nterest than this for novel readers, particularly those
of the tender sex, to whom it will be a dear favorite.

We hope the authoress will give us some more novels, as good as
"Margaret and her Bridesmaids".

TWICE LOST.

A NOVEL.

By S.M., Author of "Linnet's Trial".

Read the Opinions of the English Press.

Another first-rate novel by a woman! The plot well conceived and
worked out, the characters individualized and clear-cut, and the story
so admirably told that you are hurried along for two hours and a half
with a smile often breaking out at the humor, a tear ready to start at
the pathos, and with unflagging interest, till the heroine's release
from all trouble is announced at the end. *** We heartily recommend
the book to all readers. It is more full of character than any book we
remember since Charles Reade's "Christie Johnstone".--_Reader_.

"Twice Lost" is an entertaining novel; the struggle between the
high-spirited, generous, half-savage heroine, and her specious,
handsome, unprincipled, _soi-disant_ father, is exciting; and the
sympathy of the reader is cleverly enlisted for the heroine, Lucia,
from the first moment. The personages have all of them a certain look
of reality, and there is a notion of likeness which insures the
reader's interest. We can recommend "Twice Lost" as a novel worth
reading.--_Athenaeum_.

By far the cleverest book on our list is "Twice Lost".... This is bold
and skilful drawing, and it is a fair sample of the earlier half of
the volume. The combined vigor, ease, and perspicuity of the writing
is unusual.--_Guardian_.

Nothing can be better of its kind than the first portion of "Twice
Lost".... The caustic humor and strong common sense which mark the
sketches of character in this book, betray a keenness of observation
and aptitude for producing a telling likeness with a few strokes,
which need only a wider cultivation to secure a more complete success
than has been attained in "Twice Lost".--_Westminster Review_.

It is quite clear that the author has given a good deal of thought to
the construction of the story, with a view to producing strong
interest without the use of the common sensational expedients. To say
that "Twice Lost" is very well written, and very interesting, would
not be doing it justice.--_Morning Herald_.

There can be no doubt of th