RECOMMENDATIONS.
Kentucky Garland.
Mrs. Truesdell is fast becoming one of the popular authors of the day; four editions, in so short a time, is honor enough, and we hope money enough, until she gets out her fifth.
Fort Wayne Times.
Right cheerfully did we drop pen and scissors and turn over this woman's work: and how refreshing it was to rest from our rude toil, and yield ourselves up to the influence of the gentle, the tender, the loving, as it breathes in the sweet simplicity of these natural, truthful, and beautiful heart-paintings.
Wabash Sentinel.
Mrs. Truesdell's Poems are characterized by a simplicity, purity, and beauty.
New York Citizen.
We perceive by a western exchange, that the celebrated poetess, Mrs. Helen Truesdell, of Cincinnati, is about issuing a new volume, entitled, "Tales for my Pets;" it is her first prose work. Her volume published some two years since, had a large sale, and securely established her fame in that branch of literature. She is a woman of genius, and nothing from her pen, either prose or verse, can be flimsy or purposeless. We shall look for her new work with much interest.
Western Lady's Book.
A sweet spirit, wooing to the better land a depth of imagination winged and giving wings to the reader—patriotic streams, firing to a warmer love of country—humor to banish dull melancholy— a perception of the real and the true, without which rhyme is only rhyme a simple and pure style, reminding of the olden poets —sometimes a melancholy spirit, which adds brightness to the rest, as the clouds of an April day make the sunshine more bright and beautiful, and all impressed upon the soul, mind, and heart of the reader by a vigorous intellect, which never fails in its mission.
