The Boston Transcript says:
"Mr. Hallworth's book is a story of modern New York, and of people who have wandered from the dull and comfortable plenty of burgher days, when those who had not might ask and receive at the hearths of great houses. Mr. Hallworth writes of the slum-dwellers with a searching, intimate pen, not shrinking from the painful chapters, but striving to capture every saving glint of humor. The author, who is artist as well, has helped out his text with over one hundred pen-and-ink sketches, which the publishers have used as marginal illustrations, reproducing the manuscript as it came from the author, text and sketches line for line. A well-known critic, who has already seen the story, writes: '"Arline Valére" is in every respect the production of an artist. While Dickens is suggested, it is not because of any imitation, as the figures in the tale are without exception original.'"
The Washingtonians
By PAULINE BRADFORD MACKIE
AUTHOR OF "YE LYTTLE SALEM MAIDE," "A GEORGIAN ACTRESS," ETC.
Illustrated
One vol., large 12mo, cloth decorative, $1.50
Pauline Bradford Mackie's new novel deals with Washington official society in the early sixties. The plot is based upon the career (not long since ended) of a brilliant and well-known woman, who was at that time a power in court circles. The catastrophe which forms the turning-point is the wreck of the great lady's ambition, which was to make her father President. The book will be of interest in the insight it affords into history, which is, upon the personal side, as yet unwritten, and will please through the charm of its love-story between the niece of a member of Lincoln's Cabinet and his private secretary.
Jarvis of Harvard
By REGINALD WRIGHT KAUFFMAN
Library 12mo, cloth decorative, $1.50
Illustrated by Robert Edwards
A strong and well-written novel, true to a certain side of the college atmosphere, not only in the details of athletic life, but in the spirit of college social and society circles. The local color appeals not only to Harvard men, but to their rivals, the loyal sons of Yale, Pennsylvania, and Princeton. Mr. Kauffman is also especially at home in his descriptions of the society doings of the smart set in Philadelphia.
Antonia
A TALE OF COLONIAL NEW YORK
By JESSIE VAN ZILE BELDEN
Beautifully illustrated by Amy M. Sacker
Library 12mo, cloth. Price, $1.50
The Philadelphia North American says:
"A charming and graceful romance, 'Antonia' is in some respects an unusual story. Not that it is pretentious; rather because it is not so, but fresh and simple instead. Here is a story of colonial times which, instead of being filled with the mincing archaisms and strutting pomposities of the usual historical novel, has caught something of the spirit of wide-eyed wonder that held men spellbound at the tales of this new world when it was indeed new and marvellous—of the longing for freedom that drove them beyond seas and into the savage West, there to carve out new realms from the shaggy wilderness. 'The Frisians shall be free as long as the wind shall blow in the clouds and as long as the world shall endure' is the keynote of the story; for its scene is New Amsterdam and its characters the sturdy Frisians of that colony. The hero is one of the errant adventurers from the Lowlands; and the account of his love for the wilful Antonia, as difficult and capricious as she is charming, and his slow winning of her through the tangle of misunderstandings and adventures that beset him, makes a story of vivid and unhackneyed interest. In short, 'Antonia' is romance of the kind that it is a delight to find."
Transcriber's Notes:
One occurrence of "in-doors" changed to "indoors"
to be consistent with other usage in original.
"upturned" changed to "up-turned" to be consistent with other usage.
Several other words appear twice, once hyphenated and once not.
All of these were left as in the original.