Middletown transcript., 1868-05-16
PROMINENT CHARACTERISTICS.

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PROMINENT CHARACTERISTICS.
| I.-THEy ARE INSTRUCTIVE.
'As purely literary works, these historical ro-
mances possess high degree of merit They read
| like genuine histories. - Catholic World
"They are correct descriptions of the countries
and the people described '-Aterdid.
u.-Tmy ARE ENTERrAiNINe.
awe regard these books among the best and
most entertaining novels of the day" ."-SPri''g-
field Republican. .....
sThe reader is at once fascinated and held SPELL
bound until the volume is completed FREE
Press.
ssThere is no dull chapter in it. Utica Herald.
IH.-TIEy ARE MIRRORS OF TIE TIMES.
l. t'No one can peruse them without concedlng
the authors great skill in grasping and delinea-
ting the characters which figure conspicuously In
them.
/ 'iThe study which enables the author to define
| ate so accurately the emotions and incentives 10
action which moved men and women OF past |
| age must be close and untring, and Louisa Muh- |
bach shows in all of her works perfection which
carries the reader into the very presence OF the
characters represented. d."-Syracuse Journal.
Iv.-TnEY ARE HISTORICALLY CORRECT.
: 'IIistoricaly correct, and as entertaining as
" many of the volumes OF Sir W alter Scout Il T0V-
idence, Herald. go,
uLouisa Mubaeh must have carefully and dill
" gently studied the secrect histories of the times
. and countries of which She writes, and her task
W is done well and effectively. ~ Worcester Spy.
ssNo Historical Novelist has labored so faith
= fully and successfully to reproduce a complete
picture of past times and events. Chcd Herdtd
V-THEy ARE ORIGINAL. .-
'R at has agreeably surprised readers to find a
E. new writer with such constructive genius and
knowledge of character as Louisa Muhlbach pos
sesses. s.'--Public LeoIger.
'.Each succeeding novel adds to Mrs. Mundt s
fa t;on q of historic fiction ~ Y
Times.
VI.-THEY ARE FULL OF IMAGINATION.
cy ''She is not only the sklfu joiner, but neat
nst handed artizar. ."-Christdm Witness
els "Thcre is seldom any stranng after effect, but
it is really wonderful how Madame Mundt mana
pr ges to sustain and increase the interest to the
er- end. City Item.
" 'The word-painting of the authorcss is much
" more effective than the best efforts of the engrav-
er!'-IHinOis Stdte Register.
= VH.-TnEY CONTAIN ANECDOTES OF CouRrs.
tsScottish history offered no fresher and more
romantic material to the magic working hand o
[e Sir Walter Scott than she finds in the annals o
- the German courts - EseHing Gdz6He.
ing There are not he found anywhere in human
ow annals, unused, such magnificent, such supera
us bundant materials for romance clog the chroni
ian clcs of the Prussian and Austrian courts of th
IN 18th century BY their dress, their manners, thei
ma modes, of thought, their language, they are al
ple most as much separated from us as if they ha,
% %en' lived one thousand years ago. .'-ObSerUer.
VITI.-THEY TELL ABOUT EMrERoRs, KINGS, AM
Jec- QuEENs. II. -.
the We learn from her not only how Fredericl
William and Frederick the Great, Joseph the Sec
the ond, Votaire, Rousseau, Baron Trenck the En-
lent press Catherine walked and talked in their gran
nile roles, but how they powdered their hair, frted
and took tea. "-Rgister.
sses "The choice of her subjects exhibits her II
nost MUS. She takes the time of Frederick the Grea
e. Joseph the Second, for example and upon tn
and background of the facts which the chronicles {
els the periods afford she embroders the bright an
Is OF sonbre coor the light and shade of her ictior
with the skill of conslmate artist. Tile Edgl
uss IX.-THE STYLE Is INTERESTING.
Re- THE style Of this writer for purity, persp
der Guilty, and elegance, is something greatly to
v of commended. 1t is free from limitations manner
iSms, and tricks of every kind .''-The Argus
Acts THE translations do justice to the vivid, p
Ole quaint style of the originals and the story is fu
ST. of movement and crowded with instructive an
entertaining incident. ."-The ChicagoI'os
cles fphe interest of the book does not depend upc
its character nor its Incidents nor yet on its cha
,sta- ming style, bnt in its general harmony of col
| the position. Day Book.
N X.-EvERYBoDY Is READING THEM
az, "Our people seem TO have stopped readiI
,'m ,UfS French novels, and English works are col
sun, ,o planned of as dull Miss Muhbach precisely su
sim q ,rh NJ dpo,ois p " Saon Mod. 49, ,.;. 49,,
mily everv ONE 'NaTac. ''N' "ie U''iie is"u
JONI - "Muhlbach's novels have worldwide rer
. a. tatiOn, and are read with avidity as fast as
alton q ,rho,, a ro ai; :, u.;I "a 5s L." L.
'' s.eas ularity in this country. ."-Sae journal.
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