And there is heart in these stories , and healthy moral lessons , too . They are written in the author 's most graceful and affecting style , will be read with real pleasure , and , when read , will leave more than momentary impressions . '' -- Brooklyn Union . MOPSA THE FAIRY . A Story . With Eight Illustrations . Price , $ 1.25 . `` Miss Ingelow is , to our mind , the most charming of all living writers for children , and ` Mopsa ' alone ought to give her a kind of pre-emptive right to the love and gratitude of our young folks . It requires genius to conceive a purely imaginary work which must of necessity deal with the supernatural , without running into a mere riot of fantastic absurdity ; but genius Miss Ingelow has , and the story of Jack is as careless and joyous , but as delicate , as a picture of childhood . `` The young people should be grateful to Jean Ingelow and those other noble writers , who , in our day , have taken upon themselves the task of supplying them with literature , if for no other reason , that these writers have saved them from the ineffable didacticism which , till within the last few years , was considered the only food fit for the youthful mind . '' -- Eclectic . Sold everywhere . Mailed , postpaid , by the Publishers . ROBERTS BROTHERS , BOSTON . * * * * * Messrs. Roberts Brothers ' Publications . CASTLE BLAIR : A STORY OF YOUTHFUL DAYS . 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 XXXXX ; and nearly the best description of the next best thing , -- a noble dog , '' says John Ruskin , the distinguished art critic . ''
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