SWEET CICELY.—A story of the Josiah Allen’s Wife’s Series.
Of thrilling interest. Over 100 illustrations, 12mo, cloth, $2.00.
“Josiah Allen’s Wife” has always been a shrewd observer of human nature as it reveals itself in the round of homely, every day life, and the keen sarcasm and adroit humor with which she lays bear its foibles, its weaknesses and its grotesque outcroppings has rarely, if ever, been equaled. The strong feature of all Miss Holley’s humor, is its moral tone. The present work will treat the “temperance sentiment” in new phase—that of a semi-humorous novel.
SOME OPINIONS OF “JOSIAH ALLEN’S WIFE”:
The Woman’s Journal, Boston: “The keen sarcasm, cheerful wit and cogent arguments of her books have convinced thousands of the ‘folly of their ways,’ for wit can pierce where grave counsel fails.”
The Herald, New York: “Her fun is not far-fetched, but easy and spontaneous. She is now witty, now pathetic, yet ever strikingly original.”
The Home Journal, New York: “She is one of the most original humorists of the day.”
The New Era, Lancaster, Pa.: “Undoubtedly one of the truest humorists. Nothing short of a cast-iron man can resist the exquisite, droll and contagious mirth of her writings.”
ARCHIBALD MALMAISON.
A New Novel. By Julian Hawthorne. 12mo, paper, 15 cts;
cloth, extra paper, 75 cts.
INDEPENDENT, N. Y. “Mr. Julian Hawthorne can choose no better compliment upon his new romance, ‘Archibald Malmaison,’ than the assurance that he has at last put forth a story which reads as if the manuscript, written in his father’s indecipherable handwriting and signed ‘Nathaniel Hawthorne,’ had lain shut into a desk for twenty-five years, to be only just now pulled out and printed. It is a masterful romance; short, compressed, terribly dramatic in its important situations, based upon a psychologic idea as weird and susceptible of startling treatment as possible. It is a book to be read through in two hours, but to dwell in the memory forever. The employment of the central theme and the literary conduct of the plot is nearly beyond criticism.”