A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 188: what you’re looking at

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AN IDEAL GIRLS’ BOOK, Breakneck Farm. By Evelyn Raymond. Although Evelyn Raymond had penned many delightful stories for girls and boys, she has surpassed herself in ‘‘ Breakneck Farm,’’ which tells of the doings of Faith Merriman and her brothers on an old abandoned country place, whither the orphaned family have gone because they have no other roof to shelter them. The trials and triumphs of the young people, thus cast out to earn their own living, are told in a straightforward way calculated to interest any girl or boy. Bound in cloth, 12 mo, printed in colors and gold, fully illustrated. Price, - $1.25. STREET AND SMITH, Wew York and London com (@