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_Another Popular "Susan Clegg" Book_
SUSAN CLEGG AND
HER NEIGHBORS' AFFAIRS
_By_ ANNE WARNER
With frontispiece. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00
All the stories brim over with quaint humor, caustic sarcasm, andconcealed contempt for male folk and matrimonial chains.--_PhiladelphiaLedger_.
Anything more humorous than the "Susan Clegg" stories would be hard tofind.--Jeannette L. Gilder, Editor of _Putnam's Magazine_.
The best work that Anne Warner has published. Miss Clegg has become aninstitution in the humor of America.--_Baltimore Sun_.
Her "Susan Clegg" stories, rich in pungent humor and extremely clever intheir portrayal of quaint and amusing character, deserve a place amongthe choice specimens of American humorous literature--which means thebest humorous literature in the world.--_New York Times_.
Sure to be welcomed by that large class of readers who found in "SusanClegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop" one of the most genuinely humorousbooks ever written by a woman on this side of the Atlantic.--_St. LouisGlobe-Democrat_.
LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., Publishers
254 Washington Street. Boston
_A New Story by the Author of "Susan Clegg"_
THE REJUVENATION
OF AUNT MARY
By ANNE WARNER
Author of "Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop," "A Woman's Will,"etc.
With four full page illustrations.
12mo. Decorated cloth, $1.50.
This very clever and original story by the creator of "Susan Clegg" willadd materially to her reputation as a writer of popular fiction. "AuntMary" and her adventures in New York are simply delicious; and hernephew, Jack, and his college friends, who personally conduct herthrough the metropolis, are brimful of brightness and humor. A prettylove story runs through the book. "Aunt Mary's" magazine debut delightedthousands of readers, and the publication of the story in a morepermanent form, with new chapters, and scenes, will increase herpopularity.
Anne Warner takes her place in the circle of American woman humorists,who have achieved distinction so rapidly within recent years.--_BrooklynEagle_.
Anne Warner is not only a funmaker but adds to that the quality ofsympathy with her characters.--_Public Opinion_.
LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., Publishers, BOSTON
_At all Booksellers'_
_An International Love Comedy_
A WOMAN'S WILL
By ANNE WARNER
Author of "Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop."
It is a relief to take up a volume so absolutely free fromstressfulness. The love-making is passionate, the humor of much of theconversation is thoroughly delightful. The book is as refreshing a bitof fiction as one often finds; there is not a dull page init.--_Providence Journal_.
It is bright, charming, and intense as it describes the wooing of ayoung American widow on the European Continent by a German musicalgenius.--_San Francisco Chronicle_.
A deliciously funny book.--_Chicago Tribune_.
There is a laugh on nearly every page.--_New York Times_.
Most decidedly an unusual story. The dialogue is nothing if notoriginal, and the characters are very unique. There is somethingstriking on every page of the book.--_Newark Advertiser_.
A more vivacious light novel could not be found.--_ChicagoRecord-Herald_.
Illustrated by I. H. Caliga. 360 pages. 12mo.
Decorated cloth, $1.50.
LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., Publishers, BOSTON
_At all Booksellers'_