BEATRICE OF BAYOU TÊCHE.
By ALICE ILGENFRITZ JONES.
12mo, 386 pages. Price, $1.00.
A capital story, full of vigor and subtle knowledge of human nature; and it is as vivid and picturesque as the Bayou.—Octave Thanet.
The author writes with an attractive, graceful style, and with a keenness of observation which holds the reader’s attention. This love story is vigorously told; the heroine is a girl with a strong sense of her moral responsibility, and the ethical tone of the story is very high.—Boston Journal.
Mrs. Jones’s writing is marked by gracefulness and by considerable strength. Her descriptions, both of persons and of scenery, are uniformly good and often fine.... Take it all in all, it is one of the best of stories.—State Register, Davenport.
The story is very well written, and is entertaining, though inevitably sad. There is nothing exaggerated in it; and the kindly spirit which often existed in the South between master or mistress and the slave is very well represented by the family to which Beatrice and her old grandmother belonged.—The Beacon, Boston.
A wonderfully touching and pathetic story is that of Beatrice. It appeals to one’s sympathies, while it arouses admiration for the purity and sweetness of its tone. It is full of interest, too, and while its prevailing tone is pathetic, it is not at all lugubrious. It is in every way a bright and delightful work of fiction.—Journal, Milwaukee.
The writer has plunged into some of the omnipresent racial problems in Louisiana society, and portrays graphically the miseries of a clever and charming girl whose blood has the African taint.—Review of Reviews.