D. APPLETON & CO.'S PUBLICATIONS.
YEKL. A Tale of the New York Ghetto. By A. Cahan. Uniform with "The Red Badge of Courage." 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.
"A new and striking tale; the charm, the verity, the literary quality of the book depend upon its study of character, its 'local color,' its revelation to Americans of a social state at their very doors of which they have known nothing."—New York Times.
"The story is a revelation to us. It is written in a spirited, breezy way, with an originality in the telling of which is quite unexpected. The dialect is striking in its truth to Nature."—Boston Courier.
"Is in all probability the only true picture we have yet had of that most densely populated spot on the face of the earth—the ghetto of the metropolis, rather the metropolis of the ghettos of the world."—New York Journal.
"A series of vivid pictures of a strange people.… The people and their social life the author depicts with marvelous success."—Boston Transcript.
"The reader will become deeply interested in Mr. Cahan's graphic presentation of ghetto life in New York."—Minneapolis Journal.
"A strong, quaint story."—Detroit Tribune.