Robert overhears the old aunt , Isabel , call him a total failure , but , at the family dinner , one after another stands up and tells how Robert 's quiet influence and unselfish aid had started them in their brilliant careers , and the old aunt , wiping the tears from her eyes , exclaims : `` I guess there 's a kind of failure that 's the best success . '' In one story there is an element of the supernatural , when Hester , the hard older sister , comes between Margaret and her lover and , dying , makes her promise never to become Hugh Blair 's wife , but she comes back and unites them . In this , Margaret , just like the delightful Anne , lives up to the dictum that `` nothing matters in all God 's universe except love . '' The story of the revival at Avonlea has also a good moral . There is something in these continued Chronicles of Avonlea , like the delicate art which has made `` Cranford '' a classic : the characters are so homely and homelike and yet tinged with beautiful romance ! You feel that you are made familiar with a real town and its real inhabitants ; you learn to love them and sympathize with them . Further Chronicles of Avonlea is a book to read ; and to know . NATHAN HASKELL DOLE . CONTENTS I. Aunt Cynthia 's Persian Cat II . The Materializing of Cecil III . Her Father 's Daughter IV . Jane 's Baby V . The Dream-Child VI . The Brother Who Failed VII . The Return of Hester VIII . The Little Brown Book of Miss Emily IX . Sara 's Way X . The Son of His Mother XI . The Education of Betty XII . In Her Selfless Mood XIII .
The Conscience Case XXXXX David Bell XIV .
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