"The South ought to erect a monument in gratitude to Richard Malcolm Johnston. While scores of writers have been looking for odd Southern characters and customs and writing them up as curiosities, Mr. Johnston has been content to tell stories in which all the people are such as might be found in almost any Southern village before the war, and the incidents are those of the social life of the people, uncomplicated by anything which happened during the late unpleasantness."—New York Herald.
"These ten short stories are full of queer people, who not only talk but act in a sort of dialect. Their one interest is their winning oddity. They are as truly native to the soil as are the people of 'Widow Guthrie.' In both books the humor is genuine, and the local coloring is bright and attractive."—New York Commercial Advertiser.
THE CHRONICLES OF MR. BILL WILLIAMS. (Dukesborough Tales.) 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth, with Portrait of the Author, $1.00.
"A delightful originality characterizes these stories, which may take a high rank in our native fiction that depicts the various phases of the national life. Their humor is equally genuine and keen, and their pathos is delicate and searching."—Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.
"Stripped of their bristling envelope of dialect, the core of these experiences emerges as lumps of pure comedy, as refreshing as traveler's trees in a thirsty land; and the literary South may be grateful that it has a living writer able and willing to cultivate a neglected patch of its wide domain with such charming skill."—The Critic.
MR. FORTNER'S MARITAL CLAIMS, and Other Stories. 16mo. Boards, 50 cents.
"When the last story is finished we feel, in imitation of Oliver Twist, like asking for more."—Public Opinion.
"Quaint and lifelike pictures, as characteristic in dialect as in description, of Georgia scenes and characters, and the quaintness of its humor is entertaining and delightful."—Washington Public Opinion.
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