"The author's recent books have made for her a secure place in current literature, where she can stand fast.... Her latest production, 'A Puritan Pagan,' is an eminently clever story, in the best sense of the word clever."—Philadelphia Telegraph.
"Has already made its mark as a popular story, and will have an abundance of readers.... It contains some useful lessons that will repay the thoughtful study of persons of both sexes."—New York Journal of Commerce.
"This brilliant novel will, without doubt, add to the repute of the writer who chooses to be known as Julien Gordon.... The ethical purpose of the author is kept fully in evidence through a series of intensely interesting situations."—Boston Beacon.
"It is obvious that the author is thoroughly at home in illustrating the manner and the sentiment of the best society of both America and Europe."—Chicago Times.
Recent Issues in Appletons' Town and Country Library.
THE THREE MISS KINGS. By Ada Cambridge, author of "My Guardian." 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth, 75 cents.
"May unreservedly be recommended as one of the choice stories of the season, bright, refined, graceful, thoughtful, and interesting from the first to the final page."—Boston Literary World.
A MATTER OF SKILL. By Beatrice Whitby, author of "The Awakening of Mary Fenwick" and "Part of the Property." 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00.
"A pretty love-story, told in a gracefully piquant manner, and with a frank freshness of style that makes it very attractive in the reading. It is uncommonly well written."—Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.