_Twelfth Street Meeting_ and _Uncle Joseph_ both treat of the bashful Quaker in love, with a quiet humor and an effective but unobtrusive description of Quaker customs. The _Two Gentlewomen_ were once Friends; but one of them having become the widow of a fast young Englishman, they both take up the ways of the mother country. A courtly old colonel courts them both with rare impartiality. _Our Little Neighbors_ is a sympathetic picture of childhood, with a quaintly humorous ending. Even more humorous is _Pamelia Tewksbury's Courtship_, laid in central New York. Mrs. Gardner's treatment of this episode, though it recalls Miss Wilkins, can well bear the comparison. Next come the _Ante-Bellum Letters_, which occupy about a third of the book and make an excellent foil to the more demure tales which they interrupt like a sort of vigorous interlude. The Quakeress who writes them is suddenly plunged into the comparative dissipations of Boston, into the lively society of Harvard undergraduates, and into gay raiment that distresses her; but this lively intermezzo ends with a graver strain. The figures of the great Abolitionists are faintly seen, and at the trial of a poor negro boy, who is demanded as a fugitive slave, Lucretia Mott appears and sits by the prisoner, cheering him through the long night session of the court. The frontispiece represents this scene. The book closes with a quaint old story, way back in 1815, in which a romantic French boy, escaped from jail, and a Quakeress, more beautiful than her parents care to have her, figure prominently. There is a deep note of pathos in this tale, and the good influence of the Quakers in prison reform is shown, as their brave work for abolition has been in the _Ante-Bellum Letters_. Here and there a few lines give remarkable nature-pictures, as in the following: "The midsummer heat was upon the land. The red sun set in splendor, and the blood-red moon rose as in wrath." Jerome's John Ingerfield; =The Woman of the Saeter, Silhouettes, Variety Patter=, and =The Lease of the Cross-keys=. The title-story (half the book) and the two that follow are in serious vein. With portrait of Jerome and illustrations. Small 16mo. 75 cents. "This dainty little volume, contrived to look like a tall folio in miniature ... the creepy Norwegian ghost story (_The Woman of the Saeter_) ... the vague but picturesque sketch called _Silhouettes_.... The first (_John Ingerfield_) is a very sweet and pathetic love story ... true to the best there is in human nature ... many diverse traits of character and striking incidents being compressed within its narrow limits.... It is a good thing to write an honest, wholesome, old-fashioned love story like _John Ingerfield_."--_New York Times._ "Rare combination of true pathos and thoroughly modern humor."--_The Churchman._