EDWIN ARNOLD'S POETICAL WORKS. (Including "The Light of Asia.") Household edition, with red-line border, gilt edges. Cloth, black and gold. Price, $2.00
JOHN KEATS' POETICAL WORKS. Lord Houghton's edition, with a Memoir. With portrait. Household edition, with red-line border, gilt edges. Cloth, black and gold. Price, $2.00
GEORGE SAND. Famous Women Series. By BERTHA THOMAS. One volume. 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.00
"The volume before us, which is published in the series of brief biographies of famous women, of which we have upon previous occasions taken favorable notice, will give its readers a clear and generally adequate idea of George Sand's character and genius, and will serve to correct many misconceptions in regard to the nature of her writings which ignorance and prejudice have spread abroad. At the same time Miss Thomas has sought rather to portray the character of the famous French woman to whom she pays tribute than to criticise or expound the long line of novels which her fertile imagination produced. Her book is rather biographical than literary in its purpose and inspiration, and though the Sand romances are reviewed, and their distinctive characteristics appreciatively and intelligently described, the volume depends for its value and interest upon its narrative and portraiture. It is pleasantly, gracefully and cleverly written, and will worthily sustain the already high reputation of the series to which it belongs."--_North American, Phila._
"The best of the biography is that we gain from it good, definite notions of the early home, the convent, the marriage with M. Dudevant and how it came about, the short family life, and the circumstances of the early residence in Paris. Each change down to the last scenes of George Sand's life is characterized. So also are the books, which are classified and briefly described. So is that wonderful mental life, so flaming, so easily working itself into words and deeds, so much less removed in subtlety from our common life of common people than was the mental life of almost any other great genius. Owing to the sound and practical treatment which the subject receives at Miss Thomas' hands, the book is plain, readable, adapted to the widest circle of readers, doing in no respect injustice to the mighty soul whose course Miss Thomas can trace and describe, but not as one could who had taken the same flights, or others as high, if not the same. The Famous Women series is a notable one."--_Boston Courier._