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TO BE PUBLISHED EARLY IN DECEMBER,
Clovernook;
OR,
RECOLLECTIONS OF OUR HOME IN THE WEST.
By ALICE CAREY.
Illustrated by Darley. One vol., 12mo.
“We do not hesitate to predict for these sketches a wide popularity.
They bear the true stamp of genius—simple, natural, truthful—and evince
a keen sense of the humor and pathos, of the comedy and tragedy, of life
in the country. No one who has ever read it can forget the sad and beautiful
story of Mary Wildermings; its weird fancy, tenderness, and beauty;
its touching description of the emotions of a sick and suffering human spirit,
and its exquisite rural pictures. The moral tone of Alice Carey's writings
is unobjectionable always.”
—J. G. Whittier.
“Miss Carey's experience has been in the midst of rural occupations, in
the interior of Ohio. Every word here reflects this experience, in the rarest
shapes, and most exquisite hues. The opinion now appears to be commonly
entertained, that Alice Carey is decidedly the first of our female authors;
an opinion which Fitz-Greene Halleck, J. G. Whittier, Dr. Griswold,
Wm. D. Gallagher, Bayard Taylor, with many others, have on various
occasions endorsed.”
—Illustrated News.
“If we look at the entire catalogue of female writers of prose fiction in
this country, we shall find no one who approaches Alice Carey in the best
characteristics of genius. Like all genuine authors she has peculiarities;
her hand is detected as unerringly as that of Poe or Hawthorne; as much
as they she is apart from others and above others; and her sketches of
country life must, we think, he admitted to be superior even to those delightful
tales of Miss Mitford, which, in a similar line, are generally acknowledged
to be equal to anything done in England.”
—International Magazine.
“Alice Carey has perhaps the strongest imagination among the women
of this country. Her writings will live longer than those of any other
woman among us.”
—American Whig Review.
“Alice Carey has a fine, rich, and purely original genius. Her country
stories are almost unequaled.”
—Knickerbocker Magazine.
“Miss Carey's sketches are remarkably fresh, and exquisite in delicacy,
humor, and pathos. She is booked for immortality.”
—Home Journal.
“The Times speaks of Alice Carey as standing at the head of the living
female writers of America. We go even farther in our favorable judgment,
and express the opinion that among those living or dead, she has had no
equal in this country; and we know of few in the annals of English literature
who have exhibited superior gifts of real poetic genius.”
—The (Portland, Me.) Eclectic.
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