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Show A GIRL WHO 'WINS HER WAY. Tho Staying Guest. By Carolyn Wells. With illustrations by W. Granville Smith. Tho Century Co., publishers, Now York. This la a lovely and touching story of a Httlo girl. Ladybird, a quaint and startling but loving and Jovablo child, who comes, unbidden and unwelcome, Into tho homo of her supposed aunts. Ladybird was a "limb." ao an old colored mammy would say; but tho willful elf, whllo upsetting ovcry convention, wins tho hearts of all around her and quickly fascinates tha reader. Then tho real niece comes upon tho 3Cone, many qucor tangles aro ntralghtcncd out, and ovcry ono Is mado happy, for, when it Is discovered that Ladybird ha3 no legal right in their homo, tho elderly women sho has tormented by hor antics discover that sho is really 'tho light of their eyeo and tholr. hearts' Joy. Tho pretty story la told In Carolyn Wolla's wall-known. lntercat-compalllng otyle. Ladybird 1 easily ono of tho cleverest chlld-charnctora In fiction. |