MAJOR JOSHUA.

A NOVEL.
By FRANCIS FORSTER.

12mo, Cloth, $1.00.

“Tn ‘Major Joshua’ Mr. Francis Forster has brought before us one of the most
curious and interesting, though certainly not one of the most admirable, characters in
recent fiction. . . . Onecan scarcely believe that such an excellent story as ‘Major
Joshua’ is a first effort."—DUNDEE ADVERTISER.

“We have rarely met a novel by a new hand which is written with such careful
restraint, and which in a comparatively short compass is so full of meaning. There is.
humor in it also, and a vein of satire which is not too serious to be entertaining.”

—WESTMINSTER GAZETTE.

“The charm of the book, however, is largely in the unique character of Major
Joshua, whose name is Robinson. He is a person whose chief business is to attend to
other people’s business. An imperturbable old busybody who looks upon matrimony
as a huge joke, he makes a tremendous amount of mischief, but always in a grimly
humorous sort of way.’”—BosSTON BEACON. .

“ Major Joshua Robinson is a new character in literature. . . He can hardly
be called the hero of Francis Forster’s new novel, since he is not of the stuff of which
heroes are made; but the author makes him the prominent figure in a very delightful
story.”’—BOSTON ADVERTISER.

__“It is more interesting than nine-tenths of the novels now written, since it deals
with unusual but not unnatural people and analyzes their motives and emotions in a
remarkably clever way. . . . Mr. Forster has written a book which people will

think about.’”—DETROIT PRESS.

DAVID’S LOOM.

A STORY OF ROCHDALE LIFE IN THE EARLY YEARS OF
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

By JOHN TRAFFORD CLEGG (Th’ Owd Weighver),

AUTHOR OF ‘‘ HEART STRINGS,’? ‘* PIECES IN ROCHDALE DIALECT,” ETC.

 

Crown 8vo, Cloth, $1.00.

“This is a very remarkable book in many ways. For one thing it is a triumph in ver-
nacular ; for another it is a very successful experiment in a hitherto untried and apparently
unpromising field of historical fiction. It gives us Rochdale life and dialect, tragedy and
comedy in the early part ofthe present century . . - altogether ‘ David’s Loom’ is one
of the most interesting and artistically satisfactory romances of the historical kind that have

been published for a long time.” —SPECTATOR, Lonpon.

“The story is a tragic one, and powerful as such, while its humorous passages in the
Lancashire dialect are by far its best parts. . . . Itisa deeply interesting story, and
has real literary merit,” —~SCOTSMAN.

“ A thrilling story. . . » The narrative never flags in interest from the opening to
the concluding pages.’’—DaiLy TELEGRAPH.

 

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