An admirable novel; a pure, bright, pleasant, sparkling, wholesome,
interesting story of musical taste, talent, and life. The idea is a
beautiful one itself, and it is well carried out in the structure of
the story.--_Literary World._
A novel that doesn't sound a hackneyed note from beginning to
end.... One of the brightest, happiest, and most infectious of the
numerous stories that have a musical basis.--_Boston Herald._
Freshly told and charmingly conceived. Very delightful reading,
and, in these hurried and high-strung days, a genuine
refreshment.--_Boston Transcript._
=The Count's Snuff-Box.= A Romance of Washington and Buzzard's Bay
during the War of 1812. By GEORGE R. R. RIVERS, author of "The
Governor's Garden," "Captain Shays, a Populist of 1786," etc.
Illustrated by Clyde O. De Land. 12mo. Cloth, gilt top. $1.50.
A well-conceived and well-told story, from which the reader will
get an excellent idea of society and manners in the nation's capital
nearly a century ago.--_Boston Transcript._
Will rank as one of the successes of the year if there is any faith
to be put in a capital story in a frame fashioned of our own rugged
history.--_Denver Republican._
=Each Life Unfulfilled.= By ANNA CHAPIN RAY, author of "Teddy, Her
Book," etc. 16mo. Cloth, extra. $1.25.
A novel of to-day, dealing with American life. Its principal
characters are a young girl studying for a musical career, and an
author. The scenes of the story are laid in a Western summer resort
and in New York.
=Hassan. A Romance of Palestine.= By HENRY GILLMAN. Crown 8vo. 600
pages. Cloth, gilt top. $2.00.
The author of this powerful romance lived in Palestine for over
five years, and during his residence there had unusual and peculiar
advantages for seeing and knowing the people and the country, enabling
him to enrich his story with local color, characteristics, and
information not found in any other work of the kind on the Holy Land.
The pen-portraits of the people are studies made upon the spot, and
the descriptions of Jerusalem and the surrounding country are
word-pictures of the land as it is to-day, and therefore of special
value.
A biblical, patriarchal, pastoral spirit pervades it. Indeed, the
whole book is saturated with the author's reverence for the Holy Land,
its legends, traditions, glory, misery,--its romance, in a word, and
its one supreme glory, the impress of the Chosen of God and of the
Master who walked among them.--_The Independent._
Mr. Gillman has certainly opened up a new field of fiction. The
book is a marvel of power, acute insight, and clever manipulation of
thoroughly grounded truths. There is no question that it lives and
breathes. The story is as much of a giant in fiction as its hero is
among men.--_Boston Herald._
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