Niagara, are alike portrayed in vivid characters.

"Character is as well delineated as scenery. Dark and light
shades--gay and corrupt life--vanity, vice and virtue, all perform
their appropriate parts, in making up a goodly number of men and
women, who once fairly introduced, carry themselves very naturally
through plot and counter plot, to the close of a story which aptly
illustrates the elements composing American society, in its various
phases. There are many such victims as Melville, and many such true
hearted girls as Bell Mortimer.

"We do not pretend that the writer has attained perfection. The book
has faults--but these may be overcome by a writer of so much real
ability, and we hope his pen will not be allowed to remain idle.

"GEORGE MELVILLE is a pleasant story--written in a chaste style with a
good moral, and we cheerfully commend it to our readers."

*** Copies sent by mail to any part of the United States, pre-paid,
upon receipt of price.

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A BEAUTIFUL GIFT BOOK.

SHELLS

FROM THE

SEA-SHORE OF LIFE,

GATHERED BY

PEARLY SHELLEY.

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This work comprises the lighter and more sketchy productions of one
of the most original and distinguished writers in the country.
The "Shells" are symbolical of the various lights and shades of
Life--scattered over its surface or lying deep beneath its ocean. They
embody a series of writings which may be called

THE PARABLES OF THE WORLD!

Every one of the series contains a moral which the Christian as
well as the man of the world may bring home to his observation or
experience. They sound the depths of the heart in the womanly as well
as in the manly breast.

Some of these brilliant sketches symbolized in Shells, were originally
published in many of the first-class newspaper and periodical press;
while others, again, have been republished extensively throughout
the country. They are now "gathered" emphatically not only from the
"Sea-Shore of Life," by the Author, but from the mass of journals
through which they have been scattered broadcast far and wide.

The "Shells" are published in a style which makes them, in their
typographical and external dress, equal to their intellectual and
moral interest, and renders them one of the most beautiful and
appropriate presents that can be selected for the holidays.

One vol., 12mo., with twenty-one original
illustratio