mmensely popular novel."--_Boston Saturday
Evening Gazette._

"The pathos of this tale is profound, the movement highly dramatic, the
moral elevating."--_New York World._

"In this new story the author has done some of the best work that she
has ever given to the public, and it will easily class among the most
meritorious and most original novels of the year."--_Boston Home
Journal._

"The author of 'Rutledge' does not often send out a new volume, but
when she does it is always a literary event.... Her previous books were
sketchy and slight when compared with the finished and trained power
evidenced in 'An Utter Failure.'"--_New Haven Palladium._

"Exhibits the same literary excellence that made the success of the
author's first book."--_San Francisco Argonaut._

"American girls with a craving for titled husbands will find instructive
reading in this story."--_Boston Traveller._

New York: D. APPLETON & CO., 1, 3, & 5 Bond Street.

_ON THE PLANTATION._ By Joel Chandler Harris, author of "Uncle Remus."
With 23 Illustrations by E. W. Kemble, and Portrait of the Author.
12mo. Cloth, $1.50.

"The book is in the characteristic vein which has made the author so
famous and popular as an interpreter of plantation character."--_Rochester
Union and Advertiser._

"Those who never tire of Uncle Remus and his stories--with whom we would
be accounted--will delight in Joe Maxwell and his exploits."--_London
Saturday Review._

"Altogether a most charming book."--_Chicago Times._

"Really a valuable, if modest, contribution to the history of the civil
war with in the Confederate lines, particularly on the eve of the
catastrophe. Two or three new animal fables are introduced with effect;
but the history of the plantation, the printing-office, the black
runaways, and white deserters, of whom the impending break-up made
the community tolerant, the coon and fox hunting, forms the serious
purpose of the book, and holds the reader's interest from beginning
to end."--_New York Evening Post._

_UNCLE REMUS: His Songs and his Sayings._ The Folk-lore of the Old
Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. Illustrated from Drawings by F. S.
Church and J. H. Moser, of Georgia. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.

"The idea of preserving and publishing these legends, in the form in
which the old plantation negroes actually tell them, is altogether one
of the happiest literary conceptions of the day. And very admirably is
the work done.... In such