MONONIA. A Love Story of '48,
ByJUSTIN McCARTHY, M.P.,
Author ofA History of Our Own Times,Dear Lady Disdain, etc.
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Mr. McCarthy has written several successful novels; but none, perhaps, will have greater interest for his American readers than this volume, in which he writes reminiscently of the Ireland of his youth and the stirring events which marked that period.
It is pre-eminently an old-fashioned novel, befitting the times which it describes, and written with the delicate touch of sentiment characteristic of Mr. McCarthy's fiction. The book takes its name from the heroine, a charming type of the gentle-born Irishwoman. In the development of the romance, the attempts for Ireland's freedom, and the dire failures that culminated at Ballingary are told in a manner which will give an intimate insight into the history of theYoung Irelandmovement. If the book cannot be considered autobiographical, the reader will not forget that the author was contemporary with the events described, and will have little difficulty in perceiving that many of the principal characters are strongly suggestive of the Irish leaders of that day, which gives the book scarcely less value than an avowed autobiography.
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Two Notable Novels by Emma Rayner.
VISITING THE SIN
A Tale of Mountain Life in Kentucky and Tennessee.
12mo, cloth, with cover designed by T. W. Ball. 448 pages.$1.50
The struggle between the heroine's love and her determination to visit the sin upon the son of the supposed murderer of her father forms the basis of the story. All of the characters are vividly drawn, and the action of the story is wonderfully dramatic and lifelike. The period is about 1875.
"A powerful, well-sustained story, the interest in which does not flag from the first chapter to the last."—Philadelphia North American."Unusually powerful. The dramatic plot is intricate, but not obscure."—The Congregationalist."A graphic and readable piece of fiction, which will stand with the best of its time concerning humble American characters."—Providence Journal."Far ahead of most of these latter-day Southern novels."—Southern Star."The people in the story are persistently real."—Christian Advocate.
"A powerful, well-sustained story, the interest in which does not flag from the first chapter to the last."—Philadelphia North American.
"Unusually powerful. The dramatic plot is intricate, but not obscure."—The Congregationalist.
"A graphic and readable piece of fiction, which will stand with the best of its time concerning humble American characters."—Providence Journal.
"Far ahead of most of these latter-day Southern novels."—Southern Star.
"The people in the story are persistently real."—Christian Advocate.
FREE TO SERVE
A Tale of Colonial New York.
12mo, cloth, with a cover designed by Maxfield Parrish.
434 pages.$1.50
"One of the very best stories of the Colonial period yet written."—Philadelphia Bulletin."We have here a thorough-going romance of American life in the first days of the eighteenth century. It is a story written for the story's sake, and right well written, too. Indians, Dutch, Frenchmen, Puritans, all play a part. The scenes are vivid, the incidents novel and many."—The Independent."The writing is cleverly done, and the old-fashioned atmosphere of old Knickerbocker days is reproduced with such a touch of verity as to seem an actual chronicle recorded by one who lived in those days."—Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia."The supreme test of a long book is the reading of it, and when one reaches the end of Free to Serve, he acknowledges freely that it is the best book that he has taken up for a long time."—Boston Herald.
"One of the very best stories of the Colonial period yet written."—Philadelphia Bulletin.
"We have here a thorough-going romance of American life in the first days of the eighteenth century. It is a story written for the story's sake, and right well written, too. Indians, Dutch, Frenchmen, Puritans, all play a part. The scenes are vivid, the incidents novel and many."—The Independent.
"The writing is cleverly done, and the old-fashioned atmosphere of old Knickerbocker days is reproduced with such a touch of verity as to seem an actual chronicle recorded by one who lived in those days."—Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia.
"The supreme test of a long book is the reading of it, and when one reaches the end of Free to Serve, he acknowledges freely that it is the best book that he has taken up for a long time."—Boston Herald.
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Two Remarkable Volumes of Stories.
ANTING-ANTING STORIES,
And Other Strange Tales of the Filipinos.
BySARGENT KAYME.
With cover design byWilliam Mather Crocker.
12mo., cloth.$1.25
The sub-title to this volume gives a suggestion of the nature of the stories of which it is composed, but no title can give an adequate idea of their wonderful variety and charm. It is hardly exaggeration to say that Mr. Kayme's treatment of the life of the Filipinos opens to our literature a new field, almost as fresh and as original as did Mr. Kipling's Indian Stories when they first appeared. Like Mr. Kipling, he shows his perfect familiarity with the country and people he describes; and he knows how to tell a good story straight away and simply without any sacrifice of dramatic effect or power.
The curious title to the volume furnishes the motive for some of the most striking of the stories.Anting-Antingis a Filipino word, used to denote anything worn as an amulet, with a supposed power to protect the life of the wearer. Often a thing of no intrinsic value, the belief in its efficacy is yet so real that its owner often braves death with a confidence so sublime as to command admiration, if not respect.
WHEN EVE WAS NOT CREATED,
And Other Stories.
ByHERVEY WHITE, author ofDifferencesandQuicksand
12mo., cloth, with a cover design byMarion L. Peabody.
$1.25
Remarkable stories of a type and style of subjective symbolism altogether new to American literature. In the title story Svend, as a type expressive of the suppression of the artistic sense in love, where, the eye being satisfied with the object, the heart, the soul, the mind of the man, yet goes hungry and unsatisfied, will fix himself in the reader's mind as one of the strongest characters of fiction. The other stories are scarcely less noteworthy, and the book as a whole will add greatly to the author's already high reputation as a writer.
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A Remarkable Study of Social Life in America.
DIFFERENCES
ByHERVEY WHITE.
12mo, cloth, decorative, 320 pages.$1.50
"It is treating the poor as a class and employing any method of handling them that I object to…. Why can't they be treated as individuals, the same as other people? What would the rich think of my impertinence if I went about the world treating them in a peculiar manner,—as if they were not real people, at all, but only 'the rich,' in my knowledge?"—Hester Carr, inDifferences.
"Differencesis an extraordinary book…. The labor question is its primary concern, and the caste barrier which modern conditions have erected between the man who works and the man who merely lives. This is no new theme, yetDifferencesis new, and its place in thoughtful literature awaits it. The only argument presented by Mr. White is contained in the picture he spreads before us. It is real, and set out with bold, firm strokes, and there is no attempt to be merely artistic. Genevieve Radcliffe, the rich society girl, who goes to work charity with the poor, and John Wade, the workman, whose situation involves all the tragedy of metropolitan poverty, are human, if they be not typical. They embody the 'differences,' and, if they do not point the way to equality, it is because American civilization is not yet ripe for them. Withal, the book is not a tract. It is worth a thousand such. Informed throughout with a tender simplicity, a sense of the beauty of common things, and a sincerity that brooks no question, it carries equal appeal to the student of economics and to the lover of human feeling."—Philadelphia North American."There is no end of philosophy in books about the poor and how to reach them and send rays of sunshine into their world; but few books get at the real 'Differences' that exist between the wealthy classes and the poor as does Mr. Hervey White….Differencesis vitally interesting, both as a story and as a moral lesson…. It is written with wholesome enthusiasm and an intelligent survey of real facts."—Boston Herald."The method employed by Mr. Hervey White inDifferencesis not like that of any author I have ever read in the English language. It resembles strongly the work of the best Russian novelists, it seems to me, and particularly that of Dostoievsky, and yet it is in no sense an imitation of those writers; it is apparently like them merely because the author's motives and ways of thought and observation are like them…. I have never before read any such treatment in the English language of the life and thought of laboring people."—Joseph Edgar Chamberlin, inBoston Transcript.
"Differencesis an extraordinary book…. The labor question is its primary concern, and the caste barrier which modern conditions have erected between the man who works and the man who merely lives. This is no new theme, yetDifferencesis new, and its place in thoughtful literature awaits it. The only argument presented by Mr. White is contained in the picture he spreads before us. It is real, and set out with bold, firm strokes, and there is no attempt to be merely artistic. Genevieve Radcliffe, the rich society girl, who goes to work charity with the poor, and John Wade, the workman, whose situation involves all the tragedy of metropolitan poverty, are human, if they be not typical. They embody the 'differences,' and, if they do not point the way to equality, it is because American civilization is not yet ripe for them. Withal, the book is not a tract. It is worth a thousand such. Informed throughout with a tender simplicity, a sense of the beauty of common things, and a sincerity that brooks no question, it carries equal appeal to the student of economics and to the lover of human feeling."—Philadelphia North American.
"There is no end of philosophy in books about the poor and how to reach them and send rays of sunshine into their world; but few books get at the real 'Differences' that exist between the wealthy classes and the poor as does Mr. Hervey White….Differencesis vitally interesting, both as a story and as a moral lesson…. It is written with wholesome enthusiasm and an intelligent survey of real facts."—Boston Herald.
"The method employed by Mr. Hervey White inDifferencesis not like that of any author I have ever read in the English language. It resembles strongly the work of the best Russian novelists, it seems to me, and particularly that of Dostoievsky, and yet it is in no sense an imitation of those writers; it is apparently like them merely because the author's motives and ways of thought and observation are like them…. I have never before read any such treatment in the English language of the life and thought of laboring people."—Joseph Edgar Chamberlin, inBoston Transcript.
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A Powerful Realistic Novel of American Life.
QUICKSAND
ByHERVEY WHITE.
12mo, cloth, decorative, 328 pages.$1.50
Quicksandis a strong argument against a certain condition which the author believes exists too generally in American society, and is, in effect, an appeal for the freedom of the individual in family life. It is a powerful tragedy, developing very naturally out of the effects of the interference of parents in the lives of their children, and of brothers and sisters in the affairs of each other. It becomes therefore, not only the story of an individual, but the life history of an entire family, the members of which are portrayed with astonishing vividness and realism. The hero of the book also illustrates, in his sufferings and failures, the unfortunate effects of a too narrow orthodoxy in religion, coupled with his family's interference with his growth out of this environment. Offsetting the tragedy of the story is "Hiram," the "hired man" of the family in its earlier New England days, in whom, particularly, the reader's interest will centre. Patient, kindly, faithful, and uncomplaining, he is indeed the real "hero" of the tale, the only one free from the unfortunate environments of the other characters, yet forced indirectly to suffer also because of them. It is the every-day life of the every-day family that is drawn; and this fact, together with the boldness and fidelity of the drawing, gives the story its power and impressiveness.
"Hervey White is the most forceful writer who has appeared in America for a long generation."—Chicago Evening Post."We cannot remember another book in which lives, thoughts, emotions, souls, and principles of action have been analyzed with such convincing power. Mr. Hervey White has great literary skill. He has here made his mark, and he has come to stay…. He is the American George Gissing, and as such some day he will have to be taken into account."—Boston Herald."It should insure Mr. White a permanent place in the critical regard of his fellow-countrymen…. Few characters as strong as that of Elizabeth Hinckley have ever been drawn by an American author, and she will remain in the mind of the most assiduous novel reader, secure of a place far above that held by most of the puny creations of the day."—Chicago Tribune."It is wrought of enduring qualities. Few novels are so sustained on an elevated plane of interest."—Philadelphia Item."It is a novel that takes hold of one, and is not the sort of book that, once begun, can be laid down without being finished."—Indianapolis News.
"Hervey White is the most forceful writer who has appeared in America for a long generation."—Chicago Evening Post.
"We cannot remember another book in which lives, thoughts, emotions, souls, and principles of action have been analyzed with such convincing power. Mr. Hervey White has great literary skill. He has here made his mark, and he has come to stay…. He is the American George Gissing, and as such some day he will have to be taken into account."—Boston Herald.
"It should insure Mr. White a permanent place in the critical regard of his fellow-countrymen…. Few characters as strong as that of Elizabeth Hinckley have ever been drawn by an American author, and she will remain in the mind of the most assiduous novel reader, secure of a place far above that held by most of the puny creations of the day."—Chicago Tribune.
"It is wrought of enduring qualities. Few novels are so sustained on an elevated plane of interest."—Philadelphia Item.
"It is a novel that takes hold of one, and is not the sort of book that, once begun, can be laid down without being finished."—Indianapolis News.
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By MAX BENNETT THRASHER
With an Introduction by BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
12mo, cloth, decorative, 248 pages, 50 Illustrations, $1.00
THETUSKEGEE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE, at Tuskegee, Alabama, is one of the most uniquely interesting institutions in America. Begun, twenty years ago, in two abandoned, tumble-down houses, with thirty untaught Negro men and women for its first students, it has become one of the famous schools of the country, with more than a thousand students each year. Students and teachers are all of the Negro race. The Principal of the school, Mr. Booker T. Washington, is the best-known man of his race in the world to-day.
In "Tuskegee: Its Story and its Work," the story of the school is told in a very interesting way. He has shown how Mr. Washington's early life was a preparation for his work. He has given a history of the Institute from its foundation, explained the practical methods by which it gives industrial training, and then he has gone on to show some of the results which the institution has accomplished. The human element is carried through the whole so thoroughly that one reads the book for entertainment as well as for instruction.
COMMENTS.
"All who are interested in the proper solution of the problem in the South should feel deeply grateful to Mr. Thrasher for the task which he has undertaken and performed so well."—Booker T. Washington."Should be carefully and thoughtfully read by every friend of the colored race in the North as well as in the South."—New York Times."The book is of the utmost value to all those who desire and hope for the development of the Negro race in America."—Louisville Courier-Journal."Almost every question one could raise in regard to the school and its work, from Who was Booker Washington? to What do people whose opinion is worth having think of Tuskegee? is answered in this book."—New Bedford Standard.
"All who are interested in the proper solution of the problem in the South should feel deeply grateful to Mr. Thrasher for the task which he has undertaken and performed so well."—Booker T. Washington.
"Should be carefully and thoughtfully read by every friend of the colored race in the North as well as in the South."—New York Times.
"The book is of the utmost value to all those who desire and hope for the development of the Negro race in America."—Louisville Courier-Journal.
"Almost every question one could raise in regard to the school and its work, from Who was Booker Washington? to What do people whose opinion is worth having think of Tuskegee? is answered in this book."—New Bedford Standard.
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Transcriber's Note:Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note.Irregularities and inconsistencies in the text have been retained as printed.
Transcriber's Note:
Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note.
Irregularities and inconsistencies in the text have been retained as printed.