Pt^ess I\oHces, 



Grandpa has spent so many years of his life, and who are both so kindly 

 natured and full to the brim of goodness. Benny Cradlebow, the unlettered 

 young- Apollo, challenges our sympathy from the first to the last, when he 

 loses his life in trying to save that of his wo'uld-be rival. 



"The plot is nothing, and yet the reader is not aware of its absence. The 

 book is simply a picture of the events in a few months of the life of a young 

 girl who was seized with the idea of doing missionary work, and goes to 

 Cape Cod as a teacher. It is as crisp as the air in that sea-bound place, and 

 as sparkling as its starry skies. That it is true to nature is evident from the 

 lact that its publishers have had a libel suit upon tlieir hands on its account. 

 Buy and read it. You cannot fail to be entertained." — Toledo Blade. 



" There is real power in her characterization. Real eloquence in her ac- 

 count of the uncultivated singing. . Real pathos in the vague religious 

 opinions and intense religious sentiment of these simple, brave people. " — 

 Boston Ad-vertiser. 



" Her description of the provincial traits of this most provincial of all the 

 outlying New England settlements, are admirable bits of ^^»r^ workman- 

 ship." — Harper's Magazine. 



"It is a rarely powerful and realistic picture of simple life." — Buffalo 

 Express. 



•'The author has given us a charmingly fresh and thoroughly recogniz- 

 able portraiture." — N. Y. Traveller. 



" It is a phenomenal ^vork." — Portland Transcript. 



" It is an insult to literature for well-read lawyers to treat this capital 

 novel as if it were a mere vulgar libel." — Boston Transcript. 



" That book has been the means of shaking literary Boston almost to 

 its very centre." — Quebec Chronicle. 



*' It is intensely amusing, and portrays vividly and faithfully the daily life 

 of a peculiar people." — Golden Rule. 



" It contains more and better character- writing than any book of its 

 kind we have seen for many a day." — Chicago Inter-Ocean. 



"There are some delicious bits in • Cape Cod Folks.' The literary style 

 is excellent, and the book is of a kind to please almost everybody." —iV! Y. 

 Herald. 



" No man reads • Cape Cod Folks ' with more delight than a genuine Cape 

 Codder. As I am one of that ilk, I am, of course, one of her admirers. 

 The bottom fact about her book is that it is true, and paints truth down to 

 its hidden roots, as the wont of genius is. This is the general verdict of 

 those who ought to know. It is an American book, racy of the soil." — 

 Correspondence to Literary World. 



"The touch of a new hand, at once original, intense, and dramatic, with 

 a vein of humor and a power of sarcasm warranting the belief that in this 

 work we have the beginning of a career and of a name." — Boston Herald. 



