Part 9
Three of Miss Amélie Rives’s most brilliant stories… Their quaint old-time manner gives them a peculiar charm.--_Philadelphia Bulletin._
Three striking stories of very unusual force and fertility of thought and diction and strong dramatic feeling, added to which is a quick and sympathetic fancy.--_N. Y. Sun._
Here is pathos which is not morbid; and though the humor is broad, it is in perfect keeping with the time and the characters of the supposed narrators. These three stories are rich in promise.--_Critic_, N. Y.
For more reasons than one Miss Rives is seen at her best in old-time tales such as she shows us in this volume. The atmosphere with which these tales are clothed is especially congenial to her, and she can work within its influence with remarkable success.--_Brooklyn Times._
It is evident that the author has imagination in an unusual degree, much strength of expression, and skill in delineating character.--_Boston Journal._
There are few young writers who begin a promising career with so much spontaneity and charm of expression as is displayed by Miss Rives in this volume.--_Literary World_, Boston.
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CAPTAIN MACDONALD’S DAUGHTER.
A Novel. By ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL. 16mo, Cloth, Extra, $1 00.
It is a genuinely pathetic tale, and shows a keen and accurate knowledge of human nature under many varying conditions.--_Saturday Evening Gazette_, Boston.
A story of sound moral quality and touching pathos.--_N. Y. Commercial Advertiser._
There are many excellent delineations of scenes and life in Scotland, Virginia, and Florida… The characters are also carefully studied and successfully drawn. The heroine, the warmhearted, impulsive, and gifted Nan, especially, is a very charming personage… As a quiet story, with a pathetic vein running through it, we can confidently recommend it to all.--_Congregationalist_, Boston.
Full of life and movement, and marked by both power and pathos.--_Zion’s Herald_, Boston.
The characters are very well drawn, and there is a natural development of the plot… The descriptions of scenery are vivid and life-like, and the scenes are totally free from the extravagance which mars so much contemporary fiction. The author of this work will be heard from again.--_Christian Intelligencer_, N. Y.
A novel of Scottish life, shifting to American scenes, and gives the reader a glimpse of life in Virginia and Florida. The story is told with much simplicity, though a study of heredity is in-wrought with the artless narrative… The story is quiet in action, but will please lovers of naturalness and faithful character delineation.--_Commonwealth_, Boston.
The characters of the story are strong and the book well written.--_Christian Advocate_, N. Y.
A strong hand has drawn the minister’s household in the manse of Strathlowrie. Surely the author must have at some time made one of just such a Scotch family, so graphic are the touches of reality… Seldom has a grave story of a minister’s household been told with such a rippling accompaniment of humor.--_Philadelphia Ledger._
A bright, engaging book, sparkling with shrewd Scotch wit on nearly every page, and ends most satisfactorily.--_Christian at Work_, N. Y.
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