This account of the adventures passed through by the author and his companions, while escaping from a Southern prison in 1865, is as full of thrilling incident as any fiction could be. The privations and dangers of the journey through Georgia and the Carolinas are graphically portrayed.
In Old Narragansett. Romances and Realities. By Alice Morse Earle.
A collection of eleven stories and sketches illustrating the more romantic phases of life in Old Narragansett, and filled with fresh pictures of manners and customs of long ago. The book is written in the author’s most engaging style.
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Literary Love Letters, and Other Stories. By Robert Herrick, author of “The Man Who Wins.”
“It shows literary elegance and skill, to say nothing of the daintiest of touches. Robert Herrick shows himself to be a past master in subtleties of diction of the heart, and of a vivid and brilliant imaginative turn.”—Chicago Times-Herald.
A Romance in Transit. By Francis Lynde.
“One of the most readable stories we have seen for a long time. A comedy romance of the happiest kind.”—Bost. Times.
The Old Gentleman of the Black Stock. By Thomas Nelson Page.
“The story has the delicacy, tenderness, and sweetness which invariably characterize Mr. Page’s short stories; and the flavor of the South and olden days is like the scent of rose leaves from a jar.”—Boston Times.