fitting close
to its predecessor. 'Home Influence.' The results of maternal care are
fully developed, its rich rewards are set forth, and its lesson and its
moral are powerfully enforced."--_Morning Post._

_WOMAN'S FRIENDSHIP._--"We congratulate Miss Aguilar on the spirit,
motive, and composition of this story. Her alms are eminently moral, and
her cause comes recommended by the most beautiful associations. These,
connected with the skill here evinced in their development, insure the
success of her labors."--_Illustrated News._

_VALE OF CEDARS._--"The authoress of this most fascinating volume has
selected for her field one of the most remarkable eras in modern
history--the reigns of Ferdinand and Isabella. The tale turns on the
extraordinary extent to which concealed Judaism had gained footing at
that period in Spain. It is marked by much power of description, and by
a woman's delicacy of touch, and it will add to its writer's well-earned
reputation."--_Eclectic Rev._

_DAYS OF BRUCE._--"The tale is well told, the interest warmly sustained
throughout, and the delineation of female character is marked by a
delicate sense of moral beauty. It is a work that may be confided to the
hands of a daughter by her parent."--_Court Journal._

_HOME SCENES._--"Grace Aguilar knew the female heart better than any
writer of our day, and in every fiction from her pen we trace the same
masterly analysis and development of the motives and feelings of woman's
nature."--_Critic._

_WOMEN OF ISRAEL._--"A work that is sufficient of itself to create and
crown a reputation."--_Mrs. S. C. Hall._

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Sir HENRY HOLLAND'S RECOLLECTIONS.

RECOLLECTIONS OF PAST LIFE
_By Sir HENRY HOLLAND, Bart._,
1 vol., 12mo, Cloth. 350 pp.

_From The London Lancet._

"The 'Life or Sir Henry Holland' is one to be recollected, and he has
not erred in giving an outline of it to the public. In the very nature
of things it is such a life as cannot often be repeated. Even if there
were many men in the profession capable of living to the age of
eighty-four, and then writing their life with fair hope of further
travels, it is not reasonable to expect that there could ever be more
than a very few lives so full of incidents worthy of being recorded
autographically as the marvellous life which we are fresh from perusing.
The combination of personal qualities and favorable opportunities in Sir
Henry Holl