ing motives
in her work to give the general reader a lucid idea of the true
drift and purpose of her art, and analyzes carefully her various
writings, with no attempt at profound criticism or fine writing,
but with appreciation, insight, and a clear grasp of those
underlying psychological principles which are so closely interwoven
in every production that came from her pen."--_Traveller._

"The lives of few great writers have attracted more curiosity and
speculation than that of George Eliot. Had she only lived earlier
in the century she might easily have become the centre of a mythos.
As it is, many of the anecdotes commonly repeated about her are
made up largely of fable. It is, therefore, well, before it is too
late, to reduce the true story of her career to the lowest terms,
and this service has been well done by the author of the present
volume."--_Philadelphia Press._

FAMOUS WOMEN SERIES.

MARY LAMB.

BY ANNE GILCHRIST.

+One volume. 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.00.+

"The story of Mary Lamb has long been familiar to the readers of
Elia, but never in its entirety as in the monograph which Mrs. Anne
Gilchrist has just contributed to the Famous Women Series. Darkly
hinted at by Talfourd in his Final Memorials of Charles Lamb, it
became better known as the years went on and that imperfect work
was followed by fuller and franker biographies,--became so well
known, in fact, that no one could recall the memory of Lamb without
recalling at the same time the memory of his sister."--_New York
Mail and Express._

"A biography of Mary Lamb must inevitably be also, almost more, a
biography of Charles Lamb, so completely was the life of the sister
encompassed by that of her brother; and it must be allowed that
Mrs. Anne Gilchrist has performed a difficult biographical task
with taste and ability.... The reader is at least likely to lay
down the book with the feeling that if Mary Lamb is not famous she
certainly deserves to be, and that a debt of gratitude is due Mrs.
Gilchrist for this well-considered record of her life."--_Boston
Courier._

"Mary Lamb, who was the embodiment of everything that is tenderest
in woman, combined with this a heroism which bore her on for a
while through the terrors of insanity. Think of a highly
intellectual