“Always bright, piquant, and entertaining, with an occasional touch of tenderness, strong because subtle, keen in sarcasm, full of womanly logic directed against unwomanly tendencies.”—Boston Journal.
We and Our Neighbors: The Records of an Unfashionable Street. A Novel. Illustrated. 12mo, cloth, $1.50.
“Mrs. Stowe’s style is picturesque, piquant, with just enough vivacity and vim to give the romance edge; and throughout there are delicious sketches of scenes, with bits of dry humor peculiar to her writings.”—Pittsburgh (Pa.) Commercial.
Poganuc People: Their Loves and Lives. A Novel. Illustrated. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. (Recent.) In Mrs. Stowe’s early inimitable style of New England scene and character.
“A fertile, ingenious, and rarely gifted writer of the purely American type, doing for the traditions of New England, and its salient social features, the same sort of service that Scott rendered to the Scotch and the history and scenery of his native land; that Dickens performed for London and its lights and shadows, its chronic abuses of every sort; the same service that Victor Hugo has done for Paris, in all its social state. Mrs. Stowe still keeps the field, and her harvests ever grow.”—Titusville (Pa.) Herald.
The New Housekeeper’s Manual and Handy Cook-Book. A Guide to Economy and Enjoyment in Home Life. (Gives nearly 500 choice and well-tested receipts.) By Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Nearly 600 pp., 8vo. Handsomely Illustrated. Cloth, $3.
“Considering the great variety of subjects over which it ranges, one is astonished to find, when he tests it by reference to any question on which he is personally well informed, how accurate is its teaching, and now trustworthy its authority.”—Independent.
RELIGIOUS BOOKS.
Footsteps of the Master: Studies in the Life of Christ. With Illustrations and Illuminated Titles. 12mo. Choicely bound. Cloth, $1.50.
“A very sweet book on wholesome religious thought.”—Evening Post.