Miss Woolson is among our few successful writers of interesting magazine stories, and her skill and power are perceptible in the delineation of her heroines no less than in the suggestive pictures of local life.--_Jewish Messenger, N. Y._ Constance Fenimore Woolson may easily become the novelist laureate.--_Boston Globe._ Miss Woolson has a graceful fancy, a ready wit, a polished style, and conspicuous dramatic power; while her skill in the development of a story is very remarkable.--_London Life._ Miss Woolson never once follows the beaten track of the orthodox novelist, but strikes a new and richly loaded vein, which so far is all her own; and thus we feel, on reading one of her works, a fresh sensation, and we put down the book with a sigh to think our pleasant task of reading it is finished. The author's lines must have fallen to her in very pleasant places; or she has, perhaps, within herself the wealth of womanly love and tenderness she pours so freely into all she writes. Such books as hers do much to elevate the moral tone of the day--a quality sadly wanting in novels of the time.--_Whitehall Review, London._ * * * * * PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. [Illustration: Hand pointing] _The above works sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States or Canada, on receipt of the price._ * * * * * Transcriber's Notes: Obvious punctuation errors repaired. Page 112, "desert" changed to "dessert" (dessert, I'll warrant) Page 187, "Mistres" changed to "Mistress" (Mistress Marion in long)