Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-10-24
BY MRS. ANN S. EPHENs,
Author of e Fashion and Famine.n

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BY MRS. ANN S. STEPHENS,
Author of g Fashion and Famine.n
IN one large Emo. 0ol1sme. Price 1926.
book by the author of Fashion and Famne,o which
attained in three months sale forth tousaad cOgjes
and which was repabished at Lepsic St. Petersburg
Vienna, and in three editions in London IS matter well
Calculated to excite more Than ordinary interest.
The OLD HOMESTEAD, while not tragic and intense
IN ITS character as Fashion aDd Famine is if anything Of
proiounder interest and appeals with greater force to The
sympahes the reader The story opens in the city of
new York where there are many Of pahos suffer
ing, aud tragic powers but the book progresses the
clouds dispesewe are introduced to the Oh Homestead
among the Catskills of the Hudson whee we are present.
ed with some Of the most delightful and graphic rural pic
lures ever given in American box. Mrs Stephens
displays in many places in this book, humor that rivals
that of Dickens, and dramatic force grasp of thought
power Of ana viyduess Of descriptions Of which
She is peculiarly the maste-superor we think TO any
OF her contemporaries.
CONTENTS.
The Fathers Return. A Pleasant Conversation
The Mayor and the Police Valley in the Mountains
man New People and New Homes
The Policemans Guest. The Old Homestead
The Midnight Consultation. Aunt Ia nah and Uncle Ma
The Mayor add the Alder than.
man. Morning at she Did Home
The Plot stead,
The Birthday Festival. Home.ick Longings
Clusters Trial The Evening Visit
Psvery, Sickness and Death. Autumn in the Mountains
Wasting and Watching. Our Sister Anna
nesgrs House the morn Sunset ia an Italian Catbe-
ing. dral.
The Mayor and his Son. the Two Infants
Jane Chester and the stran-Dar Storms and Dark Mem
ger. cries.
Bellevue and a New Inmate Apple Gathering
The Fever Ward and its PaThe FGruhams' Return from
tents. Abroad
Jane Chester and her Littlerhe Huskiag Frolic.
Nurses The Household Sacrifice.
The Student Physician andThe Strange Musician.
the Child Nuree. A Dance after lIusking.
The Midnight Reyel-Mary The Mother, the Son. and the
and her Mother Orphan.
Spring Morning and a Old Memories and Young
Pauper Burial Hearts.
The Daughters Faith Wins The Mothers Fraud.
the Fathers Prophecy. Salna Bowles Mission.
The Two Old Men The Double Confession.
The Walk and the viii The Double Birth Day.
The Festival and RoseC. Expedients and Explana-
Wild Woods and Mountain tons.
Passes.
From the NeW York Day Book.
We have no hesitation in pronouncng this book supe
ror in 7het3 interest descriptive powet. aud
wholesouep yigor, to any story recently published.
From the Boston Past
As literary work it is far superior to Fashion and
Famine. Many portions are intensely interesting.
From the Boston Olive Branch.
Many Of the are laid in the humb walks OF life,
and all the authors fine descriptive powers brought
to bear upon them. The comfort room, where the girl
watcher waits for her dying therwhere they meet at
last In his death hour and part ioTever the simple but
cheerful home Of Chester; the long night agony Belle
vue; the solemn burial, with only those lonely child
mourners and the exquisite pictures Of lie at the
Old HCmesteadall show the tenderness of the woman
combined with the skill Of The artist
From the N. Y. Erpress
The moral Of this work is invigoratng, and person
Iise from its perusa without being made, in the end
better man woman.
BUNCE & BROTHER, Publishers,
OPS DIT l26 Nassau street, Y.