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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3076, 22 December 1908, Page 6

WARD, LOCK & GO'S NEW BOOKS FOR XMAS SEASON. EW successful Bock of Australian " DAYS THAT SPEAK," By Evelyn Goode. Cloth Gilt, illustrated, 2/G, Postage Gd Adelaide "Register" says: " Sure of a splendidly hearty welcome. . • admirably adapted for reading aloud in 13e family circle. . . author has the rate gift of writing dialogue. . . She is to be thanked for good work." Splendid New Story for Australian Girls—- " PARADISE AND THE PERRYS." A uthor of "An Australian Lassie," " Betty the Scribe," etc. Cloth Gilt, Illustrated, 2/6, Postage Gd Melbourne "Argus" says—" We are glad to have a simple, wholesome, restful writer like Lilian Turner upon whom to fall back for stories for our growing girls to read " 1908-9 Volume The Children WILL have it. WARD, LOCK & CO's " WONDER BOOK," A Picture Annual for Boys and Girls. Crown 4to, picture Boards, 3/6, in hand some cloth gilt binding, 5/-. postage Is. Eight Pull-Page Plates in Colour, beautifully reproduced from paintings by leading artists of the day. 25G Pages of Brightly-written Stories, Articles and Verses, for children of all sorts and ages. Upwards of 300 illustrations, printed in Child Life— By Lilian Turner. various tints.

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