Important New Books. 



Works by Sally Pratt McLean. 



CAPE COD FOLKS. A novel. Twenty-third edition. Illustrated. i2nio. 

 Cloth. 51.25. 



TOWHEAD: THE STORY OF A GIRL. Fifth thousand. i2mo. 



Cloth. ^1.25. 



SOME OTHER FOLKS. A Book in Four Stories. i2mo. Cloth. $1.25. 



These books are so well known that further comment seems superfluous. 

 Suflice it to say that the entire prcbs of the country has unanimously spoken of 

 them in terms of high praise, dwelling not only on their delicious humor, their 

 literary workmanship, their genuine pathos, and their real power and eloquence, 

 but what has been described as their deep, true huiiinmiess, and the inimitable 

 manner in which the mirror is held up to nature that all may see reflected 

 therein some familiar trait, some description or character which is at once recog- 

 nized. 



MISS M.LEAiV'S .WE IF BOOK. 



Since the production of Miss McLean's first effort " Cape Cod Folks," s!ie 

 has steadily advanced in intellectual development ; the same genius is at work 

 in a larger and more artistic manner, until she has at length produced what 

 must be truly considered as her masterpiece, and which we have the pleasure to 

 announce for immediate publication. 



LASTCHANCE JUNCTION; FAR, FAR WEST. A novel. By 

 Saily Pratt McLean, i vol. i2mo Cloth. $1.25. 



The author in this book sees further and clearer than she saw in her earlier 

 works ; she has stepped, as it were, out of the limits of her former thought and 

 action into the centre of the arena of the world's full, rich life ; from the indi- 

 vidual characteristic she has passed to the larger weaknesses and virtues of 

 humanity, with their inevitable results of tragedy and nobility. l\Iuch as 

 has been said respecting the pathos of her former books, one feels, as the 

 last page of " Lastchance Junction " has been turned, that they were but snia 1 

 as compared with this, so terribly earnest is it, so true in its delineation of life, 

 with all its elements of tragedy and comedy ; and life, moreover, in that region 

 of our country where Nature still reigns supreme, and where humanity, uncon- 

 trolled by the conventionalities of more civilized communities, stands sharply 

 drawn in the strong shadows of villainy and misery, and in the high lights of 

 uncultured, strong nobility and gentleness. There are no half-tones. 



Terse, incisive descriptions of men and scenery, drawn with so vivid a pen 

 that one can see the characters and their setting, delicious bits of humor, 

 passages full of infinite pathos, make this book absolutely hold the reader from 

 the title to the last word, and as, when finished, one sighs for the pitv of it, the 

 feeling rises that such a work has not been written in vain, and will have its 

 place among those which tend to elevate our race. 



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