Fifty-Two Stories For Girls   By: Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles (1848-1929)

FIFTY TWO STORIES FOR GIRLS

Edited by ALFRED H. MILES

[Illustration: Inter Folia Fructus]

NEW YORK AND LONDON D. APPLETON & CO. 1912

Published September, 1905

Printed in the United States of America

TABLE OF AUTHORS.

EVELYN EVERETT GREEN SARAH DOUDNEY ARMAND CAUMONT ALICE F. JACKSON NELLIE HOLDERNESS MARGARET WATSON JENNIE CHAPPELL MARION DICKEN LUCY HARDY MARIE DELBRASSINE HELEN BOURCHIER NORA RYEMAN KATE GODKIN LUCIE E. JACKSON MAUD HEIGHINGTON DOROTHY PINHO GORDON STABLES, M.D., R.N. ROBERT OVERTON CLUCAS JOUGHIN ALBERT E. HOOPER CHARLES E. PEARCE S. LE SOTGILLE H. G. BELL THOMAS ARCHER ALFRED G. SAYERS ROBERT GUILLEMARD F. B. FORESTER ALFRED H. MILES

AND OTHER WRITERS.

INDEX.

SCHOOL AND HOME.

SUBJECT AUTHOR PAGE

GLORIA DENE'S SCHOOLFELLOWS: Nora Ryeman I. NARDA: THE NIGHTINGALE " 11 II. ESTELLA: THE HEIRESS " 16 III. MAURA: THE MUNIFICENT " 22 IV. MARGOT: THE MARTYR " 29 V. IRENE: THE SNOW FLOWER " 35 VI. NADINE: THE PRINCESS " 39

MY YEAR AT SCHOOL Margaret Watson 48

THE SILVER STAR Nellie Holderness 57

UNCLE TONE Kate Godkin 67

A NIGHT ON THE ROAD Margaret Watson 77

THE MISSING LETTER Jennie Chappell 83

"THE COLONEL" Marion Dicken 93

NETTIE Alfred G. Sayers 97

THE MAGIC CABINET Albert E. Hooper 103

GIRLHOOD AND YOUTH.

ONLY TIM Sarah Doudney 121

SMITH'S SISTER Robert Overton 139

THE COLONEL'S BOY H. Hervey 148

'TWIXT LIFE AND DEATH Clucas Joughin 155

ROSE'S BIRTHDAY PRESENT Marie E. C. Delbrassine 164

DOLLY HARDCASTLE'S ROSEBUDS Charles E. Pearce 171

A TALE OF SIMLA Dr. Helen Bourchier 177

THE TREVERN TREASURE Lucy Hardy 189

A MEMORABLE DAY Sarah Doudney 196

DORA Alfred H. Miles 202

LITTLE PEACE Nora Ryeman 211

THE STORY OF WASSILI AND DARIA Robert Guillemard 215

PLUCK, PERIL, AND ADVENTURE.

MARJORIE MAY Evelyn Everett Green 225

FOURTH COUSINS Gordon Stables, M.D., R.N. 238

THE PEDLAR'S PACK Lucie E. Jackson 245

THE UNBIDDEN GUEST F. B. Forester 264

THE WRECK OF THE MAY QUEEN Alice F. Jackson 275

ADRIFT ON THE PACIFIC " 285

A STRANGE VISITOR Maud Heighington 295

THE THIRD PERSON SINGULAR Lucy Hardy 301

"HOW JACK MINDED THE BABY" Dorothy Pinho 307

MY GRANDMOTHER'S ADVENTURE Alfred H. Miles 310

A TERRIBLE CHRISTMAS EVE Lucie E. Jackson 315

A NIGHT OF HORROR Alfred H. Miles 326

AUNT GRIEVES' SILVER Lucie E. Jackson 329

BILLJIM S. Le Sotgille 341

IN THE WORLD OF FAERY.