“A love story, pure and simple, one of the old-fashioned, wholesome, sun shiny kind, with a pure-minded, sound-hearted hero, and a heroine, who is merely a good and beautiful woman; and if any other love story half so sweet has been written this year it has escaped our notice.”—New York Times.
“The general conception of the story, the motive of which is the growth of love between the young chief and heroine, is delineated with a sweetness and a freshness, a naturalness and a certainty, which places ‘The Lilac Sunbonnet’ among the best stories of the time.”—New York Mail and Express.
“A VERY REMARKABLE BOOK.”
THE BETH BOOK. By Sarah Grand, author of “The Heavenly Twins,” etc. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
“Readers will linger delightedly over one of the freshest and deepest studies of child character ever given to the world, and hereafter will find it an ever-present factor in their literary recollections and impressions.”—London Globe.
“Here there are humor, observation, and sympathetic insight into the temperaments both of men and women.”—London Daily Chronicle.
“Beth and her environments live before us. We see her sensitive as a musical instrument to the touch of surrounding influences, every latent quality for good and evil in her already warring for mastery.”—London Daily News.
“There is much vivacity, much sympathy for the moods of girlhood, and with the strange, quaint, happy fancies of a child; and much power of representing these things with humor, eloquence, and feeling.”—Westminster Gazette.