"Miss Giles' first work has had a very large sale, and has attracted the attention of readers and critics throughout the country. Her second book gives evidence of the ripening powers of the authoress, and shows the improvement which she has made as a writer, and a mastery of style and effect which are really uncommon."—Milwaukee News.
"The characters are all well conceived, and the story is pleasantly written." Inter-Ocean.
GILES.—Bachelor Ben. A Novel; by Miss Ella A. Giles.
"A story of great descriptive and analytic mastery. * * A master-piece of free and natural handling of human life, and marks a new departure in fiction, in that the hero never marries, and the author has attempted to group the sympathies of readers about an unconventional man."—Home Journal (New York).
"The book is refreshingly guiltless of all superfluous characters. The tone is good throughout. The moral apparent."—Chicago Times.
HALL.—Poems of the Farm and Fireside. By Eugene J. Hall.
"In vigor and pathos they are certainly equal—we should say superior—to Carleton's Farm Ballads; in humor scarcely inferior to the Biglow Papers."—Interior.
"There is a nobility of mind even among the toilers of the land too often overlooked, and for this reason we like the flavor of these poems, because they smell of the field and forest, as well as portray the inner life of society at the fireside."—Pittsburgh Commercial.
HEWITT.—"Our Bible." Three Lectures, delivered at Unity Church, Oak Park, Ill., by Rev. J. O. M. Hewitt.
"This volume is rich in erudition and conspicuously clear in the enunciation of the objections to the orthodox idea of an inspiration which makes it infallible in all particulars."—Chicago Journal.
LAMARTINE.—Graziella; a Story of Italian Love. Translated from the French of A. De Lamartine by James B. Runnion.
"'Graziella' is a poem in prose. The subject and the treatment are both eminently poetic. * * * It glows with love of the beautiful in all nature. * * * It is pure literature, a perfect story, couched in perfect words. The sentences have the rhythm and flow, the sweetness and tender fancy of the original. It is uniform with 'Memories,' the fifth edition of which has just been published, and it should stand side by side with that on the shelves of every lover of pure, strong thoughts put in pure, strong words. 'Graziella' is a book to be loved."—Tribune.
MASON.—Mae Madden. A Story; by Mrs. Mary Murdoch Mason, with an introductory poem by Joaquin Miller.