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Commentator: Mary A. Livermore

"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 that I ever read, and nearly the best description of the next best thing--a noble dog."--JOHN RUSKIN.

CASTLE BLAIR

A STORY OF YOUTHFUL DAYS

FLORA L. SHAW

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

MRS. MARY A. LIVERMORE

D. C. HEATH & CO., PUBLISHERS BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO

INTRODUCTION.

I find "Castle Blair" a bright, breezy story for children, most entertainingly told. The scenes are laid in Ireland. A bachelor uncle makes a home at Castle Blair for the children of his brother in India, in the English service, and for an orphaned niece from France, older than her cousins, who becomes the mistress of the house. She is educated and is altogether charming, possesses French tact and adaptability, is very fond of children, and lives out her motto, "Peace on earth, and good will toward men." The children from India are utterly untrained, high-spirited, and lawless, but are good-hearted, very capable, and innately noble. These, with the benignant bachelor uncle, absorbed in making collections of antiques and curios, and his disagreeable agent, Plunkett, who manages the estate, and is hard and unlovely, are the main characters of the story. Everything ends happily, the tone of the story is uplifting, and the young people who read "Castle Blair" will not only be charmed with it, but will be made happier and better for having read it.

MARY A. LIVERMORE.

MELROSE, September 22, 1902.

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