Miss Woolson has a graceful fancy, a ready wit, a polished style, and conspicuous dramatic power; while her skill in the development of a story is very remarkable.—London Life.
Miss Woolson never once follows the beaten track of the orthodox novelist, but strikes a new and richly loaded vein, which so far is all her own; and thus we feel, on reading one of her works, a fresh sensation, and we put down the book with a sigh to think our pleasant task of reading it is finished. The author's lines must have fallen to her in very pleasant places; or she has, perhaps, within herself the wealth of womanly love and tenderness she pours so freely into all she writes. Such books as hers do much to elevate the moral tone of the day—a quality sadly wanting in novels of the time.—Whitehall Review, London.
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BY HOWARD PYLE.
The Wonder Clock; or, Four-and-Twenty Marvellous Tales: being One for each Hour of the Day. Written and Illustrated by Howard Pyle. Embellished with Verses by Katherine Pyle. Large 8vo, Ornamental Half Leather, $3 00.
The illustrations fit the stories perfectly, and are as fantastic as the warmest lovers of tales of magic can desire. The artist enters so thoroughly into the spirit of the stories that his wonderful drawings have an air of reality about them. Some are grotesque, some exquisitely graceful; all are so spirited, so vigorous, so admirable in design and in the expression of the faces and figures, and so full of action, that it is hard to say which is the best.—Boston Post.
"The Wonder Clock" is truly a monument to the genius and industry of the author in his line of illustrated tales, and also to the enterprise of the publishers in producing choice children's books.—Brooklyn Eagle.