Works of Currer Bell.

I.

VILLETTE. By CURRER BELL,

Author of "JANE EYRE," "SHIRLEY," &c.

In Three Volumes, Post 8vo, Price 1l. 11s. 6d. cloth.

"This book would have made Currer Bell famous had she not been already. It retrieves all the ground she lost in 'Shirley,' and it will engage a wider circle of readers than Jane Eyre,' for it has all the best qualities of that remarkable book. There is throughout a charm of freshness which is infinitely delightful: freshness in observation, freshness in feeling, freshness in expression. Brain and heart are both held in suspense by the fascinating power of the writer."-Literary Gazette.

"This novel amply sustains the fame of the author of ' Jane Eyre' and 'Shirley' as an original and powerful writer. Villette' is a most admirably written novel, everywhere original, everywhere shrewd, and at heart everywhere kindly. The men, women, and children who figure throughout it have flesh and blood in them, and all are worked out in such a way as to evince a very keen spirit of observation, and a fine sense of the picturesque in character."-Examiner.

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"The tale is one of the affections, and remarkable as a picture of manners. burning heart glows throughout it, and one brilliantly distinct character keeps it alive. The oldest man, the sternest, who is a genuine novel-reader, will find it hard to get out of Madame Beck's school, when he has once entered there with Lucy Snowe, and made acquaintance with the choleric, vain, child-like, and noble-hearted M. Paul Emanuel."-Athenæum.

"Of interesting scenes and well-drawn characters there is abundance. The characters are various, happily conceived, and some of them painted with a truth of detail rarely surpassed. The style of Villette' has that clearness and power which are the result of mastery over the thoughts and feelings to be expressed, over the persons and scenes to be described."-Spectator.

"Villette' may claim the unhesitating commendations of readers and critics. The autobiography of the heroine is at once natural, interesting, cheerful, piquant, and thoughtful."-Britannia.

"Villette' is not only a very able but a very pleasant book. It is a tale which, though here and there it is dashed with wonder and melancholy, is as a whole cheerful and piquant; abundant in clear, clear-cut, strongly-drawn etchings, presenting so pleasant and effective a transcript of manners, English and Continental, that its success cannot fail to be remarkable.”—Morning Chronicle.

"The author of 'Jane Eyre' and 'Shirley' has again produced a fiction of extraordinary literary power, and of singular fascination; it is one of the most absorbing of books, one of the most interesting of stories. 'Villette' will add immensely to the author of 'Jane Eyre's' fame, as a philosophical and analytical expositor of the human heart and feelings."-Globe.

"The whole three volumes are crowded with beauties; with good things, for which we look to the clear sight, deep feeling, and singular though not extensive experience of life, which we associate with the name of Currer Bell."-Daily News.

Works of Currer Bell.

II.

SHIRLEY; ; a Tale. By CURRER BELL. A new Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s. cloth.

"The peculiar power which was so greatly admired in Jane Eyre' is not absent from this book. It possesses deep interest, and an irresistible grasp of reality. There is a vividness and distinctness of conception in it quite marvellous. The power of graphic delineation and expression is intense. There are scenes which, for strength and delicacy of emotion, are not transcended in the range of English fiction. The women will be the favourites with all readers. Both are charming. The views of human nature which pervade the volumes, are healthy, tolerant, and encouraging.” Examiner.

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"Shirley is an admirable book; genuine English in the independence and uprightness of the tone of thought, in the purity of heart and feeling which pervade it, in the masculine vigour of its conception of character, and in style and diction. It is a tale of passion and character, and a veritable triumph of pyschology.”—Morning Chronicle.

"Shirley' is very clever. The faculty of graphic description, strong imagination, fervid and masculine diction, analytic skill, all are visible. Gems of rare thought and glorious passion shine here and there throughout the volumes."-Times.

III.

JANE EYRE: an Autobiography. By CURRER BELL. Fourth Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s. cloth.

"Jane Eyre' is a remarkable production. Freshness and originality, truth and passion, singular felicity in the description of natural scenery and in the analyzation of human thought, enable this tale to stand boldly out from the mass, and to assume its own place in the bright field of romantic literature. We could not but be struck with the raciness and ability of the work, by the independent sway of a thoroughly original and unworn pen, by the masculine current of noble thoughts, and the unflinching dissection of the dark yet truthful character.”—Times.

IV.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS and AGNES GREY. By ELLIS and ACTON BELL. With a Selection of their Literary Remains, and a Biographical Notice of both Authors, by CURRER BELL. Crown 8vo, 6s. cloth.

"Wuthering Heights' bears the stamp of a profoundly individual, strong, and passionate mind. The memoir is one of the most touching chapters in literary biography."-Nonconformist.

V.

POEMS. By CURRER, ELLIS, and ACTON Bell. 8vo, 4s. cloth.

Fcap.

"Remarkable as being the first efforts of undoubted genius to find some congenial form of expression. They are not common verses, but show many of the vigorous qualities in the prose works of the same writers: the love of nature which characterises Currer Bell's prose works pervades the whole of the present volume."—Christian Remembrancer.

Mr. Gwynne's Fictions.

I.

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SILAS BARNSTARKE. By TALBOT GWYNNE.

One Volume, crown 8vo., price 10s. 6d. cloth.

"Mr. Gwynne has adopted the nervous and succinct style of our forefathers, while narrating the career of a lover of money. The reader will find little to impede his interest in following the career of this bad man to its bad end."-Athenæum. "In many ways this book is remarkable. Silas and his relations stand forth so distinctly and forcibly, and with so much simplicity, that we are far more inclined to feel of them as if they really lived, than of the writers of pretended diaries and autobiographies. The manners and ways of speech of the time are portrayed admirably." -Guardian.

"The gradual growth of the sin of covetousness, its temporary disturbance by the admixture of a softer passion, and the pangs of remorse, are portrayed with high dramatic effect, resembling in some scenes the gigantic majesty of ancient Tragedy." -John Bull.

"A story possessing an interest so tenacious that no one who commences it, will easily leave the perusal unfinished." - Standard.

"A book of high aim and unquestionable power."—Examiner.

II.

THE SCHOOL FOR FATHERS; An Old English Story. By T. GWYNNE. Crown 8vo. Price 10s. 6d. cloth.

"The pleasantest tale we have read for many a day. It is a story of the Tatler and Spectator days, and is very fitly associated with that time of good English literature by its manly feeling, direct, unaffected manner of writing, and nicely-managed, wellturned narrative. The descriptions are excellent; some of the country painting is as fresh as a landscape by Constable, or an idyl by Alfred Tennyson."-Examiner. "The School for Fathers' is at once highly amusing and deeply interesting—full of that genuine humour which is half pathos-and written with a freshness of feeling and raciness of style which entitle it to be called a tale in the Vicar of Wakefield school."-Britannia.

"Few are the tales so interesting to read, and so admirable in purpose and style, as The School for Fathers.""-Globe.

III.

THE SCHOOL FOR DREAMERS. By T. GWYNNE. Crown 8vo. Price 10s. 6d. cloth.

"The master-limner of the follies of mankind, the author of The School for Fathers,' has produced another tale abounding with traits of exquisite humour and sallies of sparkling wit."-John Bull.

"The School for Dreamers' may be credited with life, humour, and vigour. There is a spirit of enjoyment in Mr. Gwynne's descriptions which indicates a genial temperament, as well as a shrewd eye."-Athenæum.

"A story which inculcates a sound and sensible moral in a manner equally delightful and effective."-Morning Post.

"A powerfully and skilfully-written book, intended to show the mischief and danger of following imagination instead of judgment in the practical business of life.” -Literary Gazette.

"An admirable and caustic satire on 'equality and fraternity' theories.”—

Britannia.

Miss Kavanagh's Female Biographies.

I.

WOMEN OF CHRISTIANITY, EXEMPLARY FOR PIETY AND CHARITY. By JULIA KAVANAGH.

Post 8vo, with Portraits.

gilt edges.

Price 125. in embossed cloth,

"The authoress has supplied a great desideratum both in female biography and morals. The style is clear, the matter solid, and the conclusions just."-Globe.

"A more noble and dignified tribute to the virtues of her sex we can scarcely imagine than this work, to which the gifted authoress has brought talents of no ordinary range, and, more than all, a spirit of eminent piety."—Church of England Quarterly Review.

"The same range of female biography is taken by no other volume; and an equal skill in the delineation of characters is rarely to be found. The author has accomplished her task with intelligence and feeling, and with general fairness and truth."Nonconformist.

"Miss Kavanagh has wisely chosen that noble succession of saintly women who, in all ages of Christianity, are united by their devotion to the sick, the wretched, and the destitute."-Guardian.

II.

WOMAN IN FRANCE DURING THE 18TH CENTURY. By JULIA KAVANAGH. 2 vols. post 8vo,

with Eight Portraits. 12s. in embossed cloth.

"Miss Kavanagh has undertaken a delicate task, and she has performed it on the whole with discretion and judgment. Her volumes may lie on any drawing-room table without scandal, and may be read by all but her youngest countrywomen without risk."-Quarterly Review.

"Which among us will be ever tired of reading about the women of France? especially when they are marshalled so agreeably and discreetly as in the pages before us."-Athenæum.

"The subject is handled with much delicacy and tact, and takes a wide range of examples. The book shows often an original tone of remark, and always a graceful and becoming one."-Examiner.

AMABEL.

Miss Wormeley's Novel.

By MARY ELIZABETH WORMELEY.

Volumes, post 8vo. Price 1. IIS. 6d.

Three

"This fiction displays ability of a high kind. Miss Wormeley has considerable knowledge of society, much skill in depicting its persons and salient features, with the penetration to pierce below the surface. The characters are well conceived and sustained, many of the latter parts possess considerable and rapid interest, and the composition is buoyant and animated."-Spectator.

"To enforce the moral that love, the principle, not the passion, infused into our duties, works its own reward, is the task undertaken by the writer of this pathetic and deeply affecting story."-Globe.

Works of Mr. Leigh Hunt.

I.

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LEIGH HUNT: with Reminiscences of Friends and Contemporaries. 3 vols. post 8vo, with Portraits, 15s. cloth.

"These volumes contain a personal recollection of the literature and politics, as well as some of the most remarkable literary men and politicians, of the last fifty years. The reminiscences are varied by sketches of manners during the same period, and b critical remarks on various topics. They are also extended by boyish recollection, family tradition, and contemporary reading; so that we have a sort of social picture of almost a century, with its fluctuations of public fortune and its changes of fashions, manners, and opinions."-Spectator.

II.

THE TOWN: its Memorable Characters and Events. 2 vols. post 8vo, with 45 Illustrations, 17. 45. cloth.

"We will allow no higher enjoyment for a rational Englishman than to stroll leisurely through this marvellous town arm-in-arm with Mr. Leigh Hunt. He gives us the outpourings of a mind enriched with the most agreeable knowledge.”—Times.

III.

MEN, WOMEN, AND BOOKS. 2 vols. post 8vo, with Portrait, 10s. cloth.

"A book for a parlour-window, for a summer's eve, for a warm fireside, for a halfhour's leisure, for a whole day's luxury; in any and every possible shape a charming companion."-Westminster Review.

IV.

IMAGINATION AND FANCY. 55. cloth.

"The very essence of the sunniest qualities of the English poets.”—Atlas.

V.

WIT AND HUMOUR. 5s. cloth.

"A book at once exhilarating and suggestive.”—Athenæum.

VI.

A JAR OF HONEY FROM MOUNT HYBLA.

"A book acceptable at all seasons.”—Athenæum.

VII.

TABLE TALK. 35. 6d. cloth.

5s.

"Precisely the book we would take as a companion on the green lane walk."-Globe.