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WILL BE PUBLISHED Wednesday Next, January 15, 1879. AN ORIGINAL NOVEL. "AS IT MAY HAPPEN' A Story of American Life and Character. 12mo. Extra Cloth. $1.50. The Eminent Critic, Dr. R. SHELTON MACKENZIE, who read the advance sheets of "As It May Happen," writes to its publishers as follows: "This is a story of American life and character truly original in design and successful in execution. The author introduces his readers to possible people and probable incidents. The dialogue is natural all through, very unaffected and characteristic. It is to be noticed that the women, of various grades and ages, maids or matrons, who appear in this story, have the great merit of being truly feminine throughout. There is infinite variety of action, there is suffering, there is crime- and there is detection and punishment, by which the wrong is made right' at last. 'Dibbs' is an entirely new creation. There is some humor, to relieve a great deal of mystery. Part of this arises out of the incidents, but more is suggested by an Irish farm-laborer, who differs essentially from the stereotyped 'Paddy' of the stage, and in his idiomatic and amusing language is irresistibly comic, as well as forcible. The story, good as it is, would lose one of its points of attraction if Patrick were removed from it. The author displays great power and skill in constructing and telling a story, the interest of which never flags." A Prominent Man gives his opinion of "As It May Happen" thus: "Nothing has interested me so much for many a long day as this story. The American novel'-long looked for-has certainly come; and I prophesy a very great success for this book. It is admirably written, entirely original in its plot and development, and its characters are certainly the creations of a genius. Its humor, especially in its portrayal of Irish character, is simply inimitable, and its pathos is most natural and effective. If it is the work of a new candidate for popular favor, a new star is about to arise in the firmament of American literature." Opinion of a Distinguished Clergyman who read the manuscript of "As It May Happen": "It will excite unusual interest and find a rare degree of favor with all lovers of pure fiction: It is decidedly a 'wholesome' story, and is not dependent for its wonderful interest on anything questionable in matter or method. It points its own moral and teaches its own lesson, and does this the more effectively because it is free from all mere moralizing." From the private letter of a Brilliant Litterateur who has read an advance copy of "As It May Happen": "I pronounce it the best American novel that has appeared for years. It is exciting in a healthful way, and with alternating pathos and humor steadily maintains its interest from the first page to the last. 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BARNES & Co. have ready in their readable Atlas Series Resorts for Money-makersthe New York Gold Room, Stock Exchange, and Clearing House." A. D. F. RANDOLPH & Co. have nearly ready a second thousand of Dr. Hitchcock's little book on Socialism," which has attracted much attention and met with an increasing sale. In this will be inserted a new prefatory note, in which Dr. Hitchcock refers to some of the criticisms upon his paper, but declines to change the positions he has taken. JAMES MILLER announces for the middle of February an entirely new edition of Mrs. Browning's Poems, uniform with the widely selling Favorite Edition of Tennyson's Poems, to be called the Florence Edition. It will be at the low price of $1.25, with illustrations by American artists, and will be sure to sell widely. He contemplates issuing Hood's Poems in similar style. A reduction of prices on other editions of Mrs. Browning is also to be noted. SCRIBNER & Co. issue this week the new hymn and tune book, edited by Dr. Charles S. Robinson, whose experience at this work has been very wide and all of whose books have been popular, "A Selection of Spiritual Songs." It is an admirable collection, and the shape in which the publishers have put it on the market is especially noteworthy. The book is made convenient by printing on fine linen paper, with small margins, the binding is with tapes, and the flexible cover edition, to fold back, is especially adapted for choirs. The inside cover papers are decorated with Scripture texts in color. The regular edition retails of American gros-grain silk, found to be very at $1.50; an extra edition, in the novelty durable, costs $2.50. The publishers state any inducements to churches to discard other that they "do not propose, as a rule, to offer books, by reduction of price on first introduction of this, but the earlier and later supplies will be furnished to churches in considerable lots, by leading booksellers or the publishers, uniformly at the low rate of twenty per cent discount from the retail prices." Special editions for special denominations are in progress, the Baptist, or "Calvary selection," being edited jointly with Dr. Robinson by Rev. Robert S. MacArthur. 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