“The author’s recent books have made for her a secure place in current literature, where she can stand fast.… Her latest production, ‘A Puritan Pagan,’ is an eminently clever story, in the best sense of the word clever.”—Philadelphia Telegraph.
“Has already made its mark as a popular story, and will have an abundance of readers.… It contains some useful lessons that will repay the thoughtful study of persons of both sexes.”—New York Journal of Commerce.
“This brilliant novel will, without doubt, add to the repute of the writer who chooses to be known as Julien Gordon.… The ethical purpose of the author is kept fully in evidence through a series of intensely interesting situations.”—Boston Beacon.
“It is obvious that the author is thoroughly at home in illustrating the manner and the sentiment of the best society of both America and Europe.”—Chicago Times. [[314]]
A New Book by the author of “A Social Departure.”
AN AMERICAN GIRL IN LONDON. By Sara Jeannette Duncan. With 80 Illustrations by F. H. Townsend. 12mo. Paper, 75 cents; cloth, $1.50.
A brilliant book, picturing English sights, society, customs, and amusements, as seen by an unconventional and witty observer. The same qualities which made “A Social Departure” so remarkable a success will make “An American Girl in London” a book which is “talked about everywhere.”
“In the lighter literature of last year there was nothing more amusing than ‘A Social Departure,’ by Sara Jeannette Duncan, of Canada. It was just long enough—it could not well have been longer—but each reader wished that the author might write another book in similar style. Well, she has done it, and she could not have taken a better subject than ‘An American Girl in London.’ ”—New York Herald.
“The raciness and breeziness which made ‘A Social Departure,’ by the same author, last season, the best-read and most-talked-of book of travel for many a year, permeates the new book, and appears between the lines of every page. It is superfluous to say that ‘An American Girl’ is ‘awfully fetching.’ ”—Brooklyn Standard-Union.
A SOCIAL DEPARTURE: How Orthodocia and I Went Round the World by Ourselves. By Sara Jeannette Duncan. Illustrated by F. H. Townsend. 12mo. Paper, 75 cents; cloth, $1.75.