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VI. ADAM GRAEME OF MOSSGRAY. 



BY MRS. OUPHANT. 



" ' Adam Graeme ' is a story awakening genuine emotions of interest and delight by its 

 admirable pictures of Scottish life and scenery. The plot is cleverly complicated, and 

 there is great vitality in the dialogue, and remarkable brilliancy in the descriptive pas- 

 lages, as who that has read 'Margaret Maitland' would not be prepared to expect? 

 8ut the story has a 'mightier magnet still,' in the healthy tone which pervades it, in its 

 feminine delicacy of thought and diction, and in the truly womanly tenderness of its 

 sentiments. The eloquent author sets before us the essential attributes of Christian 

 virtue, their deep and silent workings in the heart, and their beautiful manifestations ii 

 the life, with a delicacy, a power, and a truth which can hardly be surpassed." Mornin 

 Poit. 



VII. SAM SLICK'S WISE SAWS AND 

 MODERN INSTANCES. 



"We have not the plightest intention to criticise this book. Its reputation is made, and 

 will stand as long as that of Scott's or Bulwer's novels. The remarkable originality of 

 its purpose, and the happy description it affords of American life and manners, still con- 

 tinue the subject of universal admiration. To say thus much is to say enough, though we 

 must just mention that the new edition forms a part of the Publishers' Cheap Standard 

 Library, which has included some of the very best specimens of light literature that ever 

 have been written." Messenger. 



VIII. CARDINAL WISEMAN'S RECOLLECTIONS 

 OF THE LAST FOUR POPES. 



" A picturesque book on Borne and its ecclesiastical sovereigns, by an eloquent Eoman 

 Catholic. Cardinal Wiseman has here treated a special subject with so much generality 

 and geniality that his recollections will excite no ill-feeling in those who are most con- 

 scientiously opposed to every idea of human infallibility represented ifr Papal domination." 

 Athenaeum. 



IX. A LIFE FOR A LIFE. 



BY THE AUTHOR OF " JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN." 



"We are always glad to welcome Mrs. Cr.aik. She writes from her own convic- 

 tions, and she has the power not only to conceive clearly what it is that she wishes to 

 say, but to express it in language effective and vigorous. In ' A Life for a Life ' she is 

 fortunate in a good subject, and she has produced a work of strong effect The 

 reader, having read the book through for the story, will be apt (if he be of our per- 

 suasion) to return and read again many pages and passages with greater pleasure 

 than on a first perusal. The whole book is replete with a graceful, tender deli- 

 cacy; and, in addition to its other merits, it is written in good careful English." 

 Athenrzum. 



" ' A Life for a Life ' is a book of a high class. The characters are depicted with a 

 masterly hand ; the events are dramatically set forth ; the descriptions of scenery and 

 sketches of society are admirably penned; moreover, the work has an object a clearly 

 defined moral most poetically, most beautifully drawn, and through all there is that 

 strong, reflective mind visible which lays bare the human heart and human mind to the 

 very core." Morning Post. 



X. THE OLD COURT SUBURB. 



BY LEIGH HUNT. 



" A book which has afforded us no slight gratification." A thenasum. 



" From the mixture of description, anecdote, biography, and criticism, this book is very 

 pleasant reading." Spectator. 



' A more agreeable and entertaining book has not been published since Bo swell pro* 

 .tuced his reminiscences of Johnson." Observer. 



