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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