Part 59 (1/2)

I

A List of Mrs Prentiss' Writings, with notices of some of them and the dates of their publication:

1 _Little Susy's Six Birthdays_ 1853

2 _Only a Dandelion, and other Stories_ 1854

The first piece, from which the little book takes its na of the kind written by Mrs

Prentiss Spring Breeze is as fresh and delicate as a May flower The other stories are mostly a selection from her early contributions to The Youth's Companion

3 _Henry and Bessie; or, What they did in the Country_ 1855

4 _Little Susy's Six Teachers_ 1856

5 _Little Susy's Little Servants_ 1856

The three Little Susy books were republished in England, where they see the children as at home Not far from 50,000 copies have been sold in this country

6 _The Flower of the Family_ A Book for Girls 1856

This work has had a wide circulation at home and abroad So is the title-page of one of the French editions:

Le Fleur de La Fae Americain

Cinquieieux

1877

Die Perle der Familie is the Gerhly laudatory notice in the well-known ”Neue Preuss Zeitung”:

In ausserordentlicher lieblicher und sinniger Weise wird uns ein hausliches, schlichtes, von edleefuhrt, das durch seine treffliche Characterschilderung unser lebhaftestes Interesse flir jedes Glied des kinderreichen Hauses in Anspruch nientlichsten Sinne ein Buch fur die Familie

_The Flower of the Fa Heavenward, The Percys, Fred and Maria and Me_,--by Miss Marie Morgenstern, of Gottingen So Heavenward_ mar a little the vivacity of the book; but otherwise her work seems to have been very carefully and well done, and to have met with the warm approval of the German public

7 _Peterchen and Gretchen; or, Tales of Early Childhood_ 1860

This is a translation from the German

8 _The Little Preacher_ 1867

One of the hout the flavor of German peasant life and of the Black Forest But it seems never to have found its way across the sea