She did it beautifully, with graceful vines trailing over it, and golden butterflies ready to alight on sprays of lovely flowers.

Sometimes the neighbors thought it would be a fine thing if she would keep her little ones at home rather more; but, if she had done that, she could not have painted china.'"-- _Chicago Tribune_.
* * * * * FLAXIE GROWING UP.
"No more charming stories for the little ones were ever written than those comprised in the three series which have for several years past been from time to time added to juvenile literature by SOPHIE MAY.

They have received the unqualified praise of many of the most practical scholars of New England for their charming simplicity and purity of sentiment.

The delightful story shows the gradual improvement of dear little Flaxie's character under the various disciplines of child-life and the sweet influence of a good and happy home.

The illustrations are charming pictures."-- _Home Journal_.
* * * * * ILLUSTRATION TO "FLAXIE GROWING UP." [Illustration] "Laughing was the very mainspring of life at Camp Comfort; but the girls had never laughed yet as they did now, to see Buttons in full swing preparing to cook a pie." * * * * * PENN SHIRLEY'S STORIES FOR THE LITTLE ONES Miss Penn Shirley is a very graceful interpreter of child-life.