IL MARVEL'S WORKS* 



TmBTEENTH EDITIOK OF 



REVERIES OF A BACHELOR, a Book of the Heart. By IK. MAKVEU 1 Tol 

 12mo., with Illustrations by DAELEY. 



The Illustrated Edition, with Twenty-five Illustrations, will be ready about the middle . 

 of October. 



"Quotations give but a faint idea of the depth of feeling, the beautifol and winning 

 frankness, the elastic vigor of soul, and the singular fidelity of expression which charac- 

 terize this remarable volume. Its quaint ingenuity of arrangement is wholly lost in 

 extracts; and in order to enjoy the delicious adaptation of form to sentiment in which it 

 would be hard to name its equal, it must be read as a consummate, artistic, gem-like 

 whole." 2T. Y. Tribune. 



" The dreamy, shadowy haze of reverie, its fleet transitions, its vivid and startling pas- 

 sages more vivid, oftentimes, than anything of real life are admirably reproduced oil 

 these delicate pages. The dense and deliberate style, though nowise itself dreamy and 

 insubstantial, dealing largely rather in the tough and oaken Saxon, that makes the strength 

 of our hardy tongue, is adapted with admirable pliancy to the movement and tone of the 

 fancy* There are passages in it as those descriptive of early separations, schooldays and 

 their sequel that will start the memory, with a quick throb, in many hearts. And there 

 aro essential 'and permanent qualities exhibited in it, both of intellect and of sensibility, 

 that give noble promise of a future, and that will make the subsequent publications of the 

 author events to be watched to*" Independent. 



The writer who can lure a few of his fellow mortals away from the bustle, and 

 the strife, and the fret, and the wear and tear of a restless existence who can plant them 

 in his own quiet arm-chair, and think a little for them so easily and so cosily that they 

 shall fancy his thoughts to be their own soliloquies who can carry them off from the 

 engrossing present, backward to the fullness of youth, or forward to the repose of age 

 vho can peel off, here and there, the worldly rind that grows ever-thickening over tho 

 heart, growing fastest and thickest in the hothouses of fashion, and in the rank soil of 

 wealth the writer, we say, who can do this Mr. Ik. Marvel does it in his Eeveries shall 

 be welcomed to a place in our regards, and cordially recommended to our readers' book- 

 shelves." Albion. 



' This is a pleasant and clever book ; racy, genial, lively and sparkling. It is a book to 

 put one in good humor with himself and all the world." Southern Literary Gazette. 



" It is an exquisite production, the like of which the press has not produced in this 

 country or in England. Portions of it remind us forcibly of some of the old, and almost 

 unknown French authors, whose sketches of thought and feeling wo have never seen 

 equalled for delicacy and truth, until we read these Reveries. The book is especially 

 welcome as one of a new class in this country, which appeals to all the finer feelings of the 

 heart." Journal of Commerce. 



M "Well has the author called it a book of the heart. Not of a heart withered by selfish- 

 ness, mistaking disappointment for sorrow, hatred of the world's joys for philosophic con- 

 tempt; but a generous, noble heart, that has sorrowed as we have sorrowed, that can echo 

 back from the distant hills of its own experience our own criesnow of joy, now ol grief 

 and our songs of quiet happiness." JK Y. Courier and Inquirer. 



