"HELL FER SARTAIN," and Other Stories.
Mr. Fox has made a great success of his pictures of the rude life and primitive passions of the people of the mountains of West Virginia and Kentucky. His sketches are short but graphic; he paints his scenes and his hill people in terse and simple phrases and makes them genuinely picturesque, giving us glimpses of life that are distinctively American.—Detroit Free Press.
A CUMBERLAND VENDETTA, and Other Stories.
Illustrated.
These stories are tempestuously alive, and sweep the heart-strings with a master-hand.—Watchman, Boston.
BY FRANK R. STOCKTON
THE ASSOCIATE HERMITS.
A Novel. Illustrated by A. B. Frost.
If there is a more droll or more delightful writer now living than Mr. Frank R. Stockton we should be slow to make his acquaintance, on the ground that the limit of safety might be passed.... Mr. Stockton's humor asserts itself admirably, and the story is altogether enjoyable.—Independent, N. Y.
The interest never flags, and there is nothing intermittent about the sparkling humor.—Philadelphia Press.
THE GREAT STONE OF SARDIS.
A Novel. Illustrated by Peter Newell.
The scene of Mr. Stockton's novel is laid in the twentieth century, which is imagined as the culmination of our era of science and invention. The main episodes are a journey to the centre of the earth by means of a pit bored by an automatic cartridge, and a journey to the North Pole beneath the ice of the Polar Seas. These adventures Mr. Stockton describes with such simplicity and conviction that the reader is apt to take the story in all seriousness until he suddenly runs into some gigantic pleasantry of the kind that was unknown before Mr. Stockton began writing, and realizes that the novel is a grave and elaborate bit of fooling, based upon the scientific fads of the day. The book is richly illustrated by Peter Newell, the one artist of modern times who is suited to interpret Mr. Stockton's characters and situations.