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POPULAR NOVELS.

BY

MRS. MARY J. HOLMES.

Tempest and Sunshine.

English Orphans.

Homestead on Hillside.

’Lena Rivers.

Meadow Brook.

Dora Deane.

Cousin Maude.

Marian Grey.

Edith Lyle.

Daisy Thornton.

Chateau d’Or.

Queenie Hetherton (New).

Darkness and Daylight.

Hugh Worthington.

Cameron Pride.

Rose Mather.

Ethelyn’s Mistake.

Milbank.

Edna Browning.

West Lawn.

Mildred.

Forrest House.

Madeline.

Christmas Stories.

“Mrs. Holmes is a peculiarly pleasant and fascinating writer. Her books are always entertaining, and she has the rare faculty of enlisting the sympathy and affections of her readers, and of holding their attention to her pages with deep and absorbing interest.”

All published uniform with this volume. Price $1.50 each. Sold everywhere, and sent free by mail on receipt of price,

BY

G. W. CARLETON & Co., Publishers,

New York.

Eng^d. by Geo E. Perine, N. York

CHRISTMAS STORIES.

BY

MRS. MARY J. HOLMES,

AUTHOR OF

TEMPEST AND SUNSHINE.—DARKNESS AND DAYLIGHT.—MILBANK.—ENGLISH ORPHANS.—’LENA RIVERS.—ETHELYN’S MISTAKE.—HUGH WORTHINGTON.—MADELINE.—WEST LAWN—MARIAN GREY.—EDNA BROWNING, ETC.

WITH A STEEL PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR.

NEW YORK.

G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers.

LONDON: S. LOW, SON & CO.

MDCCCLXXXV.

Copyright, 1884,

By DANIEL HOLMES,

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Stereotyped by

Samuel Stodder,

42 Dey Street, N. Y.

TO

MISS MARY W. JEWETT,

(of Clarkson, N. Y.)

WHO HAS BEEN SO LONG IDENTIFIED

WITH THE

PARISH OF ST. LUKE’S,

AND WHO IS

ALMOST AS MUCH A PART OF THE CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL AS THE CHRISTMAS-TREE ITSELF,

I DEDICATE THESE STORIES,

SOME OF WHICH HAVE IN THEM MORE OF FACT THAN OF FICTION.