TONY, THE MAID.
A Novelette. By Blanche Willis Howard. Illustrated by Charles S. Reinhart. 16mo, Cloth, $1 00.
"'Tony, the Maid,' is not only one of the best pieces of work Miss Howard has yet done, but it is one of the very best short stories of the year. Tony herself is an original creation. There is no maid like Tony in all fiction; and she is, moreover, the only good thing, which is neither superlatively beautiful nor emphatically a bore, or both, that has come out of the Canton of Lucerne since the days of William Tell. Even the insatiate archer, when he is not mythical, is a trifle wearing to the average mind, but Tony is never tiresome and always grand.
"As a short story Miss Howard's 'Tony, the Maid' has but one fault. It is too short. There is not enough of Tony. She makes her exit too suddenly and too completely. It is consoling to know, however, that Miss Zschorcher is some day coming to America as Mrs. Eduard Maler. Perhaps Tony the Maid may figure as Tony the Matron and Tony the Mother. Knowing her duty to her gracious Fräulein, no doubt she will."
A bright and lively sketch of an American woman abroad, and characterized throughout by keen and forcible phraseology and a very symmetrical construction.—N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
This is a very clever satire on one of the phases of modern society, and the tale is told in a most charming manner.—Albany Press.
It is a long time since we have met with anything so charming, so refreshing, so droll. . . . Read this book once, and one wants to turn back and read it again.—N. Y. Star.
Mr. Reinhart's illustrations greatly enhance the interest of the novelette.—Buffalo Commercial Advertiser.
A story written in a style as simple as that which Miss Howard has adopted in this novelette is sure to find many readers. The story is well told and attractive.—Troy Press.
"Tony, the Maid," is safe for a great success with the lovers of the bright and dainty in literature. It is prettily bound, and uncommonly cleverly illustrated.—N. Y. Graphic.
The story is told with infinite humor and with not a little pathos, and it will well repay perusal.—Philadelphia Telegraph.
The plot is new, the characters are fresh, and the handling is spirited and brisk. No one who commences this little book will stop reading until the end is reached.—Chicago Journal.
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There is a certain bright cheerfulness in Miss Woolson's writing which invests all her characters with lovable qualities.—Jewish Advocate, N. Y.
Miss Woolson is among our few successful writers of interesting magazine stories, and her skill and power are perceptible in the delineation of her heroines no less than in the suggestive pictures of local life.—Jewish Messenger, N. Y.
Constance Fenimore Woolson may easily become the novelist laureate.—Boston Globe.
Miss Woolson has a graceful fancy, a ready wit, a polished style, and conspicuous dramatic power; while her skill in the development of a story is very remarkable.—London Life.
Miss Woolson never once follows the beaten track of the orthodox novelist, but strikes a new and richly loaded vein, which so far is all her own; and thus we feel, on reading one of her works, a fresh sensation, and we put down the book with a sigh to think our pleasant task of reading it is finished. The author's lines must have fallen to her in very pleasant places; or she has, perhaps, within herself the wealth of womanly love and tenderness she pours so freely into all she writes. Such books as hers do much to elevate the moral tone of the day—a quality sadly wanting in novels of the time.—Whitehall Review, London.
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