_CLEG KELLY, ARAB OF THE CITY. His Progress and Adventures._ Uniformwith "The Lilac Sunbonnet" and "Bog-Myrtle and Peat." Illustrated. 12mo.Cloth, $1.50.
It is safe to predict for the quaint and delightful figure of Cleg Kellya notable place in the literature of the day. Mr. Crockett's signalsuccess in his new field will enlarge the wide circle of his admirers.The lights and shadows of curious phases of Edinburgh life, and ofScotch farm and railroad life, are pictured with an intimate sympathy,richness of humor, and truthful pathos which make this new novel agenuine addition to literature. It seems safe to say that at least twocharacters--Cleg and Muckle Alick--are likely to lead Mr. Crockett'sheroes in popular favor. The illustrations of this fascinating novelhave been the result of most faithful and sympathetic study.
_BOG-MYRTLE AND PEAT._ Third edition. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"Here are idyls, epics, dramas of human life, written in words thatthrill and burn.... Each is a poem that has an immortal flavor. They arefragments of the author's early dreams, too bright, too gorgeous, toofull of the blood of rubies and the life of diamonds to be caught andheld palpitating in expression's grasp."--_Boston Courier._
"Hardly a sketch among them all that will not afford pleasure to thereader for its genial humor, artistic local coloring, and admirableportrayal of character."--_Boston Home Journal._
"One dips into the book anywhere and reads on and on, fascinated by thewriter's charm of manner."--_Minneapolis Tribune._
"A love story pure and simple, one of the old-fashioned, wholesome,sunshiny kind, with a pure-minded, sound-hearted hero, and a heroine whois merely a good and beautiful woman; and if any other love story halfso sweet has been written this year, it has escaped our notice."--_NewYork Times._
"The general conception of the story, the motive of which is the growthof love between the young chief and heroine, is delineated with asweetness and a freshness, a naturalness and a certainty, which places'The Lilac Sunbonnet' among the best stories of the time."--_New YorkMail and Express._
"In its own line this little love story can hardly be excelled. It is apastoral, an idyl--the story of love and courtship and marriage of afine young man and a lovely girl--no more. But it is told in sothoroughly delightful a manner, with such playful humor, such delicatefancy, such true and sympathetic feeling, that nothing more could bedesired."--_Boston Traveller._