s never overdrawn, but painted
faithfully and honestly by one who spared neither time nor
labor in his efforts to present in this charming love story all
that price in blood and tears which the Carolinians paid as
their share in the winning of the republic.
Take it all in all, "Horseshoe Robinson" is a work which should
be found on every book-shelf, not only because it is a most
entertaining story, but because of the wealth of valuable
information concerning the colonists which it contains. That it
has been brought out once more, well illustrated, is something
which will give pleasure to thousands who have long desired an
opportunity to read the story again, and to the many who have
tried vainly in these latter days to procure a copy that they
might read it for the first time.
THE PEARL OF ORR'S ISLAND. A story of the Coast of Maine. By Harriet
Beecher Stowe. Cloth, 12mo. Illustrated. Price, $1.00.
Written prior to 1862, the "Pearl of Orr's Island" is ever new;
a book filled with delicate fancies, such as seemingly array
themselves anew each time one reads them. One sees the "sea
like an unbroken mirror all around the pine-girt, lonely shores
of Orr's Island," and straightway comes "the heavy, hollow moan
of the surf on the beach, like the wild angry howl of some
savage animal."
Who can read of the beginning of that sweet life, named Mara,
which came into this world under the very shadow of the Death
angel's wings, without having an intense desire to know how the
premature bud blossomed? Again and again one lingers over the
descriptions of the character of that baby boy Moses, who came
through the tempest, amid the angry billows, pillowed on his
dead mother's breast.
There is no more faithful portrayal of New England life than
that which Mrs. Stowe gives in "The Pearl of Orr's Island."
* * * * *
For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price by
the publishers, A. L. BURT COMPANY, 52-58 Duane St., New York.
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