"Not only are they interesting historically, but intrinsically a pleasant, well-constructed plot, serving in each case to connect the great events which they so graphically treat, and the style being as vigorous and charming as it is pure and refreshing."—Philadelphia Daily Inquirer.
INVASION OF FRANCE IN 1814. With the Night March past Phalsburg. With a Memoir of the Authors. With four full-page illustrations.
"All their novels are noted for the same admirable qualities—simple and effective realism of plot, incident and language, and a disclosure of the horrid individual aspects of war. They are absolutely perfect of their kind."—N. Y. Evening Mail.
MADAME THERESE, or, the Volunteers of '92. With four full-page illustrations.
"It is a boy's story—that is, supposed to be written by a boy—and has all the freshness, the unconscious simplicity and naïveté which the imagined authorship should imply; while nothing more graphic, more clearly and vividly pictorial, has been brought before the public for many a day."—Boston Commonwealth.
A NEW EDITION.
Books and Reading.
BY NOAH PORTER, LL.D., President of Yale College.
With an appendix giving valuable directions for courses of reading, prepared by James M. Hubbard, late of the Boston Public Library.