Princess Mary's Gift Book
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108
1914
English
- A Holiday in Bed
- The Spy
- Charlie the Cox
- Canada's Word
- Bimbashi Joyce
- The Ant-Lion
- An Angel of God
- A Model Soldier
- The Land of Let's Pretend
- Magepa the Buck
- True Spartan Hearts
- Big Steamers
- A True Story From Camp
- The Ebony Box
- A Spell for a Fairy
- Out of the Jaws of Death: A Scarlet Pimpernel Story
- What Can A Little Chap Do?
- Altogether Different
- The Escape
- Fleur-de-Lis
In 1914, Princess Mary, then 17 years of age, gave her name to this collection of short stories and essays from the most prominent authors of the time for the purpose of raising funds for the "Work For Women Fund". A few of the outstanding authors represented in this sparkling collection are J.M. Barrie with is essay on A Holiday in Bed; A. Conan Doyle; J.H. Fabre the naturalist with his well know description of The Ant-Lion; H. Ryder Haggard; Rudyard Kipling; Alfred Noyes ("A Spell for a Fairy"); Baroness Orczy (yes, that one); and Kate Douglas Wiggin. - Summary by Phil Chenevert
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