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Mrs. Warfield's New Novel.

MIRIAM MONFORT.

by the author of "THE HOUSEHOLD OF BOUVERIE."

The _N. Y. Evening Post_ says of "Miriam Monfort:" "Mrs. Warfield's new
novel has freshness, and is so far removed from mediocrity as to entitle
it to respectful comment. Her fiction calls for study. Her perception is
deep and artistic, as respects both the dramatic side of life and the
beautiful. It is not strictly nature, in the general sense, that forms
the basis of her descriptions. She finds something deeper and more
mystic than nature in the sense in which the term is usually used by
critics, in the answer of the soul to life--in the strange, weird, and
lonesome music (though now and then broken by discords) of the still
small voices with which human nature replies to the questions that
sorely vex her. She has the analytic capacity in the field of
psychology, which enables her to trace phenomena in a story without
arguing about them, and to exhibit the dramatic side of them without
stopping to explain the reasons for it. In a word, her hand is as sure
as that of a master, and if there were more such novels as this simple
semi-biographical story of Miriam Monfort, it would not be necessary so
often to put the question, 'Is the art of fiction extinct?'"

The _Cincinnati Daily Gazette_ says: "'Miriam Monfort,' which now lies
before us, is less sensational in incident than its predecessor, though
it does not lack stirring events--an experience on a burning ship, for
example. Its interest lies in the intensity which marks all the
characters good and bad. The plot turns on the treachery of a pretended
lover, and the author seems to have experienced every emotion of love
and hate, jealousy and fear, that has inspired the creations of her pen.
There is a contagion in her earnestness, and we doubt not that numerous
readers will follow the fortunes of the beautiful but much-persecuted
Miriam with breathless interest."

The _All Day City Item_ says: "It is a work of extraordinary merit. The
story is charmingly told by the heroine. It is admirable and original in
plot, varied in incident, and intensely absorbing in interest; besides,
throughout the volume, there is an exquisite combination of sensibility,
pride, and loveliness, which will hold the work in high estimation. We
make a quotation from the book that suits the critic exactly. 'It is
splendid; it is a dream, more vivid than life itself; it is like
drinking champagne,