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How in the world is it so slow in getting known?" By LAURA E. RICHARDS. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt top, twenty Illustrations, Is. 6d. net; postage 3d. This is a perfect story, dealing with a picturesque old lighthouse keeper, Captain January, and a baby-girl, Starbright, whom he rescued from drowning, and brought up in his island home with, as he quaintly expressed it, "the Lord's help, common sense, and a cow.' The affection of these two for one another is beautifully expressed. Certainly one of the books that once begun will not be laid down till finished. Over one hundred and thirty thousand of this charming story have been sold. Glasgow Herald.-"The volume is a delightful one, and as pretty as it is delightful." Liverpool Daily Post.-"A charming little romance." C LAURA RICHARD'S WORKS-continued. Teachers and Mothers, here is a Book which will keep the Children Happy and Merry. FIVE-MINUTE STORIES. A Charming Collection of IOI Short Stories and Poems. By LAURA E. RICHARDS, Author of "The Golden Windows," The Silver Crown," etc. With numerous illustrations by E. B. BARRY, A. R. Whelan, and others; many full page. Foolscap 4to, handsome cloth, 5s. A charming collection of a hundred short stories and clever poems for children. The Money Shop, The Two Calls, Buttercup Gold, The Little Dog with the Green Tail, The Boy's Manners, are stories that will be told again and again when once they have been read, but where all is so good it is invidious to make distinctions. These stories have the same winsoreness which characterised "Golden Windows," while at the same time showing the wonderful range of Mrs Richards as a humorous story-teller and inventor of ingenious rhymes. The jingles in this book are as captivating as the immortal lyrics in "Alice in Wonderland." SOME OF THE CONTENTS. BUTTERCUP GOLD. WHAT WAS HER NAME? BY THE FADING LIGHT. NANCY'S NIGHTMARE. A DAY IN THE COUNTRY. THE QUACKY DUCK. THE SINGULAR CHICKEN. A FUNNY FELLOW. 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