14 GIRLS' SCHOOL AND ADVENTURE SERIES 2/- net. 



Bessie Merchant 



CICELY FROME. The story of a girl, who, a captain's daughter, 

 learns early in life that her father is missing. She goes to Ceylon and 

 has many enthralling adventures, the chief of which is the tracing and 

 rescuing of a stolen baby. Finally, the mystery surrounding her father's 

 disappearance is cleared up. 



Irene Mossop 



WELL PLAYED, JULIANA! Juliana thoroughly enjoyed her first 

 term at school and made good both at work and games. She was beautiful 

 and charming and very wealthy her chief friend was a scholarship girl 

 who had no money and no pretty clothes. In the end an exciting secret 

 was discovered that brought them much happiness. 



PRUNELLA PLAYS THE GAME. Prunella Prendergast was quite 

 unlike the orthodox nervous new girl, and although her elder cousin 

 welcomed her arrival, her younger cousin was jealous of her success at work 

 and games. But the way in which she played the game, won her form- 

 mates' hearts and at the end of her first term one and all voted her a "good 

 sport." 



Mrs. Herbert Martin 



THE LONELIEST GIRL IN THE SCHOOL. The story of the 

 Princess Ottilia, who comes from abroad to live at an English school 

 while her father is travelling. Shy and reserved by nature she soon becomes 

 " the loneliest girl in the school." 



Sibyl B. Owsley 



DULCIE CAPTAINS THE SCHOOL. The story of a shy, diffident 

 girl who was not at all happy when circumstances made her captain. 

 But she faced her difficulties with pluck and came through her dreaded 

 ordeal with flying colours and won the love and respect of the whole 

 school. 



Mary Louise Parker 



PAT OF THE FIFTH. A quite delightful story of schoolgirl life. 

 Pat O'Farrell is really rather a dear and attracts the love of most people 

 she meets, old and young. Girls will enjoy reading about her adventures 

 and the doings of herself and her friends, both boys and girls. 



MOLLIE OF ST. MILDRED'S. Mollie Winfield was one of a 

 family ; Chris. Carstairs was an only child, and somewhat spoilt. Both 

 arrived at St. Mildred's, and girls will enjoy reading about their friendships 

 and their work and their play, and their prowess in games and sport 

 generally. 



H. B. Stowe 



UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. People who were not alive in 1851, when 

 " Uncle Tom's Cabin " was written, will not be able to understand the 

 great excitement caused by this book, both in England and in America ; 

 and when the struggle between those who wished to abolish slavery and 

 those who desired to perpetuate it resulted in the American Civil War. 



