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"The best original novel that has appeared in this country for many years."—Phil. Press.
PRESS NOTICES.
"The publication of a story like 'That Lass o' Lowrie's' is a red-letter day in the world of literature."—N. Y. Herald.
"We know of no more powerful work from a woman's hand in the English language, not even excepting the best of George Eliot's."—Boston Transcript.
"It creates a sensation among book readers."—Hartford Times.
"The novel is one of the very best of recent fictions, and the novelist is hereafter a person of rank and consideration in letters."—Hartford Courant.
The author might have named her book 'Joan Lowrie, Lady,' and it is worthy a place in the family library beside Miss Muloch's 'John Halifax, Gentleman,' and George Eliot's 'Adam Bede.'"—Boston Watchman.
"The story is one of mark, and let none of our readers who enjoy the truest artistic work overlook it."—Congregationalist.
"Is written with great dramatic power."—N. Y. Observer.
"Of absorbing interest, and is as unique in its style and its incidents as it is entertaining."—Worcester Spy.
"It is a tale of English pit-life, and graphic, absorbing, irresistible, from first page to last."—Boston Commonwealth.
"It is a healthy, vigorous story, such as would find a warm welcome in any household."—Baltimore Bulletin.
"Unlike most of the current works of fiction, this novel is a study. It cannot be sifted at a glance, nor fully understood at a single reading, so fruitful and comprehensive is its word and character painting."—Boston Post.
Price, Paper Covers, 90 cents; or $1.50 Extra Cloth.
A NEW BOOK
By the Author of "That Lass o' Lowrie's."
AND OTHER STORIES.
By MRS. FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT,
Author of "That Lass o' Lowrie's."
One volume, small 12mo. Cloth extra, $1.25.
The volume includes eight of Mrs. Burnett's shorter stories which have appeared in the magazines during the last few years. It is needless to say that these have been among the most popular tales that have lately been written. Surly Tim (told in Lancashire dialect), which gives the title to the book, is perhaps better known than any short story yet published in Scribner's.
The present collection, including Esmeralda, Lodusky, Le Monsieur de la Petite Dame, etc., shows that the author can be successful in other scenes than those, the treatment of which has gained her so much critical praise and such wide popularity.
CRITICAL NOTICES.
"They are powerful and pathetic stories, and will touch the sympathies of all readers."—The Commonwealth, Boston.
"A good service has been rendered to all lovers of good fiction by the publication of these stories in this permanent form."—The Evening Mail.
Mrs. Burnett has made for herself a reputation which places her in the front rank of female novelists."—The Baptist Weekly.
"The authoress has taken her place as one of the best novelists of our time, and these stories are interesting as showing the steps up which she has ascended to her acknowledged eminence."—The Advance.
Each of these narratives have a distinct spirit, and can be profitably read by all classes of people. They are told not only with true art but with deep pathos."—Boston Post.
"The stories collected in the present volume are uncommonly vigorous and truthful tones of human nature."—Chicago Tribune.
"Each story is very readable, and the whole volume will be well received as it well deserves."—The Chi. Instructor, Phila.
By the author of "That Lass o' Lowrie's."
The Authorised Edition
—OF—
MRS. FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT'S
EARLIER STORIES.
Each 1 Vol. 16mo, paper.
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Lindsay's Luck,30|Pretty Polly Pemberton, 40
Kathleen, 40|Theo,30
Miss Crespigny, 30 Cents.
"If these are youthful stories, we will vouch for it that the public would enjoy a few more examples of such precocious, but at the same time exquisite talent."—Boston Courier.
"Mrs. Burnett's earlier stories are fresh and charming and well worth this more convenient and permanent shape."—Chicago Interior.
"The stories are altogether too good to be lost, and as amended, have a peculiar charm—blending the freshness of early work with the skill and nicety of work matured."—Philadelphia Times.
"These earlier works have a peculiar charm as indications of the genius that has come to so excellent a fruition."—N. Y. Express.
"One of the ablest of recent American novels, and indeed of all recent works of fiction."—London Spectator
ROXY.
BY
Author of "The Hoosier Schoolmaster." "Circuit Rider," Etc.
One volume, 12mo, cloth, with Twelve full-page Illustrations from
original designs by Mr. Walter Shirlaw.
Price, . . . $1.50.
"'Roxy' may be accepted as the latest example of a purely American novel, and to say the least, one of the very best."—New York Tribune.
"In this novel Mr. Eggleston's powers appear at their best and amplest, and he has accomplished the by no means easy task of excelling himself."—Boston Journal.
"There can be no doubt whatever that 'Roxy' is the best product of Dr. Eggleston's activity in the field of fiction."—New York Eve. Post.
"As a pure, but vigorous American romance, Mr. Eggleston's new work is better even than his 'Hoosier Schoolmaster' and 'Circuit Rider.'"—Phila. Eve. Bulletin.
"It strengthens the author's position as a writer who has brought new life and a decided manliness into our native fiction."—Boston Courier.
"'Roxy,' a story whose purport and power are much deeper than the author has before reached."—Springfield Republican.
"The story is powerfully told, and if Mr. Eggleston had written nothing else, 'Roxy' would place him in a foremost position among American authors."—N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
"Its pictures of Western life are vivid, and throughout betray the hand of a master in literature and fiction."—Episcopal Register.
"As a faithful picture of American life, it ranks far above any novel published in the United States during the past twenty years."—Brooklyn Times.
"We advise our readers to buy and read 'Roxy.' They will find the plot deeply interesting, and will gather from it not only transient pleasure, but permanent good."—Louisville Post.
"The story of 'Roxy' is Dr. Eggleston's best work. It attains a higher merit than his other works in epic purpose as well as a dramatic form."—The Methodist.
"Buy the book and read it, as it is well worth the time spent to do it."—Washington. Chronicle.
Mr. Cable's sketches of life in the old French quarter of New Orleans display a freshness and originality, an insight into the character of the mixed races there, and a faculty of seizing on the picturesque phases of life among these oddly contrasted people, that give them an importance far above their value as a mere collection of clever stories. "Sieur George," "Madame Délicieuse," "Jean-ah Poquelin," and "The Belles Demoiselles' Plantation," are some of the stories included—carrying even in their titles some of their quaint attractiveness.
CRITICAL NOTICES.
"It is very seldom indeed that we meet with a book so distinctly marking the advent of a writer of high artistic power and fresh observation, as this of Mr. Cable's. After re-reading carefully, and with the keenest enjoyment, the stories now collected under one heading, we not only have no hesitation in pronouncing their author a genius with special and captivating endowments, but we feel it an imperative critical duty to so declare him."—Boston Courier.
"Mr. Cable has the rare gift of keen observation united to great descriptive power. … He has portrayed the character of the remnant of France stranded on a foreign shore, in so many aspects, that the reader gains a most perfect idea of the strange compound of courtesy and selfishness, of grace and unfaithfulness, of bravery and cunning, which that character presents. . . The stories, themselves, display an inventive genius which ranks the author among the best of our modern writers."—Christian Intelligencer.
"These charming stories attract attention and commendation by their quaint delicacy of style, their faithful delineation of Creole character, and a marked originality. The careful rendering of the dialect reveals patient study of living models; and to any reader whose ear is accustomed to the broken English, as heard in the parts of our city every day, its truth to nature is striking."—New Orleans Picayune.
"Here is true art work. Here is poetry, pathos, tragedy, humor. Here is an entrancing style. Here is a new field, one full of passion and beauty. Here is local color with strong drawing. Here, in this little volume, is life, breath, and blood. The author of this book is an artist, and over such a revelation one may be permitted strong words."—Cincinnati Times.
"To a keen zest for what is antique and picturesque, Mr. Cable adds a surprising skill, for so young a writer, in conceiving and developing a plot. … He has rendered very finely the attractive childlike quality so often seen among men of Latin races, and as to his women, they are as delightful as the scent of the flowers which he mentions every now and then."—N. Y. Times.
"The seven sketches which compose this bright little volume are full of a delicate pathetic humor which has rarely been equaled in American Literature."—Detroit Free Press.
"These half-pathetic, half-humorous, and altogether delicate sketches, constitute extremely good literature. … There is the touch of a true artist in them."—Ev. Post.
"These stories contain a most attractive blending of vivid descriptions of local scenery with admirable delineations of personal character."—Congregationalist.
The remarkable career of Madame Bonaparte, which ended at Baltimore, in April of this year, possessed features which make it as interesting as a romance. Few of the present generation, when they read in the daily papers the notice of the death, at the great age of ninety-four, of this brilliant, fascinating, and once dazzlingly beautiful woman, realized what a long and varied series of events had been comprised in her life. The account of Elizabeth Patterson's marriage, at eighteen, to Jerome Bonaparte, the brother of Napoleon; of her desertion by her husband at Napoleon's order, and of the ambitious woman's long and determined struggle for her rights, make up a sufficiently eventful story.
But the wonderfully full and varied character of Madame Bonaparte's life is only fully appreciated when it is remembered that all this had happened before she was thirty; that after the Restoration she was still to spend years of brilliant social success, in different parts of Europe, among the most prominent people of the time.
A great number of her letters, covering portions of her life as fully as a diary, have come into the hands of Mr. Eugene L. Didier, who has been for several years a special student of everything bearing upon Madame Bonaparte's career, and has had every advantage for making a thorough biographical study. In her correspondence her opinions are expressed with a peculiar candor; and the cynical frankness with which she avows her ambitions and motives, the pungency of her comments upon the people about her, and the accuracy of her judgments, as they are found in these pages, show clearly the sharp outlines of her singular character.
The publishers have had the privilege of consulting Mr. Charles Bonaparte, of Baltimore, in regard to the publication of the volume, and, while he is in no sense responsible for any portion of the book, they are indebted to him for very valuable suggestions and criticisms.
The biography will be illustrated with a copy of Gilbert Stuart's beautiful portrait of Madame Bonaparte at the time of her marriage, giving three different views of the face on the same canvas.
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Few recent travellers combine so many qualities that are adapted to command the interest and sympathy of the public. While he indulges, to its fullest extent, the characteristic American curiosity with regard to foreign lands, insisting on seeing every object of interest with his own eyes, shrinking from no peril or difficulty in pursuit of information—climbing mountains, descending mines, exploring pyramids, with no sense of satiety or weariness, he has also made a faithful study of the highest authorities on the different subjects of his narrative, thus giving solidity and depth to his descriptions, without sacrificing their facility or grace.
A NEW VOLUME
In the "Common Sense in the Household" Series.
By MARION HARLAND,
Author of "Common Sense in the Household," "Breakfast,
Luncheon, and Tea," etc., etc.
WITH SIX ORIGINAL FULL-PAGE COLORED PLATES.
One vol. 12mo, 72O pages, beautifully bound In cloth. Price $2.25.
Kitchen Edition in Oil-Cloth Covers at same Price.
The Dinner Year-Book is, in its name, happily descriptive of its purposes and character. It occupies a place which, amid all the publications upon cookery—and their name is Legion—has never yet been occupied.
The author truly says that there have been dinner-giving books published, that is, books of menus for company dinings, "Little Dinners," for especial occasions, etc., etc.; but that she has never yet met with a practical directory of this important meal for every day in the year. In this volume she has furnished the programme in all its details, and has superintended the preparation of each dish, proceeding even to the proper manner of serving it at table. The book has been prepared for the family, for the home of ordinary means, and it has hit the happy line where elegance and economy meet.
The most numerous testimonials to the value of Marion Harland's "Common Sense" books which the publishers have received, both in newspaper notices and in private communications, are to the effect—always expressed with some astonishment—that the directions of these receipts, actually followed, produce the promised result. We can prophesy the same for the new volume.
The purchaser will find that he has bought what the name purports—The Dinner Year-Book—a practical guide for the purchase of the material and preparation, serving, etc,. of the ordinary home dinner for every day of the year. To these are added twelve company dinners, one for each month, from which a selection can be made—according to the time of the year—equal to any occasion which will Le presented to the housekeeper.
This book, however, is not valuable merely as a directory for dinners appropriate to various seasons. It contains the largest number of receipts for soups, fish, meat, vegetables, entrees of all descriptions, and desserts, ever offered to the American public. The material for this work has been collected with great care both at home and abroad, representing the diligent labor of many months. A very marked feature of the new volume, and distinguishing it from any other in the American market, is its series of beautiful colored plates, the entire preparation of which has been the work of the author's own hand.
The charm of these nearly perfect storiea lies in their exquisite simplicity and most tender humor."—Philadelphia Times
"Humor like this is perennial."—Washington Post.
"Mr. Stockton has rare gifts for this style of writing, and has developed in these papers remarkable genius."—Pittsburgh Gazette.
"A certain humorous seriousness over matters that are not serious surrounds the story, even in its most indifferent parts, with an atmosphere, an aroma of very quaint and delightful humor."—N. Y. Evening Post.
"Mr. Stockton's vein of humor is a fresh and rich one, that affords pleasure to mature people as well as to young ones. Thus far, 'Rudder Grange' is his best effort."—Philadelphia Bulletin.
"Rudder Grange is an ideal book to take into the country for summer reading."—Portland Press.
"Rudder Grange is really a very delightful piece of fooling, but, like all fooling that is worth the while, it has point and purpose."—Phil. Telegraph.
"The odd conceit of making his young couple try their hands at house-keeping first in an old canal boat, suggests many droll situations, which the author improves with a frolicsome humor that is all his own."—Worcester Spy.
"There is in these chapters a rare and captivating drollery. . . . We have had more pleasure in reading them over again than we had when they first appeared in the magazine."
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"Nicholas Minturn is the most real novel, or rather life-story, yet produced by any American writer."—Philadelphia Press.
"Dr. Holland has added a leaf to his laurels. In Sevenoaks, he has given us a thoroughly good novel, with the distinctive qualities of a work of literary art. As a story, it is thoroughly readable; the action is rapid, but not hurried; there is no flagging, and no dullness."—Christian Union.
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