. St. Nicholas [serial] . u are right, I am sure, in saying that a new light anda real one has arisen in the literary firmament.—Extract from a letter from a nliterary man. ANNE DOUGLAS SEDGWICK is the master of a firm, transparent, suggestive style, and of imaginative and dramatic resources of avery high order. She has precision and genuineness. Her characters are novel and interesting. In THE RESCUE she has produced a reallyble piece of literature,theme is an en-gaging variationof hereditarytendency, withaction smooth,clear, deep, andstrong. A manof thirty falls inlove with a pho-tograph, th
. St. Nicholas [serial] . u are right, I am sure, in saying that a new light anda real one has arisen in the literary firmament.—Extract from a letter from a nliterary man. ANNE DOUGLAS SEDGWICK is the master of a firm, transparent, suggestive style, and of imaginative and dramatic resources of avery high order. She has precision and genuineness. Her characters are novel and interesting. In THE RESCUE she has produced a reallyble piece of literature,theme is an en-gaging variationof hereditarytendency, withaction smooth,clear, deep, andstrong. A manof thirty falls inlove with a pho-tograph, the ori-ginal of whichwas nineteenwhen the picturewas taken. How-ever, more thantwenty years nota- have passed. He finds her—andThe then the story. The scene is mainly in Paris,and of the fourchief characters— two men andtwo women—it is difficult todecide which isthe most inter-esting, or to telltill near the endto whom therescue refers. l2mo, 250 pages, with colored fron= tispiece by f^eller. A New Edition of Miss Sedgwicks THE DULLMISS ARCHINARD This is the story of a real, a modern Cinder-ella. The title is as ironically a misnomer asthe general attitude of the world toward theheroine is a misjudgment. In this story wehave romance in its essence — and pathos,humor and tragedy. The wolf knocks at the door of the Archi-nards, a well-bred English family, who areforced to give up their country place and prac-tise economy in Paris lodgings. The Dull Miss Archinard .... themost readable novel, pure and simple, of theyear.—Boston Transcript. A more charmingly unself conscious hero-ine we do not remember to have met with.—Sheffield (Eng.) , 287 pages,with colored frontispiece, $ A New Edition of Miss Sedgwicks J5he CONFOUNDING OF CAMELIA This is the story of a beautiful and brilliantyoung woman, selfish and self-centered, whohas captured the London social world. Shereturns to her country place for a rest andamuses herself with a house-party, and
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