Books: Poor Little Rich Girl

JULIA NEWBERRY'S DIARY—Introduction by Margaret Ayer Barnes & Janet Ayer Fairbank—Norton ($2.50).

"I have been twice to Florida, & three times to Europe. I have been to two boarding-schools, & gained a great many friends in diffirent ways. ... I have learned how to faint, & have inheirited a fortune. Have been through a long illness & had a terrible sorrow! And I might have been married if I had choosen . . . I have never sworn eternal friendship to anyone, nor written poetry since I was eleven years old." On her...

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