Earlier Stories by the same author, each 16mo, paper covers.
LINDSAY’S LUCK (30 cts.)—PRETTY POLLY PEMBERTON (40 cts.)—KATHLEEN (40 cts.)—THEO (30 cts.)—MISS CRESPIGNY (30 cts.).
“Mrs. Burnett discovers gracious secrets in rough and forbidding natures—the sweetness that often underlies their bitterness—the soul of goodness in things evil. She seems to have an intuitive perception of character. If we apprehend her personages, and I think we do clearly, it is not because she describes them to us, but because they reveal themselves in their actions. Mrs. Burnett’s characters are as veritable as Thackeray’s.”—Richard Henry Stoddard.
William Allen Butler.
DOMESTICUS. A Tale of the Imperial City (12mo, $1.25.).
“Under a veil made intentionally transparent, the author maintains a running fire of good-natured hits at contemporary social follies. There is a delicate love story running through the book. The author’s style is highly finished. One might term it old-fashioned in its exquisite choiceness and precision.”—The New York Journal of Commerce.
George W. Cable.
THE GRANDISSIMES. (12mo, $1.25)—OLD CREOLE DAYS. (12mo, cloth, $1.25; also in two parts, 16mo, cloth, each, 75 cts.; paper, each, 30 cts.)—DR. SEVIER. (12mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.25)—BONAVENTURE. A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana (12mo, $1.25).
The set, 4 vols., $5.00.
“There are few living American writers who can reproduce for us more perfectly than Mr. Cable does, in his best moments, the speech, the manners, the whole social atmosphere of a remote time and a peculiar people. A delicious flavor of humor penetrates his stories, and the tragic portions are handled with rare strength.”—The New York Tribune.