" Sylvia Fulton, a little Boston girl, was staying with her father and mother in the beautiful city of Charleston, South Carolina, just before The opening of the Civil War. She had become deeply attached to her new friends, and their chivalrous kindness toward The little northern girl, as well as Sylvia's perilous adventure in Charleston Harbor, and The amusing efforts of the faithful negro girl to become like her young mistress, all tend to make this story one that every little girl will enjoy reading, and from which she will learn of far-off days and of the high ideals of southern honor and northern courage."