  THE FORTUNES OF With full-page Illustrations by Walter "It is long since more charming characters were brought together in one book."—New York Times Saturday Review. "It is in the character-drawing that the author has done his best work. No three finer examples of women can be found than Margaret Grant, Sallie Horn, Oliver's mother, and Lavinia Clendenning, the charming old spinster."—Louisville Courier-Journal. "Full of warmth and life, while its characters find a place quickly in one's heart."—Chicago Record-Herald. "There will be a general unanimity, and that is in the cordiality with which readers will recommend it to their friends."—New York Globe. "Its charm does not depend entirely upon the story, though that is perhaps as entertaining as any Mr. Smith has ever spun, but resides in its exquisite presentations of characters with whom it is a joy to become acquainted."—The Detroit Free Press. The Under Dog Illustrated. 12mo, $1.50 "There is, of course, a certain tragic air in the run of them, but no real gloominess ... the optimism and natural good humor of the ingenious and versatile author shining in the saddest and most sentimental pages of the book."—New York Evening Sun. "Mr. Hopkinson Smith's genius for sympathy finds full expression in his stories of human under dogs of one sort and another ... each serves as a centre for an episode, rapid, vivid, story-telling."—The Nation. "Mr. Smith shows in the management of the short story, as he has shown so often before, the same command over his material and his instruments which he has shown in his novels."—New York Tribune. "The touch is always light and delicate but sure, and the pictures presented seem very real."—Philadelphia Public Ledger. COLONEL CARTER'S With eight illustrations in color "The story rings true."—Brooklyn Times. "Altogether the best character ever created by Mr. Smith."—Providence Journal. "The dear old Colonel claims our smiles and our love as simply and as whole-heartedly as ever, and we thank the author for another glimpse of him."—Life. |
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