Page:Maud Howe - Atlanta in the South.djvu/354

 Messrs. Roberts Brothers' Publications.

A NEWPORT AQUARELLE.

BY MAUD HOWE.

One volume. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00; paper cover, 50 cents.

"'A Newport Aquarelle" will be found the breeziest, the brightest, and the cleverest of summer novels... . Charmingly true to nature and admirable as a bit of highly finished art, it cannot fail of achieving a wide reading among people of taste and cultivation."—Boston Saturday Gazette.

"The most brilliant novelette of the season."—Exchange.

"'A Newport Aquarelle,' issued anonymously, is a brilliant sketch of Newport fashionable life, with a pretty love-story interwoven adroitly therein. It has crispness, pungency, and a healthful satire not too forcefully presented. Nothing can be more relishsome than the quiet, complete manner in which the foibles and foolishness of the gilded youth and managing mammas of that envied resort are depicted, among which, as most timely, the fox-hunt may be mentioned. The character-portraiture is excellent, whether the influential Boston visitor or the fortune-hunting English adventurer, the insipid yet managing Gray Grosvenor, or the honest Charles Farwell, the superficial Mrs. Fallowdeer, or the true-hearted yet wayward Gladys Carleton, be the subject. Nor is there less merit in the occasional glimpses we get of the author's love of nature's attractions. The whole book is permeated with a frank, yet not obtrusive, reprobation of the silliness of the fashionable throngs, combined with a hearty appreciation of all that is of worth in individuals and experience at that lovely watering-place. For agreeable reading by a social devotee who has not lost her head, or the commonsense citizen of republican preferences, it presents welcome merit."—The Commonwealth.

"This is a very pleasantly written love-story, with slender plot and graceful style, showing great fondness for the natural, charming beauties of Newport, and depicting not the best phase of its summer society. Its characters are so well drawn that they might easily find their prototypes in the last season there."—The Churchman.

"'A Newport Aquarelle' is exquisitely painted," says the Chicago Tribune.

''Sold by all booksellers. Mailed, post-paid, on receipt of price, by the publishers, ''

ROBERTS BROTHERS, Boston.