Owen Wister - The Pentecost Of Calamity

"Wholly charming from end to end." — Toronto Globe.

"The story maintains a rare quality of sincerity and indefinable charm." — North American , Philadelphia.

"A most charming story… one of the most exquisite done in years." — Citizen , Brooklyn.

"A love story that even excels that between Molly Wood and 'The Virginian.'"— The Advance , Chicago.

"We have been wholly charmed with 'Lady Baltimore' and wish sincerely that it was our luck to read books like it every day," — Richmond Times-Dispatch.

How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee

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"Mr. Wister's humor is always genuine and racy, and in this little burlesque he fairly riots in absurd specimens of supersimplified spelling. This fantastic skit is intensely amusing." — Outlook.

"It is a clever extravaganza, and points a moral without possibility of mistake." — Louisville Post.

"Its spirit is the spirit of pure farce, and the vein of satire that runs through it only adds to the hilarity of the tale." — Critic.

Philosophy Four

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"Told well and with a reserve which betokens a ripe literary craft." — Daily Chronicle.

"Owen Wister is a born story-teller. If you have ever read any of his books you have doubtless discovered this for yourself. In this charming story of undergraduate life at Harvard, Mr. Wister has shown that he has great skill in character delineation." — The Boston Globe.

The Seven Ages of Washington

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CRITICAL COMMENDATION

"It is a curious fact that the life of Washington has never been really easy to write…. But in these matters the character of the historian means everything. If we have the right man we may be sure of a good book. As regards the true Washington we have in Mr. Wister the right man.

"'The Seven Ages of Washington'… gives a remarkable interpretation of its subject…. It is plain that the author has been moved to the depths of him by his hero's worth, finding in the traditionally 'cold' figure of Washington a type to touch the emotions as vividly as Napoleon touches them in even his most dramatic moments. He passes on his impression in a few chapters which gather up everyday traits as they come out in letters and other records. The salient events in Washington's career, military and political, are indicated rather than dwelt upon. The object of interest is always his character; the things placed in the foreground are the episodes, great or small, which show us that character in action or point to the sources of its development….

"The background is handled with perfect discretion. The reader who is searching for an authoritative biography of Washington, brief, and made humanly interesting from the first page to the last, will find it here." — From a column review of the book in The New York Tribune , Nov. 23, 1907.

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