BY HOLMAN F. DAY

=UP IN MAINE. Stories of Yankee Life told in Verse.=

Few books of verse have won popular favor so quickly as this volume,

which is now in its ninth edition and selling as steadily as when first

published. It is a rare combination of wit, humor, sense, and homely

pathos.

"Reading the book, one feels as though he had Maine in the

phonograph."--_The New York Sun._

"James Russell Lowell would have welcomed this delicious adjunct to _The

Biglow Papers._"--_The Outlook._

"So fresh, so vigorous, and so full of manly feeling that they sweep

away all criticism."--_The Nation._

"His subjects are rough diamonds. They have the inherent qualities from

which great characters are developed, and out of which heroes are

made."--_Buffalo Commercial._

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." · 第 54 / 63 题