In old Narragansett; romances and realities

by Alice Morse Earle

THE IVORY SERIES.

Each volume bound in green and white, 16mo, 75 cents.

Just Published:

Seven Months a Prisoner. By J. V. Hadley, Judge of the Circuit Court of Indiana.

This account of the adventures passed through by the author and his companions, while escaping from a Southern prison in 1865, is as full of thrilling incident as any fiction could be. The privations and dangers of the journey through Georgia and the Carolinas are graphically portrayed.

In Old Narragansett. Romances and Realities. By Alice Morse Earle.

A collection of eleven stories and sketches illustrating the more romantic phases of life in Old Narragansett, and filled with fresh pictures of manners and customs of long ago. The book is written in the author’s most engaging style.

PREVIOUS VOLUMES:

Literary Love Letters, and Other Stories. By Robert Herrick, author of “The Man Who Wins.”

“It shows literary elegance and skill, to say nothing of the daintiest of touches. Robert Herrick shows himself to be a past master in subtleties of diction of the heart, and of a vivid and brilliant imaginative turn.”—Chicago Times-Herald.

A Romance in Transit. By Francis Lynde.

“One of the most readable stories we have seen for a long time. A comedy romance of the happiest kind.”—Bost. Times.

The Old Gentleman of the Black Stock. By Thomas Nelson Page.

“The story has the delicacy, tenderness, and sweetness which invariably characterize Mr. Page’s short stories; and the flavor of the South and olden days is like the scent of rose leaves from a jar.”—Boston Times.

The Man Who Wins. By Robert Herrick.

“It is written with admirable restraint, and without affectations of style, in the clearest English. It is a pleasure to welcome Mr. Herrick into the small company of serious literary workers.”—Chap Book.

Amos Judd. By J. A. Mitchell, Editor of Life. Seventh Edition.

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A Bride from the Bush. By E. W. Hornung.

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Irralie’s Bushranger. A Story of Australian Adventure. By E. W. Hornung.

“It is a delightfully tormenting tale, compacted of all the good qualities of romantic adventurous fiction.”—N.Y. Tribune.

Ia. A Love Story. By “Q” (A. T. Quiller-Couch).

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One of the Visconti. By Eva Wilder Brodhead.

“Pathos, dramatic movement, lightness, and fine touches of character are deftly blended.”

Madame Delphine. By George W. Cable.

“There are few living American writers who can reproduce for us more perfectly than Mr. Cable does, the speech, the manners, the whole social atmosphere of a remote time and a peculiar people.”—New York Tribune.

The Suicide Club. By Robert Louis Stevenson.

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An Inheritance. By Harriet Prescott Spofford.

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A Master Spirit. By Harriet Prescott Spofford.

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A Book of Martyrs. By Cornelia Atwood Pratt.

“One of the best collections of bright, short stories given to the world of fiction this year.”—Union and Advertiser.

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Tales of the City Room. By Elizabeth G. Jordan. 12mo, $1.00.

These ten newspaper stories present vividly some of the more striking phases of journalistic life and work in a great city. Whether the theme be comedy, tragedy or romance, Miss Jordan writes with a simple directness that is convincing. The tales are:

Ruth Herrick’s Assignment.
The Love Affair of Chesterfield, Jr.
At the Close of the Second Day.
The Wife of the Candidate.
Mrs. Ogilvie’s Local Color.
From the Hand of Dolorita.
The Passing of Hope Abbott.
A Point of Ethics.
A Romance of the City Room.
Miss Van Dyke’s Best Story.

The Dull Miss Archinard. By Anne Douglas Sedgwick. 12mo, $1.25.

Miss Sedgwick’s book is a tale of artist life in London and Paris, and the affecting development of the story is no less striking than is the author’s ability to fix in words the peculiar “color” of the places in which the scenes are laid.

Taken by Siege. By Jeannette L. Gilder, Editor of The Critic, 12mo, $1.25.

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