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  BIOGRAPHIES FOR YOUNG READERS

  Lewis Carroll

  By BELLE MOSES, author of “Louisa May Alcott.” A rare Portrait of LewisCarroll as a young man as Frontispiece. Small 12mo, Cloth, $1.25 net.

  This is a very charming biography of the man who wrote “Alice inWonderland.” Miss Moses, whose “Louisa May Alcott” proved so remarkablysympathetic an account of an interesting woman, has in her new bookwritten what is, perhaps, the best and most spontaneous account everpublished of a man of the most interesting personality and genius.There is more here than has ever elsewhere appeared of the younger daysof Lewis Carroll, while Miss Moses’s imaginative sympathy has made amost enthusiastic history of the better-known period of the career ofthe author of “Alice in Wonderland.”

  Louisa May Alcott

  By BELLE MOSES. 12mo, Cloth, Illustrated, $1.25 net.

  This is an admirable story of the childhood and womanhood of thecelebrated author of “Little Women,” told with especial reference togirl readers. Miss Moses has excellently caught the beautiful homespirit of the Alcotts’s family circle, and this biography is not onlycharmingly written but is in every way an authoritative account of theinteresting life of Miss Alcott and the New England scenes in which herdays were spent. It has been Miss Moses’s desire to give an intimatepicture of the home life of her heroine, her development of character,and the influence upon her of the famous band of New England men andwomen who made Concord and Boston centers of intellectual growth.

  Florence Nightingale

  By LAURA E. RICHARDS. Illustrated with a Frontispiece Portrait of MissNightingale. 12mo, Cloth, $1.25 net.

  The life of this wonderful and justly beloved woman, “The Angel ofthe Crimea,” told by one whose father was in part responsible forconfirming Miss Nightingale in her determination to devote her lifeto nursing. While the name of Florence Nightingale is a householdword, the precise nature and scope of her work and the difficultiesand discouragement under which it was accomplished are unknown to manychildren of the present generation.

  D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK