BY

THE AUTHOR OF "MARY POWELL."

THE YEAR NINE: A Tale of the Tyrol.

In post 8vo., price 7s. 6d., cloth gilt, with Frontispiece.

"Sweet Mary Powell' exchanges her lute for a cymbal, clanging with her white fingers upon the sounding brass. The subject is well chosen, and the theme inspiriting. 'Hofer' is the hero of her lute."-Art-Journal.

"A highly interesting volume, in which the noble stand made by an army of peasants for independence is told with great power and pathos."-Morning Herald. "It is full of talent and historical knowledge, and has the peculiar grace of 'Mary Powell's' style. A better book for a young lady is net to be found among the new Christmas books."- Globe.

"We give the warmest praise to this noble book; it is of thrilling interest, and one of the very best of its popular author's productions."-Nonconformist.

"A series of finished sketches of life, character, and manners among the mountains."-Leader.

THE GOOD OLD TIMES: A Tale of Auvergne.

Second Edition, price 7s. 6d., post 8vo. cloth, with Frontispiece.

"It is written in a clear, pointed style, embellished with original fancies, and eloquent with an earnest meaning. The various scenes and characters are obviously studies from life-the life of restlessness, of fear, of devotion, among the friends of martyrs, described by the chroniclers of that epoch, stained with the blood of fanatical wars and persecutions. Colette, as delicately and distinctly limned in the successive chapters, might have formed a figure in the fifteenth-century group, drawn by a home-inspired artist. Then, the struggle round the walls of Le Puy is a picture of olden warfare of arquebuss and halberd battles, of priestly soldiers, sworn to shed no blood, but casuistically, with a ponderous club, immortalizing the miserable routiers. Again, the crétin is a portrait painfully accurate. Indeed, the entire story is vivified by its evident reality."-Athenæum.

THE PROVOCATIONS OF MADAME PALISSY.

With Coloured Frontispiece by Warren. Third Edition, price 7s. 6d., post 8vo. cloth.

"One of the most graceful of stories gracefully told; something to touch the heart, to call up a smile, and to summon a tear even into manly eyes. We do not remember ever having met with a book at once so natural, so clever, and so emphatically delicious.'"-Church and State Gazette.

"It is a long time since we have met with a book of such truly excellent characteristics as are apparent in every page of this volume."-Bell's Messenger.

"On the basis of the true history of Palissy, the writer has formed the present work; has given a very spirited sketch of his labours; has exhibited the extravagances, amounting to crime, of a man of genius driving on in the pursuit of his darling object; and has depicted, as the title promises, with a good deal of power, the plagues of a wife who has such a husband."-Christian Observer.

Works by the Author of "MARY POWELL."

CLAUDE THE COLPORTEUR.

With Coloured Frontispiece after Warren. New Edition, price 7s. 6d., cloth gilt.

"The hero of the narrative is, in plain English, a Bible hawker among Roman Catholics chiefly; and his difficulties, ill-treatment, conversations, and beneficial influence, form the staple of the book-his character is well drawn."-English Churchman.

"The volume is one of no ordinary merit; for it throws intense interest around common occurrences and common characters, and presents not only a vivid series of pictures, but a well-sustained tale."-Church and State Gazette.

SOME ACCOUNT OF MRS. CLARINDA SINGLEHART. With Frontispiece. Post 8vo. cloth, price 7s. 6d.

"It may be said of all her works, that of their kind they are very good; and this cannot fail to give pleasure to every reader capable of appreciating literary merit, and it will commend itself for family reading, on account of the genial tone of the morality which runs throughout."-Atlas.

"The gentle, affectionate, and cheerful temper of the heroine, and the whole tone of the book, must have an influence for good upon any reader who is at all open to such influence, and is willing to allow books of this kind a higher office than that of merely amusing them for a few hours."-English Churchman.

"Above all, we notice a deep and pervading earnestness of religious feeling, which tends to elevate the story above the range of mere fiction; and this is a feature more especially which enables us to commend the book to the favourable consideration of our readers."-Church and State Gazette.

THE CHRONICLES OF MERRY ENGLAND.

In fcap. cloth, price 3s. 6d.

"We have here the records of old, from which the aged reader may learn as much, and with which he may be as much amused, as the young students, who will welcome the story-teller, and be grateful for the tale."-Church and State Gazette. "The work bids fair to become a great favourite with the young in schools and families."-British Quarterly.

"The method here adopted of teaching the facts of bygone times is one which will most assuredly have a considerable influence in fixing such facts upon the memory, and rendering them ineffaceable."—Bell's Messenger.

A SABBATH AT HOME.

A Short Manual for those who are occasionally hindered from attending the House of God. Price 3s. 6d., neatly bound.

YE MAIDEN AND MARRIED LIFE OF MARY POWELL, AFTERWARDS MISTRESS MILTON. Third Edition, in post 8vo., price

7s. 6d., antique.

"This is a charming little book; and whether we regard its subject, cleverness, or delicacy of sentiment and expression,-to say nothing of its type and orthography, it is likely to be a most acceptable present to young or old, be their peculiar taste for religion, morals, poetry, history, or romance."-Christian Ob

server.

"Unquestionably the production of an able hand and a refined mind. We recommend it to all who love pure, healthy literary fare."-Church and State Gazette. "This quaint narrative, presented in ancient binding, and in the type of bygone days, is a most acceptable addition to the literature of the times."Bell's Messenger.

YE HOUSEHOLD OF SIR THOMAS MORE. LIBELLUS A MARGARETA MORE, QUINDECIM ANNOS NATA, CHELSEIE INCEPTVS. Third Edition, with Portrait, &c., price 7s. 6d., cloth antique.

"It ends with musical melancholy, a strain of exquisitely simple beauty, referring to the judicial slaying of one of England's worthiest sons. There are some fine portraits ably limned herein. There are family pictures so graphically described, that they possess the mind for ever."-Church and State Gazette.

"Clever and agreeable reading. . . . . We can give the book unqualified praise for the pleasant and tolerably accurate pictures which it affords of the domestic manners of the period; and the characters of some of the personages represented are drawn with distinctness, and with the features of nature.”—Athenæum.

THE COLLOQUIES OF EDWARD OSBORNE, Citizen and Clothworker of London. Second Edition, with Frontispiece, &c., price 7s. 6d., cloth antique.

"This is a pleasant little volume, relating the fortunes of a London apprentice in the sixteenth century."-Athenæum.

"Of the many attempts at delineating the manners and opinions of the Stuart and Elizabethan times, as if from the pen of a contemporary writer, Edward Osborne' is the best. It has what the others have wanted-an actual story; it plunges its hero more completely into the business and life of the period, and not unskilfully mingles public events with private affairs. . . . . The secret of the author's success is that the scenes and manners of the Tudor age are interwoven with the narrative, or where they are merely introduced they are not overdone." -Spectator.

CHERRY AND VIOLET: A Tale of the Great Plague. Second Edition, price 7s. 6d., cloth antique.

"Without wishing to detract from the merit of Defoe, we are bound to say, that this is one of the best written descriptions of London during the time of that awful visitation that we ever came across."-John Bull.

"This, like all her stories, is sweet and graceful: a young girl innocently telling all her youthful feelings and adventures, and bringing into play the interest to be derived from a picture of London life in the times of the Protector and Charles II."-Guardian.

"A most agreeable story is presented, and the manner of telling it is as quaint and agreeable as the style of the type and binding."-Bell's Messenger.

"Ever welcome are the works of this authoress to the hearths and hearts of English readers and listeners. And very simply, and sweetly, and winningly, does Cherry tell her story; and a right admirable story it is, with just such a conclusion to it as we would have wished."-Church and State Gazette.

THE OLD CHELSEA BUNHOUSE: A Tale of the Last Century. Post 8vo., 7s. 6d., antique.

"This is out and out the most successful of those diaries of the olden time, in the composition of which the author of Mary Powell' excels. Nothing could be more graphic than the picture of life and manners in the different classes of society."-John Bull.

"The author has succeeded in giving as fair a picture of the period as any of the authors of the five volume novels of the time, with this additional merit, that the picture is evolved by means of a pretty story of domestic life."-The Press.

Works by the Author of "MARY POWELL," reduced in Price.

HELEN AND OLGA: A Russian Tale.

In post 8vo. cloth, with Vignette, price 3s. 6d.

"Told in very simple, and, at the same time, very impressive manner. The story is an illustration of the miseries of serfdom.... As a narrative, this 'Russian Tale' has much merit, while, as a picture of a phase of Russian life, its local colour' gives it a character of probability which is not often found in fiction. It will therefore be perused with pleasure by many readers; and it can, on the score of instruction as well as of entertainment, be cordially recommended to the favour of the general public."-Observer.

"A certain amount of ability and tact appears in all this author's works, the subject and style of which will generally secure many readers."-Literary Gazette.

"We must pronounce Helen and Olga' to be one of her most readable works. There is no particular concentration of interest, either in the events or the character, but most readers will find it such an attractive and lively novelette that they will have their attention and their interest sustained throughout."English Churchman.

TASSO AND LEONORA,

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"Another agreeable addition to the now numerous productions of a writer whose simple but graphic style is embellished with a vivid truth in manners and costume."-Gentleman's Magazine.

"The author is famous for constructing pretty historical fictions, and this is one of the best of them. The love story of the unfortunate Tasso is brought before the reader with much dramatic effect and archaic propriety."-Press.

"The subject is one of much interest, the chief incidents of the life of Tasso being ingeniously interwoven with notices of Italian history and the customs of that age."-Literary Gazette.

THE HILL-SIDE.

Illustrations of some of the Simplest Terms used in Logic. Fcap. cloth, 1s. 6d.

THE ADVENTURES OF THE CALIPH HAROUN ALRASCHID. Post 8vo. antique, 2s. 6d., or gilt, 5s.

QUEENE PHILIPPA'S GOLDEN BOOKE.

With Illuminations. Price 2s. 6d.; handsomely bound and gilt, 5s. JACK AND THE TANNER: A Tale of the Time of EDWARD THE SIXTH. Post 8vo. cloth, 9d., with Frontispiece.

"The story is never made to stand still. It is a drama of sparkling activity, wherein the scenery, dresses, appointments, and language are all appropriate and good."-Church and State Gazette.

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