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Hot Plowshares. A Novel. By Albion W. Tourgee, Author of "A Fool's 

 Errand," etc. 610 pages, Illustrated, Cloth, $1.50. Fords, Howard & 

 Hulbert, New York. 



We have always read Judge Tourgee's narratives with great 

 interest, and a perusal of- this concluding one of the series increases 

 our admiration for the author's power of description and dramatic 

 presentation. The author sets forth the condition of the times 

 during the twenty years preceding the war and brings forward at 

 the same time noble and inspiring delineations of heroism. 



The whole character of Hilda, her high resolves and mental 

 experiences; the runaway team; the runaway slave; the fire; the 

 coming of John Brown; make this a genuine novel. More than a 

 novel even, it reproduces the inner life and motive power of the 

 decade previous to our civil war. 



Judge Tourgee finds his most attractive characters among the 

 Southern people whose institutions, in this and his previous works, 

 he scores in such unmerciful fashion. 



But Yet a Woman. — A Novel. By Arthur S. Hardy. x6 mo. $1.25. Ninth 

 thousand in nine weeks. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 11 East Seventeenth 

 Street, New York. 



It is very unusual in these days of many books to find any 

 work in its ninth thousand even after many weeks. But in a very 

 few weeks this book before us has reached a large sale, and the call 

 for it to-day in the circulating libraries is said to be something re- 

 markable. The general range of the book is lofty and its tone is 

 deep and rich. One of the leading characters is a young physician 

 of strong convictions. The life-likeness of its human figures, the 

 tenderness of feeling, and the high moral sublimity, all combine to 

 make this the story of the season for our light summer reading. 

 "While there are no mathematics in it" says a reviewer, "there is 

 pbetry and art; and at its end might be written these words of 

 moral: 'He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it?' ' 



The Century Dictionary. 



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