Saxe Holm's Stories, Second Series/End matter
BRIEF LIST OF BOOKS OF FICTION PUBLISHED BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 743-745 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.
Mary Adams.
AN HONORABLE SURRENDER. (16mo, $1.00.)
"The story belongs distinctly to the realistic school of modern fiction. The situations are those of every day. The characters are not in the least eccentric; the dialogue is never extravagant; the descriptive and analytical passages are neither obtrusive nor too prolix. The sum of all these negations is a charming book, full of a genuine human interest."—The Portland Advertiser.
William Waldorf Astor.
VALENTINO: An Historical Romance. (12mo, $1.00.)
"It is well called a romance, and no romance indeed could be more effective than the extraordinary extract from Italian annals of the 16th Century which it preserves in such vivid colors. The incidents are presented with dramatic art. The movement of the story never drags."—The New York Tribune.
A WHEEL OF FIRE. (12mo, $1.00.)
"The novel deals with character rather than incident, and is evolved from one of the most terrible of moral problems with a subtlety not unlike that of Hawthorne. One cannot enumerate all the fine points of artistic skill which make this study so wonderful in its insight, so rare in its combination of dramatic power and tenderness."—The Critic.
FALCONBERG. Illustrated (12mo, $1.50)-GUNNAR. (Sq. 12mo, $1.25)—TALES FROM TWO HEMISPHERES. (Sq. 12mo, $1.00)-ILKA ON THE HILL TOP, and Other Stories. (Sq. 12mo, $1.00) QUEEN TITANIA (Sq. 12mo, $1.00).
"Mr. Boyesen's stories possess a sweetness, a tenderness, and a drollery that are fascinating, and yet they are no more attractive than they are strong."—The Home Journal.
H. C. Bunner.THE STORY OF A NEW YORK HOUSE. Illustrated by A. B. Frost (12mo $1.25)—THE MIDGE. (12mo, $1.00)—IN PARTNERSHIP. With Brander Matthews (12mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.00).
"It is Mr. Bunner s delicacy of touch and appreciation of what is literary art that give his writings distinctive quality. Everything Mr. Bunner paints shows the happy appreciation of an author who has not alone mental discernment, but the artistic appreciation. The author and the artist both supplement one another in this excellent Story of a New York House."—The New York Times.
THAT LASS O LOWRIE'S. Illustrated (paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.25)—HAWORTH'S. Illustrated (12mo, $1.25)—THROUGH ONE ADMINISTRATION. (12mo, $1.50)—LOUISIANA. (12mo, $1.25)-A FAIR BARBARIAN. (12mo, $1.25—SURLY TIM, and Other Stories (12mo, $1.25).
The above 6 vols., in uniform binding, $7.50 per set.
LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY. Illustrated by R. B. Birch (Sq. 8vo, $2.00)—SARA CREWE; or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's. Illustrated by R. B. Birch (Sq. 8vo, $1.00).
Earlier Stories by the same author, each 16mo, paper covers.
LINDSAY'S LUCK (30 cts.)—PRETTY POLLY PEMBERTON (40 cts.)—KATHLEEN (40 cts.)—THEO (30 cts.)-MISS CRESPIGNY (30 cts.).
"Mrs. Burnett discovers gracious secrets in rough and forbidding natures—the sweetness that often underlies their bitterness the soul of goodness in things evil. She seems to have an intuitive perception of character. If we apprehend her personages, and I think we do clearly, it is not because she describes them to us, but because they reveal themselves in their actions. Mrs. Burnett's characters are as veritable as Thackeray's."—Richard Henry Stoddard.
DOMESTICUS. A Tale of the Imperial City (12mo, $1.25.).
"Under a veil made intentionally transparent, the author maintains a running fire of good-natured hits at contemporary social follies. There is a delicate love story running through the book. The author's style is highly finished. One might term it old-fashioned in its exquisite choiceness and precision."—The New York Journal of Commerce.
George W. Cable.THE GRANDISSIMES. (12mo, $1.25)—OLD CREOLE DAYS. (12mo, cloth, $1.25—also in two parts, 16mo, cloth, each, 75 cts.; paper, each, 30 cts.)—DR. SEVIER. (12mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.25)—BONAVENTURE. A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana (12mo, $1.25).
The set, 4 vols., $5.00.
"There are few living American writers who can reproduce for us more perfectly than Mr. Cable does, in his best moments, the speech the manners, the whole social atmosphere of a remote time and a peculiar people. A delicious flavor of humor penetrates his stories, and the tragic portions are handled with rare strength."—The New York Tribune.
THEOPHILUS AND OTHERS. (12mo, $1.50.)
"Mrs. Dodge has a marked gift of being constantly entertaining. There is a certain spiciness and piquancy of flavor in her work which makes even the slightest things that come from her pen pleasant and profitable reading."—The New York Evening Post.
ROXY. Illustrated (12mo, $1.50)—THE CIRCUIT RIDER. Illustrated (12mo, $1.50)—THE HOOSIER SCHOOLMASTER. Illustrated (12mo, $1.25)—THE MYSTERY OF METROPOLISVILLE. Illustrated (12mo, $1.50)—THE END OF THE WORLD. Illustrated (12mo, $1.50).
The set, 5 vols., $7.25.
"Dr. Eggleston's career as a novelist has been a peculiar one. His first work achieved a swift and unmistakable success. Its fresh and vivid portraiture of a phase of life and manners, hitherto almost unrepresented in literature; its boldly contrasted characters; its unconventional, hearty, religious spirit, and its reflection of the vigorous individuality of the author, took hold of the public imagination."—The Christian Union.
Erckmann-Chatrian.
FRIEND FRITZ—THE CONSCRIPT. Illustrated—WATERLOO. Illustrated (Sequel to The Conscript)—MADAME THERESE—THE BLOCKADE OF PHALSBURG. Illustrated—THE INVASION OF FRANCE IN 1814. Illustrated—A MILLER'S STORY OF THE WAR. Illustrated.
Each, 12mo, $1.25.
"Not only are these stories interesting historically, but intrinsically they present pleasant, well-constructed plots, serving in each case to connect the great events which they so graphically treat."—The Philadelphia Inquirer.
SETH'S BROTHER'S WIFE. (12mo, $1.25.)
"A novel that stands out in clear relief against the fiction of the time. It is made of tangible stuff, is serious without being heavy, brisk and interesting without being flippant; takes hold of real life with an easy yet firm and confident grasp that denotes judicial habits of thought as well as a comfortable mastery of the literary medium."—The Brooklyn Times.
FACE TO FACE. (12mo, paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.25.)
"This is a well-told story, the interest of which turns upon a game of cross purposes between an accomplished English girl, posing as a free and easy American Daisy Miller, and an American gentleman, somewhat given to aping the manners of the English."—The Buffalo Express.
PHILIP NOLAN'S FRIENDS. Illustrated (12mo, $1.75).
"There is no question, we think, that this is Mr. Hale's completest and best novel. The characters are for the most part well drawn, and several of them are admirable."—The Atlantic Monthly.
JUDITH: A Chronicle of Old Virginia. (12mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.00)—HANDICAPPED (12mo, $1.50).
"Fiction has afforded no more charming glimpses of old Virginia life than are found in this delightful story, with its quaint pictures, its admirably drawn characters, its wit, and its frankness."—The Brooklyn Daily Times.
FREE JOE, and Other Georgian Sketches. (12mo, $1.00.)
"The author's skill as a story writer has never been more felicitously illustrated than in this volume. The title story is meagre almost to baldness in incident, but its quaint humor, its simple but broadly outlined characters, and, above all, its touching pathos, combine to make it a masterpiece of its kind."—The New York Sun.
Augustus Allen Hayes.
THE JESUIT'S RING. A Romance of Mount Desert (12mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.00).
"The conception of the story is excellent. It indicates a scholarly research, a sensitiveness to artistic literary effect, and a fine power of selection in material."—The Boston Traveller.
E. T. W. Hoffmann.WEIRD TALES. With Portrait (12mo, 2vols., $3.00).
"Hoffmann knew how to construct a ghost story quite as skilfully as Poe, and with a good deal more sense of reality. All those who are in search of a genuine literary sensation, or who care for the marvelous and supernatural, will find these two volumes fascinating reading."—The Christian Union.
Dr. J. G. Holland.
SEVEN OAKS—THE BAY PATH—ARTHUR BONNICASTLE—MISS GILBERT'S CAREER—NICHOLAS MINTURN.
Each, 12mo, 1.25; the set, $6.25.
"Dr. Holland will always find a congenial audience in the homes of culture and refinement. He does not affect the play of the darker and fiercer passions, but delights in the sweet images that cluster around the domestic hearth. He cherishes a strong fellow-feeling with the pure and tranquil life in the modest social circles of the American people, and has thus won his way to the companionship of many friendly hearts."—The New York Tribune.
COLOR STUDIES. (12mo, $1.00.)
"Piquant, novel, and ingenious, these little stories, with all their simplicity, have excited a wide interest. The best of them, 'Jaune D'Antimoine,' is a little wonder in its dramatic effect, its ingenious construction."—The Critic.
Virginia W. Johnson.
THE FAINALLS OF TIPTON. (12mo, $1.25.)
"The plot is good, and in its working-out original. Character-drawing is Miss Johnson's recognized forte, and her pen-sketches of the inventor, the checker-playing clergyman and druggist, the rising young doctor, the sentimental painter, the rival grocers, etc., are quite up to her best work."—The Boston Commonwealth.
Lieut. J. D. J. Kelley.
A DESPERATE CHANCE. (12mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.00.)
"This novel is of the good old-fashioned, exciting kind. Though it is a sea story, all the action is not on board ship. There is a well-developed mystery, and while it is in no sense sensational, readers may be assured that they will not be tired out by analytical descriptions, nor will they find a dull page from first to last."—The Brooklyn Union.
The King's Men:
A TALE OF TO-MORROW. By Robert Grant, John Boyle O'Reilly, J. S., of Dale, and John T. Wheelwright. (12mo, $1.25.)
Andrew Lang.THE MARK OF CAIN. (12mo, paper, 25 cts.; cloth, 75 cts.)
"No one can deny that it is crammed as full of incident as it will hold, or that the elaborate plot is worked out with most ingenious perspicuity."—The Saturday Review.
NEWPORT. (12mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.25)—AN ECHO OF PASSION. (12mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.00)—IN THE DISTANCE. (12mo paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.00.)
"It is one of the charms of Mr. Lathrop's style that it appeals to the imagination of the reader by a delicate suggestiveness, which lies like a fine atmosphere over the landscape of the story. His novels have the refinement of motive which characterize the analytical school, but his manner is far more direct and dramatic."—The Christian Union.
THE SECRET OF THE SEA, and Other Stories. (12mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.00)—THE LAST MEETING. (12mo, paper, 50 cts,; cloth $1.00)—IN PARTNERSHIP. With H. C. Bunner (12mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.00).
"Mr. Matthews is a man of wide observation and of much familiarity with the world. His literary style is bright and crisp, with a peculiar sparkle about it—wit and humor judiciously mingled which—renders his pages more than ordinarily interesting."—The Rochester Post-Express.
DR. JOHNS. (12mo, $1.25.)
"The author finds scenes and characters enough in a single parish to furnish the staple of the book. There are capital descriptions of parish life, home scenes, love-making, hard cases, and saintly men and women, their ways, habits; in short, all the warp and woof going to make the texture of this isolated rural life. There are few writers in this country who have ever surpassed the author in the description of rural New England life."—The San Francisco Bulletin.
THE DIAMOND LENS with Other Stories (12mo, paper, 50 cts; cloth $1.00)
"These stories are the only things in literature to be compared with Poe's works, and if they do not equal it in workmanship they certainly do not yield to it in originality."—The Philadelphia Record.
Thomas Nelson Page. IN OLE VIRGINIA—MARSE CHAN, and Other Stories. (12mo, $1.25.)"There are qualities in these stories of Mr. Page which we do not find in those of any other Southern author, or not to the same extent and in the same force and they are the qualities which are too often wanting in modern literature."—N. Y. Mail and Express.
WITHIN THE CAPES. (12mo, $1.00.)
"Simplicity, earnestness, and directness are the appropriate qualities of a tale supposed to be reeled by an old sea captain as he sits by the chimney corner, stranded in a happy old age. The yarn proves to possess all the wonderful elements of romance and adventure."—The Boston Journal.
Saxe Holm's Stories.
FIRST SERIES.—Draxy Miller's Dowry—The Elder's Wife—Whose Wife Was She?—The One-Legged Dancers—How One Woman Kept Her Husband—Esther Wynn's Love Letters.
SECOND SERIES.—Four-Leaved Clover—Farmer Bassett's Romance—My Tourmalene—Joe Hale's Red Stocking—Susan Lawton's Escape.
Each, 12mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.00.
"Saxe Holm's characters are strongly drawn, and she goes right to the heart of human experience as one who knows the way. We heartily commend them as vigorous, wholesome, and sufficiently exciting stories."—The Advance.
Julia Schayer.
TIGER LILY, and Other Stories. (12mo, $1.00.)
"Each of the fine short stories in the present collection is original in subject and unique in treatment, and the story of 'Tiger Lily' is, in its way, short as it is, a masterpiece."—The Critic.
STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE. (12mo, paper, 25 cts.; cloth, $1.00)—KIDNAPPED. (12mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.00, illustrated, $1.25)—THE MERRY MEN, and Other Tales and Fables. (12mo, paper, 35 cts.; cloth, $1.00)—NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS. (12mo, paper, 30 cts.; cloth, $1.00)—THE DYNAMITER. With Mrs. Stevenson (12mo, paper, 30 cts.; cloth, $1.00).
"If there is any writer of the time about whom the critics of England and America substantially agree it is Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson. There is something in his work, precisely what, it is not easy to say, which engages and fixes the attention from the first page to the last, which shapes itself before the mind's eye while reading, and which refuses to be forgotten long after the book which revealed it has been closed and put away."—The New York Mail and Express.
J. S., of Dale.GUERNDALE. (12mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.25)—THE CRIME OF HENRY VANE. (12mo, $1.00)—THE SENTIMENTAL CALENDAR. Head Pieces by F. G. Attwood (12mo, $2.00).
"The author of that very bright, witty, and audacious story, 'Guerndale,' has written another, 'The Crime of Henry Vane', which is just as witty in many of its chapters and has more of a purpose in its whole structure. No young novelist in this country seems better equipped than Mr. Stimson is. He shows unusual gifts in this and in his other stories."—The Philadelphia Bulletin."
RUDDER GRANGE. (12mo, paper, 60 cts.; cloth, $1.25; illustrated by A. B. Frost, Sq. 12mo, $2.00)—THE LATE MRS. NULL. (12mo, $1.25)—THE LADY, OR THE TIGER? and Other Stories. (12mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.25)—THE CHRISTMAS WRECK, and Other Stories. (12mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.25)—THE BEE-MAN OF ORN, and Other Fanciful Tales. (12mo, cloth, $1.25.)
"Of Mr. Stockton's stories what is there to say, but that they are an unmixed blessing and delight? He is surely one of the most inventive of talents, discovering not only a new kind in humor and fancy, but accumulating an inexhaustible wealth of details in each fresh achievement, the least of which would be riches from another hand."—W. D. Howells, in Harper's Magazine.
Stories by American Authors.
Cloth, 16mo, 50c. each; set, 10 vols., $5.00; cabinet ed., in sets only, $7.50. Circulars describing the series sent on application to the publishers.
"The public ought to appreciate the value of this series, which is preserving permanently in American literature short stories that have contributed to its advancement. American writers lead all others in this form of fiction, and their best work appears in these volumes."—The Boston Globe.
T. R. Sullivan.
ROSES OF SHADOW. (12mo, $1.00.)
"The characters of the story have a remarkable vividness and individuality every one of them which mark at once Mr. Sullivan's strongest promise as a novelist. All of his men are excellent. John Musgrove, the grimly pathetic old beau, sometimes reminds us of a touch of Thackeray."—The Cincinnati Times-Star.
A CHILD OF THE CENTURY. (12mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.00.)
"This is one of the most thoroughly enjoyable novels that has been published for a long time. It is a story of to-day, of American life and character; a typical story of political and social life, free from cynicism or morbid realism, and brimming over with good-natured fun, which is never vulgar."—The Christian at Work.