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BOOKS PUBLISHED BY C. S. FRANCIS & CO., NEW YORK.
In one volume, 12mo., cloth.
A NEW HOME—WHO'LL FOLLOW?
OR,
GLIMPSES OF WESTERN LIFE.
BY MRS. MARY CLAVERS, AN ACTUAL SETTLER.
Third Edition
“This is a work of striking merit, such as we do not often meet with in these
days of repetition and imitation. The real enjoyments of forest life are set forth
in their true colors; but the real inconveniences, and annoyances, and sacrifices
which belong to it, are not extenuated.” * * * *
“It is one of the most spirited and original works which have yet been produced
in this country.”
—North American Review.
“This work shows evidence of a genius for description very uncommon, even in
these days of clever narrative. Done with a nerve, an elegance of quotation and
allusion, a playfulness of style, and a pure and Christian-like spirit of resignation
and good humor, which warrant us in pronouncing it one of the first productions of
the day. More eminently readable matter has not fallen under our notice for a long
time.”
—Grant's London Journal.
“One of the cleverest productions of the season; containing very interesting
and lively pictures of Western life, character, and manners.”
—New York Review.
“Mrs. Clavers's sketches are lively, fresh-colored, and characteristic. We
recommend the book to all who have any appetite for what is humorous and
graphic in the light literature of America.”
—London Atheneum.
“This book is agreeable as a whole; valuable as a picture of daily household
life, and of village society in a new Western settlement, and curious for its glimpses
of love and marriage, of a more sentimental kind, in the United States.”
—London
Spectator.
“One of the most natural, pleasant, and entertaining books that we have read
for a twelvemonth.”
—Knickerbocker.
“This is a real view of the settlers in the far West, and, we imagine, gives a more
minute and faithful account of their daily life than any book of travels that has been
published.”
—London Literary Gazette.
“The most amusing and spirited work, descriptive of life in the West, that we
have perused since we read Mr. Hoffman's Western Tour. The volume is spiced
with many beautiful descriptions of natural scenery, and abounds in classic allusions
and happy illustrations.”
—The Corsair.
“This work gives us a simple picture of `a home on the outskirts of civilization,'
and presents us with an `unvarnished tale' of the life of the emigrant. It is
amusing in the extreme, and so vivid in its coloring, that, as we read, we might
almost fancy ourself in Michigan, participating with the fair authoress in the
vicissitudes and troubles of getting domesticated in a shingle palace.”
—Boston
Transcript.
In two volumes, 12mo., cloth.
FOREST LIFE.
BY THE AUTHOR OF
“A NEW HOME—WHO'LL FOLLOW?”
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