BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE'S "PAUL AND VIRGINIA." With Illustrations
by Lalauze.
SOUTHEY'S "LIFE OF NELSON." With Illustrations by Birket Foster.
VOLTAIRE'S "LIFE OF CHARLES THE TWELFTH." With Maps and Portraits.
MARIA EDGEWORTH'S "CLASSIC TALES." With a biographical Sketch by
Grace A. Oliver.
LORD MACAULAY'S "LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME." With a Biographical Sketch
and Illustrations.
BUNYAN'S "PILGRIM'S PROGRESS." With all of the original
Illustrations in fac-simile.
CLASSIC HEROIC BALLADS. Edited by the Editor of "Quiet Hours."
CLASSIC TALES. By Anna Letitia Barbauld. With a Biographical Sketch
by Grace A. Oliver.
CLASSIC TALES. By Ann and Jane Taylor. With a Biographical Sketch
by Grace A. Oliver.
AND OTHERS.
MESSRS. ROBERTS BROTHERS' PUBLICATIONS.
Famous Women Series.
GEORGE ELIOT.
BY MATHILDE BLIND.
One vol. 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.00.
"Messrs. Roberts Brothers begin a series of Biographies of Famous
Women with a life of George Eliot, by Mathilde Blind. The idea of
the series is an excellent one, and the reputation of its
publishers is a guarantee for its adequate execution. This book
contains about three hundred pages in open type, and not only
collects and condenses the main facts that are known in regard to
the history of George Eliot, but supplies other material from
personal research. It is agreeably written, and with a good idea of
proportion in a memoir of its size. The critical study of its
subject's works, which is made in the order of their appearance, is
particularly well done. In fact, good taste and good judgment
pervade the memoir throughout."--_Saturday Evening Gazette._
"Miss Blind's little book is written with admirable good taste and
judgment, and with notable self-restraint. It does not weary the
reader with critical discursiveness, nor with attempts to search
out high-flown meanings and recondite oracles in the plain 'yea'
and 'nay' of life. It is a graceful and unpretentious little
biography, and tells all that need be told concerning one of the
greatest writers of the time. It is a deeply interesting if not
fascinating woman whom Miss Blind presents," says the New York
_Tribune_.
"Miss Blind's little biographical study of George Eliot is written
with sympathy and good taste, and is very welcome. It gives us a
graphic if not elaborate sketch of the personality and development
of the great novelist, is particularly full and authentic
concerning her earlier ye
|