THE NOVELS OF ROSA N. CAREY
Reading edition
Over Half-a-Million of these works have been printed.
47th Thousand.
NELLIE'S MEMORIES.
STANDARD.—"Miss Carey has the gift of writing naturally and simply, her pathos is true and unforced, and her conversations are sprightly and sharp."
33rd Thousand.
WEE WIFIE.
LADY.—"Miss Carey's novels are always welcome; they are out of the common run, immaculately pure, and very high in tone."
29th Thousand.
BARBARA HEATHCOTE'S TRIAL.
DAILY TELEGRAPH.—"A novel of a sort which it would be a real loss to miss."
25th Thousand.
ROBERT ORD'S ATONEMENT.
STANDARD.—"Robert Ord's Atonement is a delightful book, very quiet as to its story, but very strong in character, and instinct with that delicate pathos which is the salient point of all the writings of this author."
32nd Thousand.
WOOED AND MARRIED.
STANDARD.—"There is plenty of romance in the heroine's life. But it would not be fair to tell our readers wherein that romance consists or how it ends. Let them read the book for themselves. We will undertake to promise that they will like it."
24th Thousand.
HERIOT'S CHOICE.
MORNING POST.—"Deserves to be extensively known and read.... Will doubtless find as many admirers as readers."
29th Thousand.
QUEENIE'S WHIM.
GUARDIAN.—"A thoroughly good and wholesome story."
35th Thousand.
NOT LIKE OTHER GIRLS.
PALL MALL GAZETTE.—"Like all the other stories we have had from the same gifted pen, this volume, Not Like Other Girls, takes a sane and healthy view of life and its concerns.... It is an excellent story to put in the hands of girls."
NEW YORK HOME JOURNAL.—"One of the sweetest, daintiest, and most interesting of the season's publications."
24th Thousand.
MARY ST. JOHN.
JOHN BULL.—"The story is a simple one, but told with much grace and unaffected pathos."
23rd Thousand.
FOR LILIAS.
VANITY FAIR.—"A simple, earnest, and withal very interesting story; well conceived, carefully worked out, and sympathetically told."
28th Thousand.
UNCLE MAX.
LADY.—"So intrinsically good that the world of novel-readers ought to be genuinely grateful."
21st Thousand.
RUE WITH A DIFFERENCE.
BOOKMAN.—"Fresh and charming.... A piece of distinctly good work."
34th Thousand.
ONLY THE GOVERNESS.
PALL MALL GAZETTE.—"This novel is for those who like stories with something of Jane Austen's power, but with more intensity of feeling than Jane Austen displayed, who are not inclined to call pathos twaddle, and who care to see life and human nature in their most beautiful form."
24th Thousand.
LOVER OR FRIEND?
GUARDIAN.—"The refinement of style and delicacy of thought will make Lover or Friend? popular with all readers who are not too deeply bitten with a desire for things improbable in their lighter literature."
21st Thousand.
BASIL LYNDHURST.
PALL MALL GAZETTE.—"We doubt whether anything has been written of late years so fresh, so pretty, so thoroughly natural and bright. The novel as a whole is charming."
22nd Thousand.
SIR GODFREY'S GRAND-DAUGHTERS.
OBSERVER.—"A capital story. The interest steadily grows, and by the time one reaches the third volume the story has become enthralling."
24th Thousand.
THE OLD, OLD STORY.
DAILY NEWS.—"Miss Carey's fluent pen has not lost its power of writing fresh and wholesome fiction."
24th Thousand.
THE MISTRESS OF BRAE FARM.
PALL MALL GAZETTE.—"Miss Carey's untiring pen loses none of its power, and her latest work is as gracefully written, as full of quiet home charm, as fresh and wholesome, so to speak, as its many predecessors."
12th Thousand.
MRS. ROMNEY and "BUT MEN MUST WORK."
PALL MALL GAZETTE.—"By no means the least attractive of the works of this charming writer."
New Impression.
OTHER PEOPLE'S LIVES.
BRADFORD OBSERVER.—"There is a quiet charm about this story which finds its way into the innermost shrines of life. The book is wholesome and good, and cannot fail to give pleasure to those who love beauty."
25th Thousand.
HERB OF GRACE.
WESTMINSTER GAZETTE.—"A clever delineator of character, possessed of a reserve of strength in a quiet, easy, flowing style, Miss Carey never fails to please a large class of readers. Herb of Grace is no exception to the rule...."
20th Thousand.
THE HIGHWAY OF FATE.
BOOKMAN.—"This pretty love story ... is charming, sparkling, and never mawkish."
19th Thousand.
A PASSAGE PERILOUS.
TIMES.—"Told with all Miss Carey's usual charm of quiet, well-bred sentiment."
OUTLOOK.—"A pretty story of English country-house life during the terribly anxious 'waiting days' of Ladysmith. The soldier's young bride is charmingly suggested and the love portions approach the idyllic."