Recent Issues in Appletons' Town and Country Library
STEPHEN ELLICOTT'S DAUGHTER. By Mrs. J. H. Needell, author of "The Story of Philip Methuen." 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00.
"I am desirous to bear my humble testimony to the great ability and high aim of the work."—Hon. W. E. Gladstone.
"From first to last an exceptionally strong and beautiful story."—London Spectator.
ONE REASON WHY. By Beatrice Whitby, author of "The Awakening of Mary Fenwick," "Part of the Property," etc. 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00.
"A remarkably well-written story.… The author makes her people speak the language of every-day life, and a vigorous and attractive realism pervades the book, which provides excellent entertainment from beginning to end."—Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.
THE TRAGEDY OF IDA NOBLE. By W. Clark Russell, author of "The Wreck of the Grosvenor," etc. 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00.
"The best sea-story since 'The Wreck of the Grosvenor.' It shows a determination to abandon the well-worn tracks of fiction and to evolve a new and striking plot.… There is no sign of exhausted imagination in this strong tale."—Philadelphia Public Ledger.
THE JOHNSTOWN STAGE AND OTHER STORIES. By Robert H. Fletcher, author of "A Blind Bargain," etc. 12mo. Paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.00.
"A collection of as charming short stories as one could wish to find, most of them Western in scene."—San Francisco Argonaut.
"Nine real stories, not studies of character, but narratives of interest … vivaciously and pleasantly told."—Boston Pilot.
A WIDOWER INDEED. By Rhoda Broughton and Elizabeth Bisland. 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00.
"Done with masterly skill. The whole work is strong and well worth reading."—New York Journal of Commerce.
"The story is written with great strength, and possesses a powerful interest that never flags."—Boston Home Journal.
THE FLIGHT OF THE SHADOW. By George MacDonald, author of "Malcolm," "Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood," etc. 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00.
"It is extremely entertaining, contains a charming love-story, and is beautifully written, like everything from Mr. MacDonald's pen."—St. Paul Pioneer-Press.
LOVE OR MONEY. By Katharine Lee, author of "A Western Wildflower," "In London Town," etc. 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00.
"In point of cleverness this novel is quite up to the standard of the excellent Town and Country Library in which it appears. Most of the characters are well drawn, and there are some singularly strong scenes in the book."—Charleston News and Courier.
NOT ALL IN VAIN. By Ada Cambridge, author of "The Three Miss Kings," "My Guardian," etc. 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00.
"A worthy companion to the best of the author's former efforts, and in some respects superior to any of them."—Detroit Free Press.
"A better story has not been published in many moons."—Philadelphia Inquirer.
IT HAPPENED YESTERDAY. By Frederick Marshall, author of "Claire Brandon." 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00.
"An odd, fantastic tale, whose controlling agency is an occult power which the world thus far has doubted and wondered at alternately rather than studied."—Chicago Times.
"A psychological story of very powerful interest"—Boston Home Journal.
MY GUARDIAN. By Ada Cambridge, author of "The Three Miss Kings," "Not All in Vain," etc. 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00.
"A story which will, from first to last, enlist the sympathies of the reader by its simplicity of style and fresh, genuine feeling.… The author is au fait at the delineation of character.—Boston Transcript.
"The dénoûment is all that the most ardent romance-reader could desire."—Chicago Evening Journal.
ELINE VERE. By Louis Couperus. Translated from the Dutch by J. T. Grein. With an Introduction by Edmund Gosse. Holland Fiction Series. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.
"The established authorities in art and literature retain their exclusive place in dictionaries and hand-books long after the claim of their juniors to be observed with attention has been practically conceded at home. For this reason, partly, and partly also because the mental life of Holland receives little attention in this country, no account has yet been taken of the revolution in Dutch taste which has occupied the last six or seven yean. I believe that the present occasion is the first on which it has been brought to the notice of any English-speaking public.… 'Eline Vere' is an admirable performance."—Edmund Gosse, in Introduction.
"Most careful in its details of description, most picturesque in its coloring."—Boston Post.
"A vivacious and skillful performance, giving an evidently faithful picture of society, and evincing the art of a true story-teller."—Philadelphia Telegraph.
"Those who associate Dutch characters and Dutch thought with ideas of the purely phlegmatic, will read with astonishment and pleasure the oft-times stirring and passionate sentences of this novel."—Public Opinion.
"The dénoûment is tragical, thrilling, and picturesque."—New York World.
"If modern Dutch literature has other books as good as this to offer, we hope that they will soon find a translator."—Chicago Evening Journal.
A PURITAN PAGAN. By Julien Gordon, author of "A Diplomat's Diary," etc. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.
"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.
THE FAITH DOCTOR. By Edward Eggleston, author of "The Hoosier Schoolmaster," "The Circuit Rider," etc. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"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.
"The author of 'The Hoosier Schoolmaster' has enhanced his reputation by this beautiful and touching study of the character of a girl to love whom proved a liberal education to both of her admirers."—London Athenæum.
AN UTTER FAILURE. By Miriam Coles Harris, author of "Rutledge." 12mo. Cloth, $1.25.
"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.
"Exhibits the same literary excellence that made the success of the author's first book."—San Francisco Argonaut.
"American girls with a craving for titled husbands will find instructive reading in this story."—Boston Traveller.
ON THE PLANTATION. By Joel Chandler Harris, author of "Uncle Remus." With 23 Illustrations by E. W. Kemble, and Portrait of the Author. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"The book is in the characteristic vein which has made the author so famous and popular as an interpreter of plantation character."—Rochester Union and Advertiser.
"Those who never tire of Uncle Remus and his stories—with whom we would be accounted—will delight in Joe Maxwell and his exploits."—London Saturday Review.
"Altogether a most charming book."—Chicago Times.
"Really a valuable, if modest, contribution to the history of the civil war within the Confederate lines, particularly on the eve of the catastrophe. Two or three new animal fables are introduced with effect; but the history of the plantation, the printing-office, the black runaways, and white deserters, of whom the impending break-up made the community tolerant, the coon and fox hunting, forms the serious purpose of the book, and holds the reader's interest from beginning to end."—New York Evening Post.
UNCLE REMUS: His Songs and his Sayings. The Folk-lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. Illustrated from Drawings by F. S. Church and J. H. Moser, of Georgia. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"The idea of preserving and publishing these legends, in the form in which the old plantation negroes actually tell them, is altogether one of the happiest literary conceptions of the day. And very admirably is the work done.… In such touches lies the charm of this fascinating little volume of legends, which deserves to be placed on a level with Reincke Fuchs for its quaint humor, without reference to the ethnological interest possessed by these stories, as indicating, perhaps, a common origin for very widely severed races."—London Spectator.
"We are just discovering what admirable literary material there is at home, what a great mine there is to explore, and how quaint and peculiar is the material which can be dug up. Mr. Harris's book may be looked on in a double light—either as a pleasant volume recounting the stories told by a typical old colored man to a child, or as a valuable contribution to our somewhat meager folk-lore.… To Northern readers the story of Brer (Brother—Brudder) Rabbit may be novel. To those familiar with plantation life, who have listened to these quaint old stories, who have still tender reminiscences of some good old mauma who told these wondrous adventures to them when they were children, Brer Rabbit, the Tar Baby, and Brer Fox come back again with all the past pleasures of younger days."—New York Times.
"Uncle Remus's sayings on current happenings are very shrewd and bright, and the plantation and revival songs are choice specimens of their sort."—Boston Journal.
THE LAST WORDS OF THOMAS CARLYLE. Including Wotton Reinfred, Carlyle's only essay in fiction; the Excursion (Futile Enough) to Paris; and letters from Thomas Carlyle, also letters from Mrs. Carlyle, to a personal friend. With Portrait. 12mo. Cloth, gilt top, $1.75.
"The interest of 'Wotton Reinfred' to me is considerable, from the sketches which it contains of particular men and women, most of whom I knew and could, if necessary, identify. The story, too, is taken generally from real life, and perhaps Carlyle did not finish it, from the sense that it could not be published while the persons and things could be recognized. That objection to the publication no longer exists. Eveybody is dead whose likenesses have been drawn, and the incidents stated have long been forgotten."—James Anthony Froude.
"'Wotton Reinfred' is interesting as a historical document. It gives Carlyle before he had adopted his peculiar manner, and yet there are some characteristic bits—especially at the beginning—in the Sartor Resartus vein. I take it that these are reminiscences of Irving and of the Thackeray circle, and there is a curious portrait of Coleridge, not very thinly veiled. There is enough autobiography, too, of interest in its way."—Leslie Stephen.
"No complete edition of the Sage of Chelsea will be able to ignore these manuscripts."—Pall Mall Gazette.
MEN, MINES, AND ANIMALS IN SOUTH AFRICA. By Lord Randolph S. Churchill. With Portrait, Sixty-five Illustrations, and a Map. 8vo. 337 pages. Cloth, $5.00.
"The subject-matter of the book is of unsurpassed interest to all who either travel in new countries, to see for themselves the new civilizations, or follow closely the experiences of such travelers. And Lord Randolph's eccentricities are by no means such as to make his own reports of what he saw in the new states of South Africa any the less interesting than his active eyes and his vigorous pen naturally make them."—Brooklyn Eagle.
"Lord Randolph Churchill's pages are full of diversified adventures and experience, from any part of which interesting extracts could be collected.… A thoroughly attractive book."—London Telegraph.
"Provided with amusing illustrations, which always fall short of caricature, but perpetually suggest mirthful entertainment."—Philadelphia Ledger.
"The book is the better for having been written somewhat in the line of journalism. It is a volume of travel containing the results of a journalist's trained observation and intelligent reflection upon political affairs. Such a work is a great improvement upon the ordinary book of travel. Lord Randolph Churchill thoroughly enjoyed his experiences in the African bush, and has produced a record of his journey and exploration which has hardly a dull page in it."—New York Tribune.
LIFE IN ANCIENT EGYPT AND ASSYRIA. By G. Maspéro, late Director of Archæology in Egypt, and Member of the Institute of France. Translated by Alice Morton. With 188 Illustrations. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"A lucid sketch, at once popular and learned, of daily life in Egypt in the time of Rameses II, and of Assyria in that of Assurbanipal.… As an Orientalist, M. Maspéro stands in the front rank, and his learning is so well digested and so admirably subdued to the service of popular exposition, that it nowhere overwhelms and always interests the reader."—London Times.
"Only a writer who had distinguished himself as a student of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities could have produced this work, which has none of the features of a modern book of travels in the East, but is an attempt to deal with ancient life as if one had been a contemporary with the people whose civilization and social usages are very largely restored."—Boston Herald.
"The ancient artists are copied with the utmost fidelity, and verify the narrative so attractively presented."—Cincinnati Times-Star.
THE THREE PROPHETS: Chinese Gordon; Mohammed-Ahmed; Araby Pasha. Events before, during, and after the Bombardment of Alexandria. By Colonel Chaille-Long, ex-Chief of Staff to Gordon in Africa, ex-United States Consular Agent in Alexandria, etc. With Portraits. 16mo. Paper, 50 cents.
"Comprises the observations of a man who, by reason of his own military experience in Egypt, ought to know whereof he speaks."—Washington Post.
"Throws an entirely new light upon the troubles which have so long agitated Egypt, and upon their real significance."—Chicago Times.
THE MEMOIRS OF AN ARABIAN PRINCESS. By Emily Ruete, née Princess of Oman and Zanzibar. Translated from the German. 12mo. Cloth, 75 cents.
"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 manner born, the book is prolific in entertainment and edification."—Boston Gazette.
"The interest of the book centers chiefly in its minute description of the daily life of the household from the time of rising until the time of retiring, giving the most complete details of dress, meals, ceremonies, feasts, weddings, funerals, education, slave service, amusements, in fact everything connected with the daily and yearly routine of life."—Utica (N. Y.) Herald.
THE SOVEREIGNS AND COURTS OF EUROPE. The Home and Court Life and Characteristics of the Reigning Families. By "Politikos." With many Portraits. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"A remarkably able book.… A great deal of the inner history of Europe is to be found in the work, and it is illustrated by admirable portraits."—The Athenæum.
"Its chief merit is that it gives a new view of several sovereigns.… The anonymous author seems to have sources of information that are not open to the foreign correspondents who generally try to convey the impression that they are on terms of intimacy with royalty."—San Francisco Chronicle.
"The anonymous author of these sketches of the reigning sovereigns of Europe appears to have gathered a good deal of curious information about their private lives, manners, and customs, and has certainly in several instances had access to unusual sources. The result is a volume which furnishes views of the kings and queens concerned far fuller and more intimate than can be found elsewhere."—New York Tribune.
"… A book that would give the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth (so far as such comprehensive accuracy is possible), about these exalted personages, so often heard about but so seldom seen by ordinary mortals, was a desideratum, and this book seems well fitted to satisfy the demand. The author is a well-known writer on questions indicated by his pseudonym."—Montreal Gazette.
"A very handy book of reference."—Boston Transcript.
MY CANADIAN JOURNAL, 1872-'78. By Lady Dufferin. Extracts from letters home written while Lord Dufferin was Governor-General of Canada. With Portrait, Map, and Illustrations from sketches by Lord Dufferin. 12mo. Cloth, $2.00.
"A graphic and intensely interesting portraiture of out-door life in the Dominion, and will become, we are confident, one of the standard works on the Dominion.… It is a charming volume."—Boston Traveller.
"In every place and under every condition of circumstances the Marchioness shows herself to be a true lady, without reference to her title. Her book is most entertaining, and the abounding good-humor of every page must stir a sympathetic spirit in its readers."—Philadelphia Bulletin.
"The many readers of Lady Dufferin's Journal of 'Our Vice-Regal Life in India' will welcome this similar record from the same vivacious pen, although it concerns a period antecedent to the other, and takes one back many years. The book consists of extracts from letters written home by Lady Dufferin to her friends (her mother chiefly) while her husband was Governor-General of Canada; and describes her experiences in the same chatty and charming style with which readers were before made familiar."—Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette.