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THE MUD CABIN;
Or, the Character and Tendency of British Institutions
BY WARREN ISHAM.

1 vol. 12mo. Cloth, $1.

“This book deserves a better title, for it is really one of the most faithful and true
pictures of common life in England that ever came from the hand of an American.
Mr. Isham travelled through England with clear eyes and open understanding. Appreciating
what travellers too often forget, that the real character of a nation is to be judged
by the condition of its masses, he made the common people the object of his special
study. He mingled freely with laborers of all kinds, visited their homes, heard their
complaints, saw their manner of living. But he does not content himself with presenting
facts. He traces evils to their causes, shows the practical operation of laws and
institutions, and reasons soberly and clearly. The book is not one of that class of productions
which have been provoked by the English reception of Mrs. Stowe's work; it
is not written in a denunciatory or fault-finding spirit; it is the cool presentation of an
actual reality, undeniable and irresistible. The style is compact, vivid in description,
terse in reflection. In view of both its manner and matter, we mistake if it does not
produce something of a sensation in the country of which it treats.”—Courier &
Enquirer.

“This work can scarcely fail to interest alike the politician, the professional man,
the philosopher, the business man, and the day laborer, for the facts and principles it
developes alike concerns them all. Vivacity and vigor characterize both thought and
style.”—Albany Atlas.

“Those who expect to find the old story about castles and their appurtenances
repeated in this book, will assuredly be disappointed. There is little in it which any
other author has said or thought of. Facts entirely aside from common observation
have been industriously gathered from the very life of England's down-trodden
masses, and have been employed with effect in elucidating the character of British
institutions. The book in fact may be considered a full answer to the questions—
What is the chief end of Government? and how has it been fulfilled by British Institutions?
And yet there is nothing in it which a child cannot understand and be
interested in. It is written in a good spirit, and cannot fail to interest persons of every
class in the community.”—Boston Atlas.

“This is the work of one who has visited the humble dwellings of the people of
England, and conversed with their wretched inmates—who with singular unanimity
ascribe their hard lot to the unequal social and political institutions under which they
live. The nature of those institutions is explained, and their influence traced out and
the manner shown in which they tend to degrade the masses of the English people.
The work is written in a sincere, kindly and truthful spirit, and developes a picture
which it concerns the interest and welfare of every American citizen to examine.”—
Evening Post.

“This is not an ordinary book of travel. It abounds in incidents of travel, it is
true, and they are such as the common observer never turned aside to see. Indeed, it
can scarcely fail to strike the reader with delightful surprise to find so much that is
new and entertaining on almost every page, in relation to a country which has been
so much travelled in and written about.”—Savannah Republican.

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ESSAYS FROM THE LONDON TIMES; A Collection of
Personal and Historical Sketches.

THE YELLOWPLUSH PAPERS. By W. M. Thackeray.

THE MAIDEN AND MARRIED LIFE OF MARY POWELL:
afterwards Mrs. Milton.

A JOURNEY THROUGH TARTARY, THIBET, AND
CHINA. By M. Huo.

THE PARIS SKETCH BOOK. By W. M. Thackeray.

GAIETIES AND GRAVITIES. By Horace Smith, one of
the Authors of the “Rejected Addresses.”

THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS. By Barham.

PAPERS FROM THE QUARTERLY REVIEW.

LITTLE PEDLINGTON AND THE PEDLINGTONIANS.
By the Author of “Paul Pry.”

A JOURNEY TO KATMANDU; OR, THE NEPAULESE
AMBASSADOR AT HOME. By Lawrence Olyphant.

THE BOOK OF SNOBS. By W. M. Thackeray.

A BOOK FOR SUMMER TIME IN THE COUNTRY.
By the Rev. R. A. Willmott.

STORIES FROM “BLACKWOOD.”

MEN'S WIVES. By W. M. Thackeray.

LIVES OF WELLINGTON AND PEEL.

A SHABBY GENTEEL STORY. By W. M. Thackeray.

A SECOND SERIES OF ESSAYS FROM THE LONDON
TIMES.

CONFESSIONS OF FITZ BOODLE AND MAJOR GAH.'
GAN. By W. M. Thackeray.

THE LUCK OF BARRY LYNDON: A Romance of the
Last Century. By W. M. Thackeray.

LIFE AND MEMORIALS OF DANIEL WEBSTER. By
Gen. S. P. Lyman. Two vols. 16mo.

MR. BROWN'S LETTERS TO A YOUNG MAN. THE
PROSER, &c. By W. M. Thackeray. 50 cts.

PUNCH'S PRIZE NOVELISTS. THE FAT CONTRIBUTOR.
TRAVELS IN LONDON. By W. M. Thackeray. 50 cts.

JEAMES'S DIARY; A TALE OF THE PANIC OF 1845.
A LEGEND OF THE RHINE; REBECCA AND ROWENA. By W.
M. Thackeray. 50 cts.

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THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS, 2d and 3d Series, with a Life
of the Author.

THEODORE HOOK'S LIFE AND LITERARY REMAINS.

THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF CHRISTOPHER
NORTH.