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Scribner, Armstrong & Co. have in preparation a unique series of books, to be published at intervals, in which there shall be collected from the numerous biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs that have lately appeared, all the reminiscences worth preservation of the men and women who have done so much to make this century one of the most brilliant in the annals of English literature. Each volume will be complete in itself, and will contain a condensation of one or more of these biographies. A careful index will furnish a ready guide to the contents of the different volumes, in which, under the capable editorship of Mr. R. H. Stoddard, it may safely be asserted there will be brought together a fund of choice, fresh anecdote and gossip, enough not only to justify the general title of the series, but the line of Marlowe which has been selected as its motto, "Infinite riches in a little room." The first volume, which will be issued early in April, will contain all that American readers will care to have, from the autobiography of HENRY CHORLEY, for so many years the musical editor of the London Athenæum, from the recollections of J. R. PLANCHE, the veteran dramatist, and from the life of CHARLES MAYNE YOUNG, the tragedian. It will be entitled: PERSONAL REMINISCENCES The Rising Novelist THOMAS HARDY, AUTHOR OF Far from the Madding Crowd. From the London Spectator. "If Far From the Madding Crowd' is not written by George Eliot, then there is a new light among novelists. In every page of these introductory chapters there are a dozen sentences which have the ring of the wit and the wisdom of the only truly great English novelist now living. The description of Gabriel Oak is too perfect, for it will not bear curtailment. There is a pass age descriptive of the companionship of the stars, so learned and so poetical that it seems to be irrefutable evidence of the authorship." From the London Saturday Review. "Under the rather sensational title of 'Desperate Remedies ' a remarkable story has been written by a nameless author.. .The plot is worked out with abundant skill. Incidentally there are situations well fitted to enchain the fancy of the sincerest lover of melodrama, but not one of these is a purpureus pannus, stitched into a circumjacent groundwork of dullness, nor, when all are taken together, can it be said that of these is the essence of the book. The essence of the book is precisely what it ought to be, namely, the evolution of character. We will do the author the justice to say that no skeleton of his narrative can give anything like a just idea of the skill with which he has worked his story together. . . We sincerely hope to hear of him again, for his deserts are of no ordinary kind." From the Nation. (Reviewing “Under the Greenwood Tree.") "Such a charming little tale that those who are going off for the summer, and who are casting about for light reading appropriate for the season, cannot do better than slip this volume into their trunks. We have not read anything more fresh and good since making the acquaintance of Björnson's Arne'; or, to make a comparison which shall hint at a peculiar quality of the book, since we read Barnes' poetry of rural life. We hope the other novels of this author which are announced may follow soon." From the London Spectator. (Reviewing “ A Pair of Blue Eyes.") "We have on two previous occasions noticed Mr. Hardy's stories, and we scarcely know whether we are now most impressed by our unexpected good fortune in his valuable accession to the higher ranks of modern novel-writing authors, or by the rapid strides which he has made, each time, in the direction of improvement. We did not spare his maiden work, because we saw marked evidences of true feeling and real power. While his second work, "Under the Greenwood Tree," was a most picturesque portraiture of village life embodied in a pure and simple story, and illustrating in every line its author's keen and humorous perception of the thoughts and manners of a rural popu lation, his third has risen to the rank of those which show, not only quick observation, and sparkling humor and true moral instinct, but a delicate and subtle analysis of varieties of character and moods of feeling, a poet's sympathy with human passion when tuned to its sweetest or saddest notes, and an artist's eye or every aspect of nature-sensitive to every puff of air, the veriest film of mist, or the merest thread of light." |