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KISMET. A Nile Novel.
Opinions, generous tributes to genius, by well-known authors whose names are withheld.
"Well, I have read 'Kismet,' and it is certainly very remarkable. The story is interesting,—any well-told love story is, you know,—but the book itself is a great deal more so. Descriptively and sentimentally,—I use the word with entire respect,—it is, in spots, fairly exquisite. It seems to me all glowing and overflowing with what the French call beauté du diable.... The conversations are very clever, and the wit is often astonishingly like the wit of an accomplished man of the world. One thing which seems to me to show promise—great promise, if you will—for the future is that the author can not only reproduce the conversation of one brilliant man, but can make two men talk together as if they were men,—not women in manly clothes."
"It is a charming book. I have read it twice, and looked it over again, and I wish I had it all new to sit up with to-night. It is so fresh and sweet and innocent and joyous, the dialogue is so natural and bright, the characters so keenly edged, and the descriptions so poetic. I don't know when I have enjoyed any thing more,—never since I went sailing up the Nile with Harriet Martineau.... You must give the author love and greeting from one of the fraternity. The hand that gives us this pleasure will give us plenty more of an improving quality every year, I think."
"'Kismet' is indeed a delightful story, the best of the series undoubtedly."
"If 'Kismet' is the first work of a young lady, as reported, it shows a great gift of language, and powers of description and of insight into character and life quite uncommon.... Of the whole series so far, I think 'Mercy Philbrick's Choice' is the best, because it has, beside literary merit, some moral tone and vigor. Still there are capabilities in the writer of 'Kismet' even higher than in that of the writer of 'Mercy Philbrick's Choice.'"
"I liked it extremely. It is the best in the series so far, except in construction, in which 'Is That All?' slight as it is, seems to me superior. 'Kismet' is winning golden opinions everywhere. I have nothing but praises for it, and have nothing but praise to give it."
"I have read 'Kismet' once, and mean to read it again. It is thoroughly charming, and will be a success."
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