Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad (The Aunt Jane's Nieces Series, Book 2)

Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co, 1912. 7th Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Circa 1912, seventh printing, binding C (Bienvenue p. 315-316). No jacket. Page ridges abraded, ink name on front free endpaper. 347 pp. 12 pages of publisher ads follow text. Number 2 in series. Juvenile novel written pseudonymously by L. Frank Baum (author of Oz series). The second book in the Aunt Jane's series picks up where the first left off. The eccentric and down-to-earth millionaire John Merrick decides to take his three beloved nieces - Patsy Doyle, Elizabeth de Graf, and Louise Merrick - on a tour of Europe. The parents of the three girls (truncated) react variously, but don't oppose the trip; Mrs. Merrick, Louise's mother, wants to accompany them as chaperone, a prospect that Uncle John rejects out of hand. Still, Mrs. Merrick allows her daughter to go; she wants to separate Louise from Arthur Weldon, the young man who has been courting her. (The social-climbing Mrs. Merrick is desperate for Louise to land a rich husband. Weldon's father is a wealthy railroad magnate, but the father and son are in a clash of generations and the elder Weldon threatens to disown the younger).--Wikipedia (Inventory #: 2317166)