“The dainty touches everywhere present in the volume rival the exquisite manner of Merimee himself.  One traces and unconsciously accepts as a veracious narrative the record of a fantastic though abiding love.  No woman in the flesh could write more winsomely.”—­Philadelphia Press.

“They are full of delightful gossip, reminiscence, anecdote, and description, and are charmingly written throughout.”—­Chicago Daily News.

“They are gay and melancholy by turn, full of womanly passion dashed with coquetry, now sparkling with the sprightliest wit, now charged with the most reckless tenderness, implying a relationship which should satisfy the most exacting of men.”—­Eclectic Magazine.

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DROLLS FROM SHADOWLAND.

BY

J.H.  PEARCE,

Author of “Esther Pentreath,” “Inconsequent Lives,” “Jaco Treloar,” etc.

16mo.  Cloth. $1.25.

“They are so simple at first sight that one is surprised by their depth of suggestion, which satisfies Milton’s definition of the old tales of enchantment, ‘where more is meant than meets the ear,’ and the curiosity of it is that the impression left on the mind of the reader is that of poetry urging its way into words—­unwritten poetry....  There is genius of an uncommon kind in these ’Drolls from Shadowland.’”—­Mail and Express.

“‘Drolls from Shadowland,’ by J.H.  Pearce, is a work of a flavor or timbre (or however else we may metaphor the quality too subtle to define) so delicate that it may escape recognition for a time.  In this it only meets the fate of all really superior art.  The ‘Drolls’ are short, abrupt, fantastic stories, beautiful to read from their deep imagination and haunting in their allegorical depth....  Mournful, but not bitter; brief, but not slight; subtle, but not obscure in their hidden meanings, the ‘Drolls’ suggest nothing in English Literature.  Their art is as consummate as Daudet’s.  Their mysterious poetry brings them nearer to Brentano and Hoffmann.  Their lightly veiled allegories are of human life now and always.  This is a masterpiece.”—­The Boston Traveller.

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