Cloth, 12mo, Illustrated, each, $1.25.
Mrs. Smith deserves very hearty commendation for the admirable pictures of Puritan life which are drawn with a skilful hand in this book. She has chosen a representative Puritan village as the scene, and the period of very early settlement of western Massachusetts for her story, a village which retains many of its early features to this day. Mrs. Smith knows the people of whom she writes thoroughly, and holds them in high and loving esteem. Even the most prejudiced reader can hardly close this book without seeing in these genuine Puritan people a phase of human life at once fine in its courage, its endurance of terrible hardships, and not unbeautiful in its childlike acceptance of God’s dealings and its daily hunger and thirst after righteousness.—The Churchman.
THE YOUNG PURITANS OF OLD HADLEY. 12mo. Cloth. Illustrated. $1.25.
A capital colonial story.—Congregationalist, Boston.
She catches the very spirit of Puritan life.—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The work has historic value as well as unique interest.—Lilian Whiting, in Chicago Inter-Ocean.
An excellent book for school libraries.—Literary News, New York.
The adventures of the boys while hunting, the trapping of wolves and panthers, which infested the forests in those early days, the encounters with the Indians, friendly and otherwise, are incidents which make up a book which will fascinate all young readers.—San Francisco Bulletin.
The author has studied her subject carefully; and the pictures of this life, extinct, yet still blood of our blood and bone of our bone, have unusual interest.—Chicago Dial.