ftuiet, Gentle, Home-like, Earnest, Truthful. 



MEADOW BEOOK; ^IIOSA LEE. 



BY MARY J. HOLMES, 



Author of " 'Lena Kivers," " Homestead on the Ilillside," etc., etc. 

 One Volume, Itiino, 3S0 imgcs. Price $1 00. 



OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 



No admirer of Mrs. ITolmos' writinffs will thank us for a " critical" opinion of this, 

 Ler latest and best work. The time for such a thinp: has gone by. But surely they will 

 pardon us if we dwell lingoringly and lovingly over one or two of her"cl)aracters: — the 

 angel-like Jessie, the rightly-nained Angel" of the Pines, who, though a child, went 

 about like a ministering an<rel, when all others had lleil the pestilence that walked at 

 noonday, and at last fell before its withering stroke. Surely, if a tear falls here., it falls 

 in the right place. Aiul then Eosa:— llosa at thirteen the schoolmistress and in love. 

 One year after, llosa the governess was again in love. II(nv we are interested in the 

 tangled web of her life-experience, and how we rejoice when at last the orange-flowers 

 crown her brow, and the storm-tossed barcpie reaches the sure haven of repose: 

 "The blessinir given, the ring is on; 



And at God's altar radiant run 



The currents of two lives in one." 

 Ada, the deceiving, merits our scorn ; Ada, the dissipated, somewhat of our pity. Dr. 

 Clayton we despise for his fickleness, honor for his after-manliness, and congratulate for 

 his eventual happiness. — National American. 



We have read this book with no little satisfaction, for it has a reality about it that 

 touches a spot not always sensitive to descriptions written with more pretence and lite- 

 rary style. It is particularly attractive to one with a New-England experience, as it3 

 earlier chapters are drawn from life in the country portions of that region, and those 

 immediately following are laid in Boston. We do not mean to intimate that the book 

 is carelessly written, but that it is "the touch of nature that makes all men kin"' that is 

 Its es[)eciai charm. It does not read like a romance, but like a calm narration by some 

 friend of events occurring in a circle of one's old friends, and the intense interest with 

 which we follow the narrative seems to be rather from personal feeling than from the 

 osuaI false excitement of the overstrained sentimentalities of most of the modern works 

 of fiction which "read like a book."— iViewtfrA* Advertiser.^ 



Our friends in the novel-reading line will gladly hail a new work called " Meadow 

 Brook," by Mrs. Mary J. Holmes, author of "Tempest and Sunshine." and several other 

 well-known and ]>opular works. " Meadow Brook" is an exceedingl 3' attractive book, 

 and one that will alternately call forth smiles and tears. The chapters delineating the 

 life of the youthful '■ school-ma'am," and her experience in "boarding round," may be 

 termed "rich" in every sense of the word. We doubt if their equal can be met with in 

 any of the novels of the present day. The after-life of Eosa Lee, the heroine of Meadow 

 Brook, will be found to be of equal, if not of supt-rior interest to the earlier part, so 

 grai)hically delineated in the first half-dozen chapters. — Providence Journal. 



Many of her characters might be. if they are not, drawn from life. We liave met a 

 little Jessie whose bright, sweet face, winning ways, and sunny, happy temper, made 

 her a favorite with alTwho knew her. Jessie Lansing vividly recalls our little Je.ssio, 

 who, we hope, is still the sunbeam of her own sweet Southern home. Mrs. Holmes 

 draws her pictures from the deep welling fountain of her own heart and life, reaching 

 our hearts as well as our imaginations, and will always meet a cordial reception when- 

 ever she appears. — Binghamtnn Republican. 



"Meadow Brook" is a plain story of American life and American people, with capital 

 illustrations of American habits and manners. . . The story is a well-written common- 

 sense atfair, containing much that will please the reader. Nothing is distorted or over- 

 drawn, but all is calculated to impress the reader with a belief \n the writer — that is, 

 that she is telling a true \.&\e.—Eochester Advertiser. 



Sold by all Booksellers. Single copies sent by mail, postage paid, upon 

 receipt, of the price. 



C. M. SAXTOl'7, BARKER & CO., Publishers, 



25 Park Bow, New York. 



