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Miss Sedgwick has marked individuality; she writes with a higher aim than
merely to amuse Indeed, the rare endowments of her mind depend in an unusual
degree upon the moral qualities with which they are united for their value. Animated
by a cheerful philosophy, and anxious to pour its sunshine into every place
where there is lurking care or suffering, she selects for illustration the scenes of
every-day experience, paints them with exact fidelity, and seeks to diffuse over the
mind a delicious serenity, and in the heart kind feelings and sympathies, and wise
ambition and steady hope Her style is colloquial, picturesque, and marked by
a facile grace, which is evidently a gift of nature Her characters are nicely
drawn and delicately contrasted; her delineation of manners decidedly the best
that have appeared.

— Prose Writers of America

Live and Let Live;

or, Domestic Service Illustrated. By Miss C. M. Sedgwick. 18mo,
Muslin, 45 cents.

A story of a young girl who goes out to service. She enters different families,
and learns many painful lessons The book is designed to set forth the mutual
duties of the employers and the employed, in the relative positions of mistress
of a family and domestic servant. Few of either class would not be profited by
reading this work

Means and Ends;

or, Self-training. By Miss C. M. Sedgwick. 18mo, Muslin, 45
cents.

This volume is intended to furnish an answer to the question, “What is education?”
It inculcates that physical and economical training, forethought, the
formation of sound principles, useful habits, and pleasing manners, are a part of
education; that housewifery, cookery, the care of a sick-room, and even taste in
dress are essential parts of female education, as well as a knowledge of books,
sciences, and accomplishments The little volume is full of sound common sense,
set forth in an attractive form, by illustration rather than by didactic teaching.

A Love Token for Children.

Designed for Sunday School Libraries. By Miss C. M. Sedgwick
18mo, Muslin, 45 cents.

A book for very young children, inculcating, by means of simple stories, forgive
ness of injuries, perseverance in well-doing, and self-sacrifice for the welfare of
others.

The Poor Rich Man and the Rich Poor Man.

By Miss C. M. Sedgwick. 18mo, Muslin, 45 cents.

We recognize in these books feminine skill and delicacy of delineation, with unusual
discrimination of character and knowledge of the heart. Another high recommendation
is their marked religious tone.

—Norwich Courier.

Stories for Young Persons.

By Miss C. M. Sedgwick. 18mo, Muslin, 45 cents.

There is a sweetness and sociability in her stories we meet with nowhere else.

—Newburgh Courier

Her writings are always well worth reading. The quiet good sense and sterling
principles they contain will make them acceptable to maturer minds.

—Herald.

Harper & Brothers will send the following Work by Mail, postage paid (for
any distance in the United States under 3000 miles), on receipt of the Money.

THE OLD REGIME
AND
THE REVOLUTION.

BY
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE,
OF THE ACADEMIE FRANCAISE, AUTHOR OF “DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA.”

TRANSLATED BY
JOHN BONNER, ESQ.

12mo, Muslin, $1 00.

A calm, philosophical inquiry into the causes of the French Revolution, and
the working of the Old Regime. In this work, M. de Tocqueville has daguerreotyped
French political society under the old monarchy; shown us where the real
power lay, and how it affected individual Frenchmen in the daily avocations of
life; what was the real condition of the nobility, of the clergy, of the middle
classes, of the “people,” of the peasantry; wherein France differed from all other
countries in Europe; why a Revolution was inevitable. The information derived
under these various heads, it may safely be said, is now first printed. It
has been obtained, as M. de Tocqueville informs us, mainly from the manuscript
records of the old intendants' offices and the Council of State. Of the labor devoted
to the task, an idea may be formed from the author's statement, that more
than one of the thirty odd chapters contained in the volume, alone cost him a
year's researches.

“I trust,” says M. de Tocqueville in his Preface, “that I have written this
work without prejudice; but I can not say I have written without feeling. It
would be scarcely proper for a Frenchman to be calm when he speaks of his
country, and thinks of the times in which we live. I acknowledge, therefore,
that in studying the society of the Old Regime in all its details, I have never lost
sight of the society of our own day.”

The work abounds with allusions to the Empire and the Emperor. It need
hardly be added, that these allusions are not eulogistic of the powers that be.
Napoleon has seldom been assailed with more pungent satire or more cogent
logic.

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE, N. Y.

By William C. Prime.

Boat Life in Egypt & Nubia.

Boat Life in Egypt and Nubia. By William C. Prime, Author
of “The Old House by the River,” “Later Years,”
&c. Illustrations. 12mo, Muslin, $1 25.

Tent Life in the Holy Land.

By William C. Prime, Author of “The Old House by the
River,” “Later Years,” &c. Illustrations. 12mo, Muslin,
$1 25.

The Old House by the River.

By William C. Prime, Author of the “Owl Creek Letters.”

12mo, Muslin, 75 cents.

Later Years.

By William C. Prime, Author of “The Old House by the
River.” 12mo, Muslin, $1 00.

Harper & Brothers will send the following Works by Mail, postage paid (for any
distance in the United States under 3000 miles), on receipt of the Money.

THE BRONTÉ NOVELS.

THE PROFESSOR. By Currer Bell (Charlotte Bronté). 12mo,
Paper, 60 cents; Muslin, 75 cents.

JANE EYRE. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell
(Charlotte Bronté). Library Edition. 12mo, Muslin, 75 cents.—Cheap
Edition. 8vo, Paper 37½ cents.

SHIRLEY. A Tale. By the Author of “Jane Eyre.” Library
Edition. 12mo, Muslin, 75 cents.—Cheap Edition. 8vo, Paper, 37½
cents.

VILLETTE. By the Author of “Jane Eyre,” and “Shirley.” Library
Edition. 12mo, Muslin, 75 cents.—Cheap Edition. 8vo, Paper,
50 cents

WUTHERING HEIGHTS. By Ellis Bell (Emily Bronté).
12mo, Muslin, 75 cents.

THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL. By Acton Bell
(Anna Bronté.) 12mo, Muslin, 75 cents

The wondrous power of Currer Bell's stories consists in their fiery insight into the
human heart, their merciless dissection of passion, and their stern analysis of character
and motive. The style of these productions possesses incredible force—sometimes
almost grim in its bare severity—then relapsing into passages of melting pathos—always
direct, natural, and effective in its unpretending strength. They exhibit
the identity which always belongs to works of genius by the same author,
though without the slightest approach to monotony. The characters portrayed by
Currer Bell all have a strongly-marked individuality. Once brought before the imagination,
they haunt the memory like a strange dream. The sinewy, muscular
strength of her writings guarantees their permanent duration, and thus far they have
lost nothing of their intensity of interest since the period of their composition.

Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, Franklin Square, N. Y.

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