For tenderness and purity of thought, for exquisitely delicate sketching of characters, Miss Woolson is unexcelled among writers of fiction.--_New Orleans Picayune._
For swiftly graphic stroke, for delicacy of appreciative coloring, and for sentimental suggestiveness, it would be hard to rival Miss Woolson's sketches.--_Watchman,_ Boston.
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THE INSTINCT OF STEP-FATHERHOOD. Stories.
The spirit of fun is found to a greater or less degree in all of the sketches, but at times the fun borders on the tragic so closely that the dividing line between laughter and tears almost fades out of sight.--_Brooklyn Eagle._
The author is so good-humored, quaint, and clever that she has not left a dull page in her book.--_Saturday Evening Gazette,_ Boston.
A LITTLE SISTER TO THE WILDERNESS. A Novel. New Edition.
Written from the heart and with rare sympathy.... The writer has a natural and fluent style, and her dialect has the double excellence of being novel and scanty. The scenes are picturesque and diversified.--_Churchman,_ N.Y.
THE UNDER SIDE OF THINGS. A Novel. With a Portrait of the Author.
This is a tenderly beautiful story.... This book is Miss Bell's best effort, and most in the line of what we hope to see her proceed in, dainty and keen and bright, and always full of the fine warmth and tenderness of splendid womanhood.--_Interior,_ Chicago.
So much sense, sentiment, and humor are not often united in a single volume.--_Observer,_ N.Y.
16mo, Cloth, Ornamental, Uncut Edges and Gilt Tops, $1 25 per volume.
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THE RED-BRIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD. Illustrated by CLIFFORD CARLETON. $1 50.
The author's narrative gift is as nearly perfect as one could wish.--_Chicago Interior._
Miss Pool's novels have the characteristic qualities of American life. They have an indigenous flavor. The author is on her own ground, instinct with American feeling and purpose.--_New York Tribune._
Miss Pool is one of the most distinctive and powerful of novelists of the period, and she well maintains her reputation in this instance.--_Philadelphia Telegraph._