Jacob, Violet (Mrs. Arthur Jacob). Golden heart and other fairy stories, [**]$1.25. Doubleday.
All who love good old-fashioned fairy tales will enjoy these eight new stories, and will be eager to know how, in Golden heart, the ugly prince rescued a bewitched princess from a rock in the sea; how Grimaçon, the dwarf, helped the Princess Moonflower, and how Ella wished for the peacock’s tail and got it. Other stories are: The sorcerer’s sons and the two princesses of Japan; The dovecote; The pelican; The cherry trees; and, Jack Frost—a story for very little children. The volume is illustrated with drawings by May Sandheim.
[*] “The tales by no means conform to the modern insipid and bloodless standard for juvenile fairy stories and ought to make a direct and lively appeal to the eager imagination of any healthy child.”
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Jacob, Violet (Mrs. Arthur Jacob). Interloper. $1.50. Doubleday.
Mrs. Arthur Jacob, who made a sudden reputation in her former novel, “The sheep stealers,” now writes a story of country life in Scotland. The interloper is a young man who returns to his mother’s old home from a sojourn in Spain with the man who has always passed as his father,—all unconscious of the blot on his birth, the suspicions of the neighbors, and the presence of his real father in the vicinity. The situation is well handled and the social tragedy skilfully averted. There are many well-drawn characters in the book, the loyal heroine, the grand dame, the villainous family lawyer and many interesting villagers.
“When you lay down ‘The interloper’ you feel that you know intimately a half-dozen interesting people whom you did not know before. Mrs. Jacob is rich in the supreme gift of the novelist—character depiction. A melodramatic ending, trite in conception, and ill-fitting. Mrs. Jacob did not set out to tell an emotional story. She set out to reflect life in a small, old-fashioned Scotch town and its environs, and she has succeeded in masterly fashion. She has given us a delightful comedy of manners written in a style remarkable for power, simplicity and grasp. Out of the ruck of cheap fiction this book rises to real, permanent value. It is not only worth reading, it is worth a place on the book-shelf.”
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Jacobi, Charles Thomas. Printing: a practical treatise on the art of typography as applied more particularly to the printing of books, [*]$2.50. Macmillan.
“A third revised and enlarged edition.... The completeness of the book will be apparent from a brief list of its chapters, which number thirty-five. They are in seven divisions, and deal with typefounding, composition (thirteen chapters), proofreading, hand-press work (six chapters), illustrated and color work, motive power, machine printing (six chapters), and warehouse work (four chapters).”—N. Y. Times.