WHITE APRONS. A Romance of Bacon’s Rebellion, Virginia, 1676. By Maud Wilder Goodwin. 16mo. Cloth, extra, gilt top, $1.25.
A beautiful little story, sweet and inspiring, not less clever than true.—New York Times.
A charming story… Its fidelity to the conditions prevailing in the Virginia colony at the time is carefully sustained.—The Review of Reviews.
A WOMAN OF SHAWMUT. A Romance of Colonial Times. Boston, 1640. By Edmund Janes Carpenter. With twelve charming full-page illustrations and numerous chapter headings from pen-and-ink drawings by F. T. Merrill. 16mo. Cloth, extra, gilt top, with cameo design, $1.25.
CINQ-MARS; or, A Conspiracy under Louis XIII. By Count Alfred de Vigny. Translated by William Hazlitt. With thirteen exquisite full-page etchings by Gaujean from designs by A. Dawant, and numerous smaller illustrations (head and tail pieces) in the text. 2 vols. 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $6.00.
It is one of the masterpieces of French romantic fiction, … and a book to be always read and remembered.—New York Mail and Express.
THE PRINCESS OF CLEVES. An Historical Romance of the Court of Henry II. By Madame de la Fayette. With preface by Anatole France. Translated by Thomas Sergeant Perry. Most exquisitely illustrated with four full page etchings and eight etched vignettes by Jules Garnier, also a portrait of the author engraved by Lamotte. The letterpress choicely printed on handmade paper at the University Press, Cambridge. 2 vols. 16mo. Cloth, extra, gilt top, $3.75.
Madame de la Fayette was the first to introduce naturalness into fiction,—the first to draw human beings and real feelings; and thereby she earned a place among the true classics.—Preface by Anatole France.