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Cheap Reprints of popular Novels. Price Two Shillings each Novel.
RUTH.
A NOVEL, By the Author of "Mary Barton."
"A sad tale, most sweetly told; a Christian lesson most eloquently enforced."—Sun.
"A book so full of pathos, of love, and kindness; of charity in its highest and broadest meaning; of deep religious feeling, and of fine observation, you will not often meet with. It cannot be read with unwet eyes, nor with hearts uninfluenced. . . . . Let no one leave 'Ruth' unread."—Leader.
MARY BARTON: A Tale of Manchester Life.
"Its interest is intense—often painfully so. . . "We can conscientiously pronounce it to be a production of great excellence.—Edinburgh Review.
OLIVE.
A NOVEL. By the Author of "The Head of the Family."
"Full of noble sentiments and highest aspirations."—New Monthly Magazine.
THE FALCON FAMILY;
OR, YOUNG IRELAND. A SATIRICAL NOVEL.
By the Author of "The Bachelor of the Albany."
"A vein of genuine comedy runs lavishly through every page."—Morning Chronicle.
THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY.
A NOVEL. By the Author of the "Ogilvies," &c.
"A very remarkable and powerful book, with all the elements necessary for a great and lasting popularity."—Guardian.
THE WHITEBOY.
A STORY OF IRELAND IN 1822. BY MRS. S. C. HALL.
"Indisputably Mrs. Hall's best novel."—Athenæum.
THE BACHELOR OF THE ALBANY.
"It is in sketches of character, in bright and flashing gleams cast upon the social characteristics, and acute and pungent hits at the follies and humbugs of the day, that the author of 'The Bachelor of the Albany' shows his true metal."—Morning Chronicle.
THE HALF SISTERS.
A TALE. By MISS JEWSBURY.
- "The beauty and the power of gentleness, virtue, wisdom, and endurance were never more touchingly and truthfully delineated."—Sunday Times.
THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE.
"Mr. Hawthorne's third tale, in our judgment, puts the seal on the reputation of its author as the highest, deepest, and finest imaginative writer whom America has yet produced. . . . Long as are our remarks and selections they are far from illustrating all the phases of appeal to admiration and sympathy exhibited in this remarkable book of a remarkable writer."—Athenæum.
THE OGILVIES: A Novel.
By the Author of "The Head of the Family," &c.; in the press.
*** Other popular Novels will be issued in this Series.
LONDON: CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY.
