among them taking notes, while her style indicates her
femininity, though there are many who doubt it. There has
nothing more piquant, spicy, and unconventional ever been
published in Boston, and Peppermint 'takes the
cake.'"--_Hartford Post._

"These letters attracted not a little attention at the Hub for
their audacity in kicking over the classic styles and violating
all the established dogmas of dignity and lofty intellectuality.
They are a reaction from the strain and intensity of ordinary
Boston life, and thus supply a clearly defined want. This
explains their local popularity, and gives, also, a reason why
the outside world should turn the pages of the book as a sort of
mirror reflecting a phase of Boston culture. It purports to be
written by a woman, but there are indications that the character
is assumed."--_New York Home Journal._

"This bright series of amusing comments on characteristic
failings of the last decade ... are supposed to be the weekly
budgets of news written by a young girl in Boston to a dear
friend in Venice.... 'Emergency lectures,' fashionable religion,
amateur cooking, horse-car politeness, servants, summer hotels,
symphony concerts, and other Boston topics are wittily touched
upon, and the frailty of human nature, especially of feminine
human nature, is most mercilessly exposed in the various phases
which they suggest."--_The Commercial Bulletin._

=TICKNOR AND COMPANY, BOSTON.=

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LIFE OF HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

Edited by REV. SAMUEL LONGFELLOW. 2 vols. 12mo. With 5 new
steel-engraved portraits and many wood engravings and fac-similes. In
cloth, $6.00; in half calf, with marble edges, $11.00; in half morocco,
with gilt top and rough edges, $11.00.

"Altogether the most fascinating book that has been published
for months. It is full of the most interesting and picturesque
and poetic things."--_Boston Record._

"One thinks of the gentle scholar as a man who can never have
made an enemy, or lost a friend; and we lay down his
autobiography (for such the book can fairly be called) with a
feeling that in these posthumous pages he has opened a view of
his own soul as beautiful as the creations of his fancy."--_New
York Tribune._

"It is an admirable piece of biographical work, and the story of
the poet'