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FIVE MINUTE STORIES


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Books by Laura E. Richards


=STEPPING WESTWARD=

    This charming autobiography by the daughter of Julia
    Ward Howe and Samuel Gridley Howe is replete with
    amusing anecdotes and portraits, especially of famous
    literary figures of Boston. It epitomizes a long and
    useful life. Illustrated. $3.00


=FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE=

    The absorbing story of “The Angel of the Crimea” told
    by the daughter of the person most responsible for
    encouraging Miss Nightingale to become a nurse.     $1.75


=JOAN OF ARC=

    The stirring life and pathetic death of Domremy’s
    girlish heroine, who once saved France and today
    inspires it.                                        $2.00


=ELIZABETH FRY=

    The true story of Elizabeth Fry, the famous Quakeress,
    who through extraordinary zeal revolutionized the
    English prison system and was known as the “Angel of
    the Prisons.”                                       $1.75


ABIGAIL ADAMS AND HER TIMES

    A biography of the interesting and active wife of
    John Adams, based upon her own diaries and letters
    and contemporary records, and told in Mrs. Richard’s
    delightful style.                                   $2.00


=LAURA BRIDGMAN=

    The famous American woman who though stricken blind and
    deaf led such a wonderfully rich and helpful life is
    the subject of this biography.                      $2.00


=SAMUEL GRIDLEY HOW