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“A BOOK THAT WILL LIVE.”DAVID HARUM.A Story of American Life. By EDWARDNOYESWESTCOTT. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.“Mr. Westcott has done for central New York what Mr. Cable, Mr. Page, and Mr. Harris have done for different parts of the South, and what Miss Jewett and Miss Wilkins are doing for New England, and Mr. Hamlin Garland for the West.... ‘David Harum’ is a masterly delineation of an American type.... Here is life with all its joys and sorrows.... David Harum lives in these pages as he will live in the mind of the reader.... He deserves to be known by all good Americans; he is one of them in boundless energy, in large-heartedness, in shrewdness, and in humor.”—The Critic.“Thoroughly a pure, original, and fresh American type. David Harum is a character whose qualities of mind and heart, eccentricities, and dry humor will win for his creator notable distinction. Buoyancy, life, and cheerfulness are dominant notes. In its vividness and force the story is a strong, fresh picture of American life. Original and true, it is worth the same distinction which is accorded thegenrepictures of peculiar types and places sketched by Mr. George W. Cable, Mr. Joel Chandler Harris, Mr. Thomas Nelson Page, Miss Wilkins, Miss Jewett, Mr. Garland, Miss French, Miss Murfree, Mr. Gilbert Parker, Mr. Owen Wister, and Bret Harte.... A pretty love story also adds to the attractiveness of the book, that will be appreciated at once by every one who enjoys real humor, strong character, true pictures of life, and work that is ‘racy of the soil.’”—Boston Herald.“Mr. Westcott has created a new and interesting type.... The character sketching and building, so far as David Harum is concerned, is well-nigh perfect. The book is wonderfully bright, readable, and graphic.”—New York Times.“The main character ought to become familiar to thousands of readers, and will probably take his place in time beside Joel Chandler Harris’s and Thomas Nelson Page’s and Miss Wilkins’s creations.”—Chicago Times-Herald.“We give Edward Noyes Westcott his true place in American letters—placing him as a humorist next to Mark Twain, as a master of dialect above Lowell, as a descriptive writer equal to Bret Harte, and, on the whole, as a novelist on a par with the best of those who live and have their being in the heart of hearts of American readers. If the author is dead—lamentable fact—his book will live.”—Philadelphia Item.“True, strong, and thoroughly alive, with a humor like that of Abraham Lincoln and a nature as sweet at the core. The spirit of the book is genial and wholesome, and the love story is in keeping with it.... The book adds one more to the interesting list of native fiction destined to live, portraying certain localities and types of American life and manners.”—Boston Literary World.“A notable contribution to those sectional studies of American life by which our literature has been so greatly enriched in the past generation.... A work of unusual merit.”—Philadelphia Press.“One of the few distinct and living types in the American gallery.”—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.“The quaint character of ‘David Harum’ proves to be an inexhaustible source of amusement.”—Chicago Evening Post.“It would be hard to say wherein the author could have bettered the portrait he sets before us.”—Providence Journal.“Full of wit and sweetness.”—Baltimore Herald.“Merits the heartiest and most unequivocal praise.... It is a pleasure to call the reader’s attention to this strong and most original novel, a novel that is a decided and most enduring addition to American literature.”—Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.
“A BOOK THAT WILL LIVE.”
DAVID HARUM.A Story of American Life. By EDWARDNOYESWESTCOTT. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
“Mr. Westcott has done for central New York what Mr. Cable, Mr. Page, and Mr. Harris have done for different parts of the South, and what Miss Jewett and Miss Wilkins are doing for New England, and Mr. Hamlin Garland for the West.... ‘David Harum’ is a masterly delineation of an American type.... Here is life with all its joys and sorrows.... David Harum lives in these pages as he will live in the mind of the reader.... He deserves to be known by all good Americans; he is one of them in boundless energy, in large-heartedness, in shrewdness, and in humor.”—The Critic.
“Thoroughly a pure, original, and fresh American type. David Harum is a character whose qualities of mind and heart, eccentricities, and dry humor will win for his creator notable distinction. Buoyancy, life, and cheerfulness are dominant notes. In its vividness and force the story is a strong, fresh picture of American life. Original and true, it is worth the same distinction which is accorded thegenrepictures of peculiar types and places sketched by Mr. George W. Cable, Mr. Joel Chandler Harris, Mr. Thomas Nelson Page, Miss Wilkins, Miss Jewett, Mr. Garland, Miss French, Miss Murfree, Mr. Gilbert Parker, Mr. Owen Wister, and Bret Harte.... A pretty love story also adds to the attractiveness of the book, that will be appreciated at once by every one who enjoys real humor, strong character, true pictures of life, and work that is ‘racy of the soil.’”—Boston Herald.
“Mr. Westcott has created a new and interesting type.... The character sketching and building, so far as David Harum is concerned, is well-nigh perfect. The book is wonderfully bright, readable, and graphic.”—New York Times.
“The main character ought to become familiar to thousands of readers, and will probably take his place in time beside Joel Chandler Harris’s and Thomas Nelson Page’s and Miss Wilkins’s creations.”—Chicago Times-Herald.
“We give Edward Noyes Westcott his true place in American letters—placing him as a humorist next to Mark Twain, as a master of dialect above Lowell, as a descriptive writer equal to Bret Harte, and, on the whole, as a novelist on a par with the best of those who live and have their being in the heart of hearts of American readers. If the author is dead—lamentable fact—his book will live.”—Philadelphia Item.
“True, strong, and thoroughly alive, with a humor like that of Abraham Lincoln and a nature as sweet at the core. The spirit of the book is genial and wholesome, and the love story is in keeping with it.... The book adds one more to the interesting list of native fiction destined to live, portraying certain localities and types of American life and manners.”—Boston Literary World.
“A notable contribution to those sectional studies of American life by which our literature has been so greatly enriched in the past generation.... A work of unusual merit.”—Philadelphia Press.
“One of the few distinct and living types in the American gallery.”—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
“The quaint character of ‘David Harum’ proves to be an inexhaustible source of amusement.”—Chicago Evening Post.
“It would be hard to say wherein the author could have bettered the portrait he sets before us.”—Providence Journal.
“Full of wit and sweetness.”—Baltimore Herald.
“Merits the heartiest and most unequivocal praise.... It is a pleasure to call the reader’s attention to this strong and most original novel, a novel that is a decided and most enduring addition to American literature.”—Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.
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A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE WAR WITH SPAIN.CANNON AND CAMERA.Sea and Land Battles of the Spanish-American War in Cuba, Camp Life, and Return of the Soldiers. Described and illustrated by J. C. HEMMENT, War Artist at the Front. With over one hundred full-page pictures taken by the author, and an Index. Large 12mo. Cloth, $2.00.“The most interesting book about the war so far is ‘Cannon and Camera.’ It is also the best, considered purely as a narrative. Mr. Hemment was at the right places at the right times.... No series of pictures as good as this on the scenes and events of the war has been made by any other man.”—Boston Herald.“Clever and picturesque.... Over one hundred capital instantaneous photographs illustrate Mr. Hemment’s well-written record, and not the least of the book’s recommendations is the outspoken simplicity of its style and the strong impression it makes upon the reader of being the uninfluenced evidence of an eye-witness who ‘draws the thing as he see it,’ and without exaggeration or prejudice.”—Sunday-School Times.“Will have a permanent value and a popularity which doubtless the more technical books will lack.”—Army and Navy Register.“Accurate as well as picturesque.... Mr. Hemment has done his work well. In point of faithful realism there has thus far been nothing better in the whole war literature.”—Boston Journal.“The pictures comprise the best set of war views that we have seen.”—Philadelphia Inquirer.“He is able to give us consecutive pictures of the war, possessing the great value of viewing it from beginning to end.”—Baltimore Sun.“It is a history of the war that will become more valuable as time passes, for it is, in its pictures, an unimpeachable record of events.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.RECOLLECTIONS OF THE CIVIL WAR.By CHARLESA. DANA. With Portrait. Large 12mo. Cloth, gilt top, uncut, $2.00.“Out of his rich material Mr. Dana has woven a marvelous narrative.... Written, as the book is, in Mr. Dana’s inimitable English, it is worthy to rank with the autobiography of Grant in the list of the really great works which will bear down to posterity the true story of the great war for freedom and for the Union.”—Boston Journal.“It is a book filled with vitality and warm with strong life. It tells history in the strongest and most impressive manner, and the personality of the writer gives it an additional interest. It is one of the valuable books of the year.... It is sincere even in its prejudices; the most original and enduring work of a strong thinker. The book is a most important contribution to the history of the civil war; it is readable from first page to last, and its vitality will outlast that of more elaborate works on the same subject.”—Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.“The book will rank among the trustworthy sources of knowledge of the civil war.”—New York Evening Post.“As interesting as a novel.”—Buffalo Commercial.“The book is one of absorbing interest.”—Providence Journal.
A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE WAR WITH SPAIN.
CANNON AND CAMERA.Sea and Land Battles of the Spanish-American War in Cuba, Camp Life, and Return of the Soldiers. Described and illustrated by J. C. HEMMENT, War Artist at the Front. With over one hundred full-page pictures taken by the author, and an Index. Large 12mo. Cloth, $2.00.
“The most interesting book about the war so far is ‘Cannon and Camera.’ It is also the best, considered purely as a narrative. Mr. Hemment was at the right places at the right times.... No series of pictures as good as this on the scenes and events of the war has been made by any other man.”—Boston Herald.
“Clever and picturesque.... Over one hundred capital instantaneous photographs illustrate Mr. Hemment’s well-written record, and not the least of the book’s recommendations is the outspoken simplicity of its style and the strong impression it makes upon the reader of being the uninfluenced evidence of an eye-witness who ‘draws the thing as he see it,’ and without exaggeration or prejudice.”—Sunday-School Times.
“Will have a permanent value and a popularity which doubtless the more technical books will lack.”—Army and Navy Register.
“Accurate as well as picturesque.... Mr. Hemment has done his work well. In point of faithful realism there has thus far been nothing better in the whole war literature.”—Boston Journal.
“The pictures comprise the best set of war views that we have seen.”—Philadelphia Inquirer.
“He is able to give us consecutive pictures of the war, possessing the great value of viewing it from beginning to end.”—Baltimore Sun.
“It is a history of the war that will become more valuable as time passes, for it is, in its pictures, an unimpeachable record of events.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
RECOLLECTIONS OF THE CIVIL WAR.By CHARLESA. DANA. With Portrait. Large 12mo. Cloth, gilt top, uncut, $2.00.
“Out of his rich material Mr. Dana has woven a marvelous narrative.... Written, as the book is, in Mr. Dana’s inimitable English, it is worthy to rank with the autobiography of Grant in the list of the really great works which will bear down to posterity the true story of the great war for freedom and for the Union.”—Boston Journal.
“It is a book filled with vitality and warm with strong life. It tells history in the strongest and most impressive manner, and the personality of the writer gives it an additional interest. It is one of the valuable books of the year.... It is sincere even in its prejudices; the most original and enduring work of a strong thinker. The book is a most important contribution to the history of the civil war; it is readable from first page to last, and its vitality will outlast that of more elaborate works on the same subject.”—Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.
“The book will rank among the trustworthy sources of knowledge of the civil war.”—New York Evening Post.
“As interesting as a novel.”—Buffalo Commercial.
“The book is one of absorbing interest.”—Providence Journal.
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THE STORY OF THE WEST SERIES.EDITED BYRIPLEY HITCHCOCK.Each, illustrated, 12mo, cloth, $1.50.THE STORY OF THE RAILROAD.By CYWARMAN, author of “The Express Messenger,” etc. With Maps, and many Illustrations by B. West Clinedinst and from photographs.“As we understand it, the editor’s ruling idea in this series has not been to present chronology or statistics or set essays on the social and political development of the great West, but to give to us vivid pictures of the life and the times in the period of great development, and to let us see the men at their work, their characters, and their motives. The choice of an author has been fortunate. In Mr. Warman’s book we are kept constantly reminded of the fortitude, the suffering, the enterprise, and the endurance of the pioneers. We see the glowing imagination of the promoter, and we see the engineer scouting the plains and the mountains, fighting the Indians, freezing and starving, and always full of a keen enthusiasm for his work and of noble devotion to his duty. The construction train and the Irish boss are not forgotten, and in the stories of their doings we find not only courage and adventure, but wit and humor.”—The Railroad Gazette.THE STORY OF THE COWBOY.By E. HOUGH, author of “The Singing Mouse Stories,” etc. Illustrated by William L. Wells and C. M. Russell.“Mr. Hough is to be thanked for having written so excellent a book. The cowboy story, as this author has told it, will be the cowboy’s fitting eulogy. This volume will be consulted in years to come as an authority on past conditions of the far West. For fine literary work the author is to be highly complimented. Here, certainly, we have a choice piece of writing.”—New York Times.THE STORY OF THE MINE.As illustrated by the Great Comstock Lode of Nevada. By CHARLESHOWARDSHINN.“Mr. Shinn writes from ample personal acquaintance with his subject—such acquaintance as could only be gained by familiarity with the men and the places described, by repeated conversations with survivors of the early mining adventures in the Sierras and the Rockies, and by the fullest appreciation of the pervading spirit of the Western mining camps of yesterday and to-day. Thus his book has a distinctly human interest, apart from its value as a treatise on things material.”—Review of Reviews.THE STORY OF THE INDIAN.By GEORGEBIRDGRINNELL, author of “Pawnee Hero Stories,” “Blackfoot Lodge Tales,” etc.“Only an author qualified by personal experience could offer us a profitable study of a race so alien from our own as is the Indian in thought, feeling, and culture. Only long association with Indians can enable a white man measurably to comprehend their thoughts and enter into their feelings. Such association has been Mr. Grinnell’s.”—New York Sun.D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK.
THE STORY OF THE WEST SERIES.
EDITED BYRIPLEY HITCHCOCK.
Each, illustrated, 12mo, cloth, $1.50.
THE STORY OF THE RAILROAD.By CYWARMAN, author of “The Express Messenger,” etc. With Maps, and many Illustrations by B. West Clinedinst and from photographs.
“As we understand it, the editor’s ruling idea in this series has not been to present chronology or statistics or set essays on the social and political development of the great West, but to give to us vivid pictures of the life and the times in the period of great development, and to let us see the men at their work, their characters, and their motives. The choice of an author has been fortunate. In Mr. Warman’s book we are kept constantly reminded of the fortitude, the suffering, the enterprise, and the endurance of the pioneers. We see the glowing imagination of the promoter, and we see the engineer scouting the plains and the mountains, fighting the Indians, freezing and starving, and always full of a keen enthusiasm for his work and of noble devotion to his duty. The construction train and the Irish boss are not forgotten, and in the stories of their doings we find not only courage and adventure, but wit and humor.”—The Railroad Gazette.
THE STORY OF THE COWBOY.By E. HOUGH, author of “The Singing Mouse Stories,” etc. Illustrated by William L. Wells and C. M. Russell.
“Mr. Hough is to be thanked for having written so excellent a book. The cowboy story, as this author has told it, will be the cowboy’s fitting eulogy. This volume will be consulted in years to come as an authority on past conditions of the far West. For fine literary work the author is to be highly complimented. Here, certainly, we have a choice piece of writing.”—New York Times.
THE STORY OF THE MINE.As illustrated by the Great Comstock Lode of Nevada. By CHARLESHOWARDSHINN.
“Mr. Shinn writes from ample personal acquaintance with his subject—such acquaintance as could only be gained by familiarity with the men and the places described, by repeated conversations with survivors of the early mining adventures in the Sierras and the Rockies, and by the fullest appreciation of the pervading spirit of the Western mining camps of yesterday and to-day. Thus his book has a distinctly human interest, apart from its value as a treatise on things material.”—Review of Reviews.
THE STORY OF THE INDIAN.By GEORGEBIRDGRINNELL, author of “Pawnee Hero Stories,” “Blackfoot Lodge Tales,” etc.
“Only an author qualified by personal experience could offer us a profitable study of a race so alien from our own as is the Indian in thought, feeling, and culture. Only long association with Indians can enable a white man measurably to comprehend their thoughts and enter into their feelings. Such association has been Mr. Grinnell’s.”—New York Sun.
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK.
Transcriber’s Note:This e-text is based on the 1899 edition of the book. Minor punctuation errors have been tacitly corrected. Inconsistent and uncommon spelling and hyphenation have been retained. Words obviously missing a single letter have been tacitly corrected.The following passages have been corrected or need to be commented:# p.24: “verlaszt”: obsolete form of “verlaßt”# p.61: “court-marshal”: literal translation for “Hofmarschall” (lord stewart)# p.106: “voiec” → “voice”# p.111: “come, your majesty” → “I come, your majesty”# p.119: “may taken” → “may be taken”# p.285: “into the the room”: doubled word removed# p.296: “after along” → “after a long”# p.308: “and taken up” → “had taken up”# p.319: “osberved” → “observed”# p.321: “countenanec” → “countenance”; “opposite Schiller’s bed” → “opposite Goethe’s bed”# p.339: “wonderlich” →“wunderlich”# p.350: “Signore” → “Signora”# p.458: “than no soirée” → “that no soirée”# p.491: “Charlotte’s” → “Caroline’s”# p.493: “Weningenjena” → “Wenigenjena”# Footnote42: “Dante Alighiere’s” → “Dante Alighieri’s”# Advertising pages: 2nd and 4th; 3rd and 5th page are identical in the original book → 4th and 5th page deleted.
Transcriber’s Note:
This e-text is based on the 1899 edition of the book. Minor punctuation errors have been tacitly corrected. Inconsistent and uncommon spelling and hyphenation have been retained. Words obviously missing a single letter have been tacitly corrected.
The following passages have been corrected or need to be commented:
# p.24: “verlaszt”: obsolete form of “verlaßt”# p.61: “court-marshal”: literal translation for “Hofmarschall” (lord stewart)# p.106: “voiec” → “voice”# p.111: “come, your majesty” → “I come, your majesty”# p.119: “may taken” → “may be taken”# p.285: “into the the room”: doubled word removed# p.296: “after along” → “after a long”# p.308: “and taken up” → “had taken up”# p.319: “osberved” → “observed”# p.321: “countenanec” → “countenance”; “opposite Schiller’s bed” → “opposite Goethe’s bed”# p.339: “wonderlich” →“wunderlich”# p.350: “Signore” → “Signora”# p.458: “than no soirée” → “that no soirée”# p.491: “Charlotte’s” → “Caroline’s”# p.493: “Weningenjena” → “Wenigenjena”# Footnote42: “Dante Alighiere’s” → “Dante Alighieri’s”# Advertising pages: 2nd and 4th; 3rd and 5th page are identical in the original book → 4th and 5th page deleted.