American Novels, No. 2.
BRUETON'S BAYOU,
By John Habberton, author of "Helen's Babies," AND MISS DEFARGE,
By Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of "That Lass o' Lowrie's."
"A good book to put in the satchel for a railway trip or ocean voyage."—Chicago Current.
"In every way worthy of the best of our American story-writers."—(Washington) Public Opinion.
"It is safe to say that no two more charming stories were ever bound in one cover than these."—New Orleans Picayune.
"'Brueton's Bayou' is an excellent tale, the motive of which is apparently to instil into the haughty insularity of the New York mind a realizing sense of the intellectual possibilities of the South-west. The smug and self-satisfied young New York business-man, who is detained by the lameness of his horse at Brueton's Bayou, and there presently meets his fate in the form of a brilliant and beautiful girl of the region, has the nonsense taken out of him very thoroughly by his Southern experiences. 'Miss Defarge' is a strong study of a very resolute and self-centred young woman, who accomplishes many things by sheer force of will. But the most interesting and charming figure in it is that of Elizabeth Dysart, the blonde beauty, a kind of modernized Dudu,—'large and languishing and lazy,'—but of a sweetness of temper and general lovableness not to be surpassed."—New York Tribune.