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THE AMERICAN TAUCHNITZ SERIES. Square 16mo. Paper covers, 50 cents. Cloth, $1.00.
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Miss Frances Merley:
A Novel. By John Elliot Curran. 420 pages.
The first important work of an author familiar to American readers by his remarkable sketches to Scribner’s and other magazines.
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Autobiography of a New England Farm House:
A Romance of the Cape Cod Lands. By N. H. Chamberlain. 380 pages.
A novel of singular power and beauty, great originality and rugged force. Born and bred on Cape Cod, the author, at the winter firesides of country people, very conservative of ancient English customs now gone, heard curious talk of kings, Puritan ministers, the war and precedent struggle of our Revolution, and touched a race of men and women now passed away. He also heard, chiefly from ancient women, the traditions of ghosts, witches and Indians, as they are preserved, and to a degree believed, by honest Christian folk, in the very teeth of modern progress. These things are embodied in this book.
OTHER VOLUMES OF THIS SERIES IN PREPARATION.
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A SUMMER CRUISE ON THE COAST OF NEW ENGLAND. By Robert Carter. With an Introduction by Rossiter Johnson. 12mo. Cloth, with Map. $1.50.
A new edition of one of the most fascinating of salt-water yarns, full of genial humor, vivid word-painting, accurate information, and practical “wrinkles.” A classic by reason of the esteem in which it is held by yachtsmen, and as a literary production equal to anything of the kind in the Anglo-Saxon tongue.