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THE NEW AND POPULAR AMERICAN NOVELS ' ANNE AND ' FOR THE MAJOR . ' Now ready , the Second Edition of the New Work by Miss CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON ( niece of the late Fenimore Cooper ) . ANNE . 1 vol . small post 8 vo . with 29 Illustrations , cloth , 6 s . The Academy says of 'Anne ' : — We venture to say that " Anne " is one of the most remarkable works of fiction that has appeared for many years . ... If the author can keep up to the high standard reached in this work a great future is before her . ' The Whitehall Review says : — We have rarely read anything to surpass it in purity of tone , wealth of humour , and freshness of incident . Immense elaboration and minuteness of narrative combine with a plenitude of those masterly little turns of expressive dialogue in which the Americans excel . ' The Century Magazine says : — ' The story grows intensely dramatic and powerful—more is powerful a willthan in genuine anything passion in the —a production n unreasoning of woman either ' of s passion those , two that sober find - s minded a way where gentlemen there , ( referring to Howells and James ) . c Anne ' s innocence and charm and growing strength win us completely . . . . Miss Wools on thus , to our thinking , has this double chance of becoming our best novelist—fresh material , got at first hand , and a power of passion in herself . ' Also , by the SAME AUTHOR , now ready , FOU THE MAJOR . 1 vol . small post 8 vo . with Illustrations , cloth , 5 s . * We had occasion some few weeks ago to notice in these columns a reprint of one of Miss Woolson ' s delightful stories , to which we gave that meed of praise which was , not its full due , but as much -as lay within our power to express . We have now to thank Messrs . Sampson Low & Co . for yet another of her works , which is most charmingly illustrated , and entitled " For the Major . " It is a story of a woman ' s trouble bravely borne for the sake of " the Major , " who , as Miss Woolson represents him , is well worth the sacrifice . We do not possess among our modern writers of fiction the counterpart of this young American author , the late Fenimore Cooper ' s niece . She owns rare gifts , and we cannot but prophesy a bright future for so talented and uncommon a writer . We thought " Anne " the most charming thing we had ever readbut we are bound to confess that u For the Major is almost better . The wealth of pathos , evolved from the struggles of the wife to appear before her clearly loved husband all he fondly imagines her to be , in spite of hia waning intellect , has never yet been excelled in fiction , and "Sara's" bravery may form an example for many and many a one to copy . Miss Woolson never once follows the beaten tract of the orthodox novelist , but strikes a new and richly loaded vein which , so far , is all her own ; and thus . we feel , on reading one of her works ( the contents of which , while so true to life , are yet of that side of life it falls not to many of us unlucky ones to see ) , a fresh sensation , and we put down the book with a sigh to think our pleasant task of reading it is finished . The author ' s lines must have fallen to her in very pleasant places ; or she has , perhaps , within herself the wealth of womanly love and tenderness she pours so freely into all she writes . Such books as hers do much to elevate the moral tone of the day—a quality sadly wanting in novels of the time . '—Whitehall Review . London : SAMPSON Grown LOW Buildings , MARSTON , 188 Fleet , Street SBARLE , E . O . , & RIVINGTOST , ( 477 ) tM ^ ~ - — ¦¦— .. _ . __ _ . __ _ _ . __ , ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' *

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