Again the bells broke out overhead, filling the air with music that had rung from them ever since just such another morning hundreds of years before, when they rang their first peal from the church tower, bearing the legend newly cut upon them: "Pray for the Soul of Anne de Tracy, 1538." And Anne de Tracy's memory was forgotten--so long forgotten--except for the bells that carried her name!
Yet in these same meadows that she must have known, spring was come once more. The Devonshire plum trees had budded and blossomed and shed their petals year after year, and year after year, since the bells first swung in the air; and now Hope was born once again, and Youth, and Love, which is immortal!
"Of all the children of Mrs. Wiggin's brain, the most laughable and the most lovable is Rebecca."--_Life, N. Y._
"Rebecca creeps right into one's affections and stays there."--_Philadelphia Item._
"A character that is irresistible in her quaint, humorous originality."--_Cleveland Leader._
"Rebecca is as refreshing as a draught of spring water."--_Los Angeles Times._
"Rebecca has come to stay with one for all time, and delight one perpetually, like Marjorie Fleming."--_Literary World, Boston._
"It is not often that one comes upon so clean a farce, so delightful, good-humored satire."--_Chicago Evening Post._
"He has woven wit and humor and clever satire into this airy fantasy of twentieth century life in a way that should add to his literary fame."--_Indianapolis Star._
"For sheer cleverness of invention and sprightly wit this story has had no peer in recent years."--_New York Press._
"Just the sort of book which will delight those seeking clean, wholesome entertainment."--_Boston Globe._
"Meredith Nicholson's is a delightful book, witty, epigrammatic, flavorsome ... recalls Frank Stockton's bewitching foolery and perennial charm."--_Milwaukee Free Press._
"An admirable romance of adventure. It tells of the life of one Hughie Marrable, who, from college days to the time when fate relented, had no luck with women. The story is cleverly written and full of sprightly axioms."--_Philadelphia Ledger._
"It is a very joyous book, and the writer's powers of characterization are much out of the common."--_The Dial._