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"Miss Montrésor has the skill in writing of Olive Schreiner and Miss Harrarden, added to the fullness of knowledge of life which is a chief factor in the success of George Eliot and Mrs. Humphry Ward.... There is as much strength in this book as in a dozen ordinary successful novels."—London Literary World.
"I commend it to all my readers who like a strong, cheerful, beautiful story. It is one of the truly notable books of the season."—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
FALSE COIN OR TRUE? $1.25.
"One of the few true novels of the day.... It is powerful, and touched with a delicate insight and strong impressions of life and character.... The author's theme is original, her treatment artistic, and the book is remarkable for its unflagging interest."—Philadelphia Record.
"The tale never flags in interest, and once taken up will not be laid down until the last page is finished."—Boston Budget.
"A well-written novel, with well-depicted characters and well-chosen scenes."—Chicago News.
"A sweet, tender, pure, and lovely story."—Buffalo Commercial.
THE ONE WHO LOOKED ON. $1.25.
"A tale quite unusual, entirely unlike any other, full of a strange power and realism, and touched with a fine humor."—London World.
"One of the most remarkable and powerful of the year's contributions, worthy to stand with Ian Maclaren's."—British Weekly.
"One of the rare books which can be read with great pleasure and recommended without reservation. It is fresh, pure, sweet, and pathetic, with a pathos which is perfectly wholesome."—St. Paul Globe.
"The story is an intensely human one and it is delightfully told.... The author shows a marvelous keenness in character analysis, and a marked ingenuity in the development of her story."—Boston Advertiser.
INTO THE HIGHWAYS AND HEDGES. $1.50.
"A touch of idealism, of nobility of thought and purpose, mingled with an air of reality and well-chosen expression, are the most notable features of a book that has not the ordinary defects of such qualities. With all its elevation of utterance and spirituality of outlook and insight it is wonderfully free from overstrained or exaggerated matter, and it has glimpses of humor. Most of the characters are vivid, yet there are restraint and sobriety in their treatment, and almost all are carefully and consistently evolved."—London Athenæum.
"'Into the Highways and Hedges' is a book not of promise only, but of high achievement. It is original, powerful, artistic, humorous. It places the author at a bound in the rank of those artists to whom we look for the skillful presentation of strong personal impressions of life and character."—London Daily News.
"The pure idealism of 'Into the Highways and Hedges' does much to redeem modern fiction from the reproach it has brought upon itself.... The story is original, and told with great refinement."—Philadelphia Public Ledger.
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WIDOW GUTHRIE. Illustrated by E.W. Kemble. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"The Widow Guthrie stands out more boldly than any other figure we know—a figure curiously compounded of cynical hardness, blind love, and broken-hearted pathos.... A strong and interesting study of Georgia characteristics without depending upon dialect. There is just sufficient mannerism and change of speech to give piquancy to the whole."—Baltimore Sun.
"Southern humor is droll and thoroughly genuine, and Colonel Johnston is one of its prophets. The Widow Guthrie is admirably drawn. She would have delighted Thackeray. The story which bears her name is one of the best studies of Southern life which we possess."—Christian Union.
THE PRIMES AND THEIR NEIGHBORS. Illustrated by Kemble, Frost, and others. 12mo. Cloth, uniform with "Widow Guthrie," $1.25. Also in paper, not illustrated, 50 cents.
"The South ought to erect a monument in gratitude to Richard Malcolm Johnston. While scores of writers have been looking for odd Southern characters and customs and writing them up as curiosities, Mr. Johnston has been content to tell stories in which all the people are such as might be found in almost any Southern village before the war, and the incidents are those of the social life of the people, uncomplicated by anything which happened during the late unpleasantness."—New York Herald.
"These ten short stories are full of queer people, who not only talk but act in a sort of dialect. Their one interest is their winning oddity. They are as truly native to the soil as are the people of 'Widow Guthrie.' In both books the humor is genuine, and the local coloring is bright and attractive."—New York Commercial Advertiser.
THE CHRONICLES OF MR. BILL WILLIAMS. (Dukesborough Tales.) 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth, with Portrait of the Author, $1.00.
"A delightful originality characterizes these stories, which may take a high rank in our native fiction that depicts the various phases of the national life. Their humor is equally genuine and keen, and their pathos is delicate and searching."—Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Stripped of their bristling envelope of dialect, the core of these experiences emerges as lumps of pure comedy, as refreshing as traveler's trees in a thirsty land; and the literary South may be grateful that it has a living writer able and willing to cultivate a neglected patch of its wide domain with such charming skill."—The Critic.
MR. FORTNER'S MARITAL CLAIMS, and Other Stories. 16mo. Boards, 50 cents.
"When the last story is finished we feel, in imitation of Oliver Twist, like asking for more."—Public Opinion.
"Quaint and lifelike pictures, as characteristic in dialect as in description, of Georgia scenes and characters, and the quaintness of its humor is entertaining and delightful."—Washington Public Opinion.
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