"Under a veil made intentionally transparent, the author maintains
a running fire of good-natured hits at contemporary social follies.
There is a delicate love story running through the book. The author's
style is highly finished. One might term it old-fashioned in its
exquisite choiceness and precision."--_The New York Journal of
Commerce._
_George W. Cable._
THE GRANDISSIMES. (12mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth, $1.25)--OLD CREOLE
DAYS. (12mo, cloth, $1.25; also in two parts, 16mo, cloth, each, 75
cts.; paper, each, 30 cts.)--DR. SEVIER. (12mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth,
$1.25)--BONAVENTURE. A Prose Pastoral of Arcadian Louisiana. (12mo,
paper, 50 cts. $1.25.)
_The set, 4 vols., $5.00._
"There are few living American writers who can reproduce for us more
perfectly than Mr. Cable does, in his best moments, the speech, the
manners, the whole social atmosphere of a remote time and a peculiar
people. A delicious flavor of humor penetrates his stories."--_The New
York Tribune._
_Richard Harding Davis._