MISS VAN KORTLAND. A Novel.
BY THE AUTHOR OF "MY DAUGHTER ELINOR."
NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
FRANKLIN SQUARE.
1870.MY DAUGHTER ELINOR.
A Novel of American Society.
BY THE AUTHOR OF "MISS VAN KORTLAND."
8vo, Paper, $1 25; Cloth, $1 75.
A good American novel, presenting life and society in the United States—the life that we live and the society of which we are a constituent part—has long been the desideratum of publishers and the despair of novel readers. * * * A story in which the characters are types of the American people at large, differing from the same social representatives of other countries, is rarely issued from the present. Such a story is "My Daughter Elinor," which is destined to attain a wide popularity, because delineating with naturalness and verisimilitude the life that is around us. It is from such books that the historian gathers the habitudes of the age of which he writes. In Mr. Grey we have the portraiture of the accomplished politician; in we have a real woman of flesh a reader has made love to in the days of premiere jeunesse. The style is easy and naffected unaffected , at times straining overmuch at epigram, and again running a little into slipshod; and the dialogue is rapid and effective, never torturing with obvious comment or teasing with inevitable inference. Mrs. Hackett is a fresh and delightful Mrs. Malaprop, and Tad Tilman is an original drawn from nature.—N. Y. Evening Post.
In some respects it will be justly regarded as the most successful attempt yet made to depict truthfully the aspects, traits, and tendencies—in a word, the normal characteristics of our manners and social characters.—Boston Transcript.
The style is clear and vigorous, the dialogues are animated and interesting.—N. Y. Herald.
A production of great interest, scholarly merit, and filled with humane and noble sentiments. The descriptions of scenery and character are graphic, and the conversations piquant, brilliant, and natural. The author has an admirable way of telling his story, which from the beginning never flags in interest. It is far from being sensational, yet it is replete with interest.—Jewish Messenger.
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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by HARPER & BROTHERS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
