. Beaconsfield . NEW YORK:D. APPLETON & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. PPLETOSfe APPLETONS MW HAOY-YOLTJIE SERIES. 22 um^ I VOfllWK ! BriUia*ii Novelettes : Rotnance, Ad7<enture, Travel, Humor; Historic,I Literary, and Society Monographs. SERIES. : —. - - The later developments of literary taste with American readerindicate two tilings: /?rs^, a preference for compact and lucid outlines of historic or literary periods, and for stories which, whilwithin the compass of a single reading, shall have all the syn)nictr\the artistic treatment, the careful character-drawing, and the fresliness of incident, w
. Beaconsfield . NEW YORK:D. APPLETON & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. PPLETOSfe APPLETONS MW HAOY-YOLTJIE SERIES. 22 um^ I VOfllWK ! BriUia*ii Novelettes : Rotnance, Ad7<enture, Travel, Humor; Historic,I Literary, and Society Monographs. SERIES. : —. - - The later developments of literary taste with American readerindicate two tilings: /?rs^, a preference for compact and lucid outlines of historic or literary periods, and for stories which, whilwithin the compass of a single reading, shall have all the syn)nictr\the artistic treatment, the careful character-drawing, and the fresliness of incident, which mark the lengthier but scarcely more anibitious novel; second^ a demand for books in a form to convenient andhandy that the volume may always be carried in the pocket, readyfor use on the train, on the steamboat, in the horse-car, at momentssnatched at twilight or bedtime, while sitting on the sea-phore orrambling in the Avoods—at all periods of re.^t or leisure, whether intown or country. In recognibeaconsfield00towl
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