BY FLORA L. SHAW . 16mo . Cloth . Price $ 1.00 `` There is quite a lovely little book just come out about children , -- ` Castle Blair ! ' ... The book is good , and lovely , and true , having the best description of a noble child in it -LRB- Winnie -RRB- that I ever read ; and nearly the best description of the next best thing , -- a noble dog , '' says John Ruskin , the distinguished art critic . '' ` Castle Blair , ' a story of youthful days , by Flora L. Shaw , is an Irish story . A charming young girl -- half French , half English -- comes from France , at the age of eighteen , to live with her bachelor uncle at Castle Blair , which is in possession of five children of an absent brother of this uncle . The children are in a somewhat wild and undisciplined condition , but they are as interesting children as can be imagined , and some of them winning to an extraordinary degree . They are natural children , in manner and in talk ; but the book differs from some American books about children , in that it is pervaded by an air of refinement and good-breeding . The story is altogether delightful , quite worthy , from an American point of view , of all Mr. Ruskin says of it ; and if circulation were determined by merit , it would speedily outstrip a good many now popular children 's books which have a vein of commonness , if not of vulgarity . '' -- Hartford Courant . `` It is not too much to say that nothing more interesting or more wholesome is offered this year for older boys and girls . It is a charming story , in which the author has delineated character as carefully , and with as keen an artistic sense , as if she had been writing a novel . Her book is a novel , indeed , with children and the lives of children , instead of men and women and their lives , for its theme . '' -- New York Evening Post . Our publications are to be had of all Booksellers . When not to be found , send directly to ROBERTS BROTHERS , PUBLISHERS ,  BOSTON . * * * * * Messrs. Roberts Brothers ' Publications . NELLY 'S SILVER MINE . BY H. H. With Illustrations .
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