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HOWELLS A Chance Acquaintance. 



" The bright, courageous, light-hearted realism of the whole, the gay charm of 

 the principal characters, the refined humour of some of the incidents, the senti- 

 ment and style in which the pretty sparkling story is, as it were, embedded, were 

 such as showed a new artistic force at work, and announced a great and original 

 talent." The Times. 



HOWELLS The Lady of the Aroostook. 



2 Vols. 2s. 



" There are few more perfect stories than The Lady of the Aroostook." The 

 Times. 



HOWELLS - A Fearful Responsibility and Tonelli's 



Marriage. 



" The great body of the cultivated public has an instinctive delight in original 

 genius, whether it be refined or sensational. Mr. Howells's is eminently refined. 

 His humour, however vivid in form, is subtle and elusive in its essence. He de- 

 pends, perhaps, somewhat too much on the feeling of humour in his readers to 

 appreciate his own." E. P. WHIFFLE. . 



HOWELLS-The Undiscovered Country. 



2 Vols. 2s. 



"The story is, like all Mr. Howells's creations, skilfully constructed and 

 wrought out with careful elaboration of detail." Freeman. 



HOWELLS A Counterfeit Presentment, a Comedy, and a 



Parlour Car, a Farce. 



" In this comedy Mr. Howells gives new proof of his rare insight into char- 

 acter, and ability to portray it by effective and discriminating touches, of his fine 

 sense of dramatic scenes and incidents, and of his exquisite literary skill." 



HOWELLS-Out of the Question, a Comedy, and At the 



Sign of the Savage. 



" We may safely prophesy that among the cultivated class of readers Mr. 

 Howells's books will be in steady demand. There are already six or seven of them 

 issued in a cheap form by the publisher of A Modern Instance. From our own 

 knowledge we can recommend A Chance Acquaintance and The Undiscovered 

 Country as books of careful workmanship and accurate observation, written 

 from the American point of view, and without the least apparent influence, either 

 in style or point of view, of English writers." Saturday Review. 



HOWELLS-Novels. 



These 10 vols., neatly bound in cloth gilt, in box, 21s. 



HOWELLS-Venetian Life. 2 Vols. 2s. 



"His faculty of shrewd, sympathetic observation possessed itself easily of 

 Italian sights and characters, but through all the track of Venetian lagoons or 

 Florentine streets one feels the racy American temper, nothing daunted by the Old 

 World. No description of Venice could be, as far as they go, more daintily, affec- 

 tionately true." rimes. 



HOWELLS Italian Journeys. 2 Vols. 2s. 



"Venetian Life and Italian Journeys are delightful reading, and they bear the 

 promise of the future novelist in them. When he travelled in Italian towns he 

 was studying human nature, and fortunately there have been preserved in these 

 two books a vast number of little studies, minute observations, such as in abund- 

 ance go to make the writer of fiction." Century. 



