Just published, in two Volumes, 8vo.

PAYNELL,

OR,

THE DISAPPOINTED MAN,

A NOVEL,

BY MILES STAPLETON, Esq.

Critical Notices.

"The writing is clever, and the thoughts nicely developed. The story we know to be true; and under the feigned names of Harland, Paynell, and so forth, some will recognise old acquaintances. The charm is in the writing, and that is no small charm. Mr. Stapleton deserves to be congratulated."-Fraser's Magazine.

"The incidents are worked out with great power, and the story conveys most impressive moral lessons in very eloquent language. The work is powerfully written. It deserves, and we doubt not will enjoy, extensive circulation."-Dispatch.

"It is curious enough, that if this publication had appeared anonymously, and not contemporaneously, with Mrs. Shelley's Falkner, we should have confidently concluded that it was of the lineage of Caleb Williams. It is of the Godwin school, and has much of its most effective power. Paynell is an impressive tragedy. The author evinces considerable depth of observation."-Examiner.

"These volumes are evidently the production of a chivalrous yet ill requited spirit; it is impossible not to recognise the many traces of genius with which they abound. The author delineates and lays bare the workings of the human heart with a master hand-his touches are deeply wrought, and well sustained. The penetrating sagacity, the pathos, the tenderness of idea yet ever and anon roused into action by a happy union of daring, together with a vivid eloquence of language, invests these volumes with novelty of colouring which must come home to every heart. There is a moral also to be adduced from these pages, which we doubt not will be productive of the best results."--Leeds Mercury.

"This moral is finely and sternly wrought out in these pages. The indolent and unfilled hours soon lead to the want of any excitement, and this is found in a criminal passion, the progress of which is developed truly and terribly."-Court Journal.

"This work is more than an interesting novel, it is an essay on life and the human passions. The author has dissected and laid bare the human heart to its very core; and the story, for skill in its delineation and profound interest in its incidents, has rarely been matched of late years. We can scarcely imagine a heart that would not respond to the eloquent out-pourings of grief of the all-accomplished but ill-fated Maria; the entire work, indeed, varied and enlivened as it is by a glowing picture of the gorgeous East, will be read with the greatest interest."- Birmingham Journal.

"The author of Paynell' has added a new name of promise to our already thickly studded field of literature. Mr. Stapleton bas evidently luxuriated in the East-his picturesque and Oriental scenes are beautifully described, and the work itself, a story of intense passion and adventure, bears such marks of originality as will rivet the attention of the reader; he delineates and lays bare the workings of the human heart with a master hand."-Manchester Courier.

"His style, indeed, using the word in its most extensive meaning, is singularly graceful, rich, and flowing."-Monthly Review, March 1.

"This is, we believe, Mr. Stapleton's first work-it is a brilliant promise-and we prophecy that we shall have to address his next production in the words of Horace, O matre pulchrâ, filia pulchrior."New Monthly Mag.