NOVELS, ETC., BY "BARBARA"
(MABEL OSGOOD WRIGHT)
The Garden of a Commuter's Wife Illustrated
"Reading it is like having the entry into a home of the class that isthe proudest product of our land, a home where love of books and love ofnature go hand in hand with hearty, simple love of 'folks.' ... It is acharming book."--_The Interior._
People of the Whirlpool Illustrated
"The whole book is delicious, with its wise and kindly humor, its justperspective of the true values of things, its clever pen pictures ofpeople and customs, and its healthy optimism for the great world ingeneral."--_Philadelphia Evening Telegraph._
The Woman Errant
"The book is worth reading. It will cause discussion. It is aninteresting fictional presentation of an important modern question,treated with fascinating feminine adroitness."--Miss Jeannette Gilder inthe _Chicago Tribune_.
At the Sign of the Fox
"Her little pictures of country life are fragrant with a genuine love ofnature, and there is fun as genuine in her notes on ruralcharacter."--_New York Tribune._
The Garden, You and I
"This volume is simply the best she has yet put forth, and quite toodeliciously torturing to the reviewer, whose only garden is in Spain....The delightful humor which pervaded the earlier books, and withoutwhich Barbara would not be Barbara, has lost nothing of itspoignancy."--_Congregationalist._
The Open Window. Tales of the Months.
"A little vacation from the sophistication of thecommonplace."--_Argonaut._
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By EDEN PHILLPOTTS
The Three Brothers
"'The Three Brothers' seems to us the best yet of the long series ofthese remarkable Dartmoor tales. If Shakespeare had written novels wecan think that some of his pages would have been like some of these.Here certainly is language, turn of humor, philosophical play, vigor ofincident such as might have come straight from Elizabeth's day.... Thestory has its tragedy, but this is less dire, more reasonable than thetragedy is in too many of Mr. Phillpotts's other tales. The book is fullof a very moving interest, and it is agreeable and beautiful."--_The NewYork Sun._
By Miss ELLEN GLASGOW
The Romance of a Plain Man
"From the first she has had the power to tell a strong story, full ofhuman interest, but as her work has continued it has shown an increasingmellowness and sympathy. The atmosphere of this book is fascinatingindeed."--_Chicago Tribune._
By FRANK DANBY
The Heart of a Child
BEING PASSAGES FROM THE EARLY LIFE OF SALLY SNAPE, LADY KIDDERMINSTER
"'Frank Danby' has found herself. It is full of the old wit, the oldhumor, the old epigram, and the old knowledge of what I may call theBohemia of London; but it is also full of a new quality, the quality ofimaginative tenderness and creative sympathy. It is delightful to watchthe growth of human character either in life or in literature, and in'The Heart of a Child' one can see the brilliancy of Frank Danbysuddenly burgeoning into the wistfulness that makes cleverness soft andexquisite and delicate.... It is a mixture of naturalism and romance,and one detects in it the miraculous power ... of seeing things steadilyand seeing them wholly, with relentless humor and pitiless pathos. Thebook is crowded with types, and they are all etched in with masterlyfidelity of vision and sureness of touch, with feminine subtlety as wellas virile audacity."--James Douglas in _The Star_, London.
Sebastian. A Son of Dreams.
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Mr. ROBERT HERRICK'S NOVELS
The Gospel of Freedom
"A novel that may truly be called the greatest study of social life, ina broad and very much up-to-date sense, that has ever been contributedto American fiction."--_Chicago Inter-Ocean._
The Web of Life
"It is strong in that it faithfully depicts many phases of Americanlife, and uses them to strengthen a web of fiction, which is mostartistically wrought out."--_Buffalo Express._
Jock o' Dreams, or The Real World
"The title of the book has a subtle intention. It indicates, and is trueto the verities in doing so, the strange dreamlike quality of life tothe man who has not yet fought his own battles, or come into consciouspossession of his will--only such battles bite into theconsciousness."--_Chicago Tribune._
The Common Lot
"It grips the reader tremendously.... It is the drama of a human soulthe reader watches ... the finest study of human motive that hasappeared for many a day."--_The World To-day._
The Memoirs of an American Citizen. Illustrated with about fiftydrawings by F. B. Masters.
"Mr. Herrick's book is a book among many, and he comes nearer toreflecting a certain kind of recognizable, contemporaneous Americanspirit than anybody has yet done."--_New York Times._
"Intensely absorbing as a story, it is also a crisp, vigorous documentof startling significance. More than any other writer to-day he isgiving us the American novel."--_New York Globe._
Together
"The thing is straight from life.... The spirit of the book is in theend bracing and quickening."--_Chicago Evening Post._
"An able book, remarkably so, and one which should find a place in thelibrary of any woman who is not a fool."--_New York American._
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Mr. WINSTON CHURCHILL'S NOVELS
Mr. Crewe's Career Illustrated
"Another chapter in his broad, epical delineation of the Americanspirit.... It is an honest and fair story.... It is very interesting;and the heroine is a type of woman as fresh, original, and captivatingas any that has appeared in American novels for a long time past."--_TheOutlook_, New York.
"Shows Mr. Churchill at his best. The flavor of his humor is of thatstimulating kind which asserts itself just the moment, as it were, afterit has passed the palate.... As for Victoria, she has that quality ofvivid freshness, tenderness, and independence which makes so many modernAmerican heroines delightful."--_The Times_, London.
The Celebrity. An Episode
"No such piece of inimitable comedy in a literary way has appeared foryears.... It is the purest, keenest fun."--_Chicago Inter-Ocean._
Richard Carvel Illustrated
"... In breadth of canvas, massing of dramatic effect, depth of feeling,and rare wholesomeness of spirit, it has seldom, if ever, been surpassedby an American romance."--_Chicago Tribune._
The Crossing Illustrated
"'The Crossing' is a thoroughly interesting book, packed with excitingadventure and sentimental incident, yet faithful to historical fact bothin detail and in spirit."--_The Dial._
The Crisis Illustrated
"It is a charming love story, and never loses its interest.... Theintense political bitterness, the intense patriotism of both parties,are shown understandingly."--_Evening Telegraph_, Philadelphia.
Coniston Illustrated
"'Coniston' has a lighter, gayer spirit and a deeper, tenderer touchthan Mr. Churchill has ever achieved before.... It is one of the truestand finest transcripts of modern American life thus far achieved in ourfiction."--_Chicago Record-Herald._
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