BY ARTHUR COLTON
Port Argent
A Novel. With Frontispiece by Eliot Keen. $1.50
Port Argent is Mr. Colton's most ambitious work thus far. It presents a telling picture of American life in a Middle Western city about 1890, "a time and place of many experiments and many an undenominated thing." The main action covers only a few weeks. It involves business, politics, religion, sudden death, and love at cross-purposes, the Acadia of youth and the problem of old age. It offers no panacea for the municipal disease, and guarantees no social dogma, neither does it recommend despair. It suggests that charity is the most comfortable attitude toward one's neighbor's sins, though not necessarily the most useful. Its villains are not beyond human sympathy, and its heroes are imperfect.
Tioba
With a Frontispiece by A. B. Frost. 12mo, $1.25
Mr. Colton here depicts a gallery of very varied Americans. Tioba was a mountain which meant well but was mistaken.
"He is always the artist observer, adding stroke upon stroke with the surest of sure pens, … an author who recalls the old traditions that there were once such things as good writing and good story-telling."
CRITIC:
"In each of these stories he has presented some out-of-the-way fragment of life with faithfulness and power … He has the artist's instinct."
LAMP:
"He has originality, feeling, humor."
N. Y. TRIBUNE:
"There is serious thought as well as good art in this book; there is individuality also, and we gladly commend it."
"Mr. Colton rarely fails to strike the reader's fancy by his unexpected and ingenious turns of thought and his quaint way of putting things."
| HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY | ||
| Publishers | (iii '04) | New York |
