The Chicago "Tribune" also finds this subtle characterization: "The city to which Mr. Howells leads his readers is not the revelling, brilliant Florence of Ouida. It is rather the Florence of Hawthorne,—quaint and dreamful. The story reminds one of a plant which grows in Old-World gardens,—so unobtrusive it is, and yet so rich in suggestion, so subtle-scented."
The last "Lippincott's Magazine" says: "It will rank with the most charming of the author's work.... It is almost his first spiritual work. Not only has Mr. Howells thus risen above his own standards in this latest work, but he has risen above the standard of other novelists in one unique respect."
Twelfth Thousand now ready.
THE RISE OF SILAS LAPHAM.
By W. D. Howells. $1.50.
"'The Rise of Silas Lapham' invited more discussion than any serial since 'Daniel Deronda.'"—Publisher's Weekly.
"The dust of his writings is fine gold. Delightful in its perfection."—Philadelphia Record.
"The high-water mark of Mr. Howells's great and unique photographic genius."—Pall Mall Gazette.
"A work of genius; a great and perfect work of its kind."—New York Star.