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PUBLISHED BY 



JAMES HOGG AND SONS 



LONDON 



The Female Characters of Holy Writ. 



By the Rev. HUGH HUGHES, D.D., Rector of St. John's, Clerkenwell, and 

 Lecturer of St. Leonard's, Shoreditcb. A New and revised Edition. One- 

 voL 8vo. cloth, 10s. 6d. 



" rpHE^lanof this work differs from all others of the kind iu the following require 

 1 ments : 1. To present all the Female Characters of Holy Writ with scarcely an 

 exception or omission of any. 2. To present the Female Characters of the Canonical 

 books without intermixing with them any of the Apocryphal biographies. 8. To deduce 

 from each of them distinct practical instruction. 4. To exhibit them chronologically, and 

 to connect them by a chain of reference, so as to keep in view the stream ot Sacred History 

 and the varying aspect of the Church in different aes of the world. 



"As combining these several requisites to unity, comprehensiveness and complete- 

 ness, this attempt will be seen to bear features which distinguish it from all other attempts 

 in the same field of Sacred Literature." Extract from the Preface. 



The English Gentlewoman ; 



or, A Practical Manual for Young Ladies on their Entrance into Society. 

 Third Edition. Revised and enlarged by the Author. Fcp. 8vo. cloth, floral 

 gilt edges, 4s. 



" rpHIS work is intended chiefly for young ladies of the upper classes of English Society. 

 1 The object of the writer is, by the experience of a life passed in those circles which 

 constitute what is called ' the world,' to supply those who are entering into a new and 

 busy sphere with some of the practical benefits of observation and reflection, to propound 

 the elements of that species of knowledge, which, contrary to other sciences, is usually ac- 

 quired by blunders and err rs; the lessons of which are often received with mortification, 

 and remembered often with regret. This little book, which pretends to no deeper learning 

 than that which the heart and the memory can impart, is therefore offered to the 

 young who are destined, not for the happy duties of an humble and narrow sphere, but for 

 the arduous introduction into a career usually deemed more perilous. It is lor those who 

 must live, more or less, in communion with the gay and the opulent, but who wish 'to 

 live unspotted in the world.' It is meant to resemble the warning voice of the nurse who 

 sees the children of her care sporting on the brink of a sedgy pool, all green with aquatic 

 plants, and calls to them to beware." Extract from the Preface. 



