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MARGARET.
By Sylvester Judd. One volume. Price $1.50.
SELECTIONS FROM SOME NOTABLE REVIEWS.
From the Southern Quarterly Review.
“This book, more than any other that we have read, leads us to believe in the
possibility of a distinctive American Literature.... It bears the impress of New
England upon all its features. It will be called the Yankee novel, and rightly; for
nowhere else have we seen the thought, dialect, and customs of a New England
Village, so well and faithfully represented.... More significant to our mind than
any book that has yet appeared in our country. To us it seems to be a prophecy
of the future. It contemplates the tendencies of American life and character.
Nowhere else have we seen, so well written out, the very feelings which our rivers
and woods and mountains are calculated to awaken.... We predict the time when
Margaret will be one of the Antiquary's text-books. It contains a whole magazine
of curious relics and habits.... as a record of great ideas and pure sentiments, we
place it among the few great books of the age.”
From the North American Review.
“We know not where any could go to find more exact and pleasing descriptions
of the scenery of New England, or of the vegetable and animal forms which give it
life.... As a representation of manners as they were, and in many respects are
still, in New England, this book is of great value.”
From the London Athenæum.
“This book, though published some time since in America, has only recently
become known here by a few stray copies that have found their way over. Its
leading idea is so well worked out, that, with all its faults of detail, it strikes us as
deserving a wider circulation.... The book bears the impress of a new country,
and is full of rough, uncivilized, but vigorous life. The leading idea which it seems
intended to expound is, that the surest way to degrade men is to make themselves
degraded; that so long as that belief does not poison the sources of experience,
`all things' — even the sins, follies, mistakes, so rife among men — can be made
`to work together for good.' This doctrine, startling as it may sound at first, is
wrought out with a fine knowledge of human nature.”
From the Anti-Slavery Standard.
“A remarkable book, with much good common sense in it, full of deep thought,
pervaded throughout with strong religious feeling, a full conception of the essence of
Christianity, a tender compassion for the present condition of man, and an abiding
hope through love of what his destiny may be.... But all who, like Margaret,
`dream dreams,' and `see visions,' and look for that time to come when man shall
have `worked out his own salvation,' and peace shall reign on earth, and good-will
to men, will, if they can pardon the faults of the book for its merit, read it with
avidity and pleasure.”
From the Boston Daily Advertiser.
“This is quite a remarkable book, reminding you of Southey's `Doctor,' perhaps,
more than of any other book.... Margaret is a most angelic being, who
loves everybody and whom everybody loves, and whose sweet influence is felt
wherever she appears. She has visions of ideal beauty, and her waking eyes see
beauty and joy in every thing.”
From the Christian Register.
“This is a remarkable book. Its scene is laid in New England, and its period
some half century ago. Its materials are drawn from the most familiar elements
of every-day life. Its merits are so peculiar, and there is so much that is original
and rich in its contents, that, sooner or later, it will be appreciated. It is impossible
to predict with assurance the fate of a book, but we shall be much mistaken
if Margaret does not in due season work its way to a degree of admiration seldom
attained by a work of its class.”
Sold everywhere. Mailed, prepaid, on receipt of price,
by the Publishers.
ROBERTS BROTHERS, Boston.
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