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“Make their acquaintance; for Amy will be
found delightful, Beth very lovely, Meg beautiful,
and Jo splendid!”
— The Catholic World.
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LITTLE WOMEN. By Louisa M. Alcott.
In Two Parts. Price of each $1.50.
“Simply one of the most charming little books that have fallen into our hands
for many a day. There is just enough of sadness in it to make it true to life, while
it is so full of honest work and whole-souled fun, paints so lively a picture of a home
in which contentment, energy, high spirits, and real goodness make up for the lack
of money, that it will do good wherever it finds its way. Few will read it without
lasting profit.”
— Hartford Courant.
“Little Women. By Louisa M. Alcott. We regard these volumes as two
of the most fascinating that ever came into a household. Old and young read them
with the same eagerness. Lifelike in all their delineations of time, place, and
character, they are not only intensely interesting, but full of a cheerful morality,
that makes them healthy reading for both fireside and the Sunday school. We
think we love “Jo” a little better than all the rest, her genius is so happy tempered
with affection.”
— The Guiding Star.
The following verbatim copy of a letter from a “little woman” is a specimen
of many which enthusiasm for her book has dictated to the author of “Little
Women:” —
— March 12, 1870.
Dear Jo, or Miss Alcott, — We have all been reading “Little Women,” and
we liked it so much I could not help wanting to write to you. We think you are
perfectly splendid; I like you better every time I read it. We were all so disappointed
about your not marrying Laurie; I cried over that part, — I could not help
it. We all liked Laurie ever so much, and almost killed ourselves laughing over
the funny things you and he said.
We are six sisters and two brothers; and there were so many things in “Little
Women” that seemed so natural, especially selling the rags.
Eddie is the oldest; then there is Annie (our Meg), then Nelly (that's me),
May and Milly (our Beths), Rosie, Rollie, and dear little Carrie (the baby).
Eddie goes away to school, and when he comes home for the holidays we have
lots of fun, playing cricket, croquet, base ball, and every thing. If you ever want
to play any of those games, just come to our house, and you will find plenty children
to play with you.
If you ever come to —, I do wish you would come and see us, — we would
like it so much.
I have named my doll after you, and I hope she will try and deserve it.
I do wish you would send me a picture of you. I hope your health is better
and you are having a nice time.
If you write to me, please direct — Ill. All the children send their love.
With ever so much love, from your affectionate friend,
Nelly.
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price.
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“Miss Alcott is really a benefactor of House-holds.”
— H. H.
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LITTLE MEN: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys.
By Louisa M. Alcott. With Illustrations. Price
$1.50.
“The gods are to be congratulated upon the success of the Alcott experiment
as well as all childhood, young and old, upon the singular charm of the little men
and little women who have run forth from the Alcott cottage, children of a maiden
whose genius is beautiful motherhood.”
— The Examiner.
“No true-hearted boy or girl can read this book without deriving benefit from
the perusal; nor, for that matter, will it the least injure children of a larger growth
to endeavor to profit by the examples of gentleness and honesty set before them in
its pages. What a delightful school `Jo' did keep! Why, it makes us want to
live our childhood's days over again, in the hope that we might induce some kind
hearted female to establish just such a school, and might prevail upon our parents
to send us, `because it was cheap.'... We wish the genial authoress a long
life in which to enjoy the fruits of her labor, and cordially thank her, in the name
of our young people, for her efforts in their behalf.”
— Waterbury American.
“Miss Alcott, whose name has already become a household word among little
people, will gain a new hold upon their love and admiration by this little book.
It forms a fitting sequel to `Little Women,' and contains the same elements of
popularity.... We expect to see it even more popular than its predecessor, and
shall heartily rejoice at the success of an author whose works afford so much hearty
and innocent enjoyment to the family circle, and teach such pleasant and whole
some lessons to old and young.”
— N. Y. Times.
“Suggestive, truthful, amusing, and racy, in a certain simplicity of style which
very few are capable of producing. It is the history of only six months' school-life
of a dozen boys, but is full of variety and vitality, and the having girls
with the boys is a charming novelty, too. To be very candid, this book is so
thoroughly good that we hope Miss Alcott will give us another in the same genial
vein, for she understands children and their ways.”
— Phil. Press.
A specimen letter from a little woman to the author of “Little Men.”
June 17, 1871.
Dear Miss Alcott, — We have just finished “Little Men,” and like it so
much that we thought we would write and ask you to write another book sequel to
“Little Men,” and have more about Laurie and Amy, as we like them the best.
We are the Literary Club, and we got the idea from “Little Women.” We have
a paper two sheets of foolscap and a half. There are four of us, two cousins and
my sister and myself Our assumed names are: Horace Greeley, President: Susan
B. Anthony, Editor; Harriet B. Stowe, Vice-President; and myself, Anna C.
Ritchie, Secretary. We call our paper the “Saturday Night,” and we all write
stories and have reports of sermons and of our meetings, and write about the
queens of England. We did not know but you would like to hear this, as the
idea sprang from your book; and we thought we would write, as we liked your
book so much. And now, if it is not too much to ask of you, I wish you would
answer this, as we are very impatient to know if you will write another book; and
please answer soon, as Miss Anthony is going away, and she wishes very much to
hear from you before she does. If you write, please direct to — Street, Brooklyn,
N.Y.
Yours truly,
Alice —
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price, by the Publishers,
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AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL. By Louisa
M. Alcott. With Illustrations. Price $1.50.
“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. Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy are friends in every nursery and school-room,
and even in the parlor and office they are not unknown; for a good story is
interesting to older folks as well, and Miss Alcott carries on her children to manhood
and womanhood, and leaves them only on the wedding-day.”
— Mrs. Sarak
J. Hale in Godey's Ladies' Book.
“We are glad to see that Miss Alcott is becoming naturalized among us as a
writer, and cannot help congratulating ourselves on having done something to
bring about the result. The author of `Little Women' is so manifestly on the
side of all that is `lovely, pure, and of good report' in the life of women, and
writes with such genuine power and humor, and with such a tender charity and
sympathy, that we hail her books with no common pleasure. `An Old-Fashioned
Girl' is a protest from the other side of the Atlantic against the manners of the
creature which we know on this by the name of `the Girl of the Period;' but the
attack is delivered with delicacy as well as force.”
— The London Spectator.
“A charming little book, brimful of the good qualities of intellect and heart
which made `Little Women' so successful. The `Old-Fashioned Girl' carries
with it a teaching specially needed at the present day, and we are glad to know it
is even already a decided and great success.”
— New York Independent.
“Miss Alcott's new story deserves quite as great a success as her famous “Little
Women,” and we dare say will secure it. She has written a book which child
and parent alike ought to read, for it is neither above the comprehension of the one
nor below the taste of the other. Her boys and girls are so fresh, hearty, and natural,
the incidents of her story are so true to life, and the tone is so thoroughly
healthy, that a chapter of the `Old-Fashioned Girl' wakes up the unartificial better
life within us almost as effectually as an hour spent in the company of good, honest,
sprightly children. The Old-Fashioned Girl, Polly Milton, is a delightful
creature!”
— New York Tribune.
“Gladly we welcome the `Old-Fashioned Girl' to heart and home! Joyfully
we herald her progress over the land! Hopefully we look forward to the time
when our young people, following her example, will also be old-fashioned in purity
of heart and simplicity of life, thus brightening like a sunbeam the atmosphers
around them.”
— Providence Journal.
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HOSPITAL SKETCHES AND CAMP AND
FIRESIDE STORIES. By Louisa M. Alcott.
With Illustrations. Price $1.50.
“Miss Alcott performed a brief tour of hospital duty during the late war. Her
career as nurse was terminated by an attack of dangerous illness. But she made
good use of her time, and her sketches of hospital life, if briefer than could be
wished, make up in quality what they lack in quantity. They are, indeed, the most
graphic and natural pictures of life in the great army hospitals that have yet
appeared. Free from all affected sentimentalism, they blend in a strange and
piquant manner the grave and gay, the lively and severe.”
— Phila. Inquirer.
“It is a book which is thoroughly enjoyable, and with which little fault need be
found. It is not a pretentious work, and the author has only aimed at telling the
story of her experience as an army hospital nurse, in an easy, natural style; but the
incidents which she has given us are so varied, — sometimes amusingly humorous
and sometimes tenderly pathetic, — and her narrative is so simple and straight-forward
and truthful, that the reader's attention is chained, and he finds it impossible
to resist the charm of the pleasant, kindly, keen-sighted Nurse Perriwinkle.”
—
Round Table.
“Such is the title of a volume by Miss Louisa M. Alcott, author of `Little
Women,' one of the most charming productions of the day. Miss Alcott is a New
England woman of the best type, — gifted, refined, progressive in her opinions,
heroic, self-sacrificing. She devoted her time and means to the service of her
country in the darkest days of the Rebellion, visiting the camp and the hospital,
devoting herself to the care of the sick and the dying, braving danger and privation
in the sacred cause of humanity. The results of her experience are embodied in
these `Sketches,' which are graphic in narrative, rich in incident, and dramatic
in style. Miss Alcott has a keen sense of the ludicrous, and, while she does not
trifle with her subject, seeks to amuse as well as instruct her reader. She has the
sunniest of tempers, and sees a humorous side even to the sad life of the hospital.”
— San Francisco Bulletin.
“This volume illustrates excellently well the characteristics of Miss Alcott's
talent as a novelist. Her subjects are always portions of her own experience; her
characters always the people she has known, under slight disguises, or strangely
metamorphosed, as may happen, but easily to be recognized by those who have
the key to them. In this she resembles many other writers; but there is a peculiar
blending of this realism with extreme idealization in most of her stories. She
succeeds best — indeed, she only succeeds at all — in her real pictures. Her descriptions
are as faithful and as varied in their fidelity as life itself, so long as she
restricts herself to what she has actually seen and known. When she cleaves to
real experiences, she is sure of her effect; and her success is always greater in
proportion to the depth of the experience she has to portray. For this reason
we have always thought `Hospital Sketches' her best piece of work.”
— Springfield
Republican.
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Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag.
BY LOUISA M. ALCOTT.
Vol. I. Comprising “My Boys,” &c. 16mo. Cloth, gilt.
Price $1.00.
From the London Athenæum.
A collection of fugitive tales and sketches which we should have been sorry to
lose. Miss Alcott's boys and girls are always delightful in her hands. She
throws a loving glamour over them; and she loves them herself so heartily that it
is not possible for the reader to do otherwise. We have found the book very
pleasant to read.
From the New York Tribune.
The large and increasing circle of juveniles who sit enchanted year in and out
round the knees of Miss Alcott will hail with delight the publication of “Aunt
Jo's Scrap-Bag.” The most taking of these taking tales is, to our fancy, “My
Boys;” but all possess the quality which made “Little Women” so widely popular,
and the book will be welcomed and read from Maine to Florida.
Mrs. Hale, in Godey's Lady's Book.
These little stories are in every way worthy of the author of “Little Women.”
They will be read with the sincerest pleasure by thousands of children, and in
that pleasure there will not be a single forbidden ingredient. “My Boys,” which,
opening upon by chance, we read through at a sitting, is charming. Ladislas, the
noble, sweet-tempered Pole, is the original of Laurie, ever to be remembered by
all “Aunt Jo's” readers.
From the Providence Press.
Dear Aunt Jo! You are embalmed in the thoughts and loves of thousands
of little men and little women. Your scrap-bag is rich in its stores of good things.
Pray do not close and put it away quite yet.
This is Louisa Alcott's Christmas tribute to the young people, and it is, like
herself, good. In making selections, “Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag” must not be forgotten.
There will be a vacant place where this little volume is not.
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Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag.
By LOUISA M. ALCOTT.
Vol. II., comprising “Shawl-Straps.”
16mo. Cloth, gilt. Price $1.00.
From the Morning Star.
Nobody expects from Miss Alcott any thing but books of the raciest qualities
and the choicest flavors. This story of her foreign travel, in company with two
female friends, is just as vivacious and unique as any thing previously issued with
her name on the title-page. One may have read the narratives and notes of forty
tourists over the same field, but he cannot afford to neglect this story. He will
find nothing repeated either in substance or form. It is a new vein that is here
worked, and the products are all singularly fresh. It is a rare literary bundle
which these shawl-straps enclose.
Mr. Whipple, in the Boston Globe.
Roberts Brothers have published a small volume the mere announcement of
which is enough to insure its circulation. This volume is “Shawl-Straps,” a
second part of “Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag,” by Louisa M. Alcott, — a name well
known to all “little men,” and “little women,” and “old-fashioned girls,” now
inhabiting the country. The book is a racy, almost rollicking account of the personal
experiences of three American women travelling in France, Switzerland,
Italy, and England.
Miss Alcott carefully abstains from writing what is called a book of travels,
and confines herself to giving an amusing account of what really occurred to
herself and her two companions. Thus, in London, the party devoted much
more time in hunting up Dickens's characters than in visiting “leading objects of
interest.” They nearly succeeded in finding Mrs. Gamp, and actually took “weal
pie and porter” at Mrs. Todger's. The description of Spurgeon and his congregation
is the most life-like we have ever read. Indeed the whole tone of the book
is that of conversation, in which the familiarity of ordinary talk is accompanied
with more than ordinary certainty of phrase, so that her readers may, in some
sense, be said to join the party and become “Shawl-Strappists” themselves. It
may be added that one is never tired of any record of a foreign tour which makes
him or her a companion of the journey; and, as Miss Alcott succeeds in doing
this, the principal objection which will be made to her book is its shortness.
Sold everywhere. Mailed, postpaid, by the Publishers,
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A STORY OF EXPERIENCE.
By LOUISA M. ALCOTT,
Author of “Little Women,” “An Old-Fashioned Girl,
“Little Men.”
With Character Illustrations by Sol Eytinge.
16mo, cloth, gilt. Price $1.75.
Rev. H. W. Beecher, the Editor of the “Christian Union,” says: —
“This week our columns witness a parting which, we believe, will be matter
of regret to thousands of our readers, — between `Christie' and all who have
followed her fortunes in Miss Alcott's serial. We owe to the author our hearty
editorial acknowledgment for the great pleasure, and the something more than
pleasure, which she has furnished to our wide-spread family of readers. With
most of them, we doubt not, her heroine has been `first favorite,' since her
appearance, six months ago. Right well we know that our solemn editorial
preachments, nay, our very best editorial attempts at being wise and witty together,—
with all the learning, poetry, orthodoxy, and heresy of the other departments, —
have been utterly slighted by most readers of the `Christian Union' until they
had eagerly followed the fortunes of Christie and her friends down to the unwelcome
`To be Continued,' until, this week, is reached the still more unwelcome
`The End.'”
The New Bedford “Standard” says: —
“It is seldom that an author can achieve four successive triumphs such as
Miss Alcott has in `Little Women,' `Little Men,' `Old-Fashioned Girl,' and
now in this new candidate for public favor.”
The New York “Mail” says: —
“No novel can be purposeless which brings sunshine into the home or the
heart, and to say that Miss Alcott's books hitherto have been without purpose is
to use the word in very limited meaning. She has done a vast deal of good. But
now she has reached that higher stage of development in which purpose is not
simply a factor, but the chief factor of writing. She would do something more
than entertain, however blessed that in itself be; she would exert her utmost
powers directly in uplifting. That is good for her and for her readers. She is
proving herself even a greater writer than her admirable `Little Women' series
asserts. For that canon of art which rules out work because it is purposeful
restrains the scope of art within too narrow bounds. Purpose is the inspiration
of the highest art.”
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The above picture is one of twenty-seven which illustrate
THE NEW-YEAR'S BARGAIN.
By Susan Coolidge.
The author of this book must soon be exalted in the hearts of children by
the side of Miss Alcott: for it is as original, as quaint, and as charming as
any thing of “Aunt Jo's,” though totally different in character and style.
Max and Thekla, the hero and heroine, live in the famous Black Forest.
Wandering in the woods one day, they came across an old man who was
making some images. This old man was Father Time, and the images were
the twelve months. He had a jar full of sand, — the “sands of time,” — and
Max put some of it in his pocket, when old Father Time wasn't looking, and
carried it home.
This stealing from Time caused a great commotion, though Max contended
that “Time belongs to us all;” but it resulted in a “Bargain,” which
the book will tell you all about.
“The New-Year's Bargain” is an elegant volume, bound in cloth, gilt
and black-lettered, and sells for $1.50.
The new book by the author of “The New Year's Bargain,”
WHAT KATY DID.
A story With Illustrations by Addie Ledyard Price $1.50.
ROBERTS BROTHERS, Publishers, Boston
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