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“In the story we have the real Stockton at his best and brightest. The fun, the whimsicality, the queer doings, the very delightful people are such as his readers have been entertained with for so many years. The fertility of invention and ingenuity is as fresh as in the early stories, and perhaps Mr. Stockton never came nearer to success in trying to keep a long story together to the end without digressions or a break in the plot. The heroine is a charming girl, her married hostess still more charming, and there are plenty of others the reader will be glad to meet.
“Mrs. Stockton’s sketch of her husband gives us a glimpse of a lovable and delightful personality and shows the author at work just as the readers must have imagined him. Swinging in a hammock under the fir trees, or when winter came, in an easy chair before a big log fire, he dreamed his fancies and dictated them, bit by bit, as they came, to his secretary.”—New York Sun..\
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“Shows masterly and artistic work.”—Buffalo Commercial.
“Dignified, earnest, and thoughtfully written.”—Indianapolis News.
“The mystery of the plot is the principal charm.—Brooklyn Eagle.
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“There is a manifest sincerity in his writing, and his studies of character are acute and convincing.”—New York World.
“Power dominates the book. It is written by a man who felt what he wrote and who had a great reason for writing.”—Chicago Tribune.
“The descriptions of country life are excellent, and some of the characters, like the Rev. Corner Deen and Joy, are so much alive as to suggest Trollope or George Eliot.”—New York Evening Sun.
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“Worth reading for its deft touches of sentiment and humor.”—Rochester Democrat.
“The Edenrise ladies, sure of sympathy and comprehension, speak unhesitatingly their thoughts, unaware that among them is one who is so far an outsider as to be capable of drawing their conversational portraits for a delighted world. The temptation to quote is great, but it is dangerous to begin where it would be so easy to be drawn on to great lengths. No inconsiderable part of the amusement in this book is furnished by the children, who are as irresistibly human and lifelike as their parents.”—New York Times Saturday Review.
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Her Memory.With Photogravure Portrait.
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The Greater Glory.A Story of High Life.
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God’s Fool.
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