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_INTO THE HIGHWAYS AND HEDGES._ $1.50.
"A touch of idealism, of nobility of thought and purpose, mingled with
an air of reality and well-chosen expression, are the most notable
features of a book that has not the ordinary defects of such qualities.
With all its elevation of utterance and spirituality of outlook and
insight it is wonderfully free from overstrained or exaggerated matter,
and it has glimpses of humor. Most of the characters are vivid, yet
there are restraint and sobriety in their treatment, and almost all are
carefully and consistently evolved."--_London Athen�um._
"'Into the Highways and Hedges' is a book not of promise only, but of
high achievement. It is original, powerful, artistic, humorous. It
places the author at a bound in the rank of those artists to whom we
look for the skillful presentation of strong personal impressions of
life and character."--_London Daily News._
"The pure idealism of 'Into the Highways and Hedges' does much to redeem
modern fiction from the reproach it has brought upon itself.... The
story is original, and told with great refinement."--_Philadelphia
Public Ledger._
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK.
D. APPLETON & CO.'S PUBLICATIONS.
RICHARD MALCOLM JOHNSTON'S STORIES.
_WIDOW GUTHRIE._ Illustrated by E.W. Kemble. 12mo. Cloth,
$1.50.
"The Widow Guthrie stands out more boldly than any other figure we
know--a figure curiously compounded of cynical hardness, blind love, and
broken-hearted pathos.... A strong and interesting study of Georgia
characteristics without depending upon dialect. There is just sufficient
mannerism and change of speech to give piquancy to the whole."--_Baltimore
Sun._
"Southern humor is droll and thoroughly genuine, and Colonel Johnston is
one of its prophets. The Widow Guthrie is admirably drawn. She would
have delighted Thackeray. The story which bears her name is one of the
best studies of Southern life which we possess."--_Christian Union._
_THE PRIMES AND THEIR NEIGHBORS._ Illustrated by Kemble, Frost,
and others. 12mo. Cloth, uniform with "Widow Guthrie," $1.25. Also in
paper, not illustrated, 50 cents.
"The South ought to erect a monument in gratitude to Richard Malcolm
Johnston. While scores of writers have been looking for odd Southern
characters and customs and writing them up as curiosities, Mr. Johnston
has been content to tell stories in which all the people are such as
might be found in almost any Southern village before the war, and the
incidents are those of the social life of the people, uncomplicated by
anything which happened during the late unpleasantness."--_New York
Herald._
"These ten short stories are full of queer people, who not only talk but
act in a sort of dialect. Their one interest is their winning oddity.
They are as truly native to the soil as are the people of 'Widow
Guthrie.' In both books the humor is genuine, and the local coloring is
bright and attractive."--_New York Commercial Advertiser._
_THE CHRONICLES OF MR. BILL WILLIAMS._ (Dukesborough Tales.) 12mo.
Paper, 50 cents; cloth, with Portrait of the Author, $1.00.
"A delightful originality characterizes these stories, which may take a
high rank in our native fiction that depicts the various phases of the
national life. Their humor is equally genuine and keen, and their pathos
is delicate and searching."--_Boston Saturday Evening Gazette._
"Stripped of their bristling envelope of dialect, the core of these
experiences emerges as lumps of pure comedy, as refreshing as traveler's
trees in a thirsty land; and the literary South may be grateful that it
has a living writer able and willing to cultivate a neglected patch of
its wide domain with such charming skill."--_The Critic._
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