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“An excellent piece of work.… With each new novel the author of ‘The Hoosier Schoolmaster’ enlarges his audience, and surprises old friends by reserve forces unsuspected. Sterling integrity of character and high moral motives illuminate Dr. Eggleston’s fiction, and assure its place in the literature of America which is to stand as a worthy reflex of the best thoughts of this age.”
—New York World.
“One of the novels of the decade.”—Rochester Union and Advertiser.
“It is extremely fortunate that the fine subject indicated in the title should have fallen into such competent hands.”—Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
“Much skill is shown by the author in making these ‘fads’ the basis of a novel of great interest.… One who tries to keep in the current of good novel-reading must certainly find time to read ‘The Faith Doctor.’”—Buffalo Commercial.
“A vivid and life-like transcript from several phases of society. Devoid of literary affectation and pretense, it is a wholesome American novel, well worthy of the popularity which it has won.”—Philadelphia Inquirer.
“A story with an elaborate plot, worked out with great cleverness and with the skill of an experienced artist in fiction. The interest is strong and at times very dramatic.… Those who were attracted by ‘Rutledge’ will give hearty welcome to this story, and find it fully as enjoyable as that once immensely popular novel.”—Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.
“The pathos of this tale is profound, the movement highly dramatic, the moral elevating.”—New York World.
“In this new story the author has done some of the best work that she has ever given to the public, and it will easily class among the most meritorious and most original novels of the year.”—Boston Home Journal.
“The author of ‘Rutledge’ does not often send out a new volume, but when she does it is always a literary event.… Her previous books were sketchy and slight when compared with the finished and trained power evidenced in ‘An Utter Failure.’”—New Haven Palladium.
“Mrs. Van Rensselaer Cruger grows stronger as she writes.… The lines in her story are boldly and vigorously etched.”—New York Times.
“The author’s recent books have made for her a secure place in current literature, where she can stand fast.… Her latest production, ‘A Puritan Pagan,’ is an eminently clever story, in the best sense of the word clever.”—Philadelphia Telegraph.
“Has already made its mark as a popular story, and will have an abundance of readers.… It contains some useful lessons that will repay the thoughtful study of persons of both sexes.”—New York Journal of Commerce.
“This brilliant novel will, without doubt, add to the repute of the writer who chooses to be known as Julien Gordon.… The ethical purpose of the author is kept fully in evidence through a series of intensely interesting situations.”—Boston Beacon.
“It is obvious that the author is thoroughly at home in illustrating the manner and the sentiment of the best society of both America and Europe.”—Chicago Times.
A New Book by the author of “A Social Departure.”
A brilliant book, picturing English sights, society, customs, and amusements, as seen by an unconventional and witty observer. The same qualities which made “A Social Departure” so remarkable a success will make “An American Girl in London” a book which is “talked about everywhere.”
“In the lighter literature of last year there was nothing more amusing than ‘A Social Departure,’ by Sara Jeannette Duncan, of Canada. It was just long enough—it could not well have been longer—but each reader wished that the author might write another book in similar style. Well, she has done it, and she could not have taken a better subject than ‘An American Girl in London.’”—New York Herald.
“The raciness and breeziness which made ‘A Social Departure,’ by the same author, last season, the best-read and most-talked-of book of travel for many a year, permeates the new book, and appears between the lines of every page. It is superfluous to say that ‘An American Girl’ is ‘awfully fetching.’”—Brooklyn Standard-Union.
“It is a cheery, witty, decorous, charming book.”—New York Herald.
“Widely read and praised on both sides of the Atlantic and Pacific, the diary is now republished in New York, with scores of illustrations which fit the text exactly and show the mind of artist and writer in unison.”—New York Evening Post.
“… It is to be doubted whether another book can be found so thoroughly amusing from beginning to end.”—Boston Daily Advertiser.
“A very bright book on a very entertaining subject. We commend it to those readers who abhor the ordinary statistical book of travels.”—Boston Evening Transcript.
“A brighter, merrier, more entirely charming book would be, indeed, difficult to find.”—St. Louis Republican.
“For sparkling wit, irresistibly contagious fun, keen observation, absolutely poetic appreciation of natural beauty, and vivid descriptiveness, it has no recent rival.”—Mrs. P. T. Barnum’s Letter to the New York Tribune.
Recent Issues in Appletons’ Town and Country Library.
“An extremely racy Irish story, quite separated from everything that savors of the present agitation in Ireland, and one of the best things of the kind for several years.”—Springfield Republican.
“An agreeable and amusing love-story, the scene of which is part of the time in a coal-mining district in Scotland, and afterward in Venice, and a prominent character in which is a shrinking girl whose sensitiveness is suggestive of the little mimosa flower which gives title to the book.”—Cincinnati Times-Star.
“A triumph of skillful execution as well as of profound conception of modern Spanish character and social life. It is full of the best traditions of Spanish thought, both sacred and secular, of Spanish proverbial wisdom, and of the humor of Cervantes and other lights of the past in the literature of Spain.”—Brooklyn Eagle.
“A very striking and powerful novel.”—Boston Transcript.
“‘One of the jewels of literary Spain’ is what a Spanish critic has pronounced the most popular book of recent years in that language, Don Juan Valera’s novel ‘Pepita Ximenez.’”—The Nation.
“The best of Southern tales.”—Chicago Herald.
“The thorough excellence of Col. Johnston’s work is well known. He was among the first of the successful short-story writers of this country. The steady increase in his fame is the best indication of the solid appreciation of the reading public. This public will give the new volume the same reception that made ‘Widow Guthrie’ one of the most successful of recent novels.”—Baltimore American.
“An entertaining romance which covers the time from just before the war until soon after the peace. Six young people carry on their love-making under countless difficulties, owing to two of them being on the wrong side of the ‘unpleasantness.’ Of course, there are all sorts of adventures, plots, misunderstandings, and wonderful escapes.… The book is written in excellent taste.”—Pittsburgh Bulletin.
“The author does for the Mexicans much what Longfellow has done for the Acadians.”—New York Commercial Advertiser.
“Mr. Janvier has evidently explored the ancient ruins and studied the old church records thoroughly, and has drawn therefrom much hitherto unused material.”—Cincinnati Times-Star.
“Another lot of those tales of Mexico, which their author, Thomas A. Janvier, knows how to write with such skill and charm. Nine of the stories are delightful, and nine is the number of stories in the book.”—New York Sun.
“A story of France just before, during, and after the Reign of Terror. There are not many novels in our language which portray rural conditions in France in this troubled period, and this has a unique interest for that reason.”—Chicago Times.
“A very graphic story of those troublous times which witnessed the temporary triumphs of ‘the people.’”—Rochester Herald.
“It may safely be said that up to the last page … the reader’s attention is not allowed to flag.”—London Athenæum.
“The plot is compact, deftly constructed, free from extravagances and violent improbabilities, with a well-managed element of suspense running nearly to the end, and strongly illustrative throughout of English life and character. The book is likely to add materially to the author’s well-earned repute.”—Chicago Times.
“It is a real pleasure to welcome a new novelist who shows both promise and performance.… The work is distinguished by verve, by close and wide observation of the ways and cities of many men, by touches of a reflection which is neither shallow nor charged with the trappings and suits of weightiness; and in many ways, not least in the striking end, it is decidedly original.”—Saturday Review.
“May unreservedly be recommended as one of the choice stories of the season, bright, refined, graceful, thoughtful, and interesting from the first to the final page.”—Boston Literary World.
“A pretty love-story, told in a gracefully piquant manner, and with a frank freshness of style that makes it very attractive in the reading. It is uncommonly well written.”—Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.
“The story is charmingly told, and is very readable.”—Literary World.
“There is an unmistakable cleverness in this collection of short stories.”—Boston Literary World.
“Miss Seawell has a brisk and prolific fancy, and a turn for the odd and fantastic, while she is Past Master in the use of negro dialect and the production of tales of plantation life and manners. All these stories are spirited, well marked by local color, and written with skill and ingenuity.”—New York Tribune.
“Miss Seawell writes capital stories, and in a special way nothing of late has been done better nor more daintily than ‘Maid Marian.’”—New York Times.
“The author is a Virginian who has written some interesting stories, and who steadily improves upon himself.… This is a thoughtful, semi-philosophical story. There is much discussion in it, but none of it is prosy.”—New York Herald.
“In this genuinely interesting novel the author depicts one of the most charming characters to be found in the vast range of woman’s realm.… The close is artistically devised and shows a deep observation. Mr. Pendleton has a brilliant future before him in his chosen path.”—St. Louis Republic.
“There have been few more searching studies of the rampant English plutocracy than is afforded by this brilliantly written volume.”—Boston Beacon.
“The book is curiously interesting from the startling side-light it throws on English society of the upper grades.”—Chicago Times.
A NEW HUMOROUS TRAVEL-BOOK.
A bright, vivacious sketch of odd people and curious experiences, illustrated by the artist who illustrated “A Social Departure” and “An American Girl in London,” both of which will be recalled by the good spirits of this equally unconventional record of a journey down the Thames.
“For something entirely original, piquant, and worthy of rapt attention, we commend this little volume.”—New York Journal of Commerce.
“Describes with great vivacity a vacation trip on an English canal; and the experiences of the two young ladies and a young gentleman are set forth with a thorough appreciation of the novel situations in which the party often found itself. The forty-four illustrations are fully in harmony with the light and entertaining character of the text.”—Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.
AN ENGLISH WOMAN’S RECORD OF HER LIFE IN AFRICA.
“Not in many days has a more interesting volume descriptive of life in a remote land been offered to the public. It is so brightly written, so cheery, so pervaded by the South African sunlight, as it were, that the reader regrets the rapidity with which he finds himself making his way through its charming pages.”—New York Times.
“One of the most charming descriptions of African experience that have come under our notice.… The work does not contain a dull page. It is a sparkling little book, of which it would be difficult to speak too highly.”—London Athenæum.
“With fluent simplicity and feminine animation the author chats delightfully of the quaint daily happenings on her husband’s farm of twelve thousand acres in the Karroo district of Cape Colony.… The reader will peruse every page with keen enjoyment, and will feel grateful admiration for the clever, plucky, womanly woman who calls herself ‘Annie Martin.’”—New York Sun.
“The author’s style is gossipy, and she has a sense of humor that aids greatly in making her book readable. She seems to write without an effort, as if she enjoyed it; and before we have gone through the first chapter we become warm friends, so that when the final chapter arrives we part with the authoress with sincere regret.”—Philadelphia Item.
“A perfect book of its kind.… Mrs. Martin joins keen observing powers to a great love of nature, both animate and inanimate, and a rare descriptive faculty. Her pictures of the farm life, but, above all, of her dumb companions, are admirable.… The illustrations are excellent.”—New York Evening Post.
TOURMALIN’S TIME CHEQUES. By F. Anstey, author of “Vice Versa,” “The Giant’s Robe,” etc.
“Mr. Anstey has done nothing more original or fantastic with more success.”—The Nation.
“A curious conceit and very entertaining story.”—Boston Advertiser.
“Each cheque is good for several laughs.”—New York Herald.
“Nothing could be more sprightly and amusingly whimsical.”—Boston Courier.
“A very clever tale of fantastic humor.… The literary style is graceful and sparkling.”—Chicago Times.
“Certainly one of the most diverting books of the season.”—Brooklyn Times.
“Exquisitely printed and bound.”—Philadelphia Times.
FROM SHADOW TO SUNLIGHT. By the Marquis of Lorne.
“In these days of princely criticism—that is to say, criticism of princes—it is refreshing to meet a really good bit of aristocratic literary work, albeit the author is only a prince-in-law.… The theme chosen by the Marquis makes his story attractive to Americans.”—Chicago Tribune.
“A charming book.”—Cincinnati Enquirer.
ADOPTING AN ABANDONED FARM. By Kate Sanborn.
“A sunny, pungent, humorous sketch.”—Chicago Times.
“A laughable picture of the grievous experiences of a young woman who sought to demonstrate the idea that a woman can farm.… The drakes refused to lay; the vegetables refused to come up; and the taxes would not go down.”—Minneapolis Tribune.
“The book is dainty in exterior as well as rich within; and to those who seek health, moral and physical, we say, ‘Buy it.’”—Montreal Gazette.
“If any one wants an hour’s entertainment for a warm sunny day on the piazza, or a cold wet day by the log-fire, this is the book that will furnish it.”—New York Observer.
“Many is the good laugh the reader will have over its pages.”—Philadelphia Ledger.
ON THE LAKE OF LUCERNE, and other Stories. By Beatrice Whitby, author of “A Matter of Skill,” “The Awakening of Mary Fenwick,” etc.
“Six short stories carefully and conscientiously finished, and told with the graceful ease of the practiced raconteur.”—Literary Digest.
“The stories are pleasantly told in light and delicate vein, and are sure to be acceptable to the friends Miss Whitby has already made on this side of the Atlantic.”—Philadelphia Bulletin.
“Very dainty, not only in mechanical workmanship but in matter and manner.”—Boston Advertiser.
Dr. Abbott’s delightful studies in Natural History have become familiar to many readers, and his new volume is suggestive, instructive, and always interesting.
“The home about which Dr. Abbott rambles is clearly the haunt of fowl and fish, of animal and insect life; and it is of the habits and nature of these that he discourses pleasantly in this book. Summer and winter, morning and evening, he has been in the open air all the time on the alert for some new revelation of instinct, or feeling, or character on the part of his neighbor creatures. Most that he sees and hears he reports agreeably to us, as it was no doubt delightful to himself. Books like this, which are free from all the technicalities of science, but yet lack little that has scientific value, are well suited to the reading of the young. Their atmosphere is a healthy one for boys in particular to breathe.”—Boston Transcript.
“‘Days out of Doors’ is a series of sketches of animal life by Charles C. Abbott, a naturalist whose graceful writings have entertained and instructed the public before now. The essays and narratives in this book are grouped in twelve chapters, named after the months of the year. Under ‘January’ the author talks of squirrels, muskrats, water-snakes, and the predatory animals that withstand the rigor of winter; under ‘February’ of frogs and herons, crows and blackbirds; under ‘March’ of gulls and fishes and foxy sparrows, and so on appropriately, instructively, and divertingly through the whole twelve.”—The New York Sun.
“The work contains abundant evidence of the author’s knowledge and enthusiasm, and any boy who may read it carefully is sure to find something to attract him. The style is clear and lively, and there are many good illustrations.”—Nature.
Even a more delightful book than “The Garden’s Story.” Though seemingly devoted to the house proper, the essays are filled with the freshness of country life and the beauty of external nature.
“Mr. Ellwanger’s instinct rarely errs in matters of taste. He writes out of the fullness of experimental knowledge, but his knowledge differs from that of many a trained cultivator in that his skill in garden practice is guided by a refined æsthetic sensibility, and his appreciation of what is beautiful in nature is healthy, hearty, and catholic. His record of the garden year, as we have said, begins with the earliest violet, and it follows the season through until the witch-hazel is blossoming on the border of the wintry woods.… This little book can not fail to give pleasure to all who take a genuine interest in rural life.”—The Tribune, New York.
“A handsome and deeply interesting volume.… In all respects the book is excellent. Its arrangement is simple and intelligible, its style bright and alluring.… To all who seek an introduction to one of the most attractive branches of folk-lore, this delightful volume may be warmly commended.”—Notes and Queries.
“No writer treats scientific subjects with so much ease and charm of style as Mr. Grant Allen.
“The study is a delightful one, and the book is fascinating to any one who has either love for flowers or curiosity about them.”—Hartford Courant.
THE MUSIC SERIES. Consisting of Biographical and Anecdotical Sketches of the Great German Composers; The Great Italian and French Composers; Great Singers; Great Violinists and Pianists. Five volumes, 18mo. Bound in half white and red sides, $3.50 per set; half calf, $8.00.
No former traveler has made so comprehensive and thorough a tour of Spanish and Portuguese America as did Mr. Vincent. He visited every capital, chief city, and important seaport, made several expeditions into the interior of Brazil and the Argentine Republic, and ascended the Paraná, Paraguay, Amazon, Orinoco, and Magdalena Rivers; he visited the crater of Pichinchas, 16,000 feet above the sea-level; he explored falls in the center of the continent, which, though meriting the title of “Niagara of South America,” are all but unknown to the outside world; he spent months in the picturesque capital of Rio Janeiro; he visited the coffee districts, studied the slaves, descended the gold-mines, viewed the greatest rapids of the globe, entered the isolated Guianas, and so on.
“I hope I may be able to present some facts in respect to the present situation of Brazil which will be both instructive and entertaining to general readers. My means of acquaintance with that empire are principally derived from a residence of three years at Rio de Janeiro, its capital, while employed in the service of the United States Government, during which period I made a few journeys into the interior.”—From the Preface.
“The book presents China and Japan in all these aspects; the manners and customs of the people; the institutions, tendencies, and social ideas; the government and leading men.”—Boston Traveller.
The author of this book was the wife of a planter in Louisiana, and underwent some remarkable experiences in the first part of the war; later in Mexico, many vicissitudes befell her; and of her life in Cuba, still later, she has a striking and unusual story to tell.
“In a word, the book is an account of personal adventures which would be called extraordinary did not one remember that the civil war must have brought similar ones to many. Her hardships are endured with the rarest pluck and good humor, and her shifty way of meeting difficulties seems almost to point to a Yankee strain in her blood.”—The Nation.
“‘The History of a Slave’ is a work of fiction based upon every-day occurrences in the Dark Continent, and well calculated to bring home to the reader the social condition of heathen and Mohammedan Africa, and the horrors of a domestic slave-trade.”—The Athenæum.
The author of this amusing autobiography is half-sister to the late Sultan of Zanzibar, who some years ago married a German merchant and settled at Hamburg.
“A remarkably interesting little volume.… As a picture of Oriental court life, and manners and customs in the Orient, by one who is to the manor born, the book is prolific in entertainment and edification.”—Boston Gazette.
“The sailor is nearly always an adventurous and enterprising variety of the human species, and Hobart Pasha was about as fine an example as one could wish to see.… The sketches of South American life are full of interest. The sport, the inevitable entanglements of susceptible middies with beautiful Spanish girls and the sometimes disastrous consequences, the duels, attempts at assassination, and other adventures and amusements, are described with much spirit.… The sketches abound in interesting details of the American war.”—London Athenæum.
The inside view which these Recollections give of the Court of Louis Napoleon is fresh and of great interest.
“We advise every one who admires good work to buy and read it.”—London Morning Post.
“Notwithstanding the enormous library of works relating to Napoleon, we know of none which cover precisely the ground of these Memoirs. Madame de Rémusat was not only lady-in-waiting to Josephine during the eventful years 1802–1808, but was her intimate friend and trusted confidante. Thus we get a view of the daily life of Bonaparte and his wife, and the terms on which they lived, not elsewhere to be found.”—N. Y. Mail.
“These Memoirs are not only a repository of anecdotes and of portraits sketched from life by a keen-eyed, quick-witted woman; some of the author’s reflections on social and political questions are remarkable for weight and penetration.”—New York Sun.
The interest excited in the first Napoleon and his Court by the “Memoirs of Madame de Rémusat” has induced the publishers to issue the famous “Memoirs of the Duchess d’Abrantes,” which have hitherto appeared in a costly octavo edition, in a much cheaper form, and in a style to correspond with De Rémusat. This work will be likely now to be read with awakened interest, especially as it presents a much more favorable portrait of the great Corsican than that limned by Madame de Rémusat, and supplies many valuable and interesting details respecting the Court and Family of Napoleon, which are found in no other work.
RECENT FICTION.
A most interesting attempt to work out the social problems which confront the world to-day. It is a description of an ideal community founded upon new and yet not impossible conditions. In Germany this book has met with a success equal to that of Looking Backward in this country, and, like the latter book, it has led to the foundation of clubs and societies, and to efforts to put the plans of the author into actual practice.
A story of the modern “smart set” in London, by an author whose knowledge of the life comes from actual experience. There has been no attempt at the sensational, but the book represents an effort to picture a striking phase of modern society as it really is.
“Rutledge” proved to be one of the most popular works of fiction ever published in this country. The author’s host of friends will appreciate her skillful rendering of this new and deeply interesting story.
“From first to last an exceptionally strong and beautiful story.”—London Spectator.
“Mrs. Needell has written nothing more absorbing or skillfully constructed than this romance of English country life.… With that rare art in which art is concealed, her creations have all the strong and weak attributes of our common humanity, be the social scale high or low.”—Leeds Mercury.
“Deserves to be placed among the best and most artistic novels of the present season.”—London Literary World.
“Readers of Mrs. Needell’s works do not need to be told that she has done good work before now, but it may be doubted whether she has done anything that will serve to prepare them for a novel exhibiting such a combination of vigor and beauty as is to be found in this book.”—London Academy.
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