Mrs. Norton was the great Sheridan's grand-daughter, beautiful and witty, the author of novels, poems and songs, contesting contemporary popularity with Mrs. Browning; her influence was potent in politics; Meredith undoubtedly had her in mind when he drew "Diana of the Crossways."
"Reads like a novel ... seems like the page from an old romance, and Miss Perkins has preserved all its romantic charm.... Miss Perkins has let letters, and letters unusually interesting, tell much of the story.... Indeed her biography has all the sustained interest of the novel, almost the irresistible march of fate of the Greek drama. It is eminently reliable."—Boston Transcript.
"Brilliant, beautiful, unhappy, vehement Caroline Norton.... Her story is told here with sympathy, but yet fairly enough ... interesting glimpses ... of the many men and women of note with whom Mrs. Norton was brought into more or less intimate association."—Providence Journal.
"The generous space allowed her to tell her own story in the form of intimate letters is a striking and admirable feature of the book."—The Dial.
"She was an uncommonly interesting personage and the memoir ... has no dull spots and speedily wins its way to a welcome."—New York Tribune.
"So exceptional and vivid a personality ... of unusual quality ... very well written."—The Outlook.
YUNG WING'S
MY LIFE IN CHINA AND AMERICA
With portrait, 8vo. $2.50 net; by mail, $2.65.
The author's account of his early life in China, his education at Yale, where he graduated in 1854 (LL.D., 1876), his return to China and adventures during the Taiping rebellion, his intimate association with Tsang Kwoh Fan and Li Hung Chang, and finally his great work for the "Chinese Educational Movement" furnish highly interesting and good reading.
"It is his native land that is always the great heroic character on the stage his mind surveys; and his mental grasp is as wide as his domiciliation. A great life of action and reflection and the experiences of two hemispheres. It is not so much a knowledge of isolated facts that is to be got from the book as an understanding of the character of the Chinese race."—Hartford Courant.