A ROMANCE OF THE CIVIL WAR.
The Victory.
By MOLLY ELLIOTT SEAWELL, author of “The Château of Montplaisir,” “The Sprightly Romance of Marsac,” etc. Illustrated. Cloth, $1.50.
“With so delicate a touch and appreciation of the detail of domestic and plantation life, with so wise comprehension of the exalted and sometimes stilted notions of Southern honor and with humorous depiction of African fidelity and bombast to interest and amuse him, it only gradually dawns on a reader that ‘The Victory’ is the truest and most tragic presentation yet before us of the rending of home ties, the awful passions, the wounded affections personal and national, and the overwhelming questions of honor which weighed down a people in the war of son against father and brother against brother.”—Hartford Courant.
“Among the many romances written recently about the Civil War, this one by Miss Seawell takes a high place.... Altogether, ‘The Victory,’ a title significant in several ways, makes a strong appeal to the lover of a good tale.”—The Outlook.
“Miss Seawell’s narrative is not only infused with a tender and sympathetic spirit of romance and surcharged with human interests, but discloses, in addition, careful and minute study of local conditions and characteristic mannerisms. It is an intimate study of life on a Virginia plantation during an emergent and critical period of American history.”—Philadelphia North American.
“It is one of the romances that make, by spirit as well as letter, for youth and high feeling. It embodies, perhaps, the best work this author yet has done.”—Chicago Record-Herald.
“Aside from the engaging story itself and the excellent manner in which it is told there is much of historic interest in this vivid word-picture of the customs and manners of a period which has formed the background of much fiction.”—Brooklyn Citizen.
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK.