d how to reach them and send rays of sunshine into their
world; but few books get at the real 'Differences' that exist
between the wealthy classes and the poor as does Mr. Hervey
White.... _Difference_ is vitally interesting, both as a
story and as a moral lesson.... It is written with wholesome
enthusiasm and an intelligent survey of real facts."--_Boston
Herald._

"The method employed by Mr. Hervey White in _Differences_
is not like that of any author I have ever read in the
English language. It resembles strongly the work of the
best Russian novelists, it seems to me, and particularly
that of Dostolevsky, and yet it is in no sense an imitation
of those writers: it is apparently like them merely because
the author's motives and ways of thought and observation are
like them.... I have never before read any such treatment
in the English language of the life and thought of laboring
people."--Joseph Edgar Chamberlin, in _Boston Transcript_.

A Powerful Realistic Novel of American Life.
QUICKSAND
By HERVEY WHITE.

12mo, cloth, decorative, 328 pages. $1.50

_Quicksand_ is a strong argument against a certain condition which
the author believes exists too generally in American society, and
is, in effect, an appeal for the freedom of the individual in family
life. It is a powerful tragedy, developing very naturally out of the
effects of the interference of parents in the lives of their children,
and of brothers and sisters in the affairs of each other. It becomes
therefore, not only the story of an individual, but the life history of
an entire family, the members of which are portrayed with astonishing
vividness and realism. The hero of the book also illustrates, in
his sufferings and failures, the unfortunate effects of a too narrow
orthodoxy in religion, coupled with his family's interference with his
growth out of this environment. Offsetting the tragedy of the story is
"Hiram," the "hired man" of the family in its earlier New England days,
in whom, particularly, the reader's interest will centre. Patient,
kindly, faithful, and uncomplaining, he is indeed the real "hero"
of the tale, the only one free from the unfortunate environments of
the other characters, yet forced indirectly to suffer also because of
them. It is the every-day life of the every-day family