THE COUNTY FAIR.
By NEIL BURGESS.
Written from the celebrated play now running its second continuous season in New York, and booked to run a third season in the same theater.
The scenes are among the New Hampshire hills, and picture the bright side of country life. The story is full of amusing events and happy incidents, something after the style of our “Old Homestead,” which is having such an enormous sale.
“THE COUNTY FAIR” will be one of the great hits of the season, and should you fail to secure a copy you will miss a literary treat. It is a spirited romance of town and country, and a faithful reproduction of the drama, with the same unique characters, the same graphic scenes, but with the narrative more artistically rounded, and completed than was possible in the brief limits of a dramatic representation. This touching story effectively demonstrates that it is possible to produce a novel which is at once wholesome and interesting in every part, without the introduction of an impure thought or suggestion. Read the following
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS:
Mr. Neil Burgess has rewritten his play, “The County Fair,” in story form. It rounds out a narrative which is comparatively but sketched in the play. It only needs the first sentence to set going the memory and imagination of those who have seen the latter and whet the appetite for the rest of this lively conception of a live dramatist.—Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
As “The County Fair” threatens to remain in New York for a long time the general public out of town may be glad to learn that the playwright has put the piece into print in the form of a story. A tale based upon a play may sometimes lack certain literary qualities, but it never is the sort of thing over which any one can fall asleep. Fortunately, “The County Fair” on the stage and in print is by the same author, so there can be no reason for fearing that the book misses any of the points of the drama which has been so successful—N. Y. Herald.
The idea of turning successful plays into novels seems to be getting popular. The latest book of this description is a story reproducing the action and incidents of Neil Burgess’ play, “The County Fair.” The tale, which is a romance based on scenes of home life and domestic joys and sorrows, follows closely the lines of the drama in story and plot.—Chicago Daily News.