Part 6
“Dr. Doyle’s stories are so well known for their strong dramatic style, for the elegance of expression, that anything new from his pen is sure to be warmly welcomed. His readers are sure of getting a literary treat from anything he writes. He is broad-minded and liberal, and the man who could write two such books as ‘The White Company’ and ‘The Refugees’ has a future which the shades of Scott and Dickens might envy.”--_Albany Times-Union._
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“A strikingly realistic and decidedly original contribution to modern literature.”--_Boston Saturday Evening Gazette._
_PAUL AND VIRGINIA._ By BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE. With a Biographical Sketch, and numerous Illustrations by Maurice Leloir. 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, uniform with “Picciola,” “The Story of Colette,” and “An Attic Philosopher in Paris.” $1.50.
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_AN ATTIC PHILOSOPHER IN PARIS; or, A Peep at the World from a Garret._ Being the Journal of a Happy Man. By ÉMILE SOUVESTRE. With numerous Illustrations. 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $1.50.
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“One of the gems of the season.... It is the story of the life of young womanhood in France, dramatically told, with the light and shade and coloring of the genuine artist, and is utterly free from that which mars too many French novels. In its literary finish it is well nigh perfect, indicating the hand of the master.”--_Boston Traveller._
_A FRIEND OF THE QUEEN._ (Marie Antoinette--Count de Fersen.) By PAUL GAULOT. With Two Portraits, 12mo. Cloth, $2.00.
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“It tells with new and authentic details the romantic story of Count Fersen’s (the Friend of the Queen) devotion to Marie Antoinette, of his share in the celebrated flight to Varennes, and in many other well known episodes of the unhappy Queen’s life.”--_London Times._
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_THE ROMANCE OF AN EMPRESS. Catharine II of Russia._ By K. WALISZEWSKI. With Portrait. 12mo. Cloth, $2.00.
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“The book is well called a romance, for although no legends are admitted in it, and the author has been at pains to present nothing but verified facts, the actual career of the subject was so abnormal and sensational as to seem to belong to fiction.”--_New York Sun._
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_MANY INVENTIONS._ By RUDYARD KIPLING. Containing fourteen stories, several of which are now published for the first time, and two poems, 12mo. 427 pages. Cloth, $1.50.
“The reader turns from its pages with the conviction that the author has no superior to-day in animated narrative and virility of style. He remains master of a power in which none of his contemporaries approach him--the ability to select out of countless details the few vital ones which create the finished picture. He knows how, with a phrase or a word, to make you see his characters as he sees them, to make you feel the full meaning of a dramatic situation.”--_New York Tribune._
“‘Many Inventions’ will confirm Mr. Kipling’s reputation.... We would cite with pleasure sentences from almost every page, and extract incidents from almost every story. But to what end? Here is the completest book that Mr. Kipling has yet given us in workmanship, the weightiest and most humane in breadth of view.”--_Pall Mall Gazette._
“Mr. Kipling’s powers as a story-teller are evidently not diminishing. We advise everybody to buy ‘Many Inventions,’ and to profit by some of the best entertainment that modern fiction has to offer.”--_New York Sun._
“‘Many Inventions’ will be welcomed wherever the English language is spoken.... Every one of the stories bears the imprint of a master who conjures up incident as if by magic, and who portrays character, scenery, and feeling with an ease which is only exceeded by the boldness of force.”--_Boston Globe._
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“Mr. Rudyard Kipling’s place in the world of letters is unique. He sits quite aloof and alone, the incomparable and inimitable master of the exquisitely fine art of short-story writing. Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson has perhaps written several tales which match the run of Mr. Kipling’s work, but the best of Mr. Kipling’s tales are matchless, and his latest collection, ‘Many Inventions,’ contains several such.”--_Philadelphia Press._
“Of late essays in fiction the work of Kipling can be compared to only three--Blackmore’s ‘Lorna Doone,’ Stevenson’s marvelous sketch of Villon in the ‘New Arabian Nights,’ and Thomas Hardy’s ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles.’... It is probably owing to this extreme care that ‘Many Inventions’ is undoubtedly Mr. Kipling’s best book.”--_Chicago Post._
“Mr. Kipling’s style is too well known to American readers to require introduction, but it can scarcely be amiss to say there is not a story in this collection that does not more than repay a perusal of them all.”--_Baltimore American._
“As a writer of short stories Rudyard Kipling is a genius. He has had imitators, but they have not been successful in dimming the luster of his achievements by contrast.... ‘Many Inventions’ is the title. And they are inventions--entirely original in incident, ingenious in plot, and startling by their boldness and force.”--_Rochester Herald._
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Transcriber’s Notes:
On page 8, cinder-flare has been changed to cinder flare.
On page 23, may-be has been changed to maybe.
On page 73, door-sill has been changed to doorsill.
On page 157, road bed has been changed to road-bed.
Variant and archaic spellings and dialect have been retained as typeset.