The Motor Maids in Fair Japan

by Katherine Stokes, 1stworld Library (Editor)

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - "The Motor Maids are off again," announced the West Haven Courier one morning, as if every citizen in the gray old town on the coast was not already well aware of it. The four famous travelers and their chaperone, Miss Helen Campbell, were always off somewhere in the red motor car. If they were not making a voyage to England with the "Comet" stored in the hold of the ship for immediate use on arrival, or taking perilous journeys across the American continent in the faithful car, they were making excursions to Shell Island or Seven League Island, or down the coast to the Sailors' Inn. "Where is it to be this time, Nancy-Bell?" Captain Brown had asked his daughter when she had broken the news to him that she must give up the spring term at High School for something far more educational than mere books. Perhaps the sea captain had intended to be stern when he asked that question; but Nancy had her own peculiar methods of dispelling sternness. A beaming anticipatory smile irradiated her face and scattered parental disapproval even as the warm rays of the sun scatter the morning mists.

212 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1913

Reviews

[M Gowans]

Interesting book from 1913. Fairly well written and with a bit of a detective type plot. Good book for anyone who likes historic girls fiction.

[Jennifer Booth]

A quaint look of travel from another time

First off, girls who travel in foreign land was described as more of a lark than an exchange of thought. Second, they seemed a little preoccupied with their ideas of what a young woman should think. Third it was fun to read.