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j. c. derby's publications. 



THE ENCHANTED BEAUTY 



AND OTHER TALES, ESSAYS, AND SKETCHES. 

 BY DR. WILLIAM ELDER. 

 12mo. Price $1. 



'* Dr. Elder, the author of these extemporaneous sketches, is what Goethe would style a 

 many-sided man. He is a doctor of medicine, a doctor of law — besides being an eloquent 

 orator, a ready writer, and one of the best story-tellers that ever beguiled one or more 

 friends during a leisure hour." — Saturday Evening Post. 



M He gives you his best thoughts sparkling and pure, as a spring throws up its diamonds 

 to flash in the sunlight an instant, and then glide away under the bending grass and 

 flowers, which cluster round and cover up the source of their brightened colors. He 

 is a singular mixture of the sailor and the diver. One moment he is skimming over 

 the surface of events like the merest trifler, or a sea-gull on the waves ; and in an instant, 

 perhaps before he finishes the sentence, he is down into the hidden mysteries of nature, 

 and has dragged up something which looks wondrously like a useless pebble, but forthwith 

 he applies the keen edge of analysis, and lo ! you have a pearl, which you stop to look at 

 again and again, and put away in the casket of memory for future ornament or use." — 

 Saturday Visitor. 



" All who have ever heard Dr. Elder speak, and there are many here to whom the 

 memory of his eloquence is a pleasant one, cannot fail to recognize the man in this book. 

 He used to talk like a book, and the book talks like him. As a speaker he enjoyed a rare 

 reputation in his speaking days ; and although m these sketches we miss the aid of his 

 expressive face, which gave so much zest to his elocution, it is impossible not to recognize 

 the same brilliant fancy, beauty of illustration and wealth of language, which gave their 

 author so much character in his younger days." — Pittsburg Gazette. 



" A large circle of readers will be attracted to this volume by the name of its author. 

 He holds a prominent rank among the advocates of popular, or rather unpopular, reforms. 

 Most of the progressive movements of the day have found in him an enthusiastic 

 champion. He has labored largely and spoken well for freedom, temperance, and social 

 justice. The ring of his sympathetic voice still echoes in the ears of multitudes who have 

 listened to his earnest pleadings. The cause of humanity is indebted to his active fancy 

 and fluent rhetoric." — Y. Tribune. 



" We doubt if a more entertaining volume has ever issued from the press. There is 

 something in it for each reader— every taste is appealed to— from grave to gay, lively to 

 severe. What we chiefly like in Dr. Elder, is his conscientious sincerity — the simjpJicity 

 and purity of his style — a perpetual flow of felicitous language — a straight-forward 

 manliness and dignity and earnestness— a habit of telling the truth, because of his love 

 of truth — a sovereign contempt for indirection of all kinds — a genialty, always hearty, 

 because natural. " — Philadelphia City Item. 



"Dr. Elder is one of the wittiest, jolliest, and the most genial of philanthropists, who 

 never permits his prejudices, if he has any, to interfere with his humor, and always looks 

 on the bright side of things while exhibiting their dark sides. He is racy in his style, 

 reliable in his facts, ingenious in his humor > and liberal in his principles." — HT. Y. Sunday 

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