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Stray Thoughts for Girls

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About This Book

A series of short, sympathetic essays and occasional poems offering guidance for young women navigating the uncertain transition from adolescence to adulthood. It examines practical and moral topics—personal character, household duties, friendships, conversation skills, planning for life, and relations between mothers and daughters—encouraging deliberate habits and an inner ideal amid everyday obligations. Several pieces offer concrete advice on social conduct, cultivation of virtue, and making ordinary tasks meaningful, while others reflect on leisure, Sunday observance, and romantic attachments. Throughout, the voice balances moral seriousness with an accessible, encouraging tone aimed at helping readers shape purposeful, service-minded lives.

WORKS BY L. H. M. SOULSBY

STRAY THOUGHTS FOR GIRLS, 2s. 6d. net.

(New and Enlarged Edition.)

CONTENTS: Lines written on being told that a Lady was "Plain and
Commonplace"—The Virtuous Woman—Making Plans—Conversation—Aunt Rachel;
or, Old Maids' Children—"Get up, M. le Comte!"—A Friday Lesson—A Home
Art; or, Mothers and Daughters—Esprit de Corps—Rough Notes of a
Lesson—Holidays—Sunday—Friendship and Love—A Good Time.

The Original Edition of this book is still on sale, 16mo, 1s. 6d. net.

STRAY THOUGHTS FOR MOTHERS AND TEACHERS, 2s. 6d. net.

CONTENTS: The Religious Side of Secular Teaching—Home Education from 14 to 17—Mothers and Day Schools—Teaching of History—etc.

STRAY THOUGHTS ON READING, 2s. 6d. net.

CONTENTS: Suggestions on Reading—Romola—Charles Kingsley—"The Happy
Warrior"—Paracelsus—Dante—Pilgrim's Progress—etc.

STRAY THOUGHTS ON CHARACTER, 2s. 6d. net.

CONTENTS: Happiness[A]—One Called Help[B]—Two Aspects of Education or
Self-Control and the Ideal Woman[B]—The Use of Leisure or Thoughts on
Education[B]—etc.

[Footnote A: This is printed separately, price 3d. net.]

[Footnote B: These are printed separately, price 4d. net each.]

The four books as above are also issued bound in limp leather, gilt edges, and can be obtained through any bookseller.

STRAY THOUGHTS FOR INVALIDS, 2s. net.

CONTENTS: "I do well to be Angry"—"Purring when you're pleased"—The Duty of Eating—Nervous Irritability—The Shadow of the Future—The Fear of Death—etc.

SUGGESTIONS ON PRAYER, 1s. net, or in Cloth, 1s. 6d. net.

CONTENTS: Difficulties in Prayer—Making a Prayer Book—Prayer is
Power—Self-Examination—Questions on the Ten Commandments.

    SHORT PRAYERS, cloth limp, 16mo, 6d. net.
      CHRIST AND HIS CROSS, 2s. net.

Selections from Rutherford's Letters.

CHRISTIAN PERFECTION, 2s. net.

By WILLIAM LAW, EDITED BY L.H.M. SOULSBY.

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

LONDON, NEW YORK AND BOMBAY