Eben Holden
A Tale of the North Country
By IRVING BACHELLER. Bound in red silk cloth, decorative cover, gilttop, rough edges. Size, 5x7¾. Price, $1.50
The most popular book in America.
Within eight months after publication it had reached its two hundred andfiftieth thousand. The most American of recent novels, it has indeedbeen hailed as the long looked for "American novel."
William Dean Howells _says of it_: "I have read ’Eben Holden’ with agreat joy in its truth and freshness. You have got into your book akind of life not in literature before, and you have got it there simplyand frankly. It is ’as pure as water and as good as bread.’"
Edmund Clarence Stedman _says of it_: "It is a forest-scented,fresh-aired, bracing, and wholly American story of country and townlife."
The Potter and the Clay: A Romance of Today Page 43