"It has a good plot, excellent character-drawing, and the story is told in delightful style. There is a certain freshness and purity about Mrs. Burnett's writings that can never lose their charm, and 'A Fair Barbarian' is among her best productions."--_Boston Post._ "In her latest novel, 'A Fair Barbarian,' we find Mrs. Burnett amid still other scenes and characters; and here she seems likely to eclipse, at least as far as popularity is concerned, all her earlier triumphs. The title of the story is in itself a most happy conception. The 'Fair Barbarian' is a young American lady who has lived in Nevada, and who comes upon an English country town with the suggestive name of 'Slowbridge,' to a…
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