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Side 322 - A BRAVE LADY. BY THE AUTHOR OF "JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN." "A very good novel; a thoughtful, well-written book, showing a tender, sympathy with human nature, and permeated by a pure and noble spirit"— Examiner. ' 43. HANNAH. BY THE AUTHOR OF
Side 322 - CHRISTIAN'S MISTAKE. BY THE AUTHOR OF " JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN." " A more charming story, to our taste, has rarely been written. The writer has hit off a circle of varied characters all true to nature...
Side 321 - This Is a very good and a very interesting work. It is designed to trace the career from boyhood to age of a perfect man — a Christian gentleman, and it abounds in incident both well and highly wrought. Throughout it is conceived in a high spirit, and written with great ability, better than any former work, we think, of its deservedly successful author. This cheap and handsome new edition is worthy to pass freely from hand to hand, as a gift book in many households.
Side 321 - ... to express it in language effective and vigorous. In * A Life for a Life * she is fortunate in a good subject, and she has produced a work of strong effect. The reader, having read the book through for the story, will...
Side 322 - A NOBLE LIFE. BY THE AUTHOR OF "JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN." "This is one of those pleasant tales in which the author of 'John Halifax' speaks out of a generous heart the purest truths of life."— Examiner.
Side 320 - XXXVI.— A NOBLE LIFE. BY THE AUTHOR OF "JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN." "This is one of those pleasant tales in which the author of 'John Halifax' speak* out of a generous heart the purest truths of life.
Side 319 - MISTRESS AND MAID. BY THE AUTHOR OF " JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN." " A good wholesome book, gracefully written, and as pleasant to read as it is instructive." — Athenaeum. "A charming tale charmingly told.
Side 319 - It is not often that we light upon a novel of so much merit and interest as ' Barbara's History.' It is a work conspicuous for taste and literary culture. It is a very graceful and charming book, with a well-managed story, clearly-cut characters, and sentiments expressed with an exquisite elocution.
Side 319 - FORBES OF HOWGLEN. BY GEORGE MAC DONALD, LL.D. " No account of this story would give any idea of the profound interest that pervades the work from the first page to the last
Side 319 - By VICTOR HUGO. AUTHORISED COPYRIGHT ENGLISH TRANSLATION. "The merits of *Les Miserables' do not merely consist in the conception of it as a whole; it abounds, page after page, with details of unequalled beauty.