“We can heartily recommend this life of Maria Edgeworth, not only because it is singularly readable in itself, but because it makes familiar to readers of the present age a notable figure in English literary history, with whose lineaments we suspect most readers, especially of the present generation, are less familiar than they ought to be.”—­Eclectic.

“This biography contains several letters and papers by Miss Edgeworth that have not before been made public, notably some charming letters written during the latter part of her life to Dr. Holland and Mr. and Mrs. Ticknor.  The author had access to a life of Miss Edgeworth written by her step-mother, as well as to a large collection of her private letters, and has therefore been able to bring forward many facts in her life which have not been noted by other writers.  The book is written in a pleasant vein, and is altogether a delightful one to read.”—­Utica Herald.

FAMOUS WOMEN SERIES.

GEORGE SAND.

BY BERTHA THOMAS.

One volume. 16mo.  Cloth.  Price, $1.00

“Miss Thomas has accomplished a difficult task with as much good sense as good feeling.  She presents the main facts of George Sand’s life, extenuating nothing, and setting naught down in malice, but wisely leaving her readers to form their own conclusions.  Everybody knows that it was not such a life as the women of England and America are accustomed to live, and as the worst of men are glad to have them live....  Whatever may be said against it, its result on George Sand was not what it would have been upon an English or American woman of genius.”—­New York Mail and Express.

“This is a volume of the ‘Famous Women Series,’ which was begun so well with George Eliot and Emily Bronte.  The book is a review and critical analysis of George Sand’s life and work, by no means a detailed biography.  Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, the maiden, or Mme. Dudevant, the married woman, is forgotten in the renown of the pseudonym George Sand.

“Altogether, George Sand, with all her excesses and defects, is a representative woman, one of the names of the nineteenth century.  She was great among the greatest, the friend and compeer of the finest intellects, and Miss Thomas’s essay will be a useful and agreeable introduction to a more extended study of her life and works.”—­Knickerbocker.

“The biography of this famous woman, by Miss Thomas, is the only one in existence.  Those who have awaited it with pleasurable anticipation, but with some trepidation as to the treatment of the erratic side of her character, cannot fail to be pleased with the skill by which it is done.