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"NOTABLE WOMEN AUTHORS OF THE DAY."

The Literary World. Readers of the Lady's Pictorial are already familiar with its bright and picturesque sketches of some of our wellknown novelists, now republished under the title of Notable Women The work is admirably done. . Authors of the Day.' feel that Mrs. Black's visits were somewhat different from those of the ordinary interviewer and that she possessed the tact and sympathy necessary to place herself thoroughly en rapport with the eminent women whojn she visited. Short as they are, they not only give a vivid impression of each author, but each is interspersed or introduced by some dainty bit of description or some historical reminiscence while sketches of the home life, always characteristic but never impertinent, fill in the picture." '

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The work is decidedly good work of the kind." Court Journal. " In her interesting and valuable volume, Notable Women Authors of the Day,' Mrs. Black has reprinted a number of Saturday Review.

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interesting biographical and personal Brightly and kindly written. ..."

sketches of living authors.

World. " Mrs. Black writes with good feeling and good taste the book will prove of very general interest. ..."

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'" Notable Women Authors of the The Day.' Sunday Times. reminiscences of well-known authors have been undertaken by Mrs. . Helen C. Black. This lady has treated her task as a labour of love. Mrs. Black has not given us a word too few or a word too many. ... A biographical sketch of Jean Ingelow concludes Mrs. Black's delightful book." " It is as . . the good as a novel with twenty-six heroines Queen. book is a lively and readable one, for Mrs. Black has collected her biographical and personal details with care and has handled them with.

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" The biographical sketches of Notable Women Lady's Pictorial. Authors of the Day,' which Mrs. Black was well advised to collect in this in the Lady's Pictorial. daintily got-up volume, originally appeared '

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be found. acceptable gift-book for the gift season could not Mrs. Black's sketches are very bright and interesting, and there is in them just enough of those little personal details that readers love, but Mrs. Black has of vulgar and intrusive personalities, not a trace. .

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the happy knack of seizing upon the interesting episodes in the lives of the celebrities of whom she writes, and she sets them before us in simple and natural language." Globe. In "Notable Women Authors of the Day," Mrs. Helen C. us with a series of biographical sketches and descriptive Black supplies

These monographs are likely to have many well-pleased are pictured in their habit as they literary ladies dealt with . account of their career is given. live, while at the same time a succinct The public likes to read about the people who give it pleasure, and Mrs. Black's pleasant chit-chat will, we may expect, give great satisfaction to

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a large circle of readers."

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