“She paints a scene in which modesty, simplicity, frugality, and fine culture combine to make a home free from ostentation, and full of those domestic virtues which we are so slow to associate with French family life.”—Christian Register.
“It must be said of Mrs. Hamerton’s characters that they are far beyond the golden mediocrity of clearness and naturalness. The reader accepts them unfalteringly; they are real and living beings, human but alive.”—N. Y. Graphic.
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS
Of Giovanni Duprè. Translated from the Italian by E. M. Peruzzi (a daughter of William W. Story). With an introduction by William W. Story and a fine portrait of Duprè. 12mo. Cloth. $2.00.
“A book published by Blackwood, of Edinburgh, has been attracting great attention in Rome. If it were republished in America it would have a great run. ‘The Autobiography of Giovanni Duprè,’ the distinguished Florentine sculptor,—a clever, original, and spirited work,—as characteristic of the middle decade of our century as Benvenuto Cellini’s was of his period. The book is translated from the Italian by Edith Marion Story (Mme. Peruzzi), daughter of our brilliant sculptor, poet, writer, and talker, Story.”—Miss Brewster’s Correspondence from Rome.
THE SERVICES OF WASHINGTON.
An Address before the School Children of Boston, in the Old South Meeting House, Feb. 22, 1886. By William Everett. 16mo. Paper covers. 15 cents.
“William Everett’s ‘Address on the Services of Washington’ is a production of marked originality; and while not lacking in eloquence, its beauty and value consist not so much in rhetorical flourishes and glittering generalities,—common enough on such occasions,—as in the impressive manner in which the true secret of Washington’s greatness is set forth, and his excellence of character commended as an example to youth.”—Alton Telegraph.
SUSANNA WESLEY.
By Eliza Clarke. Being the thirteenth volume in the “Famous Women Series.” 16mo. $1.00.