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ABOUT OLD STORY-TELLERS.
OF HOW AND WHEN THEY LIVED, AND WHAT STORIES THEY TOLD.
By Donald G. Mitchell. Author of "The Reveries of a Bachelor," etc., etc.
With numerous illustrations. One volume, 12mo $1.25.
"Mr. Mitchell's literary style, so chaste, simple and pure, is
admirably adapted for this kind of writing, and he employs his facile
and congenial pen, in the present instance, with entire success.
'About Old Story-Tellers' is made up of the best of the old stories,
gathered from all sources, re-told in Mr. Mitchell's inimitable
manner, and interwoven with lively sketches of the original writers
and the times in which they flourished."--_New Haven Journal and
Courier._
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CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, Publishers,
743 & 745 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.
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"Stockton has the knack, perhaps genius would be a better word, of
writing in the easiest of colloquial English without descending to
the plane of the vulgar or common-place.
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