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Each chapter begins with a description of the species in question, and then defines its value for man and its therapeutic significance. Modern scientists have not hesitated to declare that the descriptions abound in observations worthy of a scientific inquiring spirit. We are, of course, not absolutely sure that all the contents of the books come from Hildegarde.
He had hitherto hoped that once he reached a bodily age equivalent to his age in years, the grotesque phenomenon which had marked his birth would cease to function. He shuddered. His destiny seemed to him awful, incredible. When he came downstairs Hildegarde was waiting for him. She appeared annoyed, and he wondered if she had at last discovered that there was something amiss.
"Perhaps if you were to tell me what the trouble is, I could help you; or would you rather I would go away and not bother you?" No! Hildegarde, to her own amazement, would rather he stayed. Whereupon, Roger, drawing from his experience of girls, perceived that there was nothing to do but sit and wait till the storm had spent itself.
We have established an overflow bookcase in a cupboard upstairs, and she has just gone up with a load. Ah! here she is. Bell, my dear, Mrs. and Miss Grahame. So kind of them to come and see us!" Bell shook hands warmly, her frank, pleasant face shining with good-will. "I am so glad to see you!" she cried, sitting down by Hildegarde on a pile of Punches.
When dinner was over, and everything "redded up," Hildegarde sent Dame Hartley upstairs to take a nap, and escorted the farmer as far as the barn on his way to the turnip-field. Then, "the coast being clear," she said to herself, "we will prepare for the tree-party."
If you can get any photographs do so. I know how you dislike this sort of work, prying into private affairs, as you call it, but with all these sensational sheets springing up around us, we must keep in line now and then. Do you know anything about Hillars; is he dead or alive? Take all the time you want for the story and send it by mail." "The Princess Hildegarde!" I cried aloud.
"Oh, it's a dungeon!" cried Gertrude, starting back. "Perhaps the floor will give way, and let us down into places with knives and scythes. You remember 'The Dumberdene, Bell?" "No fear, Gertrude," said Hildegarde. "Nothing more horrible than the dining-room is under our feet. But this, this is very mysterious. Can you see anything, Bell?" "I begin to get a faint glimmer," said Bell.
Hildegarde nodded, and pulled off her low shoes; then she tried to think how it would feel to be flung into this mad water. The next moment the wind, which had lulled for an instant, or had it only recoiled to take a fresh spring? the wind rushed out of the darkness, and caught the canoe. It was a breathless struggle, man against the powers of air and of water.
"Now you shall be Kitty, and we will -we will shake hands and be friends, and eat an apple together. Kitty and I always do that when we have had a tiff." So they did; and the apples on that tree were the best apples in the world. "All aboard!" said Roger. "Ay! ay! Captain!" said Hildegarde, cheerily.
*Next to Miss Alcott's famous "Little Women" series they easily rank, and no books that have appeared in recent times may be more safely put into the hands of a bright, intelligent girl than these four "Queen Hildegarde" books. By Laura E. Richards. A companion to "Queen Hildegarde," etc. Illustrated from original designs. Square 16mo, cloth. $1.25.
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