Annie Elizabeth Harris. Hale Merrill’s Honey Quest. How One Girl Made the Best of Things. Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1918.
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Annie Elizabeth Harris. Hale Merrill’s Honey Quest. How One Girl Made the Best of Things. Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1918.
Gilbert Haven. Our Next Door Neighbor. Winter In Mexico. New York, Harper, 1875.
I’m dreaming about winter in Mexico today, because I’m going to Mexico on Feb. 13th. It would be an understatement to say that I’m excited. My girlfriend and her husband lived in Mexico for 11 years, but her husband died two years ago and she moved back to my city. She’s finally sold her home in Jacotopec and we’re going down to pack up the last of her things. We’ll also do a few other things that might be more touristy, but we’ll see what comes our way. I’ve never been to Mexico, nor had a winter holiday in the south so I don’t care what we do, as long as there’s no snow involved, I’ll be happy.
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Bayard Taylor. Boys of other Countries. Illustrated by Frederick Coburn (and others) New York, London, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1912.
Beatrice Harraden. Things Will Take a Turn. New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1898.
Stella G.S. Perry. Girl’s Nest. New York, Frederick A. Stokes company, 1918.
Eliza Horn White. The Strange Year. Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Co., c1920.
I don’t know the plot of this book, but the title sums up how I feel about 2019. Here’s to a better 2020.
Josephine Daskum Bacon. The Luck O’Lady Joan. Illustrated by Clara Williams. Chicago, F. G. Browne & co., 1913.
Kate Whiting Patch. Old Lady and Young Laddie. Illustrations by Bertha G. Davidson. Boston, J.H. West company, c1900
Maud Humphrey, Artist with verses by Edith M. Thomas. New York, F. A. Stokes & brother, 1888.
Is it me, or is that cover totally creepy? I think it’s meant to be a 3D example of one of the book’s sweet, cherub-like little girls, but the idea obviously went sideways at some point and never recovered. The child on that cover has dead, cold, unfeeling eyes and looks downright demonic to me. What’s she hiding with that arm behind her back, and why does she appear to be stroking a mustache? She also has an odd, plastic lustre that doesn’t do a thing for her complexion, but it does increase the creep content of her countenance.
I’ve put the book’s three full-colour plates below the fold. They’re charming in that Victorian way, but I do find their over-sized eyes a tad off-puttingly weird. Nothing like the little Demon Queen on the cover, though. She Shines!
Margaret Love Sanderson. Captain Becky’s Winter Cruise. Chicago, The Reilly & Britton Co., 1912.
I think Captain Becky looks decidedly underdressed for a winter cruise, and that hat will fly away with the first breeze.
John Howard Jewett. Little Christmas. Illustrated by Anna Milo Upjohn. New York, F. A. Stokes company. 1906
