ARTHUR HELPS'S WRITINGS.

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From the London Review.

“The tale (Realmah) is a comparatively brief one, intersected by the
conversations of a variety of able personages, with most of whose names
and characters we are already familiar through `Friends in Council.'
Looking at it in connection with the social and political lessons that are
wrapt up in it, we may fairly attribute to it a higher value than could possibly
attach to a common piece of fiction.”

From a Notice by Miss E. M. Converse.

“There are many reasons why we like this irregular book (Realmah), in
which we should find the dialogue tedious without the story; the story dull
without the dialogue; and the whole unmeaning, unless we discerned the
purpose of the author underlying the lines, and interweaving, now here,
now there, a criticism, a suggestion, an aphorism, a quaint illustration, an
exhortation, a metaphysical deduction, or a moral inference.

“We like a book in which we are not bound to read consecutively, whose
leaves we can turn at pleasure and find on every page something to amuse,
interest, and instruct. It is like a charming walk in the woods in early
summer, where we are attracted now to a lowly flower half hidden under
soft moss; now to a shrub brilliant with showy blossoms; now to the grandeur
of a spreading tree; now to a bit of fleecy cloud; and now to the blue
of the overarching sky.

“We gladly place `Realmah' on the `book-lined wall,' by the side of
other chosen friends, — the sharp, terse sayings of the `Doctor'; the suggestive
utterances of the `Noctes'; the sparkling and brilliant thoughts of
`Montaigne'; and the gentle teachings of the charming `Elia.'”

From a Notice by Miss H. W. Preston.

“It must be because the reading world is unregenerate that Arthur Helps
is not a general favorite. Somebody once said (was it Ruskin, at whose
imperious order so many of us read `Friends in Council,' a dozen years
ago?) that appreciation of Helps is a sure test of culture. Not so much
that, one may suggest, as of a certain native fineness and excellence of
mind. The impression prevails among some of those who do not read him,
that Helps is a hard writer. Nothing could be more erroneous. His manner
is simplicity itself; his speech always winning, and of a silvery distinctness.
There are hosts of ravenous readers, lively and capable, who,
if their vague prejudice were removed, would exceedingly enjoy the gentle
wit, the unassuming wisdom, and the refreshing originality of the author
in question. There are men and women, mostly young, with souls that
sometimes weary of the serials, who need nothing so much as a persuasive
guide to the study of worthier and more enduring literature. For most of
those who read novels with avidity are capable of reading something else
with avidity, if they only knew it. And such a guide, and pleasantest of all
such guides, is Arthur Helps. * * Yet `Casimir Maremma' is a charming
book, and, better still, invigorating. Try it. You are going into the country
for the summer months that remain. Have `Casimir' with you, and have
`Realmah,' too. The former is the pleasanter book, the latter the more powerful.
But if you like one you will like the other. At the least you will rise
from their perusal with a grateful sense of having been received for a time
into a select and happy circle, where intellectual breeding is perfect, and the
struggle for brilliancy unknown.

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price, by the Publishers,

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By the Author of “Happy Thoughts. ”

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“Happy Thoughts.” Price $1.25.

This is a very humorous story of a continental tour, and includes also
a burlesque description of “Bradshaw's Guide.”

HAPPY THOUGHT HALL.

By F. C. Burnand. With One Hundred Illustrations by the
Author. One volume. Square octavo. Cloth, neat. Price $4.00.

The author continues in this book his “Happy Thought” vein, with
illustrated descriptions of his characters and of his new country-house,
“Happy Thought Hall.”

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THE HANDY VOLUME SERIES.

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Messrs. Roberts Brothers propose to issue, under the above
heading, a Series of Handy Volumes, which shall be at once various
valuable, and popular, — their size a most convenient one, their typography
of the very best and their price extremely low. They will entertain
the reader with poetry as well as with prose; now with fiction, then
with fact; here with narration, there with inquiry; in some cases with
the works of living authors, in others with the works of those long since
dead. It is hoped that they will prove to be either amusing or instructive,
sometimes curious, often valuable, always handy. Each Volume
will, as a rule, form a work complete in itself.

THE HANDY VOLUME SERIES.

Other volumes will follow the above at convenient intervals.

ROBERTS BROTHERS, Publishers, Boston.

THE WRITINGS OF JEAN INGELOW.

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Poems.

Library Edition. 2 vols. 16mo. Price	$3.00
Blue and Gold Edition. 2 vols. 32mo. Price	2.50
Cabinet Edition. 1 vol. 18mo. Price	2.25
Illustrated Edition. Square 8vo. Price	10.00

This superb volume, acknowledged to be the best specimen of woodcut illustrating
ever attempted, comprises the first volume only of Miss Ingelow's Poems,
and is embellished with one hundred designs.

Songs of Seven. Illustrated. 1 royal 8vo volume. Price	2.50
Songs of Seven. Cheap illustrated edition. 16mo. Illuminated paper cover. Price 20 cents; cloth, neat, price	0.30

Miss Ingelow's New Poems

The Monitions of the Unseen, and Poems of Love and Childhood. With 12 superb illustrations. 1 vol. 16mo. Cloth, neat. Price

1.50

Prose.

Studies for Stories, from Girls' Lives. Price	1.25
Stories told to a Child. Price	1.25
Stories told to a Child. Second Series. Price	1.25
A Sister's Bye-Hours. Price	1.25
Mopsa the Fairy. Price	1.25
Poor Matt; or, The Clouded Intellect. Price	0.60

These editions of Miss Ingelow's Poetical and Prose Writings
are the only authorized American Editions, and are issued with
her sanction, by her Publishers,

ROBERTS BROTHERS,
Boston.

MARGARET.

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By Sylvester Judd. One volume. Price $1.50.

SELECTIONS FROM SOME NOTABLE REVIEWS.

From the Southern Quarterly Review.

“This book, more than any other that we have read, leads us to believe in the
possibility of a distinctive American Literature.... It bears the impress of New
England upon all its features. It will be called the Yankee novel, and rightly; for
nowhere else have we seen the thought, dialect, and customs of a New England
Village, so well and faithfully represented.... More significant to our mind than
any book that has yet appeared in our country. To us it seems to be a prophecy
of the future. It contemplates the tendencies of American life and character.
Nowhere else have we seen, so well written out, the very feelings which our rivers
and woods and mountains are calculated to awaken.... We predict the time when
Margaret will be one of the Antiquary's text-books. It contains a whole magazine
of curious relics and habits.... as a record of great ideas and pure sentiments, we
place it among the few great books of the age.”

From the North American Review.

“We know not where any could go to find more exact and pleasing descriptions
of the scenery of New England, or of the vegetable and animal forms which give it
life.... As a representation of manners as they were, and in many respects are
still, in New England, this book is of great value.”

From the London Athenæum.

“This book, though published some time since in America, has only recently
become known here by a few stray copies that have found their way over. Its
leading idea is so well worked out, that, with all its faults of detail, it strikes us as
deserving a wider circulation.... The book bears the impress of a new country,
and is full of rough, uncivilized, but vigorous life. The leading idea which it seems
intended to expound is, that the surest way to degrade men is to make themselves
degraded; that so long as that belief does not poison the sources of experience,
`all things' — even the sins, follies, mistakes, so rife among men — can be made
`to work together for good.' This doctrine, startling as it may sound at first, is
wrought out with a fine knowledge of human nature.”

From the Anti-Slavery Standard.

“A remarkable book, with much good common sense in it, full of deep thought,
pervaded throughout with strong religious feeling, a full conception of the essence of
Christianity, a tender compassion for the present condition of man, and an abiding
hope through love of what his destiny may be.... But all who, like Margaret,
`dream dreams,' and `see visions,' and look for that time to come when man shall
have `worked out his own salvation,' and peace shall reign on earth, and good-will
to men, will, if they can pardon the faults of the book for its merit, read it with
avidity and pleasure.”

From the Boston Daily Advertiser.

“This is quite a remarkable book, reminding you of Southey's `Doctor,' perhaps,
more than of any other book.... Margaret is a most angelic being, who
loves everybody and whom everybody loves, and whose sweet influence is felt
wherever she appears. She has visions of ideal beauty, and her waking eyes see
beauty and joy in every thing.”

From the Christian Register.

“This is a remarkable book. Its scene is laid in New England, and its period
some half century ago. Its materials are drawn from the most familiar elements
of every-day life. Its merits are so peculiar, and there is so much that is original
and rich in its contents, that, sooner or later, it will be appreciated. It is impossible
to predict with assurance the fate of a book, but we shall be much mistaken
if Margaret does not in due season work its way to a degree of admiration seldom
attained by a work of its class.”

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George Sand's Novels.

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MAUPRAT	$1.50
ANTONIA	1.50
MONSIEUR SYLVESTRE	1.50
THE SNOW MAN	1.50
THE MILLER OF ANGIBAULT	1.50

From the Cleveland Leader.

Miss Vaughan has shown herself to be perfectly adapted to the work she has undertaken.
We search in vain through the entire list of translations from the French,
published in this country and England, for a volume which more satisfactorily reveals
one's remembrance of it in the original than the one now under consideration. Antonia
is not one of the great works of its authoress, the best of whose fiction is to our mind
the most consummate romance that France has yet produced; but is by far the most
elaborate and perfect in its finish.... The scene is principally in Paris, the Paris of
Louis XVI., and the action occurs just prior to the French Revolution. The hero is
a poor unknown artist, the heroine a countess, beautiful and exalted in station, but,
withal, a woman of the purest type. The beautiful garden which encloses the home
of the heroine is exquisitely painted, and in those enchanted shadows there is portrayed
the birth and development of a love as passionate and pure as ever was pictured in
romance.... Uncle Antoine, the marplot of the story, is strongly and admirably
drawn; and the Countess and Julien Thierry are two of the most perfect lovers in any
literature. The tale derives its name from that of a rare and perfect flower, cultivated
by Uncle Antoine in the enchanted garden, and whose growth and blossoming are
woven with exquisite art into the development of the story.

John G. Saxe, in Albany Evening Journal.

Undoubtedly the woman who by her writings has exerted the widest, probably the
most potent, influence upon the men and women of her time, is she who, under the nom
de plume of “George Sand,” has given to the world in her own sparkling French
tongue, and, through translations, in almost every modern language which has a literature,
such powerful and fascinating works as “Mauprat,” “Antonia,” and a host of
other works, the very names of which suggest by their number a fertility and industry
almost as remarkable as the extraordinary genius which inspired them. For many
years no writer was so little understood, or rather, so thoroughly misunderstood, both
in England and America. Not unnaturally, the immorality, the flippancy, the persiflage,
of most contemporary novelists of France, were attributed to the writings of
Madame Dudevant by people who had read nothing, or only the earliest and most
objectionable of her novels. For a time, therefore, she was any thing but popular,
and presently fell into neglect. Novel readers who sought only for the sensational,
indifferent to the moral quality of their intellectual pabulum, were disappointed in
finding instruction and the noblest philosophy where they looked hopefully for pruriency
or romantic excitement; while the higher class of readers was warned away
by hearing, in endless repetition, the charge of eccentricity in her life, and dangerous
morality in her books. Even prejudice has commonly some foundation, and it is not
to be denied that both in her earlier life and literature there is much to reprehend
much, indeed, that she has lived herself to condemn, and, as far as might be, to counteract.
What all but a few failed to learn was the sincerity, the benevolence, the deep
philanthropy, of this wonderful woman, who, with such sad and disheartening experiences
of life, lost no faith in God or mankind, and who, with such fervor of language
and eloquence of diction as no French woman had ever before employed, still kept to
her work of trying to make the world happier and better by inculcating in the more
vraisemble and fascinating pictures the noblest lessons of hope, courage, purity, and
practical benevolence. The foregoing remarks were suggested by the excellent edition
of the best of the novels of George Sand, remarkably well translated into English,
which is now appearing from the press of Roberts Brothers, Boston. “Mauprat” and
“Antonia” have already appeared; and others, carefully selected, will presently follow.
We have just concluded the perusal of the latter, a charming love story, which we have
found no less attractive than “Mauprat;” and so commend it to the public.

ROBERTS BROTHERS, Boston.

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