CAPE COD FOLKS. 



a ■Nobzl. 



BY SALLY PRATT IMcLEAN. 



1 Volume. \2mo. -p-T Pages. Cloth, gilt. Price, $i.$o. 



CUPPLES, UPHAM & CO., Publisheks, 



OPINIONS OF THE PRESS ON THE WRITINGS OF THE 

 NEW AMERICAN HUMORIST. 



" So natural and true to life are some of the characters, localities, and 

 incidents depicted in the book, that the observing reader finds it difficult to 

 persuade himself that he is not reading the autobiography of a vivacious 

 school-teacher in real life. The scenes and incidents of the novel are by 

 no means commonplace, however, and tliere is just enough of the improb- 

 able and impossible in the story to give it piquancy and thorough zest." — 

 Boston Post. 



" We rather doubt the justice or policy of ranking the work as a novel, 

 for it is really a triumph of character sketching, witll n(Aelistic develop- 

 ments." — Boston Sunday Times. 



" Every chapter is fresh and sparkling with life and humor, and we can- 

 not help but eulogize the author for her masterly hand and genius of story- 

 telling." —A': Y. Star. 



" Those who take up this volume expecting a commonplace story with 

 which to while away a few hours, will find themselves most agreeably sur- 

 prised. It is full, from beginning to end, of the most delicious humor, 

 while through the whole runs a vein of pathos that touches and thrills to 

 tears in the midst of laughter. One feels that the quaint char.icters described 

 here have their counterparts, that it is real life upon the bleak Cape Cod of 

 which we are reading. The warmest love flows out to Grandpa and 

 Grandma Spicer, whose horizon is bounded by the ocean upon which 



