"'A Newport Aquarelle' will be found the breeziest, the brightest, and the cleverest of summer novels.... Charmingly true to nature and admirable as a bit of highly-finished art, it cannot fail of achieving a wide reading among people of taste and cultivation."—Boston Saturday Gazette.
"Is it a man's or a woman's book? is the first question, and it must be said that it is not easy to find an answer."
"The most brilliant novelette of the season."
"An anonymous novel, the like of which we have not had for a long while."—Exchange.
| MARGARET FULLER. Famous Women Series. By Julia Ward Howe. One volume. 16mo. Cloth. Price, | $1.00 |
"Mrs. Julia Ward Howe's biography of Margaret Fuller, in the Famous Women series of Messrs. Roberts Brothers, is a work which has been looked for with curiosity. It will not disappoint expectation. Mrs. Howe is of late years too infrequent in authorship. She has a subject here on which she writes con amore. For her material she is of course largely indebted to the remarkable volumes published by Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Freeman Clarke and William Ellery Channing many years ago; but Mrs. Howe gives the narrative in her own manner. She has made a brilliant and an interesting book. Her study of Margaret Fuller's character is thoroughly sympathetic; her relation of her life is done in a graphic and at times a fascinating manner. It is the case of one woman of strong individuality depicting the points which made another one of the most marked characters of her day. It is always agreeable to follow Mrs. Howe in this; for while we see marks of her own mind constantly, there is no inartistic protrusion of her personality. The book is always readable, and the relation of the death-scene is thrillingly impressive."—Saturday Evening Gazette.
| THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS. By Robert Louis Stevenson, author of "Travels with a Donkey," "An Inland Voyage," "Treasure Island," etc. With a frontispiece. 16mo. Price, | $1.00 |
"The Silverado Squatters is the title of an exceedingly pleasant little book by Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson, whose 'Travels with a Donkey' and 'An Inland Boat Voyage' had given him an enviable reputation as a charming and picturesque descriptive writer. Mr. Stevenson is an invalid, and in search of health he went to Mount Saint Helena, in California, and high up in its sides took possession of a miner's cabin fast falling to ruin, one of the few remnants of the abandoned mining village of Silverado. There with his wife and a single servant considerable time was spent.
The interest of the book centred in the graphic style and keen observation of the author. He has the power of describing places and characters with such vividness that you seem to have made personal acquaintance with both.... Mr. Stevenson's racy narrative brings many phases of life upon the western coast before one with striking power and captivating grace."—N.Y. World.
| THE STORY OF MY HEART: My Autobiography. By Richard Jefferies. 16mo. Cloth. Price, | .75 |