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RECENT PUBLICATIONS OF DIX & EDWARDS.
TWICE MARRIED;
A STORY OF CONNECTICUT LIFE.
This pleasant little tale of rustic Yankee Life forms the first of a
series intended to be issued in a similar style, and to be retailed at
75 cents a volume. They will be well printed on good paper, so as
to be easily read on the rail-cars, but will be bound in a manner
equally adapting them for the occupation of a leisure hour in the
drawing-room. A few notes of the press upon TWICE MARRIED
will indicate the general character of the works to be selected for
this series, which is intended to afford agreeable and healthy entertainment,
rather than to enforce moral purposes, or furnish instruction.
“We have not read so pleasing and delightful a story from an
American author for a long time. It has the real New England
fragrance throughout. It is beautiful printed.”
—Middletown
Sentinel.
“Its merits, which are decided, bespeak a careful, correct, and
easy writer, a shrewd and intelligent observer of human nature,
and a sagacious delineator of Yankeedom.”
—Boston Atlas.
“The style of the author is genial and attractive, and reminds us
of the smooth and graceful style of Diedrich Knickerbocker.”
—
Ohio Columbian.
“Twice Married' is truly a charming tale, as fresh and inspiring
as the morning air in Connecticut meadows.”
—N. Y. Christian
Inquirer.
“Quiet drollery pervades each leaf, and his good-natured satire
loses nothing of its force from being laid on like gold-beater's skin.”
—New Bedford Standard.
“It is a genuine New England story, and is written in the clear,
simple, idiomatic style in which all such stories ought to be clothed.”
—State of Maine.
“One of the best written tales we have of primitive Yankee life
and character.”
—New Bedford Mercury.
“In `Twice Married' we have a natural, wholesome, healthy,
and real New England story—told, too, in the best of Old English.
Whoever has visited the quaint and quiet town of Windham will
at once recognize the description of `Walbury,' from the pleasant
painting of the scenery round about, even to the `graven image
of the chubby Bacchus, sitting astride a wine-cask,' up in the
fork of the venerable elm-tree before the tavern-door. Hartford,
too, as it appeared twenty years ago, is well described, from
the old `Stage-House,' in State-st., to the respectable Young Ladies'
Establishment formerly kept by the Misses Primber. There
are plenty of other places and people, too, in this story, at once
recognizable; for the characters in `Twice Married' are, all of
them, of every-day Yankee life. There are plenty of Sweenys and
Tabithas, and, now and then, a Dashleigh and a Lucy Manners,
and the story is a reflex of country society and customs in Connecticut
as they were twenty years ago, and are, to this day, in
localities not yet cut up by rail-roads.”
—Hartford Daily Times.
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