Irma in Italy: A Travel Story
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_A Story for Younger Girls_
IRMA AND NAP
By HELEN LEAH REED
Author of "Amy in Acadia," The "Brenda" Books, etc.
Illustrated by Clara E. Atwood. 12mo. $1.25
A brightly written story about children from eleven to thirteen years ofage, who live in a suburban town, and attend a public grammar school.The book is full of incident of school and home life.
The story deals with real life, and is told in the simple andnatural style which characterized Miss Reed's popular "Brenda"stories.--_Washington Post._
There are little people in this sweetly written story with whom all willfeel at once that they have been long acquainted, so real do they seem,as well as their plans, their play, and their school and home andeveryday life.--_Boston Courier._
Her children are real; her style also is natural and pleasing.--_TheOutlook_, New York.
Miss Reed's children are perfectly natural and act as real girls wouldunder the same circumstances. Nap is a lively little dog, who takes animportant part in the development of the story.--_Christian Register_,Boston.
A clever story, not a bit preachy, but with much influence for rightliving in evidence throughout.--_Chicago Evening Post._
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