MESSRS. ROBERTS BROTHERS' PUBLICATIONS.
AUNT JO'S SCRAP-BAG.
BY LOUISA M. ALCOTT.
Vol. I. Comprising "My Boys," &c. 16mo. Cloth, gilt. Price $1.00.
From the London Athenæum.
A collection of fugitive tales and sketches which we should nave been sorry to lose. Miss Alcott's boys and girls are always delightful in her hands. She throws a loving glamour over them; and she loves them herself so heartily that it is not possible for the reader to do otherwise. We have found the book very pleasant to read.
From the New York Tribune.
The large and increasing circle of juveniles who sit enchanted year in and out round the knees of Miss Alcott will hail with delight the publication of "Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag." The most taking of these taking tales is, to our fancy, "My Boys;" but all possess the quality which made "Little Women" so widely popular, and the book will be welcomed and read from Maine to Florida.
Mrs. Hale, in Godey's Lady's Book.
These little stories are in every way worthy of the author of "Little Women." They will be read with the sincerest pleasure by thousands of children, and in that pleasure there will not be a single forbidden ingredient. "My Boys," which, opening upon by chance, we read through at a sitting, is charming. Ladislas, the noble, sweet-tempered Pole, is the original of Laurie, ever to be remembered by all "Aunt Jo's" readers.
From the Providence Press.
Dear Aunt Jo! You are embalmed in the thoughts and loves of thousands of little men and little women. Your scrap-bag is rich in its stores of good things. Pray do not close and put it away quite yet.
This is Louisa Alcott's Christmas tribute to the young people, and it is, like herself, good. In making selections, "Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag" must not be forgotten. There will be a vacant place where this little volume is not.
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Messrs. Roberts Brothers' Publications.
Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag.
By LOUISA M. ALCOTT.
Vol. II., comprising "Shawl-Straps."
16mo.Cloth, gilt.Price $1.00
From the Morning Star.
Nobody expects from Miss Alcott any thing but books of the raciest qualities and the choicest flavors. This story of her foreign travel, in company with two female friends, is just as vivacious and unique as any thing previously issued with her name on the title-page. One may have read the narratives and notes of forty tourists over the same field, but he cannot afford to neglect this story. He will find nothing repeated either in substance or form. It is a new vein that is here worked, and the products are all singularly fresh. It is a rare literary bundle which these shawl-straps enclose.
Mr. Whipple, in the Boston Globe.
Roberts Brothers have published a small volume the mere announcement of which is enough to insure its circulation. This volume is "Shawl-Straps," a second part of "Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag," by Louisa M. Alcott, — a name well known to all "little men," and "little women," and "old-fashioned girls," now inhabiting the country. The book is a racy, almost rollicking account of the personal experiences of three American women travelling in France, Switzerland, Italy, and England.
Miss Alcott carefully abstains from writing what is called a book of travels, and confines herself to giving an amusing account of what really occurred to herself and her two companions. Thus, in London, the party devoted much more time in hunting up Dickens's characters than in visiting "leading objects of interest." They nearly succeeded in finding Mrs. Gamp, and actually took "weal pie and porter" at Mrs. Todger's. The description of Spurgeon and his congregation is the most life-like we have ever read. Indeed the whole tone of the book is that of conversation, in which the familiarity of ordinary talk is accompanied with more than ordinary certainty of phrase, so that her readers may, in some sense, be said to join the party and become "Shawl-Strappists" themselves. It may be added that one is never tired of any record of a foreign tour which makes him or her a companion of the journey; and, as Miss Alcott succeeds in doing this, the principal objection which will be made to her book is its shortness.
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