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HOMESTEAD ON THE HILLSIDE, 



BY MRS. MARY J. HOLMES, 



The Popular Author of "Tempest and Sunshine" and "The English Orphans." 

 IML One Volume, 380 Pages, 12iuo. Price %1 00. 



The numerous and delighted readers of "Tempest and Sunshine" and "The En- 

 glish Orphans " — Mrs. Holmes' former works — will be pleased to learn that another 

 work of their favorite author is again within their reach. That this work will be ea- 

 gerly sought and widely read, her former brilliant success aifords the surest guaranty. 



Mrs. Holmes is a peculiarly pleasant and fascinating writer. Her subjects are the home 

 and family relations. She has the happy faculty of enlisting the sympathies and affec- 

 tions of her readers and of holding their attention to her pages, with deep and absorbing 

 interest. Tlie Hoiiiesteatl on llie Millside is, therefore, attracting the 

 liveliest attention ; and readers and 



REVIEWERS ARE DECIDED IN ITS PRAISE. 



Any one taking up the book must take a "through ticket," as there is no stopping 

 place "this side" of the last page. The arts of the designing woman are given in their 

 true color, showing to what oily-tongued hypocrisy humanity will stoop for the further- 

 ance of its purposes ; what a vast amount of unhappiness one individual may bring up- 

 on an otherwise happy family; what untold misery may result from the groveling spirit 

 of fancied revenge, when cherished in the bosom of its unhappy possessor.— ^/-ocAj^ori 

 Gasette. 



The talented author of "Tempest and Sunshine" has again hit on a happy subject. 

 ^The Homestead on the Hillside " has afforded her ample scope for the exercise of those 

 high descriptive powei's and those striking portraitures of character which have ren- 

 dered her former works such general favorites. In one word, the book before us is no 

 ordinary production.— P7ii^ac?ei!p/aa Daili/ Neios. 



Vigor, variety, a boldness and freedom of style and expression, eccentricity alike of 

 character and incident, are among its most striking peculiarities. She has improved, in 

 the book before us, upon her flrst effort, and several of these tales will not fail to add to 

 her already well established reputation as a vigorous and attractive writer. — Bost. Atlas. 



The artfulness and resignation exhibited by the "Widow Carter, in her modest but not 

 unnatural endeavors to gain the tender regard of Mr. Hamilton, as she smoothed the pil- 

 low of his dying wife, de'serve the especial attention of gentlemen liable to a like attempt 

 from a similar cause. They will doubtless see a dozen widows in the very dress and po- 

 sition of the philanthropic Mrs. Carter. There is quite a moral for young Misses, too, in 

 the book."— A^. Y. Dutchman. 



It cannot fail to please the lovers of flowing and graceful narrative.— TVi&ime. 



It will be superfluous to say that ISIrs. Holmes is a charming writer.— 2>wa Flag. 



Its genial spirit, its readv wit, its kindly feeling, will doubtless meet with due appreci- 

 ation from all its readers, 'it touches with ready sympathy the fountains of mirth and 

 tears, and one can neither restrain the one nor withhold the other, in reading its tales of 

 joy and sorrow. — Broome Bepub. 



"We have perused this book with none but feelings of pleasure ; and we have closed ita 

 pages, bearing in our heart its sweet spirit and eloquent moral. "We heartily commend 

 x'i.— Lock port Courier. 



Her portrayal of human character and actions are admirable; her style is fluent and 

 fascinating, and a most intense degree of interest is kept up throughout the volume. 

 But among all it3 excellent qualities^ most prominent appears its eloquent morals. P.ead 

 It, so ftiat'you can have it to say, ^ I once kead a good booil.'"— Lock port Democrat 



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