An admirable novel; a pure, bright, pleasant, sparkling, wholesome, interesting story of musical taste, talent, and life. The idea is a beautiful one itself, and it is well carried out in the structure of the story.—Literary World.
A novel that doesn't sound a hackneyed note from beginning to end.... One of the brightest, happiest, and most infectious of the numerous stories that have a musical basis.—Boston Herald.
Freshly told and charmingly conceived. Very delightful reading, and, in these hurried and high-strung days, a genuine refreshment.—Boston Transcript.
The Count's Snuff-Box. A Romance of Washington and Buzzard's Bay during the War of 1812. By George R. R. Rivers, author of "The Governor's Garden," "Captain Shays, a Populist of 1786," etc. Illustrated by Clyde O. De Land. 12mo. Cloth, gilt top. $1.50.
A well-conceived and well-told story, from which the reader will get an excellent idea of society and manners in the nation's capital nearly a century ago.—Boston Transcript.
Will rank as one of the successes of the year if there is any faith to be put in a capital story in a frame fashioned of our own rugged history.—Denver Republican.
Each Life Unfulfilled. By Anna Chapin Ray, author of "Teddy, Her Book," etc. 16mo. Cloth, extra. $1.25.
A novel of to-day, dealing with American life. Its principal characters are a young girl studying for a musical career, and an author. The scenes of the story are laid in a Western summer resort and in New York.
Hassan. A Romance of Palestine. By Henry Gillman. Crown 8vo. 600 pages. Cloth, gilt top. $2.00.
The author of this powerful romance lived in Palestine for over five years, and during his residence there had unusual and peculiar advantages for seeing and knowing the people and the country, enabling him to enrich his story with local color, characteristics, and information not found in any other work of the kind on the Holy Land. The pen-portraits of the people are studies made upon the spot, and the descriptions of Jerusalem and the surrounding country are word-pictures of the land as it is to-day, and therefore of special value.