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Just Sixteen.

Chapter 18: SUSAN COOLIDGE'S POPULAR BOOKS.
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A linked collection of short stories and sketches that follow mid-adolescents and other young people through domestic scenes, seasonal events, neighborhood affairs, and small moral dilemmas. Episodes range from playful winter adventures and household struggles to club projects, social mishaps, and quiet reflections, presenting youthful resourcefulness, friendship, and decorous humor. The pieces vary in tone from light comedy to gentle sentiment, often centering on moments of practical problem-solving, social courtesy, and emotional learning, and are arranged as discrete but thematically connected vignettes that portray ordinary life with warmth and restraint.

Note.—The tradition on which this story is founded, and which is still held as true in some parts of Friesland, is referred to by Parival in his book, "Les Delices de Hollande."


SUSAN COOLIDGE'S POPULAR BOOKS.

NANNY'S SUBSTITUTE.
Nanny at the Fair, taking orders and carrying trays.—Page 171.

MISCHIEF'S THANKSGIVING,
AND OTHER STORIES.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY ADDIE LEDYARD.

One handsome square 16mo volume, bound in cloth, black and gilt lettered. Price $1.25.


"Now, Katy, do,—ah, do, do."—Page 108.

WHAT KATY DID AT SCHOOL.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY MARY A. HALLOCK.

One handsome square 16mo volume, bound in cloth, black and gilt lettered. Price, $1.25.


CLOVER. A Sequel to the Katy Books. By Susan Coolidge. With illustrations by Jessie McDermott. Square 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.25.

All the children will want to know more about "What Katy Did."


These girls were Clover and Elsie Carr.—Page 7.

WHAT KATY DID NEXT.

With Illustrations by Jessie McDermott.

One handsome square 16mo volume, bound in cloth, black and gilt lettered. Price $1.25.


The Cliffs.

A LITTLE COUNTRY GIRL.

With Illustrations.

One volume. Square 16mo. Cloth, black and gold. Price $1.25.


Eyebright, who had grown as dear as a daughter to the old lady, was playing croquet with Charley.—Page 246

EYEBRIGHT. With Illustrations. One handsome, square, 16mo volume, bound in cloth. Black and gilt lettered. Price, $1.25.


LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON'S STORIES.

BED-TIME STORIES.
MORE BED-TIME STORIES.
NEW BED-TIME STORIES.
FIRELIGHT STORIES.
STORIES TOLD AT TWILIGHT.

With pretty Illustrations. Five volumes in a box. Price, $6.25.


SUSAN COOLIDGE'S POPULAR BOOKS.

"As there was nobody to see, he just sat down and cried as hard as Dotty herself."

THE NEW-YEAR'S BARGAIN.

WITH TWENTY-SEVEN ILLUSTRATIONS

BY ADDIE LEDYARD.

One handsome, square 16mo volume, bound in cloth, black and gilt lettered. Price, $1.25.

ROBERTS BROTHERS, Publishers, Boston.


LOUISA M. ALCOTT'S FAMOUS BOOKS.

Jo in a Vortex.—Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and "fall into a vortex," as she expressed it.

LITTLE WOMEN; or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy.

One volume, complete. Price, $1.50.


AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL.

Price, $1.50.


'Sing, Tessa; sing!' cried Tommo, twanging away with all his might.—Page 47.

AUNT JO'S SCRAP-BAG: Containing "My Boys," "Shawl-Straps," "Cupid and Chow-Chow," "My Girls," "Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore," "An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving." 6 vols. Price of each, $1.00.


Grandma's Story FROM "SPINNING-WHEEL STORIES."

The Spinning-Wheel Series:

SILVER PITCHERS, and Other Stories.

PROVERB STORIES.

SPINNING-WHEEL STORIES.

A GARLAND FOR GIRLS, and Other Stories.

4 volumes. Cloth. Price, $1.25 each.


JACK AND JILL: A Village Story. With Illustrations. 16mo. Price, $1.50.


 

A Rose in Bloom
A Sequel to
"Eight Cousins." Price $1.50.

LOUISA M. ALCOTT'S WRITINGS.

Miss Alcott is really a benefactor of households.—H. H.

Miss Alcott has a faculty of entering into the lives and feelings of children that is conspicuously wanting in most writers who address them; and to this cause, to the consciousness among her readers that they are hearing about people like themselves, instead of abstract qualities labelled with names, the popularity of her books is due.Mrs. Sarah J. Hale.

Dear Aunt Jo! You are embalmed in the thoughts and loves of thousands of little men and women.Exchange.

Little Women; or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. With illustrations. 16mo $1.50
Hospital Sketches, and Camp and Fireside Stories. With illustrations. 16mo 1.50
An Old-Fashioned Girl. With illustrations. 16mo 1.50
Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys. With illustrations. 16mo 1.50
Jo's Boys and How they Turned Out. A sequel to "Little Men." With portrait of "Aunt Jo." 16mo 1.50
Eight Cousins; or, The Aunt-Hill. With illustrations. 16mo 1.50
Rose in Bloom. A sequel to "Eight Cousins." 16mo 1.50
Under the Lilacs. With illustrations. 16mo 1.50
Jack and Jill. A Village Story. With illustrations. 16mo 1.50
Work: A Story of Experience. With character illustrations by Sol Eytinge. 16mo 1.50
Moods. A Novel. New edition, revised and enlarged. 16mo 1.50
A Modern Mephistopheles, and A Whisper in the Dark. 16mo. 1.50
Silver Pitchers, and Independence. A Centennial Love Story. 16mo 1.25
Proverb Stories. New edition, revised and enlarged. 16mo.1.25
Spinning-Wheel Stories. With illustrations. 16mo 1.25
A Garland for Girls, and Other Stories. With illustrations. 16mo 1.25
My Boys, &c. First volume of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag. 16mo 1.00
Shawl-Straps. Second volume of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag. 16mo 1.00
Cupid and Chow-Chow, &c. Third volume of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag. 16mo 1.00
My Girls, &c. Fourth volume of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag. 16mo 1.00
Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore, &c. Fifth volume of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag. 16mo 1.00
An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, &c. Sixth volume of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag. 16mo 1.00
Little Women. Illustrated. Embellished with nearly 200 characteristic illustrations from original designs drawn expressly for this edition of this noted American Classic. One small quarto, bound in cloth, with emblematic designs 2.50
Little Women Series. Comprising Little Women; Little Men; Eight Cousins; Under the Lilacs; An Old-Fashioned Girl; Jo's Boys; Rose in Bloom; Jack and Jill. 8 large 16mo volumes in a handsome box 12.00
Miss Alcott's novels in uniform binding in sets. Moods; Work; Hospital Sketches; A Modern Mephistopheles, and A Whisper in the Dark. 4 volumes. 16mo 6.00
Lulu's Library. Vols. I., II., III. A collection of New Stories. 16mo 1.00

These books are for sale at all bookstores, or will be mailed, post-paid, on receipt of price, to any address.


LOUISA M. ALCOTT'S FAMOUS BOOKS.

EIGHT COUSINS; or, The Aunt-Hill. With Illustrations by Sol Eytinge. Price, $1.50.


ROBERTS BROTHERS, Publishers,
Boston, Mass.

Transcriber's Note:

The two illustrations mentioned in the Contents for A Little Knight of Labor includes the frontispiece.

Punctuation has been standardised. Hyphenation has been retained as in the original publication. Changes have been made as follows:

Page 39
friendship with you, "dusting girl," changed to
friendship with your "dusting girl,"

Page 89
aunt, who is an invalid, used changed to
aunt, who is an invalid, uses

Page 190
Dance, Etelklein, leibchen changed to
Dance, Etelklein, liebchen

Page 250
choose a pretty tint of changed to
chose a pretty tint of