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MISS CHESE BRO'S NEW WORK.

DREAM-LAND BY DAYLIGHT;

A

PANORAMA OF ROMANCE.

Br CAROLINE CHESEBRO.

Illustrated by DARLEY. One vol., 12mo.

"These simple and beautiful stories are all highly endued with an exquisite perception of natural beauty, with which is combined an appreciative sense of its relation to the highest moral emotions."-Albany State Register.

"There is a fine vein of pure and holy thought pervading every tale in the volume; and every lover of the beautiful and true will feel while perusing it that he is conversing with a kindred spirit.”—Albany Evening Atlas.

"The journey through Dream-Land will be found full of pleasure; and when one returns from it, he will have his mind filled with good suggestions for practical life."-Rochester Democrat.

“The anticipations we have had of this promised book are more than realized. It is a collection of beautiful sketches, in which the cultivated imagination of the authoress has interwoven the visions of Dream-Land with the realities of life." Ontario Messenger.

"The dedication, in its sweet and touching purity of emotion, is itself an earnest of the many blessed household voices' that come up from the heart's clear depth, throughout the book."-Ontario Repository.

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Gladly do we greet this floweret in the field of our literature, for it is fragrant with sweets and bright with hues that mark it to be of Heaven's own planting." Courier and Enquirer.

"There is a depth of sentiment and feeling not ordinarily met with, and some of the noblest faculties and affections of man's nature are depicted and illustrated by the skilful pen of the authoress:”—Churchman.

"This collection of stories fully sustains her previous reputation, and also gives a brilliant promise of future eminence in this department of literature."

Tribune.

"We find in this volume unmistakeable evidences of originality of mind, an almost superfluous depth of reflection for the department of composition to which it is devoted, a rare facility in seizing the multiform aspects of nature, and a still rafer r power of giving them the form and hue of imagination, without destroying their identity."-Harper's Magazine.

"In all the productions of Miss Chesebro's pen is evident a delicate perception of the relation of natural beauty to the moral emotions, and a deep love of the true and the beautiful in art and nature."--Day-Book.

Clouernook;

OR,

RECOLLECTIONS OF OUR HOME IN THE WEST.
Br ALICE CAREY.

Illustrated by DARLEY. One vol., 12mo.

"We do not hesitate to predict for these sketches a wide popularity. They bear the true stamp of genius-simple, natural, truthful—and evince a keen sense of the humor and pathos, of the comedy and tragedy, of life in the country. No one who has ever read it can forget the sad and beautiful story of Mary Wildermings; its weird fancy, tenderness, and beauty; its touching description of the emotions of a sick and suffering human spirit, and its exquisite rural pictures. The moral tone of Alice Carey's writings is unobjectionable always."--J. G. WHITTIER.

"Miss Carey's experience has been in the midst of rural occupations, in the interior of Ohio. Every word here reflects this experience, in the rarest shapes, and most exquisite hues. The opinion now appears to be com monly entertained, that Alice Carey is decidedly the first of our female authors; an opinion which Fitz-Greene Halleck, J. G. Whittier, Dr. Griswold, Wm. D. Gallagher, Bayard Taylor, with many others, have on various occasions endorsed."-Illustrated News.

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If we look at the entire catalogue of female writers of prose fiction in this country, we shall find no one who approaches Alice Carey in the best characteristics of genius. Like all genuine authors she has peculiarities; her hand is detected as unerringly as that of Poe or Hawthorne; as much as they she is apart from others and above others; and her sketches of country life must, we think, be admitted to be superior even to those delightful tales of Miss Mitford, which, in a similar line, are generally acknowledged to be equal to anything done in England."—International Magazine.

"Alice Carey has perhaps the strongest imagination among the women of this country. Her writings will live longer than those of any other woman among us."-American Whig Review.

Her country

"Alice Carey has a fine, rich, and purely original genius. stories are almost unequaled."-Knickerbocker Magazine. "Miss Carey's sketches are remarkably fresh, and exquisite in delicacy, humor, and pathos. She is booked for immortality."-Home Journal.

"The Times speaks of Alice Carey as standing at the head of the living female writers of America. We go even farther in our favorable judgment, and express the opinion that among those living or dead, she has had no equal in this country; and we know of few in the annals of English literature who have exhibited superior gifts of real poetic genius."-The (Portland, Me.) Eclectic.

MEN AND WOMEN

OF THE

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

BY ARSENE HOUSSAYE.

With Beautifully-Engraved Portraits of Louis XV. and Made. de Pompadour. In Two Volumes, 12mo., Cloth-PRICE $2.50.

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THREE PAGES IN THE LIFE OF DANCOURT.

A PROMENADE IN THE PALAIS-ROYAL.

LE CHEVALIER DE LA CLOS.

"A series of pleasantly desultory papers-neither history, biography, criticism, nor romance, but compounded of all four: always lively and graceful, and often sparkling with esprit, that subtle essence which may be so much better illustrated than defined. M. Houssaye's aim in these sketches for evidently he had an aim beyond the one he alleges of pastime for his leisure hours - seems to have been to discourse of persons rather celebrated than known, whose names and works are familiar to all, but with whose characters and histories few are much acquainted. To the mass of readers, his book will have the charm of freshness; the student and the man of letters, who have already drunk at the springs whence M. Houssaye has derived his inspiration and materials, will pardon any lack of novelty for the sake of the spirit and originality of the treatment."-BLACKWOOD.

IN PRESS,

PHILOSOPHERS AND ACTRESSES.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

JUST PUBLISHED,

THE LADIES OF THE COVENANT.

MEMOIRS OF

DISTINGUISHED SCOTTISH FEMALE CHARACTERS, Embracing the Period of the Covenant and the Persecution.

BY THE REV. JAMES ANDERSON.

In One Volume, 12mo., cloth, PRICE $1.25-extra gilt, gilt edges $1.75.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

"It is written with great spirit and a hearty sympathy, and abounds in incidents of more than a romantic interest, while the type of piety it discloses is the noblest and most elevated."—N. Y. Erangelist.

"Seldom has there been a more interesting volume than this in our hands. Stories of Scottish suffering for the faith have always thrilled us; but here we have the memoirs of distinguished female characters, embracing the period of the Covenant and the Persecution, with such tales of heroism, devotion, trials, triumphs, or deaths. as rouse subdue, and deeply move the heart of the reader."-N. Y. Observer.

"Many a mother in Israel will have her faith strengthened, and her zeal awakened, and her courage animated afresh by the example set before her-by the cloud of wit nesses of her own sex, who esteemed everything-wealth, honor, pleasure, ease, and life itself-vastly inferior to the grace of the Gospel; and who freely offered themselves and all that they had, to the sovereign disposal of Him who had called them with an holy calling; according to his purpose and grace."— Richmond, (Va.) Watchman and Observer.

"The Scotch will read this book because it commemorates their noble countrywomen; Presbyterians will like it, because it records the endurance and triumphs of their faith; and the ladies will read it, as an interesting memorial of what their sex has done in trying times for truth and liberty."-Cincinnati Central Christian Herald.

"It is a record which, while it confers honor on the sex, will elevate the heart, and strengthen it to the better performance of every duty."-Richmond (Va.) Religious Herald.

"The Descendants of these saints are among us, in this Pilgrim land, and we earn. estly commend this book to their perusal."-Plymoth Old Colony Memorial.

"There are pictures of endurance, trust, and devotion, in this volume of illustrious suffering, which are worthy of a royal setting."—Ontario Repository.

"They abound with incidents and anecdotes illustrative of the times and we need scarcely say are deeply interesting to all who take an interest in the progress of chris. tianity.""-Boston Journal.

"Mr. Anderson has treated his subject ably, and has set forth in strong light the en during faith and courage of the wives and daughters of the Covenanters."-N. Y. Albion "It is a book of great attractiveness, having not only the freshness of novelty but every element of historical interest.-Courier and Enquirer.

"The author is a clergyman of the Scottish kirk, and has executed his undertaking with that spirit and fulness which might be expected from one enjoying the best advantages for the discovery of obscure points in the history of Scotland, and the warmes sympathy with the heroines of his own creed."-Commercial Advertiser.

JUST PUBLISHED,

LAYS OF THE SCOTTISH CAVALIERS.

BY WILLIAM E. AYTOUN,

PROFESSOR OF LITERATURE AND BELLES LETTRES IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, AND EDITOR OF BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.

One Volume, 12mo., Cloth-PRICE $1.

"These strains belong to stirring and pathetic events, and until poetic descriptions of them shall be disregarded, we think Mr. Aytoun's productions well calculated to maintain a favorite place in public estimation."-Literary Gazette.

"The ballads in question are strongly tinged by deep national feeling, and remind the reader of Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome;' and, from the more picturesque nature of the subject, are, perhaps, even still more highly colored. Edinburgh after Flodden,' 'the Death of Montrose,' and the Battle of Kiliecranke,' are strains which Scotchmen will not willingly let die."-Men of the Time in 1852.

"Choosing from the ample range of Scottish history, occasions which are near and dear to the popular sympathy of his country, Mr Aytoun, confident of the force of strong convictions and a direct appeal to the elementary emotions of the human heart, has presented us eight noble lays-clear in feeling, simple and direct in expression, and happily varied and variable in measure, which will, we are confident, outlive many, if not all, of his more pretentious and ornamented contemporaries."-Literary World.

ALSO,

THE BOOK OF BALLADS.

EDITED BY

BON GAULTIER.

One Volume, 12mo., Cloth-PRICE 75 cts.

"Bon Gaultier himself, his wit, satire, and versification, remained a 'Yarrow unvisited.' The opuscula of that humorous writer, somehow marvellously escaping the prehensile fingers of our publishers, were yet unknown to American readers; though an occasional whiff and stray aroma of the choice volume had now and then transpired through the columns of a magazine or newspaper.

"Bon Gaultier's Book of Ballads is simply the wittiest and best thing of the kind since the Rejected Addresses. Its parodies of Lockhart (in the Spanish Ballads), of Tennyson (his lovely sing-song puerilities), of Macaulay (the sounding Roman strain), of Moses (the puff poetical'), are, with a dozen others, in various ways, any of them equal to the famous Crabbe, and Scott, and Coleridge of the re-ascending Drury Lane." Literary World.

IN PRESS,

Manon Lescaut.

BY

THE ABBE PREVOST.

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