfinder.
  • The Vicar of Wakefield.
  • Plutarch’s Lives of Greek Heroes.
  • Poe’s Tales of Romance and Fantasy.