QIRL8' SCHOOL AND ADVENTURE SERIES 2 - nt. 13 



Marjorie Bevan 



FIVE OF THE FOURTH. A very merry little quartette were gathered 

 in the Recreation Room on the first day of the Summer Term ; and in 

 dismissing their plans wore quite determined that no one should be allowed 

 to share, or spoil, their companionship. But Peggy Lawson, a new, shy 

 girl, intrudes, with the result that they have more fun and adventures 

 than ever. 



THE PRIORY LEAGUE. The old school is in danger of being sold 

 because there is no money for repairs. There is an old legend that when 

 the Danes invaded England and sacked the Priory, the founder had 

 hidden some of her treasures. Several of the girls band themselves into 

 a " League," determined to find the long-lost riches. Their adventures 

 and what happened in the end make a truly exciting story. 



Jennie Chappell 



AILSA'S CHUM. A deeply-moving girl's story. Life proceeds happily 

 and unevenly in the Brereton household until there comes a railway- 

 accident and a strange baby is thrust upon the family. Soon after com- 

 plications begin, and a fine story is unravelled. The story closes with 

 the reunion of two lovers long parted and lost to one another through 

 misunderstanding. 



GLADWYN. This book is described by the author as " a circle of fortune," 

 and concerns the adventures of Gladwyn, heiress to a worthless estate. 

 How she faces his difficulties and goes to London and finally finds much 

 love and happiness is told with a swinging style. 



M. De Witt 



AN ONLY SISTER. Elizabeth and Marc, and Pierre and Henri, were 

 the children of a French gentleman who fell on evil times. After his 

 death the four had a desperate struggle to live, and it was the sister who 

 bore the heaviest burden. But fortune smiled on them at last. 



Enid Leigh Hunt 



HAZELHURST. Here you have the story of a charming " nut-brown 

 mayde," the youngest of a family, the others all being boys ; a delightful 

 group of brothers, who make much of their young sister. There is also 

 someone else, not a brother, but equally delightful and interesting. A 

 book to charm and delight all girls. 



THE ADVENT OF ARTHUR. Joyce Dayrell and her brother, 

 Jocelyn, in the absence of their father abroad, have to live with relations, 

 who are hard and unsympathetic. Sister and brother decide to go away 

 and fend for themselves. Joyce becomes a teacher in a school, but life 

 is often hard and dreary until " Arthur " comes. 



Bertha Leonard 



THE HOUSE OF DOUG. Judith Douglas is the middle member of 

 a lively, rollicking family. Full of life and spirit, and mischief, she is an 

 incorrigible tease, but adored by all the others. There is tremendous 

 excitement when their father inherits a lovely old mansion, with old 

 oak, ancestral portraits, traditions and ghost all complete. 



