This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...of Arthur Wilton, a young englishman. who would doubtless hav married Margery in the final chapter, had marriages been permissible in stories for school-girls. The french simplicity which, where it really exists, is exquisit, and which is alt6gether the opposit of that abomination kndn as chic, pervades this story like ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...of Arthur Wilton, a young englishman. who would doubtless hav married Margery in the final chapter, had marriages been permissible in stories for school-girls. The french simplicity which, where it really exists, is exquisit, and which is alt6gether the opposit of that abomination kndn as chic, pervades this story like a perfume. An amount of skil and subtlety has been expended--we do not say wasted--on 'Margery Merton's Girlhood' which would hav made the fortune of more than one good novel." Spectator. 2144 MARGUERITE, or Two Loves, by Delphine (gay) Girardin: Appleton. 1862. 2145 MARIE DERVILLE by Hor Tensf. (guizot) De Witt: Lippincott, 1873. "is a brit and pleasant story of country life. The heroin is a dauter of a captain who departs on a 3 years' cruise. In his absence pecuniary troubles overtake the family, and his wife and mother set up a boarding-school, life in which constitutes the principal material of the story." Boston 'Literary World." 2146 MARINER OF THE LOIRE (The) by E. Souvestre, in Southern Lit. Messenger. Dec. 1855. 2147 MARKETS OF PARIS (THE) 'Ventre de Paris") by Emile Zola: Peterson. 1S79. "is the most successful and the subtlest study the author has made of one of those colorless characters which offer few or no salient points t6 most students of life, but whose delineation always tasks the hiest powers of the novelist of the first class. The heroin, Lisa, belongs t6 the Macquart family--with different members of which all of Mr. Zola's books ar concerned--and unites her father's selfishness and her mother's industry; she may be called, in fact, the embodiment of the reasons which led t6 her parents' marriage. Her 'enlitened self-interest' assures her that it is in the orderly path of life that comfort ...
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