R. H. STODDARD, IN NEW YORK MAIL AND EXPRESS. “The climax is so terrible, as the London Times has pointed out, and so dramatic in its intensity, that it is impossible to class it with any situation of modern fiction.... Mr. Hawthorne is clearly and easily the first of living romancers.”
THE LONDON TIMES. “After perusal of this weird, fantastic tale (Archibald Malmaison), it must be admitted that upon the shoulders of Julian Hawthorne has descended in no small degree the mantle of his more illustrious father. The climax is so terrible, and so dramatic in its intensity, that it is impossible to class it with any situation of modern fiction. There is much psychological ingenuity shown in some of the more subtle touches that lend an air of reality to this wild romance.”
THE LONDON GLOBE. “‘Archibald Malmaison’ is one of the most daring attempts to set the wildest fancy masquerading in the cloak of science, which has ever, perhaps been made. Mr. Hawthorne has managed to combine the almost perfect construction of a typical French novelist, with a more than typically German power of conception.”
THE ACADEMY. “Mr. Hawthorne has a more powerful imagination than any contemporary writer of fiction. He has the very uncommon gift of taking hold of the reader’s attention at once, and the still more uncommon gift of maintaining his grasp when it is fixed.”
THE FORTUNES OF RACHEL.
A New Novel. By Edward Everett Hale. 12mo, paper, 25c.;
cloth, $1.
CHRISTIAN UNION, N. Y. “Probably no American has a more devoted constituency of readers than Mr. Edward Everett Hale, and to all these his latest story, ‘The Fortunes of Rachel,’ will bring genuine pleasure. Mr. Hale is emphatically a natural writer; he loves to interpret common things and to deal with average persons. He does this with such insight, with such noble conception of life and of his work, that he discovers that profound interest which belongs to the humblest as truly as to the most brilliant forms of life.... This story is a thoroughly American novel, full of incident, rich in strong traits of character, and full of stimulating thought; it is wholesome and elevating.”
BOSTON JOURNAL. “The virtue of the book is the healthful, encouraging, kindly spirit which prevades it, and which will help one to battle with adverse circumstances, as indeed, all Mr. Hale’s stories have helped.”
NEW YORK JOURNAL OF COMMERCE. “A purely American story, original all through, and Rachel is one of the pleasantest and most satisfactory of heroines. She is a girl of the soil, unspoiled by foreign travels and conventionalities. After surfeiting on romances whose scenes are laid abroad, it is delightful to come across a healthy home product like this.”
RUTHERFORD.