University of Virginia Library

“Alone” and “Hidden Path” are two of the most successful
works issued from the American press. The stories are
interesting; the language pure; the plot natural and interesting;
and the moral excellent. Rival editions have
been published, with great success, in England, France,
and Germany.

∵The world-wide reputation of Peter Parley as an interesting
and instructive writer for the young, is a sufficient
guarantee of the excellence of the above two
volumes.

“The extraordinary sensation produced in literary circles
by Mr. Wikoff's charming romance of real life, is
exhausting edition after edition of his wonderful book.
The ladies are sure to devour it. It is better and
more exciting than any modern romance, as it is a
detail of facts, and every page proves conclusively
that the plain, unvarnished tale of truth is often stranger
than fiction.”

This is a charming and intensely interesting story; the
incidents are novel, and effectively managed; the moral,
unexceptionable. Says the Detroit Daily Advertizer—
“This book starts off with its chapter first, and introduces
the reader at once to the heroes and incidents of
the really charming story. He will speedily find himself
interested as well by the graceful style and the skill with
which the different scenes are arranged, as by the beauty
of the two principal characters, and the lessons of loving
faith, hope, and patience, which will meet him at the
turning of almost every leaf.

∵ The above is a narrative of many years' personal experience
by the Wife of a Mormon Elder, recently from
Utah. The book is full of disclosures of the sufferings
and indignrities endured by Females in the Mormon
Country. It has created an intense excitement,
and is selling with great rapidity.

Mr. Roe's works are characterized for their charming simplicity
and purity. They have a freshness and naturalness
but seldom found in works of this kind. The
impression of the story is admirably calculated to
inspire the young with sentiments of self-reliance,
honor, and integrity, and to produce charity and a
good feeling in all. They have been published in
Europe, with great success; and they are spoken of by
eminent critics, as works of very high order, and positive
merits.

The Louisville Journal says—“Our readers need no
introduction from us to Bell Smith. Her own
brilliant pen, and her own sparkling, witching,
and delightful style have so often graced the columns
of this paper, and have made so many friends and
admirers for her, that we need say but little toward
creating a demand for this charming volume. But
some tribute is, nevertheless, due to Bell Smith
for the real pleasure she has imparted in every
chapter of her book, and that tribute we cheerfully
pay. Her admirable powers seem so much at home
in every variety and phase of life, that she touches
no subject without making it sparkle with the lights
of her genius.”

“A book that will be greeted by sportsmen and eagerly
read by the lovers of romantic adventure. Such
readers will envy the author's happiness when they find
him pulling up the simple, uneducated trout from
those secluded lakes, tipping over the deer at every
shot, snuffing the fresh breezes of those old primeval
mountains and hills, and listening to the music of the
wild, wild woods.”

“The volume is thoroughly American in subject and
sentiment, and a product of American talent and
genius that will be prized by all true Americans.”

“Dr. Elder is one of the wittiest, jolliest, and the most
genial of philanthropists, who never permits his prejudices,
if he has any, to interfere with his humor, and
always looks on the bright side of things while exhibiting
their dark sides.”

This work is full of thrilling adventures, stirring incidents
and sufferings, of the brave soldiers and heroes
who pledged their all for American Independence and
Liberty.

“This is a very pleasant book. The plan of it, if not
new, is just as well carried out. `Five 'r six 'r half-a-dozen'
travellers meet at an indifferent tavern in an
indifferent part of Vermont, upon a seriously unpleasant
day, and to pass away the dull hours, they fell to
story-telling. So agreeable became the diversion that
not only the evening of the first day, but as the following
morning was conveniently stormy, the second day
is consumed in similar diversions.”

“This is a cluster of luxuriant and beautiful things, and
many of them come from some of the most gifted writers
in the country, among whom we may mention Dr.
J. W. Alexander, W. C. Bryant, John Neal, Epes Sargeant,
Mrs. Sigourney, &c., &c.

“The object of this work is to add a salutary check to
the money-loving, money-getting spirit of the age.
Some of the narratives are intensely interesting. No
one can rise from the perusal of `Catherine Clayton'
without feeling a higher reverence for character, principle,
honor, as exhibited in the `Clintons,' and a
deeper contempt for the ignorant, purse-proud, unprincipled
`Archers.' The moral tone and effect of the
book are excellent.”

This unpretending volume, which has been so much admired,
has worked its way “gradually, but surely,”
and will be found side by side with the most prominent
literature of the day

“`The Newsboy' is a good book. Its moral is wholesome.
Its lesson is good.”

“It has all the merits of the `Lamplighter,' and is, from the
first to the last, intensely interesting.”

“None but a woman with womanly instincts could spread
such delicate pictures on a canvas.”

“It has pathos, and reality of hope and fear, joy and sorrow,
rurely met with in the world of romance.”

“Bob is bound on his way to immortality with the living
creations of Fielding, and Scott, and Dickens, and
Cooper, and Irving.”

“It compels the reader to linger over its pages.”

“More powerfully written than any recent work of fiction.”

“Another story of exquisite beauty—graceful and fascinating.”

“Altogether it is a remarkable book.”

“No romance deserves a more wide-spread popularity.”

“Striking truths boldly represented.”

“Springing from a heart overflowing with love and
sympathy.”

“Strange scenes, powerful dialogue, and exquisite imagery.”

“We know of one woman who says it is a brave book.”

This romance has created more of a “furore” in literary
circles, than any volume published for a long time.

“Every chapter is replete with wisdom, and brilliant in
gems of poetic beauty. We do not know when we
have seen a book of so much depth and so little pretence.
The author is capable of the largest range of
physical investigation, and the most effective deliverances
of its results. Hawthorne is the only writer of
fiction in this country who outranks the author of
`Susan,' in his own vein.”

“The deep concern in the public mind, which recent
occurrences in the East have rekindled, cannot fail to
create a general desire to read this volume.”