Excerpt from A List of the Elsie Books and Other Popular Books Some years have now elapsed since my little heroine elsie dinsmore made her debut into the great world. She was sent out with many an anxious thought regarding the reception that might await her there. But she was kindly wel comed, and such has been the favor shown her ever since that Publishers and Author have felt encouraged to prepare a new volume in which will be found the story of those years that have carried Elsie on from childhood to womanhood - the years in which her character was developing, and mind and body were growing and strengthening for the real work and battle of life. May my readers who have admired and loved her as a child find her still more charming in her fresh young girlhood; may she prove to all a pleas ant companion and friend; and to those of them now treading the same portion of life's pathway a useful example also, particularly in her filial love and obedience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.