JANE G. PERKINS'S 



THE LIFE OF THE HONOURABLE MRS. NORTON 



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With portraits, 8vo. $3.50 net ; by mail, $3.68. 



Mrs. Norton was the great Sheridan's grand-daughter, 

 beautiful and witty, the author of novels, poems and songs, 

 contesting contemporary popularity with Mrs. Browning ; her 

 influence was potent in politics ; Meredith undoubtedly had 

 her in mind when he drew " Diana of the Crossways." 



" Reads like a novel . . . seems like the page from an old romance, and 

 Miss Perkins has preserved all its romantic charm. . . . Miss Perkins has 

 let letters, and letters unusually interesting, tell much of the story. ... In- 

 deed her biography has all the sustained interest of the novel, almost the 

 irresistible march of fate of the Greek drama. It is eminently reliable." 

 Boston Transcript. 



" Brilliant, beautiful, unhappy, vehement Caroline Norton. . . . Her 

 st9ry is told here with sympathy, but yet fairly enough . . . interesting 

 glimpses ... of the many men and women of note with whom Mrs. Norton 

 was brought into more or less intimate association." Providence Journal. 



" The generous space allowed her to tell her own story in the form of 

 intimate letters is a striking and admirable feature of the book." The Dial. 



" She was an uncommonly interesting personage, and the memoir . . . 

 has no dull spots and speedily wins its way to a welcome." New York 

 Tribune. 



" So exceptional and vivid a personality ... of unusual quality . . . very 

 well written." The Outlook. 



YUNG WING'S MY LIFE IN CHINA AND AMERICA 



With portrait, 8vo. $2.50 net ; by mail, $2.65. 



The author's account of his early life in China, his education at 

 Yale, where he graduated in 1854 (LL.D., 1876), his return 

 to China and adventures during the Taiping rebellion, his 

 intimate association withTsang Kwoh Fan and Li Hung Chang, 

 and finally his great work for the " Chinese Educational Move- 

 ment " furnish highly interesting and good reading. 



" It is his native land that is always the great heroic character on the stage 

 his mind surveys ; and his mental grasp is as wide as his domiciliation. A 

 great life of action and reflection and the experiences of two hemispheres. 

 It is not so much a knowledge of isolated facts that is to be got from the 

 book as an understanding of the character of the Chinese race." Hartford 

 Courant. 



" There is not a dull line in this simply told but fascinating biography." 

 Literary Digest. 



" He has given Occidental readers an opportunity to behold the machinery 

 of Chinese custom and the substance of Chinese character in action. No 

 foreigner could possibly have written a work so instructive, and no un- 

 travelled native could have made it intelligible to the West ... a most in- 

 teresting story both in the telling and in the acting. . . . Mr. Yung presents 

 each of his readers with a fragment of China herself." Living Age. 



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