Sara Crewe; or, What happened at Miss Minchin's . FIRST CHURCH OF BOSTON. SCR/BNERS BOOKS FOX THE YOUNG. A NEW EDITION. ILLUSTRATED. KIDNAPPED. Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751, BY ROBERT LOUIS 16 full-page One volume, 121110,$ Mr. Stevenson has never appearedto greater advantage than in Kid-napped. . No better book of itskind than those Memoirs of the Adven-tures of David Balfour has ever beenwritten.—The Nation. The suggestion and comparisonwith the immortal works of the authorof Waverly, in scenery, style and char-acters n
Sara Crewe; or, What happened at Miss Minchin's . FIRST CHURCH OF BOSTON. SCR/BNERS BOOKS FOX THE YOUNG. A NEW EDITION. ILLUSTRATED. KIDNAPPED. Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751, BY ROBERT LOUIS 16 full-page One volume, 121110,$ Mr. Stevenson has never appearedto greater advantage than in Kid-napped. . No better book of itskind than those Memoirs of the Adven-tures of David Balfour has ever beenwritten.—The Nation. The suggestion and comparisonwith the immortal works of the authorof Waverly, in scenery, style and char-acters natural, and indeed is no small praise to say that thebook is meritoriously high even on thisstandard.—The Boston Post. I Mr. Stevenson is a master of lan-guage, and cultivates assiduously thosephrases which are known as blunt and direct of speech, heimagines every scene, conversation, andevent with such clearness, that he canso bring it before us as to make itperfectly real. He rejoices in a train ofexciting incidents, and has no otherobject than to follow it out and makehis characters appear as real as theincidents. Yet there is a daintiness oftouch, a dreamy freedom of inventionin his amiable fabrications which lendthem a
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