“Genius comes in with ‘Little Prudy.’  Compared with her, all other book-children are cold creations of literature; she alone is the real thing.  All the quaintness of children, its originality, its tenderness and its teasing, is infinite uncommon drollery, the serious earnestness of its fun, the fun of its seriousness, the naturalness of its plays, and the delicious oddity of its progress, all these united for dear Little Prudy to embody them.”—­North American Review.

SPECIMEN CUT TO “LITTLE PRUDY’S FLYAWAY SERIES.”

[Illustration:  PRUDY KEEPING HOUSE.]

“‘My, what a fascinating creature,’ said the Man in the Moon, making an eye-glass with his thumb and fore-finger, and gazing at the lady boarder.  ‘Are you a widow woman?’”

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LITTLE GRANDMOTHER.

“Grandmother Parlen when a little girl is the subject.  Of course that was ever so long ago, when there were no lucifer matches, and steel and tinder were used to light fires; when soda and saleratus had never been heard of, but people made their pearl ash by soaking burnt crackers in water; when the dressmaker and the tailor and the shoemaker went from house to house twice a year to make the dresses and coats of the family.”—­Transcript.

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LITTLE GRANDFATHER.

“The story of Grandfather Parlen’s little boy life, of the days of knee breeches and cocked hats, full of odd incidents, queer and quaint sayings, and the customs of ‘ye olden time.’  These stories of SOPHIE MAY’S are so charmingly written that older folks may well amuse themselves by reading them.  The same warm sympathy with childhood, the earnest naturalness, the novel charm of the preceding volumes will be found in this.”—­Christian Messenger.

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MISS THISTLEDOWN.

“One of the queerest of the Prudy family.  Read the chapter heads and you will see just how much fun there must be in it.  ‘Fly’s Heart,’ ’Taking a Nap,’ ‘Going to the Fair,’ ‘The Dimple Dot,’ ‘The Hole in the Home,’ ‘The Little Bachelor,’ ‘Fly’s Bluebeard,’ ‘Playing Mamma,’ ’Butter Spots,’ ‘Polly’s Secret,’ ‘The Snow Man,’ ’The Owl and the Humming-bird,’ ‘Tales of Hunting Deer,’ and ‘The Parlen Patchwork.’”

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ILLUSTRATION TO “LITTLE PRUDY’S FLYAWAY SERIES”

[Illustration:  LITTLE GRANDMOTHER.]

“She played in the old garret, with Dr. Moses to attend her dolls when they were sick.”

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[Illustration:  SIX VOLUMES:  PER VOLUME, 75 CENTS.]

FLAXIE FRIZZLE.        TWIN COUSINS. 
DOCTOR PAPA.           FLAXIE’S KITTYLEEN. 
LITTLE PITCHERS.       FLAXIE GROWING UP.
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ILLUSTRATION TO “FLAXIE FRIZZLE SERIES.”