"A FRESH AND CHARMING NOVEL."
The Last Lady of Mulberry.
A Story of Italian New York. By Henry Wilton Thomas. Illustrated by Emil Pollak. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"The Last Lady of Mulberry" is the title of a fresh and charming novel, whose author, a new writer, Mr. Henry Wilton Thomas, has found an unexploited field in the Italian quarter of New York. Mr. Thomas is familiar with Italy as well as New York, and the local color of his vivacious pictures gives his story a peculiar zest. As a story pure and simple his novel is distinguished by originality in motive, by a succession of striking and dramatic scenes, and by an understanding of the motives of the characters, and a justness and sympathy in their presentation which imparts a constant glow of human interest to the tale. The author has a quaint and delightful humor which will be relished by every reader. While his story deals with actualities, it is neither depressing nor unpleasantly realistic, like many "stories of low life," and the reader gains a vivid impression of the sunnier aspects of life in the Italian quarter. The book contains a series of well-studied and effective illustrations by Mr. Emil Pollak.
BY THE AUTHOR OF "RED POTTAGE."
Diana Tempest.
A Novel. By Mary Cholmondeley, author of "Red Pottage," "The Danvers Jewels," etc. With Portrait and Sketch of the Author. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"Of Miss Cholmondeley's clever novels, 'Diana Tempest' is quite the cleverest."—London Times.
"The novel is hard to lay by, and one likes to take it up again for a second reading."—Boston Literary World.
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK.