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FIFTEEN THOUSAND COPIES SOLD.

THE MYSTERIES OF LONDON.

Translated by Henry C. Deming, Translator of the Mysteries of Paris.
Two Volumes—Price, One Dollar.

This splendid romance has produced an excitement in France which was
hardly transcended by the “Mysteries of Paris.” The journals from the
French Capital are filled with speculations concerning the authorship, and the
mystery which hangs over it is an element of interest that is only excelled by
the startling romance of the narrative. Private letters from Paris inform us
that this novel is the joint production of the English aristocracy and the French
literateurs that compose the celebrated Jocky Club of Paris. Lord Seymour,
an English nobleman, who, for several years, has been the leader of the Parisian
ton, is said to furnish the local facts upon which the novel is founded;
and Janin, Eugene Sue, and Roger de Beauvoir, weave them into the intense-ly
interesting narrative which we propose to present to the American readers.
The brotherhood of authors write under the assumed name of Sir Francis
Trollope, and annex that designation to the feuilletons of the Courier Francais.
In a preliminary conversation between the author and the publisher, the former
proposes to detail, in the ensuing narrative, all the lights and shadows, the romance,
the crime, the misery, and the mystery of the world of London. He
brings the two extremes of life in juxtaposition, and displays, with the same accuracy,
the magnificent drawing-rooms of Belgrave square, and the cellars of
St. Giles—pictures of proud wealth and oppressed humanity. It falls within
his plan to display the greatness as well as the boundless depravity of London
life—scenes in Parliament, Corporation banquets, lunatic asylums, the Court
of the queen, the mysteries of the Theatre, the Opera House, the Turf, the
Clubs, and the Hells of the Metropolis, constitute the strange variety of many-colored
life which he proposes to present.

He has also a higher object; he would expose and remedy those laws which
perpetuate misery and hinder all social improvement; the odious statutes regulating
guardianship; the oppressive manufacturing system; political corruption,
and the unnatural financial and economical policy of England.

“In writing such a book,” says he, “to heaven alone I should appeal for
the relief of suffering mankind; the debased maiden should be purified by reviving
the holy instincts of her nature; the voice of God in the soul should
prompt the high born duchess to discharge the duties of benevolence; vice
should be punished by vice, and those great virtues of all ages, Faith and Hope
should be sustained by Charity.” Can any one doubt the absorbing interest
of a story with such an outline, conducted by the combined genius of the celebrated
authors whose pens are employed upon the present work?

BURGESS, STRINGER & CO. Pablishers,
222 Broadway, New York.

N B. Just published a new and beautiful edition, which will be forwarded to
any address, by mail or otherwise, on the receipt of One Dollar.