The Baron's Sons: A Romance of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848Jókai, Mór
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The Baron's Sons: A Romance of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848
Jókai, Mór
Hungary -- History -- Uprising of 1848-1849 -- Fiction
"In Guiana Wilds" may be described as an ethnological
romance. A typical young Scotchman becomes, by the
force of circumstances, decivilized, and mates with a
native woman.
It is a psychological study of great power and ability.
=Vivian of Virginia.=
Being the Memoirs of Our First Rebellion, by John
Vivian, Esq., of Middle Plantation, Virginia. By
HULBERT FULLER. With ten full-page illustrations by
Frank T. Merrill.
1 vol., library 12mo, cloth, gilt top, deckle-edge
paper =$1.50=
"A stirring and accurate account of the famous Bacon
rebellion."--_Los Angeles Sunday Times._
"We shall have to search far to find a better colonial
story than this."--_Denver Republican._
"A well-conceived, well-plotted romance, full of life
and adventure."--_Chicago Inter-Ocean._
"A story abounding in exciting incidents and well-told
conversations."--_Boston Journal._
"Mr. Fuller will find a large circle of readers for his
romance who will not be disappointed in their pleasant
expectations."--_Boston Transcript._
"Instead of using history as a background for the
exploits of the hero, the author used the hero to bring
out history and the interesting events of those early
days in Virginia. The author has preserved the language
and customs of the times admirably."--_Philadelphia
Telegram._
=The Gray House of the Quarries.=
By MARY HARRIOTT NORRIS. With a frontispiece etching by
Edmund H. Garrett.
1 vol., 8vo, cloth, 500 pages =$1.50=
"The peculiar genre, for which, in a literary sense,
all must acknowledge obligation to the author of a new
type, is the Dutch-American species. The church-goings,
the courtings, the pleasures and sorrows of a primitive
people, their lives and deaths, weddings, suicides,
births and burials, are Rembrandt and Rubens pictures
on a fresh canvas."--_Boston Transcript._
"The fine ideal of womanhood in a person never once
physically described will gratify the highest tone of
the period, and is an ennobling conception."--_Time and
The Hour, Boston._
=A Hypocritical Romance= and Other Stories.
By CAROLINE TICKNOR. Illustrated by J. W. Kennedy.
1 vol., large 16mo, cloth =$1.00=
Miss Ticknor, well known as one of the most promising
of the younger school of American writers, has never
done better work than in the majority of these clever
stories, written in a delightful comedy vein.
=A Man-at-Arms.=
A Romance of the days of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, the
Great Viper. By CLINTON SCOLLARD, author of
"Skenandoa," etc. With six full-page illustrations and
title-page by E. W. D. Hamilton.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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