ROBERTS BROTHERS, Boston
GEORGE ELIOT. Famous Women Series. By Mathilde Blind. One volume, 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.00
"The first volume in the 'Famous Women' series just begun by Roberts Brothers is a life of 'George Eliot,' by Mathilde Blind. It is a clear, concise and masterly sketch, from a woman's point of view, of the career and work of the most remarkable figure in current English literature. It has a peculiar value, in that its author, in its preparation, collected her material from private and living sources. She had the assistance and countenance of Mr. Isaac Evans, a brother of George Eliot, from whom she obtained much valuable information, and a large mass of unpublished correspondence was placed at her disposal by such friends of the dead author as C. L. Lewes, W. M. Rosetti and James Thomson. By thus having her material at first hand, Miss Blind is enabled to correct certain mistakes which have found place in every memoir of George Eliot until now published."—Boston Transcript.
"Miss Blind's little book is written with admirable good taste and judgment, and with notable self-restraint. It does not weary the reader with critical discursiveness, nor with attempts to search out high-flown meanings and recondite oracles in the plain 'yea' and 'nay' of life. It is a graceful and unpretentious little biography, and tells all that need be told concerning one of the greatest writers of the time. It is a deeply interesting, if not fascinating, woman whom Miss Blind presents," says the N. Y. Tribune.
HESTER STANLEY AT ST. MARK'S. By Harriet Prescott Spofford. With illustrations. Small 4to. Cloth. Price, $1.25
"For the first time Mrs. Spofford has tried her hand at a juvenile. 'Hester Stanley' is emphatically a girl's book, a story of school-day life 'at St. Mark's,' which will be read with great interest."
"This book is, we believe, the first attempt that Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford has made to write a story for girls, but it is written with so delicate a touch and in such a pleasing style that most girl readers who chance upon it will hope that it may not be the last. It is a story of a life in a girl's boarding-school, and the young heroine of it comes almost as near to the ideal of what is winning and womanly as Tom Brown did to the ideal of frank young manhood. The tone of the book is high and pure and sweet, and we do not remember a story among the recent issues of the press which can be placed in the hands of girls with a stronger assurance that they will be charmed with its teaching and inspiration."—Item.
EMILY BRONTË. Famous Women Series. By A. Mary F. Robinson. One volume, 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.00
"Miss Robinson has written a fascinating biography." ... "Emily Brontë is interesting, not because she wrote 'Wuthering Heights,' but because of her brave, baffled human life, so lonely, so full of pain, but with a great hope shining beyond all the darkness, and a passionate defiance in bearing more than the burdens that were laid upon her. The story of the three sisters was infinitely sad, but it is the ennobling sadness that belongs to large natures cramped and striving for freedom to heroic, almost desperate, work, with little or no result. The author of this intensely interesting, sympathetic and eloquent biography is a young lady and a poet, to whom a place is given in a recent anthology of living English poets, which is supposed to contain only the best poems of the best writers," says the Boston Daily Advertiser.