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COMPRISING THE 



CHARCOAL SKETCHES. 



FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD SERIES. 



THE FIRST SERIES is published for Twenty-five Cents. 

 Illustrated with two new Engravings, the same as formerly published 

 by Messrs. Cary & Hart of Philadelphia. 



THE SECOND SERIES, compiled after the death of the late 

 JosEPii C. Neal, and Edited by Mrs. Neal, is illustrated with ten 

 Engravings. Price Fifty Cents. 



THE THIRD SERIES, or Peter Ploddy, is illustrated with 

 ten Engravings. Price Fifty Cents. 



CRITIC.\L NOTICES OF THE PRESS. 



Mr. Neal's writings are, as it were, leaves from liis own heait. The sketches 

 are records of scenes and emotions of actual life. He uses against folly the keen 

 weapon of kindly ridicule ; vice is never disguised in "purple and fine linen" 

 when drawn by his pen. — Philrtdelphia Bulletin. 



Second Series. — The widow of the late universally esteemed and admired 

 Joseph C. Neal, has presented lo the public the second series of her husband's inimi- 

 table Sketches. There is a mournful interest connected with this publication, which 

 is very vividly aroused by perusinir the very beaatiful and pathetic introduction 

 of .Mrs. Neal. Three weeks before his death, Mrs. Neal entered his room where 

 he was engaged in arranging his papers, when he looked up with a sad smile : " I 

 suppose some one will give these to the world when I am gone," said he. 

 " Shocked at the idea thus presented, I tried," says Mrs. Neal, " to rally him, 

 and laughingly replied, ' if you are too busy to attend to the matter, let me do it 

 for you.' " " True, true," he answered still sadly, " I had forgotten ; you must be 

 my editor, will you not, Alice ? I shall not live to see them i)ublished.'' It is in 

 compliance with this promise, that Mrs. N. now appears before the public as 

 editress of her husband's woiks. There is something deeply affecting in her po- 

 sition, and we hope she may find a deep well of sympathy in the hearts of the 

 legions of friends whom it was the fortune of .Joseph C. Neal to acquire in his 

 brief and brilliant career. — N. 0. Delta. 



