EMMA and POEMS. By CHARLOTTE BRONTE (Currer Bell). New
Library Edition. With five illustrations by E.M. Wimperis. 12mo. Cloth,
extra, black and gold, $1.00.
Cloth, extra, black and gold, per set, $4.00; red cloth, paper label,
gilt top, uncut edges, per set, $5.00; half calf, gilt, per set, $12.00.
The four volumes forming the complete works of Charlotte Bronte (Currer
Bell).
The wondrous power of Currer Bell's stories consists in their fiery
insight into the human heart, their merciless dissection of
passion, and their stern analysis of character and motive. The
style of these productions possesses incredible force, sometimes
almost grim in its bare severity, then relapsing into passages of
melting pathos--always direct, natural, and effective in its
unpretending strength. They exhibit the identity which always
belongs to works of genius by the same author, though without the
slightest approach to monotony. The characters portrayed by Currer
Bell all have a strongly marked individuality. Once brought before
the imagination, they haunt the memory like a strange dream. The
sinewy, muscular strength of her writings guarantees their
permanent duration, and thus far they have lost nothing of their
intensity of interest since the period of their composition.
CAPTAIN JACK THE SCOUT; or, The Indian Wars about Old Fort Duquesne. An
Historical Novel, with copious notes. By CHARLES MCKNIGHT. Illustrated
with eight engravings. 12mo. Cloth, extra, black and gold, $1.50.
A work of such rare merit and thrilling interest as to have been
republished both in England and Germany. This genuine American
historical work has been received with extraordinary popular favor,
and has "won golden opinions from all sorts of people" for its
freshness, its forest life, and its fidelity to truth. In many
instances it even corrects History and uses the drapery of fiction
simply to enliven and illustrate the fact.
It is a universal favorite with both sexes, and with all ages and
conditions, and is not only proving a marked and notable success in
this country, but has been eagerly taken up abroad and republished
in London, England, and issued in two volumes in the far-famed
"Tauchnitz Edition" of Leipsic, Germany.
ORANGE BLOSSOMS, FRESH AND FADED. By T.S. ARTHUR. Illustrated. 12mo.
Cloth, extra, black and gold, $
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