She seems to know precisely how they feel, and she sets them before us, living and breathing in her pages.

Flaxie Frizzle is a darling, and her sisters, brothers, and cousins are just the sort of little folks with whom careful mothers would like their boys and girls to associate.

The story is a bright, breezy, wholesome narrative, and it is full of mirth and gayety, while its moral teaching is excellent."-- _Sunday School Times_.
* * * * * FLAXIE'S LITTLE PITCHERS "Little Flaxie will secure a warm place in the hearts of all at once.
Here is her little picture.

Her name was Mary Gray, but they called her Flaxie Frizzle, because she had light curly hair that frizzled; and she had a curly nose,--that is, her nose curled up at the end a wee bit, just enough to make it look cunning.

Her cheeks were rosy red, 'and she was so fat that when Mr.Snow, the postmaster, saw her, he said, "How d'ye do, Mother Bunch ?"'"-- _Boston Home Journal_.
* * * * * SPECIMEN OF CUT TO "FLAXIE FRIZZLE SERIES." [Illustration] "By and by the colts came to the kitchen window, which was open, and put in their noses to ask for something to eat.