The work has historic value as well as unique interest.--LILIAN
WHITING, _in Chicago Inter-Ocean_.
An excellent book for school libraries.--_Literary News_, New York.
The adventures of the boys while hunting, the trapping of wolves
and panthers, which infested the forests in those early days, the
encounters with the Indians, friendly and otherwise, are incidents
which make up a book which will fascinate all young readers.--_San
Francisco Bulletin._
The author has studied her subject carefully; and the pictures of this
life, extinct, yet still blood of our blood and bone of our bone, have
unusual interest.--_Chicago Dial._
Mrs. Smith has proven that she can write as simple and natural a story
of child-life when the scene is laid two hundred and fifty years ago
as when she chooses to describe country life in the New England of the
present century.--_Christian Register._
THE YOUNG PURITANS IN KING PHILIP’S WAR. Illustrated by L. J. BRIDGMAN.
12mo. Cloth. $1.25.
From a letter written the author by Bishop F. D. Huntington, Syracuse,
N. Y.: “Have read all the pages through, every word,--finding the
whole volume readable, entertaining, and satisfactory. Of course I
feel rather competent to say that, in the phraseology, the territorial
descriptions, the geography, the account of customs, language, family
habits, natural phenomena, you are singularly correct, accurate, and
felicitous.”
Mrs. Smith seems to have caught the very breath and echo of those old
days, and she makes one seem not to be merely reading of those Puritans
and their constant struggles with their savage neighbors, but to be
actually beholding them.--_Jersey City Evening Journal._
The history of the seventeenth century in New England would gain new
life when read in the light of such books.--_Christian Endeavor Herald._
THE YOUNG PURITANS IN CAPTIVITY. Illustrated by JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH.
12mo. Cloth. $1.25.
Nothing could be more interesting than the period of which this story
treats, and the author has handled the subject in a manner that is
highly creditable. The reader will be for the nonce a Puritan, and will
follow the adventures of three children taken captive by the Indians,
feeling that he is a participant in the scenes so well portrayed. He
will sleep in the Indians’ wigwam and breathe the odor of the pines.
He will paddle a canoe upon the broad waters of the Connecticut, when
New England was but a wilderness, and get an insight into Indian nature
which he probably never had before.--_Sacramento Bee._
She shows the same power of graphic description, the same faithful use
of the best available material, and the same logical way of putting it
into shape.--_Commercial Advertiser, N. Y._
Mrs. Smith has made history live again in her life-like narrative. The
children of to-day may well learn something of the sterner virtues in
reading this story of the endurance and fortitude of children of two
centuries ago.--_Springfield Republican._
THE YOUNG AND OLD PURITANS OF HATFIELD. Illustrated by BERTHA C. DAY.
12mo. $1.25.
LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., Publishers,
254 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON.