521 pages. With Frontispiece. Cloth, $1.50.
“A work of wonderful interest and wonderful power.... It will be read with absorbing attention, and recognized as one of the most effective of those books written ‘for a purpose.’ ”—Boston Gazette.
“The characters are real creations of romance, who will live alongside of Mrs. Stowe’s or Walter Scott’s till the times that gave them birth have been forgotten.”—Advance, Chicago.
“Since the days of Swift and his pamphleteers, we doubt if fiction has been made to play so caustic and delicate a part.”—San Francisco News-Letter.
“The delicacy and keenness of its satire are equal to anything within the range of my knowledge.”—Pres. Anderson, Rochester University.
“Figs and Thistles.”
538 pages. With Frontispiece. Cloth, $1.50.
“Crowded with incident, populous with strong characters, rich in humor, and from the beginning to the end alive with interest.”—Boston Commonwealth.
“It is, we think, evident that the hero of the book is James A. Garfield.... It embodies, also, the best description of a battle—not of its plan, the movement of troops, and the results of strategic and tactical forces, but of what one man, a private soldier in the ranks, saw during a battle—that we have ever read.”—Atchison (Kan.) Champion.
“The author has made a most spirited and skillful use of the scenes and incidents of the war.”—Atlantic Monthly.