"'Into the Highways and Hedges' is a book not of promise only, but of high achievement. It is original, powerful, artistic, humorous. It places the author at a bound in the rank of those artists to whom we look for the skillful presentation of strong personal impressions of life and character."—London Daily News.
"The pure idealism of 'Into the Highways and Hedges' does much to redeem modern fiction from the reproach it has brought upon itself.... The story is original, and told with great refinement."—Philadelphia Public Ledger.
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WIDOW GUTHRIE. Illustrated by E.W. Kemble. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"The Widow Guthrie stands out more boldly than any other figure we know—a figure curiously compounded of cynical hardness, blind love, and broken-hearted pathos.... A strong and interesting study of Georgia characteristics without depending upon dialect. There is just sufficient mannerism and change of speech to give piquancy to the whole."—Baltimore Sun.
"Southern humor is droll and thoroughly genuine, and Colonel Johnston is one of its prophets. The Widow Guthrie is admirably drawn. She would have delighted Thackeray. The story which bears her name is one of the best studies of Southern life which we possess."—Christian Union.
THE PRIMES AND THEIR NEIGHBORS. Illustrated by Kemble, Frost, and others. 12mo. Cloth, uniform with "Widow Guthrie," $1.25. Also in paper, not illustrated, 50 cents.