Mrs. Smith has proven that she can write as simple and natural a story of child-life when the scene is laid two hundred and fifty years ago as when she chooses to describe country life in the New England of the present century.—Christian Register.
THE YOUNG PURITANS IN KING PHILIP’S WAR. Illustrated by L. J. Bridgman. 12mo. Cloth. $1.25.
From a letter written the author by Bishop F. D. Huntington, Syracuse, N. Y.: “Have read all the pages through, every word,—finding the whole volume readable, entertaining, and satisfactory. Of course I feel rather competent to say that, in the phraseology, the territorial descriptions, the geography, the account of customs, language, family habits, natural phenomena, you are singularly correct, accurate, and felicitous.”
Mrs. Smith seems to have caught the very breath and echo of those old days, and she makes one seem not to be merely reading of those Puritans and their constant struggles with their savage neighbors, but to be actually beholding them.—Jersey City Evening Journal.
The history of the seventeenth century in New England would gain new life when read in the light of such books.—Christian Endeavor Herald.
THE YOUNG PURITANS IN CAPTIVITY. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. 12mo. Cloth. $1.25.
Nothing could be more interesting than the period of which this story treats, and the author has handled the subject in a manner that is highly creditable. The reader will be for the nonce a Puritan, and will follow the adventures of three children taken captive by the Indians, feeling that he is a participant in the scenes so well portrayed. He will sleep in the Indians’ wigwam and breathe the odor of the pines. He will paddle a canoe upon the broad waters of the Connecticut, when New England was but a wilderness, and get an insight into Indian nature which he probably never had before.—Sacramento Bee.
She shows the same power of graphic description, the same faithful use of the best available material, and the same logical way of putting it into shape.—Commercial Advertiser, N. Y.
Mrs. Smith has made history live again in her life-like narrative. The children of to-day may well learn something of the sterner virtues in reading this story of the endurance and fortitude of children of two centuries ago.—Springfield Republican.
THE YOUNG AND OLD PURITANS OF HATFIELD. Illustrated by Bertha C. Day. 12mo. $1.25.