MRS. MARY J. HOLMES’ PUBLICATIONS.
ASHES,
THE SINS OF THE FATHERS,
A FAIR PURITAN,
THE HOUSE OF FIVE GABLES.
READ THE FOLLOWING OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
The “Bridgeport Standard,” writing of the “Sins of the Fathers,” says:
This new work by Mrs. Holmes will, we think, continue and increase the favorable opinions of her literary capacity made by her first book, and the many readers of that will find the same qualities strengthened somewhat perhaps in this. Mrs. Holmes has chosen what might be called a “domestic theme,” for the lives and sufferings, the plots and successes, the faults and failures of character entirely in the private sphere of life, would bring the story within that designation. In the portrayal of character, the weaving of plot and counter-plot, the injection of action which awakens interest, and in the general unfolding of a tale which keeps one reading unwearied to the end, Mrs. Holmes is surely successful, and her rank is destined to be no mean one among the acknowledged novelists of our time.
The “Albany Journal,” speaking of “Ashes,” writes: