A NEW ENGLAND NUN, and Other Stories.
A HUMBLE ROMANCE, and Other Stories.
Only an artistic hand could have written these stories, and they will
make delightful reading.--_Evangelist_, N. Y.
The simplicity, purity, and quaintness of those stories set them apart
in a niche of distinction, where they have no rivals.--_Literary World_,
Boston.
The reader who buys this book and reads it will find treble his money's
worth in every one of the delightful stories.--_Chicago Journal._
Miss Wilkins is a writer who has a gift for the rare art of creating the
short story which shall be a character study and a bit of graphic
picturing in one; and all who enjoy the bright and fascinating short
story will welcome this volume.--_Boston Traveller._
The author has the unusual gift of writing a short story which is
complete in itself, having a real beginning, a middle, and an end. The
volume is an excellent one.--_Observer_, N. Y.
A gallery of striking studies in the humblest quarters of American
country life. No one has dealt with this kind of life better than Miss
Wilkins. Nowhere are there to be found such faithful, delicately drawn,
sympathetic, tenderly humorous pictures.--_N. Y. Tribune._
The charm of Miss Wilkins's stories is in her intimate acquaintance and
comprehension of humble life, and the sweet human interest she feels and
makes her readers partake of, in the simple, common, homely people she
draws.--_Springfield Republican._
There is no attempt at fine writing or structural effect, but the tender
treatment of the sympathies, emotions, and passions of no very
extraordinary people gives to these little stories a pathos and human
feeling quite their own.--_N. Y. Commercial Advertiser._
The author has given us studies from real life which must be the result
of a lifetime of patient, sympathetic observation.... No one has done the
same kind of work so lovingly and so well.--_Christian Register_,
Boston.