Mary E. Wilkins writes of New England country life, analyzes New England country character, with the skill and deftness of one who knows it through and through, and yet never forgets that, while realistic, she is first and last an artist.--_Boston Advertiser._ Miss Wilkins has attained an eminent position among her literary contemporaries as one of the most careful, natural, and effective writers of brief dramatic incident. Few surpass her in expressing the homely pathos of the poor and ignorant, while the humor of her stories is quiet, pervasive, and suggestive.--_Philadelphia Press._ It takes just such distinguished literary art as Mary E. Wilkins possesses to give an episode of New England its soul, pathos, and poetry.--_N. Y. Times._ The pathos of New England life, its intensities of repressed feeling, its homely tragedies, and its tender humor, have never been better told than by Mary E. Wilkins.--_Boston Courier._ The simplicity, purity, and quaintness of these stories set them apart in a niche of distinction where they have no rivals.--_Literary World, Boston._ The charm of Miss Wilkins's stories is in her intimate acquaintance and comprehension of humble life, and the sweet human interest she feels and makes her readers partake of, in the simple, common, homely people she draws.--_Springfield Republican._ Studies from real life which must be the result of a lifetime of patient, sympathetic observation.... No one has done the same kind of work so lovingly and so well.--_Christian Register, Boston._ NEW YORK AND LONDON: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS => _The above works are for sale by all booksellers, or will be sent by the publishers, postage prepaid, on receipt of the price._ BY LILIAN BELL FROM A GIRL'S POINT OF VIEW. 16mo, Cloth, Ornamental, Uncut Edges and Gilt Top, $1 25. Miss Bell's former books have proved conclusively that she is a shrewd observer, and in the series of character studies which she has brought together under the title "From a Girl's Point of View" she is at her best. The book is an intimate analysis of the manner of the modern man, as seen with the eyes of the modern woman; and it is of interest not only to those from whose stand-point it is written, but to those at whom its good-humored shafts are directed. The best of it is that Miss Bell, while she may be severe, is never unjust, and her observations are so apt that the masculine reader cannot but laugh, even while he realizes that she is dealing with one of his own shortcomings. THE UNDER SIDE OF THINGS. A Novel. With a Portrait of the Author. 16mo, Cloth, Ornamental, Uncut Edges and Gilt Top, $1 25.