AMERICAN AUTHORS

BY

'GIRLS WHO

SARAH K. BOLTON

AUTHOR OF POOR BOYS WHO BECAME FAMOUS,"
BECAME FAMOUS,' STORIES FROM LIFE,"
ETC., ETC.

"TALENT alone cannot make a writer. There must be
a man behind the book."- EMERSON.

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individuals and individual minds, all autobiographies and
the like. This is my favorite reading." - LONGFELLOW.

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