ld lend pathos
and interest to 'Zeph' even if they did not exist in the story
itself. The creation of 'Zeph' is a fitting close to a life of
splendid literary activity, and it will be enjoyed by those who
believe in the novel as, first of all, a work of art, which can be
made in proper hands a tremendous force for truth and justice, and
real instead of formal righteousness."--_New York Commercial
Advertiser._

"As people grow older they see more and more clearly that love--the
love between man and woman--is the great power that shapes
character, and makes life a blessing, a burden, or a curse. More
and more deeply did Mrs. Jackson feel the omnipotence of perfect,
patient love, the only power that is sure of final victory, and to
show this did she tell the story of Zeph. Before the story was
finished, Mrs. Jackson became too ill to work any more; but the
life of Zeph was very near her heart; she wanted to make it known,
to impress the lesson, that through knowledge of a great forgiving
human love even the saddest and most sinful creature may come to a
faith in a great forgiving divine love, in a God as good as she has
known a man to be, and so in her last hours Mrs. Jackson made a
brief outline of the plot for the end of the story. As her latest
work, this has a special and pathetic interest."--_Boston Daily
Advertiser._

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VERSES.

BY H. H.

"The volume is one which will make H. H. dear to all the lovers of
true poetry. Its companionship will be a delight, its nobility of
thought and of purpose an inspiration.... This new edition
comprises not only the former little book with the same modest
title, but as many more new poems.... The best critics have already
assigned to H. H. her high place in our catalogue of authors. She
is, without doubt, the most highly intellectual of our female
poets.... The new poems, while not inferior to the others in point
of literary art, have in them more of fervor and of feeling; more
of that lyric sweetness which catches the attention and makes the
song sing itself over and over afterwards in the remembering
brain.... Some of the new poems seem among the noblest H. H. has
ever written. They touch the high-water mark of her intellectual
power, and are full, besides, o