The title story is a strangely simple, pathetic story of a weakling child with a passion for music. The careful, loving treatment of the slight plot makes it, even in translation, a beautiful story.—Chicago Figaro.
Five stories, all conceived with great power and written with masterly skill.—Boston Gazette.
The Blind Musician.Translated from the Russian of Vladimir Korolenko by Aline Delano. With Introduction by George Kennan, and illustrations by Edmund H. Garrett. 16mo. Cloth, gilt top, $1.25.
This unique and exquisite little book is less a story than a wonderfully faithful and delicate study in psychology. Though told in prose, it is in essence a poem. The volume is in edition de luxe, with dainty and charming bits of vignette illustration and a perfection of finish which gives refined pleasure to the touch as well as to the eye.—Boston Transcript.
A Woman of Shawmut. A Romance of Colonial Times. (Boston, 1640.) By Edmund Janes Carpenter. With 12 charming full-page illustrations and numerous chapter-headings from pen-and-ink drawings by F. T. Merrill. 16mo. Cloth, extra, gilt top, $1.25.
Has qualities placing it among the prose poems of recent literature.—Boston Journal.
Clever pictures of old Boston.—Boston Transcript.
A decidedly artistic specimen of bookmaking.—Boston Gazette.
Carine, a Story of Sweden. By Louis Énault. Translated from the French by Linda De Kowalewska. With thirty-nine Illustrations by Louis K. Harlow. 16mo. Cloth, gilt top, $1.25. Uniform with “A Woman of Shawmut.”