A BOOK FOR GIRLS

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 68, 17 September 1927, Page 21

A BOOK FOR GIRLS

."Emily's Quest", By L. M.Montgomery. Sydney: Cornstalk Publishing Co. .. (Through Angus and Robertson and Co., ,I|td.). :

Girl readers will revel in Mrs. Montgomery's delicate imagery of thought permeating each page •of this novel. "Emily's. Quest" completes tho adventures of Emily of New Moon, and follows on "Emily Climbs," with a nice regard f6r what has happened before. This latest story is! of. the ■ awakening of a girl's fragile soul. It will be found a counterpart to the gradual development of very many young girls with some thought for the finer things of life, girls who delight in Nature and who thoroughly' deserve a lover of the kind of Teddy, Emily,s lover. She-and this handsome friend come to their happiness through many vicissitudes, but she is a better woman, he, a finer man for all the stormy journey. Mr. Carpenter, a friendly old schoolmnstor, proved a great help to Emily in hor writings. Perry Miller, who attains fame n's ft lawyer, and Use BurnJoy, fnnciiiating mad-cap, arc interesting characters. Use, being angry beottUdo nlio ennnot havo Perry, takes Toddy Kent ah hor second-best. She noon ronlluoM tho folly of her selfishriflSfl. Demi I'rlOßt, lover of Emily. Dyril fjlerp itiul' uluiost her husband, ftil<} Kliiily's <]uniut relatives, are exrtflllt»)llj Charflfltor tdudios. This is a doligliUul Ule 01' fllmplo,' homely, nattirfih Joviable yieoplo who help to keep th§ world §fliie'nntl swoot.'

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