  THE SIMPLE ADVENTURES OF A MEMSAHIB. By Sara Jeannette Duncan. With 37 Illustrations by F.H. Townsend. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50. "It is impossible for Sara Jeannette Duncan to be otherwise than interesting. Whether it be a voyage around the world, or an American girl's experiences in London society, or the adventures pertaining to the establishment of a youthful couple in India, there is always an atmosphere, a quality, a charm peculiarly her own."—Brooklyn Standard-Union. "It is like traveling without leaving one's arm-chair to read it. Miss Duncan has the descriptive and narrative gift in large measure, and she brings vividly before us the street scenes, the interiors, the bewilderingly queer natives, the gayeties of the English colony."—Philadelphia Telegraph. "Another witty and delightful book."—Philadelphia Times.
"Widely read and praised on both sides of the Atlantic and Pacific, with scores of illustrations which fit the text exactly and show the mind of artist and writer in unison."—New York Evening Post. "It is to be doubted whether another book can be found so thoroughly amusing from beginning to end."—Boston Daily Advertiser. "For sparkling wit, irresistibly contagious fun, keen observation, absolutely poetic appreciation of natural beauty, and vivid descriptiveness, it has no recent rival."—Mrs. P.T. Barnum's Letter to the New York Tribune. "A brighter, merrier, more entirely charming book would be, indeed, difficult to find."—St. Louis Republic.
"One of the most naÏve and entertaining books of the season."—New York Observer. "The raciness and breeziness which made 'A Social Departure,' by the same author, last season, the best-read and most-talked-of book of travel for many a year, permeate the new book, and appear between the lines of every page."—Brooklyn Standard-Union. "So sprightly a book as this, on life in London as observed by an American, has never before been written."—Philadelphia Bulletin. "Overrunning with cleverness and good-will."—New York Commercial Advertiser. "We shall not interfere with the reader's privilege to find out for herself what, after her presentation at court and narrow escape from Cupid's meshes in England, becomes of the American girl who is the gay theme of the book. Sure we are that no one who takes up the volume—which, by the way, is cunningly illustrated—will lay it down until his or her mind is at rest on this point."—Toronto Mail. New York: D. APPLETON & CO., 1, 3, & 5 Bond Street. |
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