THE BARTON BOOKS FOR GIRLS By MAY HOLLIS BARTON
_12mo. Cloth. Illustrated. With colored jacket_ _Price per volume, 65 cents, postpaid_
May Hollis Barton is a new writer for girls who is bound to win instantpopularity. Her style is somewhat of a mixture of that of Louise M.Alcott and Mrs. L. T. Meade, but thoroughly up-to-date in plot andaction. Clean tales that all girls will enjoy reading.
1. THE GIRL FROM THE COUNTRY, _or Laura Mayford's City Experiences_
Laura was the oldest of five children and when daddy got sick she felt she must do something. She had a chance to try her luck in New York, and there the country girl fell in with many unusual experiences.
2. THREE GIRL CHUMS AT LAUREL HALL, _or The Mystery of the School by theLake_
When the three chums arrived at the boarding school they found the other students in the grip of a most perplexing mystery. How this mystery was solved, and what good times the girls had, both in school and on the lake, go to make a story no girl would care to miss.
3. NELL GRAYSON'S RANCHING DAYS, _or A City Girl in the Great West_
Showing how Nell, when she had a ranch girl visit her in Boston, thought her chum very green, but when Nell visited the ranch in the great West she found herself confronting many conditions of which she was totally ignorant. A stirring outdoor story.
4. FOUR LITTLE WOMEN OF ROXBY, _or The Queer Old Lady Who Lost Her Way_
Four sisters are keeping house and having trouble to make both ends meet. One day there wanders in from a stalled express train an old lady who cannot remember her identity. The girls take the old lady in, and, later, are much astonished to learn who she really is.
5. PLAIN JANE AND PRETTY BETTY, _or The Girl Who Won Out_
The tale of two girls, one plain but sensible, the other pretty but vain. Unexpectedly both find they have to make their way in the world. Both have many trials and tribulations. A story of a country town and then a city.
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