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which characterized Professor Arthur Sherburne Hardy's romance, "But Yet a Woman," a story which left a lasting impression on those to whom its extreme delicacy and refinement, as well as the subtile beauty of its sentiment and thought, appealed. Professor Hardy's latest novel, "Passe Rose," betrays no loss of the fine quality which characterized the earlier romance. Its field lies entirely outside the world of the modern novel. It is a romance pure and simple; steeped in the mediaval atmosphere, remote as the world of Charlemagne, and yet contemporary by reason of its deep human interest. So interwoven is the story with the texture of its style that it is impos

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sible to detach the plot from the expression of it without destroying its charm. The romance must be read as a whole in order to appreciate its peculiar and beautiful quality."

The American, of Philadelphia, remarks that though "it cannot properly be called an historical novel, it is written out of beautiful historical impressions, and the effect is rich and pleasing;" The Critic pronounces "the whole management of the story delightful;" and The Congregationalist says "some of the descriptive passages of natural scenery or human actionare as exquisite, or as thrillingly powerful, any which we have read in years."

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A Girl Graduate.

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Mrs. Woolley's new story of social distinctions bids fair to find as many readers as her religious story, "Rachel Armstrong; or, Love and Theology." The naturalness of the characters, incidents, and the life described is at once. noteworthy and very agreeable. The Boston Gazette pronounces it "a story of American life that should command a large circle of readers. It betrays innate knowledge of human nature under many varying conditions, and the ability to give expression to that knowledge with a literary skill that excites and holds the attention of the reader. The incidents that make the history of the heroine, Maggie Dean, so interesting, are natural, and have a direct bearing on the development of her character."

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Emerson at Home.

Never has the veil been drawn from the private life of an author more tenderly and frankly than in the book just issued portraying Emerson in Concord. And certainly never has such frankness been more fully justified by the rare nobleness and exquisite charm of the life revealed. The New York Tribune declares the book "full of the most interesting lights upon one of the greatest men of the age," and adds, "it is indeed a necessary complement to Mr. Cabot's biography. The author has performed his task with admirable taste and

judgment, giving just such facts as the world most desires to know, and choosing his illustrations so well that they build up a harmonious and consistent portrait and bring out the most salient characteristics of his father easily and naturally. The reader will lay the book down with, if possible, a deeper admiration and reverence for its subject, and a fuller apprehension of the honesty and integrity of spirit which saturated him, and which show forth in his domestic life, his intercourse with neighbors, and his transactions of the most ordinary affairs, no less than in the writings which record the development and operations of his intellect and soul."

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From "Among the Isles of Shoals," by Celia Thaxter.

The Christian Union says: "This book admits you inside the man Emerson; you see life as he sees it; you approach common things, the world of thought, the world of soul, as he approached them; you enter his home, see him with his children, know him as a father, as a farmer, as a neighbor, as a frequenter of the waysides, as one who holds high converse with Bronson Alcott, Henry Thoreau, and Ellery Channing. Without any attempt at rhetorical effect, Dr. Emerson, regarding simple truth as his utmost skill, has furnished an insight into his father's life which only one who had full sympathy with him could have given. His book has the flavor of personal reminiscences. . . . This personal memoir reveals Emerson to have been one of the tenderest, largest minded, and most truly reverent men that have ever lived."

It would be difficult to name a more entertaining book for reading this summer, by one's self or aloud, than Mr. Hopkinson Smith's A White Umbrella in Mexico. The Nation says of it: "This dainty book tempts the critic to superlatives of praise; it is such a breath of spring after the wintry wastes through which other writers of books on Mexico have compelled him. to toil, it is so thoroughly successful in the single line the author proposes to himself to follow, and so faithfully reproduces the most unique savor of Mexican life. . . . In a word, Mr. Smith gives us in this book what has never before been worked out so fully and so delightfully the immense charm which Mexico has for a Bohemian saunterer with a keen eye for the artistic, and a decided preference for the society of beggars and idlers and sacristans. Others have hinted at all this often enough; he is the first to give himself and his book wholly up to it."

Picturesque Alaska.

Mrs. Woodman's little book of travel, to which Mr. Whittier wrote an introduction, has been received with marked favor. Mrs. Olive Thorne Miller says of it in The Epoch: "Picturesque Alaska' is one of those rare books which transport the reader at once to the scene of action, where he sees with the eyes, and almost hears with the ears, of the genial traveler. The charm and the power of the narrative lie in its simplicity. . . . With the writer we steam up the many channels; with her we search the shops for curios; through her eyes we study the natives and their ways in the land where it rains eight days in the week.' Above all, with her we gaze upon the changing landscape; we stand in awe and wonder before that majestic

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The Boston Gazette observes that it "will well repay perusal for the fresh and wholly interesting information it conveys, and for the straightforward and animated manner in which it is given."

Miss Murfree's Latest Story.

English recognition of Miss Murfree's genius for narration and description is no less hearty than is American. The London Court Fournal says: "In the Despot of Broomsedge Cove all Miss Murfree's characteristic literary qualities are once more emphasized. The exquisite descriptions of the grand, lovely scenes of the Far West, the quaint humor and irresistible pathos bred of life under such conditions as those which environ her characters, the whimsicalities of electioneering, the curious mixture of simplicity and shrewdness . . . are all delineated with a blended vigor and acuteness which give to the work the hall-mark of genius."

The Best of New England Stories.

Speaking of Mrs. Rose Terry Cooke's Steadfast; The Story of a Saint and a Sinner, The Home-Maker magazine remarks: "Whatever Mrs. Cooke writes is eagerly accepted by her public, which is large and intelligent. Her stories of New England life are the best in the language, none excepted. Her publishers wisely compiled the choicest of these some years ago, in a volume called 'Somebody's Neighbors.' 'Steadfast,' her first

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novel, is the successor in regular order of this delightful book. The scene is laid in a hill township in a commonwealth which may be Massachusetts or Connecticut. The date -'in the last century' - gives wide margin to speculation as to the identity of Rev. Philemon Hall and his persecutors of the Consociation. Curiosity is whetted by the preface, which asserts: Everything I have recorded relating to the acts of the Consociation of Congregational churches of Newport' county is strictly historical fact."

An appetizing paragraph is quoted, giving Miss Tempy's estimate of the stronger sex, includ ing her own husband the deacon :

"I've always said that 't was queer to call menfolks the strongest sect, when they're forever an' always holdin' on to some woman the fust minute trouble teches them. I make no doubt but what when Scriptur talks about Aaron and Hur holdin' up Moses's hands, 't was a mistake in the printin' that Hur wasn't spelt with an e. Why, there's Deacon Hopkins, take him days when everything goes right, and he's as pompious, and capable, and selfsufficient as an ol' turkey gobbler; he's the top o' the heap, and crowin' on it too. But let him get a touch o' rheumatiz, say, or a crick in the back, or come a spell of rain in hayin', or a dry time for

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The book refreshes and delights, and has the saving grace of stopping short of the lightest feeling of weariness; and the reader who delights in seeing with other eyes cannot do better than to read Picturesque Alaska.” — Chicago Tribune.

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growin' corn, and mercy me, he ketches holt of my apernstring, so to speak, jist as though I was Goliath o' Gath. It's the way they're made from the beginnin'; but most of 'em acts as though the Lord had said, 'I will make a hindrance for him,' instead of a helpmeet for him. After all, when you sift it down, the Lord's ways most gene'lly come to pass spite o' man."

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