THE "NO NAME SERIES."
What is thought of the Initial Volume of the Series,
"MERCY PHILBBICK S CHOICE."
"'Mercy Philbrick s Choice' reads rather like a record than a story. Its personages are few in number; there is no 'sensation', almost no plot, yet it is highly interesting. In saying this, we indicate a remarkable story. The stage properties of a novel events, situations, surprises are cheap, and easy to come by. It is the higher art which discards these, and trusts for effect to truth and subtlety of character drawing."—Boston Transcript.
"A novel wholly out of the common course, both in plot and style. . . . The moral of the book is wholesome, that no good can come from deceit, and that the relations of life and innocent love should be frank and without concealment. Morbidness works onlv for misery, and it is the sane and sunny and sound people who get the best out of this life."—Boston Daily Advertiser.
"Mercy Philbrick s Choice is a story of great power, great depth of thought and feeling, great tenderness and reverence for the truth nlness of truth, and great insight into life. . . We dare place it alongside George Eliot s latest in point of poetic in sight, vigor, and knowledge of life, and to say that it is superior to 'Daniel Deronda' in style, and informed by a purer and deeper philosophy."—Charles D. Warner, in the Hartford Courant.
"It is a pleasure, in these days, to get hold of a new American novel which manifests both culture and literary skill. The author of 'Mercy Philbrick's Choice' is evidently a woman who looks upon authorship as something more than a pastime, a woman of clear intelligent tastes ard distinct aspirations. The refined quality of her intellect impresses itself upon the story from first to last."—New York Tribune.
"There are many things to be admired in this novel. The artistic delineation of character and the subtle rendering of the human atmosphere show a keen appreciation of the delicate shades which make personality and influence the life of ourselves and others."—The Liberal Christian.
"It is a striking and touching story, this new one, and will be greatly read and admired, as it deserves to be. There is even genius in some of its touches, which remind one of a feminine counterpart to Hawthorne."—Springfield Republican.
"The volume is interspersed with some of the sweetest poems to which these latter days have given birth, showing that the author is a master of poesy as well as of fascinating fiction."—Hartford Post.
"It is a story of the simplest motives, but as lovely and heart-holding as a sweet folk-song. Every page is endearingly true to the innermost part of humanity, and the author transcribes the workings of hearts and minds with no less faithfulness than she (we insist that it is a 'she') gives exquisite pictures of nature and the handiwork which 'fashions in silence'. The story is from the pen of a poet, and the inter-current verses are each and all gems of 'ray serene', not too flashing, but very, very appreciable to eyes which have learned how to weep."—Boston Traveller.
"Read the book, which is fascinating. The author is certainly a woman. And she is a poet, too, of no mean powers, as is proved by the half dozen short poems in the book. The sonnet engraved on Mercy s tombstone is not surpassed by any of Wordsworth."—Troy Whig.
"This book is a novel only in the sense that George Eliot s books are novels. The story is subordinated to showing the inevitable working out of opposing moral forces. The characters, well drawn as some of them are, are hardly more than dial-pointers on the clock of fate. Of dramatic motive there is more than enough."—The Unitarian Review.
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