FLUTE AND VIOLIN,
And Other Kentucky Tales and Romances. By James Lane Allen. With Illustrations. Post 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1 50.
A careful perusal of the six tales here printed reveals and emphasizes a rare talent and a power in romantic fiction which are as rare as they are acceptable.... Our native fiction can show nothing finer in its way than these beautiful Kentucky stories, which are all the better for having a Southern flavor, and picturing an ideal side of Southern life.—Hartford Courant.
The stories of this volume are fiction of high artistic value—fiction to be read and remembered as something rare, fine, and deeply touching.—Independent, N. Y.
These are beautiful sketches.... Never, perhaps, has the charm of Kentucky scenery been more vividly and invitingly illustrated than in this work, and for tenderness of touch and pathetic interest few stories can equal "Sister Dolorosa." In all the tales there is a delicious spice of romance, while the artistic taste in which they are told makes them models of good story telling.—Observer, N. Y.
Very charming stories.... "Two Gentlemen of Kentucky" is an especially delightful sketch.—N. Y. Sun.
In these stories Mr. Allen has given us some tender and touching work, which is characteristic and unhackneyed, and of which the individual flavor is most refreshing. There is, too, a power in these tales which touches the reader.—Boston Courier.
All the stories are unusual in character, scene, and treatment, and all will repay careful reading.—San Francisco Chronicle.
With the temperament and sympathies of the idealist, Mr. James Lane Allen combines the fidelity to detail usually associated only with the strict adherent of realism in art, and the result is—for the reader somewhat satiated with the outpourings of conventional story-writers—a series of entirely new and grateful sensations.—Boston Beacon.
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BY CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER.
AS WE WERE SAYING. With Portrait, and Illustrated by H. W. Mcvickar and others. 16mo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1 00.
So dainty and delightsome a little book may it be everybody's good hap to possess.—Evangelist, N. Y.
Who but Mr. Warner could dandle these trifles so gracefully before the mind and make their angles flash out new and hidden meanings.—Critic, N. Y.
OUR ITALY. An Exposition of the Climate and Resources of Southern California. Illustrated. 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, Gilt Top and Uncut Edges, $2 50.
Mr. Warner is a prince of travellers and sight-seers—so genial, so kindly, so ready to be pleased, so imperturable under discomfort, so full of interpretation, so prophetic in hope.... In this book are a little history, a little prophecy, a few fascinating statistics, many interesting facts, much practical suggestion, and abundant humor and charm.—Evangelist, N. Y.
A LITTLE JOURNEY IN THE WORLD. A Novel. Post 8vo, Half Leather, Gilt Top and Uncut Edges, $1 50.
The vigor and vividness of the tale and its sustained interest are not its only or its chief merits. It is a study of American life of to-day, possessed with shrewd insight and fidelity.—George William Curtis.
STUDIES IN THE SOUTH AND WEST. With Comments on Canada. Post 8vo, Half Leather, Gilt Top and Uncut Edges, $1 75.
A witty, instructive book, as brilliant in its pictures as it is warm in its kindness: and we feel sure that it is with a patriotic impulse that we say that we shall be glad to learn that the number of its readers bears some proportion to its merits and its power for good.—N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
THEIR PILGRIMAGE. Richly Illustrated by C. S. Reinhart. Post 8vo, Half Leather, Gilt Top and Uncut Edges, $2 00.
Mr. Warner's pen-pictures of the characters typical of each resort, of the manner of life followed at each, of the humor and absurdities peculiar to Saratoga, or Newport, or Bar Harbor, as the case may be, are as good-natured as they are clever. The satire, when there is any, is of the mildest, and the general tone is that of one glad to look on the brightest side of the cheerful, pleasure-seeking world.—Christian Union, N. Y.
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Transcriber's Note:
Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation are as in the original.