The Triumphs of a Maid; or, 'Barbarine

London / New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1899. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition. Scarce - only 5 in OCLC. Spine toned, edges a bit faded. 1899 Hard Cover. 191, [1] pp. Green cloth, gilt titles, maroon border and rules. Photographic frontispiece of O.O. Howard. Includes introduction by Major General Oliver Otis Howard, who served the Union during the American Civil War, and helped integrate American slaves during Reconstruction. He states, in describing the protagonist: 'The gradual development of the child mind and heart; the startling influence that Barbarine finally attains; her sudden appearance in public, and her success in fascinating by her music an assembled multitude - it is all there in the book.