British -- India -- Fiction; India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947 -- Fiction
“A love story pure and simple, one of the old-fashioned, wholesome,
sunshiny kind, with a pure-minded, sound-hearted hero, and a heroine who
is merely a good and beautiful woman; and if any other love story half
so sweet has been written this year, it has escaped our notice.”—_New
York Times._
“The general conception of the story, the motive of which is the growth
of love between the young chief and heroine, is delineated with a
sweetness and a freshness, a naturalness and a certainty, which places
‘The Lilac Sunbonnet’ among the best stories of the time.”—_New York
Mail and Express._
“In its own line this little love story can hardly be excelled. It is a
pastoral, an idyl—the story of love and courtship and marriage of a fine
young man and a lovely girl—no more. But it is told in so thoroughly
delightful a manner, with such playful humor, such delicate fancy, such
true and sympathetic feeling, that nothing more could be
desired.”—_Boston Traveller._
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BY A. CONAN DOYLE.
_THE EXPLOITS OF BRIGADIER GERARD. A Romance of the Life of a Typical
Napoleonic Soldier._ Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
There is a flavor of Dumas’s Musketeers in the life of the redoubtable
Brigadier Gerard, a typical Napoleonic soldier, more fortunate than many
of his compeers because some of his Homeric exploits were accomplished
under the personal observation of the Emperor. His delightfully romantic
career included an oddly characteristic glimpse of England, and his
adventures ranged from the battlefield to secret service. In picturing
the experiences of his fearless, hard-fighting and hard-drinking hero,
the author of “The White Company” has given us a book which absorbs the
interest and quickens the pulse of every reader.
_THE STARK MUNRO LETTERS._ Being a Series of Twelve Letters written by
STARK MUNRO, M. B., to his friend and former fellow-student, Herbert
Swanborough, of Lowell, Massachusetts, during the years 1881-1884.
Illustrated. 12mo. Buckram, $1.50.
“Cullingworth, ... a much more interesting creation than Sherlock
Holmes, and I pray Dr. Doyle to give us more of him.”—_Richard le
Gallienne, in the London Star._
“Every one who wants a hearty laugh must make acquaintance with Dr.
James Cullingworth.”—_Westminster Gazette._
“Every one must read; for not to know Cullingworth should surely argue
one’s self to be unknown.”—_Pall Mall Gazette._
“One of the freshest figures to be met with in any recent
fiction.”—_London Daily News_.
“‘The Stark Munro Letters’ is a bit of real literature.... Its reading
will be an epoch-making event in many a life.”—_Philadelphia Evening
Telegraph._
“Positively magnetic, and written with that combined force and grace for
which the author’s style is known.”—_Boston Budget._
SEVENTH EDITION.
_ROUND THE RED LAMP._ Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life. 12mo.
Cloth, $1.50.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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