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_Parley's Short Stories for Long Nights_.
With eight colored engravings, 16mo. 50 cents; uncolored engravings,
40 cents.
_Lights and Shadows of Domestic Life, and other Stories_.
By the authors of "Rose and her Lamb."
TICKNOR, REED, AND FIELDS
HAVE PUBLISHED
_Greenwood Leaves_.
A Collection of Stories and Letters, by Grace Greenwood. Second edition.
1 vol. 12mo. $1.25; gilt $1.75.
We suppose most of our readers are familiar with the name of Grace
Greenwood. For some half dozen of years she has been one of the most
acceptable contributors to our American monthlies, and she possesses
such liveliness and vivacity that it does one good to read her
productions. There is an ease and _grace_ about her, too, that makes us
feel acquainted with her, although we have never seen her. The volume
before us is filled with tales, sketches, letters, and poems. We predict
that every lady's library will contain this volume.--BOSTON ATLAS.
The name of Grace Greenwood has now become a household word in the
popular literature of our country and our day. Of the intellectual woman
we are not called to say much, as her writings speak for themselves, and
they have spoken widely. They are eminently characteristic; they are
strictly national; they are likewise decisively individual. All true
individuality is honestly social; and also, in Miss Clarke's writings,
nothing is sectional, and nothing sectarian. There is much in them that
is subjective, much that is drawn from personal experience, but nothing
that is merely vain or selfish. A genuine human being, she is at the
same time a genuine American girl. And the spirit of her country finds
in her utterance a voice that must stir an earnest life in the brothers
and sisters of her nation. She is one of the spiritual products of the
soil, which has of late given evidence of spiritual fertility; and she
promises not to be the least healthy, as she is not the least choice
among them; she is only putting out her spring buds; if no untimely
frost shall nip them, when the summer suns are warm they will be
splendid blossoms, and long before autumn begins to dim the sky with its
mellow shootings they will be luxuriant fruit.--HENRY GILES.
_Alderbrook_.
_A Collection of Fanny Forester's Village Sketches, Poems, &c_. With a
fine Mezzotinto Portrait of the Author, engraved by Sartain. Ninth
edition, enlarged.
2 vols. 12mo, $1.75; gilt $2.50; gilt extra $3.00. The same in 1 vol.
$1.62; gilt $2.25; gilt extra $2.75.
Who has not heard of Fanny Forester,--'charming Fanny Forester,' as she
is deservedly called? Her sketches have been more generally read and
admired than those of almost any other periodical writer of our day.
There is a freshness, grace, sprightliness, purity, and actualness about
them, which charms and invigorates; and we are glad to find them
collected and published in a form both elegant and convenient. Miss
Chubbuck, it will be remembered, was married a few months ago to the
Rev. Dr. Judson, and is now on her way, with that devoted missionary, to
the scene of his former labors. The dedicatory preface of these volumes,
to her husband, is one of the most graceful and touching we have ever
seen. A beautifully engraved portrait of the lady, by Sartain, is
prefixed to the first volume. This collection will make a very
acceptable and suitable present in the approaching Holidays.--SALEM
REGISTER.
This is one of those charming books which well deserves a place in every
family library, and which has already won a place in thousands of
hearts. The Sketches comprised in these beautiful volumes are so full of
grace and tenderness, so pure in their style and so elevated in their
tone, that none can read them without delight and profit. We hazard
little in saying that the touching story of "Grace Linden," which
properly leads the collection, is scarcely surpassed in beauty by any
thing in the works of Maria Edgeworth, or Mary Russell Mitford. There
are a great many other Sketches, in the volumes, that deserve special
praise; but we will not deal in particulars when all are so admirable.
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