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THE SAN ROSARIO RANCH.

A Novel.

BY MAUD HOWE.

16mo. Cloth. Price $1.25.

"'The San Rosario Ranch' belongs to a noble class of novels; it deals with the deepest feelings, the strongest emotions, and the most powerful motives in human life. It is on a high plane, far above the petty strife, ambition, and jealousy out of which 'society novels' are manufactured. The book is written in a spirit of large sympathy, and without one touch of ensoriousness or ridicule. This sympathy is far-reaching; it is given to the Indian, driven from his mission; to the faithful Chinaman, killed by the fury of a white scoundrel; to the rich and coarse Irishman, living in splendor and in fear of his butler, of all of them some good is told; the best side is the one that is made prominent The book is not a sermon, although its tone is so grave and its spirit so earnest; it is a good, warm love-story, with plenty of life, of incident, and of narrow escapes; and it is a very attractive picture of California life and California people." Boston Daily Advertiser.

"'The San Rosario Ranch,' both as a study of character and as a portraiture of life in California, has the substantial merits which deserve and command attention. The chief merit which Miss Howe displays is a rich, fresh, and creative imagination. She can paint truly, even if she colors too strongly. She has genuine dramatic power. She flashes light instantly upon character. She is able to introduce motive when she chooses. She is confident of her strength, and knows her ground. She commands the best English whenever she forgets herself, and is true to the laws of high art. She possesses the individual qualities which give her work a distinctness and character of its own. She has struck a new vein in American fiction, and her work has the vitality and scope that come from large resources of power. In some respects she gives even greater promise than her brilliant cousin, the author of 'A Roman Singer.' Her very faults are the faults of the beginner. They need not belong to her subsequent productions."—Boston Sunday Herald

"She has a sound and healthy mind, a mind which refuses to entertain itself with abnormal speculations, and dallying with dangerous passions .... 'San Rosario Ranch' is a womanly book, and whatever talent it displays is of the kind that men are not ashamed of in their mothers, their wives, and their daughters."—R. H. Stoddard, in N. Y. Mail.

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