Chapter III

=BETWEEN WHILES.= By HELEN JACKSON (H. H.).

“P.S.—Did anybody ever publish a volume of short stories called ‘Between Whiles’? If not, hide it away and don’t tell anybody, and by next spring I will have had enough short stories printed to make a nice summer volume. Isn’t it a lovely title?”—_Postscript to a letter of Mrs. Jackson to her publisher, dated San Francisco, June 26, 1885._

RAMONA: A STORY.

BY HELEN JACKSON (H. H.).

12mo. Cloth. Price $1.50.

_The Atlantic Monthly_ says of the author that she is “a Murillo in literature,” and that the story “is one of the most artistic creations of American literature.” Says a lady: “To me it is the most distinctive piece of work we have had in this country since ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ and its exquisite finish of style is beyond that classic.” “The book is truly an American novel,” says the _Boston Advertiser._ “Ramona is one of the most charming creations of modern fiction,” says Charles D. Warner. “The romance of the story is irresistibly fascinating,” says _The Independent_.

“The best novel written by a woman since George Eliot died, as it seems to me, is Mrs. Jackson’s ‘Ramona.’ What action is there! What motion! How _entrainant_ it is! It carries us along as if mounted on a swift horse’s back, from beginning to end, and it is only when we return for a second reading that we can appreciate the fine handling of the characters, and especially the Spanish mother, drawn with a stroke as keen and firm as that which portrayed George Eliot’s ‘Dorothea.’”—_T. W. Higginson, in Harper’s Bazar._

Unsolicited tribute of a stranger, a lady in Wisconsin:—

“I beg leave to thank you with an intense heartiness for your public espousal of the cause of the Indian. In your ‘Century of Dishonor’ you showed to the country its own disgrace. In ‘Ramona’ you have dealt most tenderly with the Indians as men and women. You have shown that their stoicism is not indifference, that their squalor is not always of their own choosing. You have shown the tender grandeur of their love, the endurance of their constancy. While, by ‘Ramona,’ you have made your name immortal, you have done something which is far greater. You are but one: they are many. You have helped those who cannot help themselves. As a novel, ‘Ramona’ must stand beside ‘Romola,’ both as regards literary excellence and the portrayal of life’s deepest, most vital, most solemn interests. I think nothing in literature since Goldsmith’s ‘Vicar of Wakefield’ equals your description of the flight of Ramona and Alessandro. Such delicate pathos and tender joy, such pure conception of life’s realities, and such loftiness of self-abnegating love! How much richer and happier the world is with ‘Ramona’ in it!”

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ROBERTS BROTHERS, BOSTON.

A KEY TO “RAMONA.”

A CENTURY OF DISHONOR.

A Sketch of the United States Government’s Dealings with some of the Indian Tribes.

By HELEN JACKSON (H. H.),

AUTHOR OF “RAMONA,” “VERSES,” “BITS OF TRAVEL,” ETC.

A New Edition. 12mo. pp. 514. Cloth. $1.50.

“The report made by Mrs. Jackson and Mr. Kinney is grave, concise, and deeply interesting. It is added to the appendix of this new edition of her book. In this California journey, Mrs. Jackson found the materials for ‘Ramona,’ the Indian novel, which was the last important work of her life, and in which nearly all the incidents are taken from life. In the report of the Mission Indians will be found the story of the Temecula removal and the tragedy of Alessandro’s death as they appear in ‘Ramona.’”—_Boston Daily Advertiser._

“A number of striking cases of breach of faith, heartless banishment from homes confirmed to the Indians by solemn treaties, and wars wantonly provoked in order to make an excuse for dispossessing them of their lands, are grouped together, making a panorama of outrage and oppression which will arouse the humanitarian instincts of the nation to the point of demanding that justice shall be done toward our savage wards.... ‘H. H.’ succeeds in holding up to the public eye a series of startling pictures of Indian wrongs, drawn from a century of American history.”—_New York Tribune._

Mrs. Jackson’s Letter of Gratitude to the President.

The following letter from Mrs. Jackson to the President was written by her four days before her death, Aug. 12, 1885:—

_To_ GROVER CLEVELAND, _President of the United States_:

Dear Sir,—From my death-bed I send you a message of heartfelt
thanks for what you have already done for the Indians. I ask
you to read my “Century of Dishonor.” I am dying happier for
the belief I have that it is your hand that is destined to
strike the first steady blow toward lifting this burden of
infamy from our country, and righting the wrongs of the Indian
race.

With respect and gratitude,

HELEN JACKSON.

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