Transcriber’s Note
Transcriber’s Note
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HELEN AND ARTHUR;
OR,
Miss Thusa’s Spinning Wheel.
BY
MRS. CAROLINE LEE HENTZ.
AUTHOR OF “LINDA,” “COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE,” “PLANTER’S NORTHERN BRIDE,”
“LOVE AFTER MARRIAGE,” “EOLINE,” “RENA,” ETC.
Complete in one large volume, bound in cloth, price One Dollar andTwenty-five cents, or in two volumes, paper cover, for One Dollar.
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“This book, by one of the most popular authors in the country, has beenissued in the publisher’s very best style. There are but few readers ofthe current literature of the day, who are not acquainted with the name,and the stories of this authoress. Her style is a pleasing one, and herstories usually strongly marked in incident. The volume now publishedabounds with the most beautiful scenic descriptions, and displays anintimate acquaintance with all phases of human character; all thecharacters being exceedingly well drawn. The moral is of a mostwholesome character, and the plot, incidents, and management, giveevidence of great tact, skill and judgment, on the part of the writer.It is a work which the oldest and the youngest may alike read withprofit.”—Dollar Newspaper.
“It is a tale of Southern life, where Mrs. Hentz is peculiarly at home,and so far as we have had time to examine it, it gives proofs ofpossessing all the excellencies that have already made her writings sopopular throughout the country. The sound, healthy tone of all Mrs.Hentz’s tales makes them safe as well as delightful reading, and we cansafely and warmly recommend it to all who delight in agreeable fictions.Mr. Peterson has published it in a beautifully printed volume.”—EveningBulletin.
“A story of domestic life, written in Mrs. Hentz’s best vein. Thedetails of the plot are skilfully elaborated, and many passages aredeeply pathetic.”—Commercial Advertiser.
MRS. CAROLINE LEE HENTZ’S OTHER WORKS.
T. B. Peterson having purchased the stereotype plates of all thewritings of Mrs. Hentz, he has just published a new, uniform andbeautiful edition of all her works, printed on a much finer and betterpaper, and in far superior and better style to what they have everbefore been issued in, (all in uniform style with Helen and Arthur,)copies of any one or all of which will be sent to any place in theUnited States, free of postage, on receipt of remittances. Each bookcontains a beautiful illustration of one of the best scenes. Thefollowing are the names of these celebrated works:
[8]LINDA. THE YOUNG PILOT OF THE BELLE CREOLE. Complete in two volumes,paper cover, price One Dol., or bound in one volume, cloth gi