BOOKS SUITABLE FOR WORKING GIRLS.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—I send the enclosed list of books in answer to the letter of "D." in the Spectator of November 28th.—I am, Sir, &c., C.

Pict ion.

Honour Bright ; or, Four-leaved Shamrock NI or N Rags and Tatters Stella Austin The Grey House on the Hill Robbery under Arms R. Boldrewood That Lass o' Lowries Mrs. Burnett The Old. House in the Square A. Weber Little Lord Fauntleroy Uncle Tom's Cabin Mrs. Stowe

The Daisy Chain C. Yonge

Heartsease The Pillars of the House The Heir of Redclyffe Lew Wtalaee Ben Hur Prince of the House of David Ingraham Jane Eyre Charlotte Brenta Rosine Whyte Melville

Sarchedon Or The Gladiators 1/ BauaLlyne The Coral Island

Fighting the Flames Conan'boyle The White Company Wee Willie Winkle Kipling

Elsie Venner Holmes

A Rough Shaking Luck of Roaring Camp Bret Harte A Double Story George Macdonald

Madelon " *jai= Jane Field Pt Jerome 11. Pembroke Robinson Crusoe Defoe Swiss Family Robinson The Young hfarooners

For the Temple Henty The Steam House J. Verne

" Eighties " and "Nineties," of—

Aunt Judy's Magazine Good Words Good Words for the Young hy, Life of Queen Victoria. [There are several Lives. Miss Bailey's is per- haps best suited for the purpose.] Saintly Workers Farrar

7 Travel, &c.

Tales from Shakespeare Lamb Stories from Shakespeare M. Macleod The Book of Games Lucas Every Girl's Book of Games London Besant

Poetry.

Karmion Story Poems Lady of the Lake Alfred Miles's Poems for Recitation Longfellow's Poems Lays of Ancient Rome A. A. Procter's Poems Lyra Heroics Henley (The books whose authors' names are not put are usually published by Messrs. Routledge or Wells Gardner, or are American publications. Where the copyright of authors is not yet out the books could be best obtained as surplus copies from Mudie's or the Grosvenor Library.)

[We have received a number of other letters with lists and suggestions, which we have forwarded to our original correspondent.—En. .Spectator.]

Voyage of the Sunbeam Brassey Farthest North Nansen A Lady's Life inRocky Mountains Bird At Home in the Fiji Islands Cumming Var'011.3.

Woman's Work and Worth Adams Fairy Land of Science Buckley Sinai and Palestine Stanley Talks to Girls Lucy Freeman Sunshine 111 Every Day Life Lucy Freeman Pilgrim's Progress Bunyan The Arabian Nights' Entertainment Wives and Daughters Mrs. Gaskell

Sylvia's Lovers SP

Adam Bede George Eliot Silas Marner Hereward the Wake Chas. Kingsley

Westward Ho! /1 1.9 Two Years Ago

Danesbury House Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Haliburton's Troubles "It is Never Too Late to Mend" Charles Reade

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The Heart of Midlothian Scott Kenilworth Ivanhoe Story of a Short Life Jackanapes Jan of the Windmill Black Beauty Tanglewood Tales Great Expectations Tale of Two Cities Nicholas Nickleby Eight Days Treasure Island Little Women Good Wives Wide Wide World What Katy Did What Katy Did at School Tip-Cat Miss Toosey's Mission

Bound Volumes, Especially of the

Every Girl's Magazine Atalanta Chambers's Journal

Biograp

Sister Dora Story of My Life Helen Keller Life of Charlotte Brontii Mrs. Gaskell From Log Cabin to White House The Talisman Last Days at Pompeii Lytton Dorothy Forster W. Besant Katharine Regina S. Katherine's by the Tower All Sorts and Conditions of Men „ Mrs. Ewing

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Miss”Sewell Hawthorne Dickens

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Forrest Stevenson Alcott

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