_BOG-MYRTLE AND PEAT._
“Here are idyls, epics, dramas of human life, written in words that
thrill and burn.... Each is a poem that has an immortal flavor. They
are fragments of the author’s early dreams, too bright, too gorgeous,
too full of the blood of rubies and the life of diamonds to be caught
and held palpitating in expression’s grasp.”--_Boston Courier._
“Contains some of the most dramatic pieces Mr. Crockett has yet
written, and in these picturesque sketches he is altogether
delightful.... The volume is well worth reading--all of
it.”--_Philadelphia Press._
“Hardly a sketch among them all that will not afford pleasure to the
reader for its genial humor, artistic local coloring, and admirable
portrayal of character.”--_Boston Home Journal._
“One dips into the book anywhere and reads on and on, fascinated by the
writer’s charm of manner.”--_Minneapolis Tribune._
“These stories are lively and vigorous, and have many touches of human
nature in them--such touches as we are used to from having read ‘The
Stickit Minister’ and ‘The Lilac Sunbonnet.’”--_New Haven Register._
“‘Bog-Myrtle and Peat’ contains stories which could only have been
written by a man of genius.”--_London Chronicle._
_THE LILAC SUNBONNET. A Love Story._
“A love story pure and simple, one of the old-fashioned, wholesome,
sunshiny kind, with a pure-minded, sound-hearted hero, and a heroine
who is merely a good and beautiful woman; and if any other love
story half so sweet has been written this year, it has escaped our
notice.”--_New York Times._
“A solid novel with an old-time flavor, as refreshing when compared to
the average modern story as is a whiff of air from the hills to one
just come from a hothouse.”--_Boston Beacon._
“The general conception of the story, the motive of which is the growth
of love between the young chief and heroine, is delineated with a
sweetness and a freshness, a naturalness and a certainty, which places
‘The Lilac Sunbonnet’ among the best stories of the time.”--_New York
Mail and Express._
“In its own line this little love story can hardly be excelled. It
is a pastoral, an idyl--the story of love and courtship and marriage
of a fine young man and a lovely girl--no more. But it is told in so
thoroughly delightful a manner, with such playful humor, such delicate
fancy, such true and sympathetic feeling, that nothing more could be
desired.”--_Boston Traveller._