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Dare,’ will be warmly welcomed by hosts of readers of Miss Townsend’s stories. There is nothing of the ‘sensational,’ or so called realistic, school in her writings. On the contrary, they are noted for their healthy moral tone and pure sentiment, and yet are not wanting in STRIKING SITUATIONS AND DRAMATIC INCIDENTS”— Chicago Journal LENOX DARE. “Her stories, always sunny and healthful, touch the springs of social life and make the reader better acquainted with this great human organization of which we all form a part, and tend to bring him into more intimate sympathy with what is most pure and noble in our nature. Among the best of her productions we place the volume here under notice. In temper and tone the volume is calculated to exert a healthful and elevating influence”— New England Methodist DARYLL GAP; or, Whether it Paid. A story of the petroleum days, and of a family who struck oil. “Miss Townsend is a very entertaining writer, and, while she entertains, at the same time instructs. Her plots are well arranged, and her characters are clearly and strongly drawn. The present volume will not detract from the reputation she has heretofore enjoyed.”— Pittsburg Recorder A WOMAN’S WORD, AND HOW SHE KEPT IT. “The celebrity of Virginia F Townsend as an authoress, her brilliant descriptive powers, and pure, vigorous imagination, will insure a hearty welcome for the above entitled volume in the writer’s happiest vein. Every woman will understand the self sacrifice of Genevieve Wen, and will entertain only scorn for the miserable man who imbittered her life to hide his own wrong doing”— Fashion Quarterly THAT QUEER GIRL. “A fresh, wholesome book about good men and good women, bright and cheery in style, and pure in morals. Just the book to take a young girl’s fancy, and help her to grow up, like Madeline and Argia, into the sweetness of real girlhood, there being more of that same sweetness under the fuss and feathers of the present day than a casual observer might suppose”— People’s Monthly ONLY GIRLS. “This volume shows how two persons, ‘only girls,’ saved two men from crime, even from ruin of body and soul, and all this came about in their lives without their purpose or knowledge at the time, and not at all as they or anybody else would have planned it, but it comes about well