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of the class of topics to which it relates, and we shall be surprised if it does not become very extensively popular."--_Dublin Daily Express._ "In respect of talent we can compare this book with 'The Eclipse of Faith,' which is one of the best polemical treatises of modern times, and which it very much resembles."--_Bell's Weekly Messenger._ LOUISA VON PLETTENHAUS; or, The Journal of a Poor Young Lady. Translated from the German. With Woodcut Frontispiece, designed by J. B. Cloth, gilt edges, price 3s. 6d. "A romantic and engaging story."--_Nonconformist._ "If a fiction, it is certainly one of the most happily conceived and charmingly executed with which we have met for a considerable time."--_Northern Warder._ "Written in a spirit of gentleness and Christianity that must commend it especially to the young."--_Morning Post._ "A singularly interesting chapter in the heart's life of a young girl."--_Edinburgh Advertiser._ "Beautifully true to nature, full of the most touching pathos, most lovely Christian sentiment, and what is not always found in the same companionship, most thorough sound practical good sense."--_Youths' Magazine._ LORENZO BENONI; or, Passages in the Life of an Italian. Cheap Edition, Crown 8vo, 2s. 6d. Handsome 8vo, Cloth, gilt, 12s.--Illustrated by J. B. Crown 8vo, Cloth, gilt, 5s. " " "Worthy to be ranked among contemporary works whose season is the century in which their authors live."--_Examiner._ "This work should be as extensively read as Uncle Tom's Cabin."--_Bell's Messenger._ "On the score of style alone this volume is a remarkable curiosity."--_Quarterly Review._ "Few works of the season will be read with greater pleasure than this; there is a great charm in the quiet, natural way in which the story is told."--_Atlas._ "The Author's great forte is character painting. This portraiture is accomplished with remarkable skill, the traits both individual and national being marked with great nicety without obtrusiveness."--_Spectator._ "Under the modest guise of a biography of an imaginary Lorenzo Benoni, we have here, in fact, the memoir of a man whose name could not be pronounced in certain parts of Northern Italy without calling up tragic yet
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