Duodecimo gilt and pictorial decorated beige cloth with gilt spine label panel (slightly marked) 80pp +16p of publisher's pictorial catalogue advertising the 1888 issue of their magazines and annuals. Presentation inscription from the Wesleyan Sabbath School. Eleven short stories including several of missionary children and orphans taken in by the missions in India and Africa. A neat tight copy. No author suggested by the 4 libraries having this title but all agree the date 1888/9.