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_ROUND THE RED LAMP._ Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life.
12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
”Too much can not be said in praise of these strong productions, that, to read, keep one's heart leaping to the throat and the mind in a tumult of antic.i.p.ation to the end.... No series of short stories in modern literature can approach them.”--_Hartford Times._
”If Mr. A. Conan Doyle had not already placed himself in the front rank of living English writers by 'The Refugees,' and other of his larger stories, he would surely do so by these fifteen short tales.”--_New York Mail and Express._
”A strikingly realistic and decidedly original contribution to modern literature.”--_Boston Sat.u.r.day Evening Gazette._
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BY S. R. CROCKETT.
_CLEG KELLY, ARAB OF THE CITY. His Progress and Adventures._ Uniform with ”The Lilac Sunbonnet” and ”Bog-Myrtle and Peat.”
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It is safe to predict for the quaint and delightful figure of Cleg Kelly a notable in the literature of the day. Mr. Crockett's signal success in his new field will enlarge the wide circle of his admirers. The lights and shadows of curious phases of Edinburgh life, and of Scotch farm and railroad life, are pictured with an intimate sympathy, richness of humor, and truthful pathos which make this new novel a genuine addition to literature. It seems safe to say that at least two characters--Cleg and Muckle Alick--are likely to lead Mr. Crockett's heroes in popular favor. The ill.u.s.trations of this fascinating novel have been the result of most faithful and sympathetic study.
_BOG-MYRTLE AND PEAT._ Third edition. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
”Here are idyls, epics, dramas of human life, written in words that thrill and burn.... Each is a poem that has an immortal flavor. They are fragments of the author's early dreams, too bright, too gorgeous, too full of the blood of rubies and the life of diamonds to be caught and held palpitating in expression's grasp.”--_Boston Courier_.
”Hardly a sketch among them all that will not afford pleasure to the reader for its genial humor, artistic local coloring, and admirable portrayal of character.”--_Boston Home Journal._
”One dips into the book anywhere and reads on and on, fascinated by the writer's charm of manner.”--_Minneapolis Tribune._
_THE LILAC SUNBONNET._ Sixth edition. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
”A love story pure and simple, one of the old-fas.h.i.+oned, wholesome, suns.h.i.+ny kind, with a pure-minded, sound-hearted hero, and a heroine who is merely a good and beautiful woman; and if any other love story half so sweet has been written this year, it has escaped our notice.”--_New York Times._
”The general conception of the story, the motive of which is the growth of love between the young chief and heroine, is delineated with a sweetness and a freshness, a naturalness and a certainty, which places 'The Lilac Sunbonnet' among the best stories of the time.”--_New York Mail and Express._
”In its own line this little love story can hardly be excelled. It is a pastoral, an idyl--the story of love and courts.h.i.+p and marriage of a fine young man and a lovely girl--no more. But it is told in so thoroughly delightful a manner, with such playful humor, such delicate fancy, such true and sympathetic feeling, that nothing more could be desired.”--_Boston Traveller._