Messrs. Roberts Brotheri Publications. 

 FAMOUS WOMEN SEEIES, 



MARY LAMB 



By ANNE GILCHRIST. 

 One volume. 16ino. Cloth. Price, $1.00. 



" The story of Mary Lamb has long been familiar to the readers of Elia, but 

 never in its entirety as in the monograph which Mrs. Anne Gilchrist has just 

 contributed to the Famous Women Series. Darkly hinted at by Talfourd in his 

 Final Memorials of Charles Lamb, it became better known as the years went on 

 and that imperfect work was followed by fuller and franker biographies, — became 

 so well known, in fact, that no one could recall the memory of Lamb without 

 recalling at the same time the memory of his sister." — New York Mail and Ex- 

 press. 



" A biography of Mary Lamb must inevitably be also, almost more, a biogra- 

 phy of Charles Lamb, so completely was the life of the sister encompassed by 

 that of her brother ; and it must be allowed that Mrs. Anne Gilchrist has per- 

 formed a difficult biographical task with taste and ability. . . . The reader is at 

 least likely to lay down the book with the feeling that if Mary Lamb is not famous 

 she certainly deserves to be, and that a debt of gratitude is due Mrs. Gilchrist for 

 this well-considered record of her life." — Boston Courier. 



" Mary Lamb, who was the embodiment of everything that is tenderest in 

 woman, combined with this a heroism which bore her on for a while through the 

 terrors of insanity. Think of a highly intellectual woman struggling year after 

 year with madness, triumphant over it for a season, and then at last succumbing to 

 It. The saddest lines that ever were written are tiiose descriptive of this brother and 

 sister just before Mary, on some return of insanity, was to leave Charles Lamb. 

 * On one occasion Mr. Charles Lloyd met them slowly pacing together a little 

 foot-path in Hoxton F'ields, both weeping bitterly, and found, on joining them, 

 that they were taking their solemn way to the accustomed asylum.' What pathos 

 is there not here ? " — New York Times. 



I' This life was worth writing, for all records of weakness conquered, of pain 

 patiently borne, of success won from difficulty, of cheerfulness in sorrow and 

 afifiiction, make the world better. Mrs. Gilchrist's biography is unaffected and 

 simple. She has told the sweet and melancholy story with judicious sympathy, 

 showing always the light shining through darkness." — Philadelphia Press, 



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