...t years of age and the last one in her eighty-third year. Mary B. Carret, whose childhood was spent alternately between the Island of Cuba and the Royall House, wrote, in 1899, The Little Hero of Matanzas . Louise Winsor Brooks made one of the wisest and most delightful books for children ever written, accessible to English readers by translating Heidi from the German of Johanna Spyri. She also t...