Gentle Dora ! !-Dashing Maggie ! ! ! 



MRS. MARY J. HOLMES' IS^EW STORIES, 



DORA DEANE and MAGGIE MILLER 



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Mrs. Holmes endeavors to touch tlie heart, to take what is pure and excellent and 

 hold it up to the reader in contrast with wliat is vile and deceptive. And in this she 

 excels. The fireside, we are sure, will thank her heartily for these books, and preserve 

 them with religions strictness, for they are entertaining as well as instructive.— iVe?o 

 Yofk Commercial Times. 



The two tales in this new volume are delightful, and will be well received by the 

 many who have derived so much entertainment from their predecessors. — Bodon Trav. 



There is an air of truthfulness in her common-^ense style, an absence of exaggeration 

 and of high coloring, which conveys a sense of repose to the mind which has fed on the 

 arciflcial stimulus of exciting novels. Her womanly gentleness wins iho heart, and her 

 charming fancy throws a spell over the imagination. — Detroit Free Press. 



The incidents in both these stories are such as pertain to dally experience, and on 

 that account they brins out more touchingly the traits of individuals in whom the 

 author determines to interest her readers. Her knowledge of the human heart, in 

 childhood, and in the multiform trials of woman's lot, gives her the power of an expe- 

 rienced artist. — ^V. Y. Express. 



She has the h:ippy fiiculty of enlisting the sympathies and affections of her readers, 

 and of holding their attention to her pages with deep and absorbing interest. — Albany 

 Times. 



The two stories which make up this volume — " Dora Deane" and " Maggie Miller" — 

 have the elements of as wide a popularity as either of their predecessors. She wields a 

 graceful and graphic pen. Her characters are t'kilfully portrayed, and she never fails 

 to win and retain the good opinion of her readers. She has not failed in this agreeable 

 volume. — Detroit Advertiser. 



These stories are told in her best manner. " Maggie Miller" will be found particu- 

 larly interesting. The characters are finely drawn, and the incidents are life-like and 

 truthful. — Loicell Vox Populi. 



The stories in this volume will be read by e\ ery lover of fiction with unadulterated 

 satisfaction. As a student of human character Mrs. Holmes has few equals, and her 

 descriptive faculties are of a superior order. " Maggie Miller" especially demonstrates 

 this fact. Some of its passages, as specimei.s of spirited composition, are seldom 

 excelled. — Troy Times. 



The two stories in the work before us are among the most entertaining the talented 

 authoress has ever written ; there is, throughout both, a charm and a beauty which 

 cannot fail to please, and they have not a dull page within them. The characters are 

 sketched with a master pen — not overwrought. V>ut yet so earnestly life-like as to be full 

 of interest — and an easy grace pervades the wb jle. — Lawrence American. 



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