."--_Woman's Journal._

"Mrs. Julia Ward Howe's biography of _Margaret Fuller_, in the
Famous Women Series of Messrs. Roberts Brothers, is a work which
has been looked for with curiosity. It will not disappoint
expectation. She has made a brilliant and an interesting book. Her
study of Margaret Fuller's character is thoroughly sympathetic; her
relation of her life is done in a graphic and at times a
fascinating manner. It is the case of one woman of strong
individuality depicting the points which made another one of the
most marked characters of her day. It is always agreeable to follow
Mrs. Howe in this; for while we see marks of her own mind
constantly, there is no inartistic protrusion of her personality.
The book is always readable, and the relation of the death-scene is
thrillingly impressive."--_Saturday Gazette._

"Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has retold the story of Margaret Fuller's
life and career in a very interesting manner. This remarkable woman
was happy in having James Freeman Clarke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and
William Henry Channing, all of whom had been intimate with her and
had felt the spell of her extraordinary personal influence, for her
biographers. It is needless to say, of course, that nothing could
be better than these reminiscences in their way."--_New York
World._

"The selection of Mrs. Howe as the writer of this biography was a
happy thought on the part of the editor of the series; for, aside
from the natural appreciation she would have for Margaret Fuller,
comes her knowledge of all the influences that had their effect on
Margaret Fuller's life. She tells the story of Margaret Fuller's
interesting life from all sources and from her own knowledge, not
hesitating to use plenty of quotations when she felt that others,
or even Margaret Fuller herself, had done the work better."--_Miss
Gilder, in Philadelphia Press._

Famous Women Series.

MARIA EDGEWORTH.

BY HELEN ZIMMERN.

"This little volume shows good literary workmanship. It does not
weary the reader with vague theories; nor does it give over much
expression to the enthusiasm--not to say baseless encomium--for
which too many female biographers have accustomed us to look. It is
a simple and discriminative sketch of one of the most clever and
lovable of the cl