BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED BY DERBY <fe MILLER. 



The Lives of Mary and Martha, mother and 

 wife of Washington : by Margaret C. Conkling, 

 with a steel portrait, 18mo, scarlet cloth. 



Miss Conkling, who is a daughter ef Judge Conkling of Auburn, is favorably 

 known as ihe auihor of Harper's iranslalioii of " Florian's History of the Moors 

 01 Spain." She also wrote '' Isabel, or the Trials of the Heart." In the preparation 

 ol' tiiri jjretty little volume she has done a praiseworthy deed, and we liope site will 

 receive the reward she merits. She has taught us in the work 



" how divine a thing 

 A woman may be made." 



The mother and wife of Washington were, in many respects, model women, and 

 the daughters ol' America will do well to study their character — which is lineiy 

 drawn on these pages. — Literary Messenger. 



This beautifully printed and elegantly bound little work, reflecting the highest 

 credit upon the skill and task of the publishers, contains biographical sketches of 

 Mary, the mother, and Martha, ihe wiis of the Father ol his country. It is a most 

 valuable contribution to the history of the American people, embracing not only the 

 great public events of the century during which the subjects lived, but those pictures 

 01 home lite, and that exhibition of social manners and customs, which constitute 

 the most important part of life, but which, from the fact ol their apparent triviality 

 and intangibility, the historian generally passes over. The authoress evidently 

 sympathises earnestly with her subject, and feels that in the exhibuion of those 

 womanly virtues which characterized the heroines of her narrative, she makes the 

 most eloquent plea in favor of the dignity of her sex. It is dedicated to Mrs. Wm. 

 H. Seward, and contains a finely executed engraving of the wife of Washington. 

 We cordially commend it to the public, and most especially our lady readers.— 

 Syracuse Journal. 



This acceptable and well written volume goes forth upon a happy mission, 

 " To teach us how divine a thing 

 A woman may be made," 



by unfolding those charms of character which belong to the mother and wife of the 

 hero of the Land of the Free ; and in the companionship of which, while they illus- 

 trated the watchful tenderness of a mother, and the confiding aflections of a wife, 

 is shown those influences which made up the moral sentiments of a man, whose 

 moral grandeur will be felt in all that is future in government or divine in 

 philosophy ; and one whose name is adored by all nations, as the leader of man in 

 m the progress of government, to that perfection of human rights where all enjoy 

 liberty and equality. To say that Miss Conkling has fulfilled the task she says a 

 "too partial friendship has assigned her" faultlessly, would perhaps be too 

 unmeasured praise, for perfection is seldom attained; but it will not be denied but 

 that her biographies are traced in the chaste elegances that belong to the finished 

 periods of a refined style, which fascinates the reader with what she has thus contri- 

 buted to our national literature. 



The design of the volume is, to picture a mother fitting the " Father of hi!? 

 Country " in a light full of the inexhaustible nobleness of woman's nature, and yet 

 as possessing that subdued and quiet simplicity, where Truth becomes the Hope on 

 which Faith looks at the future with a smile. The mother of Washington was 

 tried in a school of practice where frugal habits and active industry were combined 

 with the proverbial excellences of those Virginia matrons, who were worthy mothers 

 of such men as Washington, Jefferson, Marshall, and Henry. Miss C. has pictured 

 with fidelity and elegance, her views of this remarkable woman ; not less beauti- 

 fully has she sketched the character of Martha, the wile ; following her from her 

 brilliant manners as the Virginia belle, through the various phases of her life, she 

 gives a rapid but comprehensive view of those characteristics which make up the 

 quiet refinement of manners native to her, and which ever gave her the reputation 

 of an accomplished wife and lady. And with peculiar delicacy Miss Conkling has 

 portrayed the thousand virtues with which she embellished a home ; her amiable 

 disposition and winning maimers made the happiest to the purest and best of all 

 men fame has chosen' for its noblest achievments.— Syracuse Star. 



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