Release date is 2025-05-22

The fountain angel / Fanny Barry -- A gallant rescue / R.M. Ballantyne -- Jackie's new dodge / Agnes Giberne -- Joan's adventure / Katherine S. Macquoid -- True to her charge / G.A. Henty -- Christmas Eve with Bruin / Frances Clare -- Pea blossom / Alice Corkran -- How the starling caught cold / Geo. Manville Fenn -- Chéri's second escapade / Mrs. Molesworth -- Neigh-bour's fare / C.M. Yonge -- The giant fishers of Hertzenberg / Mrs. A.M. Goodhart -- Hughie's mistake / H.C. Adams -- The fox family / Fanny Barry -- The story of a silver padlock / Mrs. A.M. Goodhart -- Two church mice / Emma Wood -- The new master / S. Baring-Gould -- Peter / Fanny Barry -- Santa Klaus / Helen Wilmot-Buxton -- Wattie and the wolves / Frances Clare.

Stories Jolly: Stories New: Stories Strange & Stories True: A Series of New and Original Tales for Boys and Girls from Six to Fourteen Years Old is a collection of children’s short stories written in the late 19th century. The anthology gathers varied moral, adventurous, and imaginative tales—by several well-known writers of the period—about courage, kindness, responsibility, and wonder, set from European gardens and cathedrals to stormy coasts and American prairies. The opening of the collection presents a string of self-contained tales: a lame girl, Herminé, befriends a fountain statue that comes alive at night and finds healing in its waters; a lifeboat-obsessed boy, Edwin, secretly joins a rescue during a sudden storm and helps save passengers, including his mother; a boy’s reckless chloroform “experiment” nearly kills his young cousin before timely adult help brings a hard-earned lesson; an impulsive traveler, Joan, wanders onto a cathedral roof and is guided back from real peril; after an attack on a wagon train, Winnie protects toddler Bobby and treks by night to safety; and on Christmas Eve an Italian orphan survives a night in a bear pit by soothing Bruin with his lute, then finds kindness and a new start. The section closes by beginning “Pea Blossom,” in which a boy named Willy is spellbound by a stage fairy, setting up a tale of enchantment. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Originally published: London: Skeffington & Son, 1889