 | Ellen Norbury, or, The adventures of an orphan |  |
ELLEN NORBURY;
OR,
THE ADVENTURES OF AN ORPHAN.
BY EMERSON BENNETT.
AUTHOR OF “CLARA MORELAND,” “VIOLA,” “THE FORGED WILL,” “PIONEER'S
DAUGHTER,” “BRIDE OF THE WILDERNESS,” “KATE CLARENDON,”
“HEIRESS OF BELLEFONTE,” “WALDE-WARREN,” ETC.
Price Fifty Cents in paper cover; or a finer edition in cloth for One Dollar.
T. B. PETERSON, NO. 102 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA,
takes pleasure in presenting to the public this celebrated work, the
scenes of which are laid in the city of Philadelphia. It is the most
thrilling local tale ever issued in the Quaker City. Mr. Bennett has a
philanthropic heart, which beats for humanity, and he has performed a
noble work. It is a work destined to achieve a reputation for its distinguished
author, second to no living writer. It boldly portrays the vices
of a great city, in language which must reach the heart of every lover
of truth and virtue. It will live as long as a Christian heart can be
found to beat with sympathy for suffering humanity. It is a fiction
founded on facts, gathered from actual observation of human misery, by
the author himself, and gleaned from the records of a distinguished philanthropist.
It is a picture of light and shade, presenting the widest and
most striking contrasts. Its shadows are as dark as vice and crime can
make them, while its lights are the brilliant gleams of purity, truth, and
love. It is a work to command the attention of all noble hearts—of
every clergyman, jurist, and legislator in the land—and especially does it
commend itself to every Christian. While it boldly tears the mask from
the face of canting hypocrisy, it upholds, in the strongest language, the
pure and simple religion of Jesus Christ. Mothers will read it, and will
weep over the wrongs and sufferings of the sweet little “orphan”—the
child of innocence and purity—who, amid all her trials and tribulations,
never forgets to appeal, with the trusting faith of tender years, to her
heavenly Father—imploring protection and deliverance, patience and resignation.
Whether among friends or enemies—whether surrounded by
beauty, purity, and goodness, in the bright abodes of luxury—or by vice,
crime, misery, and pestilence, in the dark haunts of the most degraded—
whether in the hands of pure and loving hearts, or in the grasp of thieves,
robbers, and murderers—on the downy bed of wealth, or the filthy pallet
of the gloomy prison—in all places and all situations, she is ever the
same sweet, gentle, affectionate, prayerful child. The scene of this
truly great work lies in the very heart of Philadelphia; and the characters,
our midst. And we would add that, besides the great moral beauties
enumerated, the story is characterized by purity of style, intricacy of
plot, and individuality of character, combined with incidents of so thrilling
and startling a nature, as to make the heart bound and the blood
leap. It should be in the hands of every lover of literature. Every
page glows with the beauty, strength and power of genius; and every
passion and emotion of the human heart, is depicted with a fidelity to
life never excelled. Of all the popular works of Emerson Bennett, this
is certainly his chef d'œuvre; and we may safely venture the assertion,
that, through Ellen Norbury, he will secure the blessings of the wise and
good of the present and succeeding generations.
From the Waverly Magazine.
“The author of this book has been long and favorably known as one
of the best novelists of the day. We doubt whether there is in all the
west an author whose writings have been so universally read, and have
received so much attention and praise, as have those of Mr. Bennett. The
frequent appearance of his thrilling stories in the columns of some of
the first literary journals in the country, speak no less loudly of their
worth and excellence, than do the high prices which they at all times
command. Though he has often followed in the footsteps of the illustrious
Cooper, in describing with a truthful pen the character and eccentricities
of the Red Man, the success with which his books have met,
proves him most decisively to have been no servile imitator, for he who
can write a good book, locating the scenes and events on ground passed
over by the world-renowned author of `Leather Stocking Tales,' must,
indeed, wield a pen of more than ordinary strength; and this we, without
a moment's hesitation, pronounce him to have done. Whether as the
delineator of border life and wild western scenes, or the more pleasing
aspects of civilized life, he ever wields the same graphic pen. The
drawing-room and the prairie seem alike familiar to him. We can award
this book no higher praise than to say it is better than any which have
preceded it from the same pen. The moral of the story which stands
out boldly upon every page, cannot fail to produce a good effect upon all
by whom the book is read. We are clearly shown, that though the
guilty and vicious may for a while elude detection and exposure, virtue
will eventually triumph and meet its just reward.”
Copies of the work will be sent to any person, to any part of the
United States, free of postage, on their remitting the price of the work
to the publisher, in a letter, post-paid.
Published and for Sale by
T. B. PETERSON,
No. 102 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
To whom all Orders should be addressed, post-paid.
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