RODMAN THE KEEPER. Southern Sketches. pp. 340. 16mo, Cloth, $1 00. (_A
New Edition._)
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There is a certain bright cheerfulness in Miss
Woolson's writing which invests all her characters
with lovable qualities.--_Jewish Advocate, N. Y._
Miss Woolson is among our few successful writers
of interesting magazine stories, and her skill and
power are perceptible in the delineation of her
heroines no less than in the suggestive pictures
of local life.--_Jewish Messenger, N. Y._
Constance Fenimore Woolson may easily become the
novelist laureate.--_Boston Globe._
Miss Woolson has a graceful fancy, a ready wit, a
polished style, and conspicuous dramatic power;
while her skill in the development of a story is
very remarkable.--_London Life._
Miss Woolson never once follows the beaten track
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, 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._
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