Maria Edgeworth Part 16

HESTER STANLEY AT ST. MARK'S. By HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD. With ill.u.s.trations. Small 4to. Cloth. Price, $1.25

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'Hester Stanley' is emphatically a girl's book, a story of school-day life 'at St. Mark's,' which will be read with great interest."

"This book is, we believe, the first attempt that Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford has made to write a story for girls, but it is written with so delicate a touch and in such a pleasing style that most girl readers who chance upon it will hope that it may not be the last. It is a story of a life in a girl's boarding-school, and the young heroine of it comes almost as near to the ideal of what is winning and womanly as Tom Brown did to the ideal of frank young manhood. The tone of the book is high and pure and sweet, and we do not remember a story among the recent issues of the press which can be placed in the hands of girls with a stronger a.s.surance that they will be charmed with its teaching and inspiration."--_Item._

EMILY BRONTe. Famous Women Series. By A. MARY F. ROBINSON. One volume, 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.00

"Miss Robinson has written a fascinating biography." ... "Emily Bronte is interesting, not because she wrote 'Wuthering Heights,' but because of her brave, baffled human life, so lonely, so full of pain, but with a great hope shining beyond all the darkness, and a pa.s.sionate defiance in bearing more than the burdens that were laid upon her. The story of the three sisters was infinitely sad, but it is the enn.o.bling sadness that belongs to large natures cramped and striving for freedom to heroic, almost desperate, work, with little or no result. The author of this intensely interesting, sympathetic and eloquent biography is a young lady and a poet, to whom a place is given in a recent anthology of living English poets, which is supposed to contain only the best poems of the best writers," says the _Boston Daily Advertiser._

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THE JEAN INGELOW BIRTHDAY BOOK. With red-line border and divisions, 12 ill.u.s.trations and portrait. 16mo. Cloth, gilt and illuminated. Price, $1.00

Full calf or morocco, $3.50

"This is a dainty little volume having a selection from Jean Ingelow for each day of the year. The extracts are of both prose and verse. There are graceful ill.u.s.trations for each month suited in subject to the season. The book will be welcomed by admirers of this writer and must prove a popular gift-book for the birthday season."--_Chicago Advance._

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UNDER THE SUN. By Phil. Robinson, the new English Humorist. With a Preface by Edwin Arnold, author of "The Light of Asia." 16mo. Cloth.

Price, $1.50

This is a volume of essays, humorous and pathetic, of incidents, scenes, and objects grouped under the heads: Indian Sketches, The Indian Seasons, Unnatural History, Idle Hours under the Punkah.

"Under the Sun," by Phil. Robinson, is one of the most delightful of recent books. The style is fascinating in its strength and picturesqueness, and there is now and then a delicious quaintness that recalls Charles Lamb. A volume such as this is rare in our day, when the art of essay writing is almost lost and forgotten. Freshness, vigor, humor, pathos, graphic power, a keen love for nature, a gentle love for animals, and a pleasing originality are among the more charming characteristics of this work, which may be read again and again with renewed satisfaction. Its scenes are laid in India, and whether the author discourses of the elephant, the rhinoceros, some bird that has attracted his attention, a tree, or a flower; whether he describes an exciting hunt, or tells a marvellous story; whether he moralizes or gives free rein to his fancy, he is always brilliant, fascinating, vivacious and masterly. It is difficult to write of this remarkable book without superlatives; but it is not too much to insist that it is impossible to exaggerate its peculiar merits, or to bestow too large a share of praise upon it. It is not a book for the few, but for the many, and all will find delight in its perusal."--_Sat.u.r.day Evening Gazette._

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A CONCISE ENGLISH HISTORY, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time.

By W. M. LUPTON. A readable volume of 400 pages, comprising, in paragraphs, every important event in the history of England. 12mo.

Cloth. Price, $1.50

"Mr. W. M. Lupton's 'Concise English History' condenses into 332 pages the substance of the history of England from the invasion of Julius Caesar down to our own time, and appends an index of 60 pages as a key to the contents of his admirable little book. It has peculiar merits as a school-book, and is the skeleton companion to the late J. R. Green's 'History of the English People.'"

"This is a volume that will be found very helpful to the student of history. It has 400 pages only, and yet every event of importance is to be found there. The general plan is to present the facts compressed into the fewest and clearest words. We heartily commend it."--_School Journal._

AN INLAND VOYAGE. By ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, author of "Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes." 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.00

"Those who have read Mr. Stevenson's delightful 'Travels with a Donkey,'

in which he told the story of a unique trip among the mountains of Southern France, will gladly welcome this bright account of a canoe voyage through the ca.n.a.ls of Belgium, on the Sambre, and down the Oise.

Unlike Captain Macgregor, of 'Rob Roy' fame, Mr. Stevenson does not make canoeing itself his main theme, but delights in charming bits of description that, in their close attention to picturesque detail, remind one of the work of a skilled 'genre' painter. Nor does he hesitate, from time to time, to diverge altogether from his immediate subject, and to indulge in a strain of gently humorous reflection that furnishes some of the pleasantest pa.s.sages of the book." ... "In a modest and quiet way Mr. Stevenson's book is one of the very best of the year for summer reading. The volume has a very neat design for the cover, with a fanciful picture of the 'Arethusa' and 'Cigarette,' the canoes of the author and his companion. The versatility which could produce works so unlike as 'An Inland Voyage' and the 'New Arabian Nights' is somewhat unusual."--_Good Literature._

LETTERS TO A FRIEND. By the late CONNOP THIRLWALL, D. D., Bishop of St.

David's, and edited by the late Dean Stanley. New and much enlarged edition. One volume, crown 8vo. Price, $1.50

"One of the most interesting collections of letters in the English language," says the _St. James' Gazette_.

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SINNERS AND SAINTS. A Tour across the States and around them, with Three Months among the Mormons. By PHIL. ROBINSON, author of "Under the Sun."

16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.50

"Although he has won a reputation as a humorist, Mr. Robinson is one of the most faithful of descriptive writers, and his pictures of life in the United States, as seen through the eyes of the cosmopolitan Englishman, may be accepted as trustworthy and instructive. His humor is of the sort that never wearies, for it is never extravagant or forced."

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His book will amply repay perusal."

"Mr. Robinson is the fortunate possessor of a rich and racy vein of humor, and the account he has given in the volume before us of his trip across the continent, and of his adventures in the territory of the Mormons, is entertaining in a very high degree. The larger part of the book is given up to a description of what the writer saw in Salt Lake City and the vicinity, and upon this subject he has much to say that will take most people by surprise. According to his story the Mormons have been very much maligned, and Mormonism, so far from being a pernicious and reprehensible inst.i.tution, which ought, in the interest of the public and of morality, to be suppressed by the exercise of any force that may be needed to accomplish that purpose, is a praiseworthy and beneficent system. This differs widely from the prevailing idea, but Mr. Robinson is earnest and evidently sincere in his statements, and as a non-resident Anglo-Indian he certainly has no object to misrepresent the facts. His report is well worth a careful and dispa.s.sionate reading.

Mr. Robinson's humor is of much the same order as that which makes the Mark Twain books so amusing, but it is wanting in that grave stolidity which distinguishes the American article, and is strongly flavored with the d.i.c.kens quality of fun."--_North American, Phila._

RED CLOUD, THE SOLITARY SIOUX. A Story of the Great Prairie. By LIEUT.-COL. BUTLER, author of "The Great Lone Land." With 24 full-page ill.u.s.trations. One volume, uniform with "The Two Cabin Boys." Square 16mo. Cloth, black and gold. Price, $1.50

"Lieutenant-Colonel Butler's books, 'The Great Lone Land' and 'The Wild North Land,' have had thousands of charmed readers, the large majority of whom will follow him with delight in 'The Red Cloud, the Solitary Sioux, a Story of the Great Prairie,' in which he gives us a most interesting _resume_ of the dangers, delights, fascinations and fears of life in the hunting-grounds of the North-west. Of course there is much of fiction in the story, and in this respect we have a work as charming as any of Cooper's; but the adventures are such as might happen to any brave and energetic hunter. They afford us a most excellent example of what life in the prairies may be, surrounded by Indians, in the chase for the deer and the buffalo, and they contain so many examples of exciting adventure, of daring, of Indian craft, that all who are fond of that kind of life will find the 'Red Cloud' one of the most agreeable of companions. Col. Butler tells of adventure with much skill. He readily conveys to his readers a realistic sense of what he describes, and he writes in an easy and pleasing tone."--_St. John's Globe._

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THE "WISDOM SERIES." Edited by the editor of "Quiet Hours" and "Sursum Corda." 16mo. Cloth, red edges. Flexible covers. Price per vol., $.50 Selections from the Imitation of Christ, by Thomas a Kempis; Selections from the Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus; Sunshine in the Soul (poems selected by the editor of "Quiet Hours"), First Series; Sunshine in the Soul, Second Series; Selections from Epictetus; The Wisdom of Jesus, the Son of Sirach: or Ecclesiasticus; The Wisdom of Solomon, and other Selections from the Apocrypha; Selections from Fenelon; The Life and Sermons of the Rev. Doctor John Tauler; Socrates, the Apology and Crito of Plato; Socrates, the Phaedo of Plato. The above are also published in six volumes complete, enclosed in a handsome box, and include everything issued thus far. Price for the set, $4.50

"The editor who gave us the excellent volume of selected poems called 'Quiet Hours,' and who has just prepared another and similar book, has done the public a service by here putting together in compact form the best of the thoughts and aspirations which this generation is too little disposed to look for amidst the less pregnant and valuable matter with which they are mingled in the full editions. A brief but compact and readable memoir prefaces each volume."--_Unitarian Review._

SUNSHINE IN THE SOUL. Poems selected by the editor of "Quiet Hours."

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