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THE LILLIAN GARIS BOOKS "Lilian Garis is one of the writers who always wrote, She expressed herself in verse from early school days and it was then predicted that Lilian Mack would one day become a writer. Justifying this sentiment, while still in high school, she took charge of the woman's page for a city paper and her work there attracted such favorable attention that she left school to take entire charge of woman's work for the largest daily in an important Eastern city. Mrs. Garis turned to girls' books directly after her marriage, and of these she has written many. She believes in girls, studies them, and depicts them with pen both skilled and sympathetic. "* "Among her 'fan' letters Lillian Garis receives some flattering testimonials of her girl readers' interest in her stories. From a class of thirty comes a vote of twenty-five naming her as their favorite author/ Perhaps in is the element of live mystery that Mrs. Garis always builds her stories upon, or perhaps it is because the girls easily can translate her own sincere interest in themselves from the stories. At any rate, her books prosper through the changing conditions of these times, giving pleasure, satisfaction, and, incidentally, that tactful word of inspiration, so important in literature for young girls. Mrs. Garis prefers to call her books 'juvenile novels' and in them romance is never lacking."**
A GIRL CALLED TED
TED AND TONY, TWO GIRLS OF TODAY JUDY JORDAN JUDY JORDAN'S DISCOVERY Sources: Advertisement inside wrapper of The Bobbsey Twins at Snow Lodge, by Laura Lee Hope, Illustrated by ???. Grosset & Dunlap. New York. 1913
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