“One of the rare books which can be read with great pleasure and recommended without reservation.  It is fresh, pure, sweet, and pathetic, with a pathos which is perfectly wholesome.”—­St. Paul Globe.

“The story is an intensely human one and it is delightfully told....  The author shows a marvelous keenness in character analysis, and a marked ingenuity in the development of her story.”—­Boston Advertiser.

INTO THE HIGHWAYS AND HEDGES. $1.50.

“A touch of idealism, of nobility of thought and purpose, mingled with an air of reality and well-chosen expression, are the most notable features of a book that has not the ordinary defects of such qualities.  With all its elevation of utterance and spirituality of outlook and insight it is wonderfully free from overstrained or exaggerated matter, and it has glimpses of humor.  Most of the characters are vivid, yet there are restraint and sobriety in their treatment, and almost all are carefully and consistently evolved.”—­London Athenaeum.

“‘Into the Highways and Hedges’ is a book not of promise only, but of high achievement.  It is original, powerful, artistic, humorous.  It places the author at a bound in the rank of those artists to whom we look for the skillful presentation of strong personal impressions of life and character.”—­London Daily News.

“The pure idealism of ‘Into the Highways and Hedges’ does much to redeem modern fiction from the reproach it has brought upon itself....  The story is original, and told with great refinement.”—­Philadelphia Public Ledger.

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK.

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RICHARD MALCOLM JOHNSTON’S STORIES.

WIDOW GUTHRIE. Illustrated by E.W.  Kemble. 12mo.  Cloth, $1.50.

“The Widow Guthrie stands out more boldly than any other figure we know—­a figure curiously compounded of cynical hardness, blind love, and broken-hearted pathos....  A strong and interesting study of Georgia characteristics without depending upon dialect.  There is just sufficient mannerism and change of speech to give piquancy to the whole.”—­Baltimore Sun.

“Southern humor is droll and thoroughly genuine, and Colonel Johnston is one of its prophets.  The Widow Guthrie is admirably drawn.  She would have delighted Thackeray.  The story which bears her name is one of the best studies of Southern life which we possess.”—­Christian Union.

THE PRIMES AND THEIR NEIGHBORS. Illustrated by Kemble, Frost, and others. 12mo.  Cloth, uniform with “Widow Guthrie,” $1.25.  Also in paper, not illustrated, 50 cents.

“The South ought to erect a monument in gratitude to Richard Malcolm Johnston.  While scores of writers have been looking for odd Southern characters and customs and writing them up as curiosities, Mr. Johnston has been content to tell stories in which all the people are such as might be found in almost any Southern village before the war, and the incidents are those of the social life of the people, uncomplicated by anything which happened during the late unpleasantness.”—­New York Herald.