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PUBLISHED BY C. S. FRANCIS & CO., NEW-YORK.
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Writings of L. Maria Child.
PHILOTHEA: A GRECIAN ROMANCE.
A New and Beautiful Edition, Revised and Corrected.
“This novel, as its Litle indicates is an attempt to paint the manners and life of
Grecian Classical times. Mrs. Child has some intellectual traits, which are well
suited to success in this field of literary enterprize. She has a vigorous and exuberant
imagination, and an accurate eye for beauty of form. She understands
the harmonious construction of language, and can describe both nature and society
with liveliness and truth. Her style, in its general character, is rich and eloquent;
abounding in brilliant turns and fanciful illustrations. It is generally simple, energetie,
and impressive; but sometimes it is too dazzling. The time selected by Mrs.
Child is the most brilliant period in the history of Athens.
“We cannot leave the book, without expressing our persuasion that it will take a
prominent place in our elegant literature. Every page of it breathes the inspiration
of genius, and shows a highly cultivated taste in literature and art.”
—N. A. Rev.
LETTERS FROM NEW-YORK.
First and Second Series.
“Mrs. Child is a wonderful woman. It is not likely that all her thoughts will find
currency in the world, at this day, and be received as the common-place of the mind;
but those, who will regard her as visionary and enthusiastic, will yet admire her
originality; and those who think the visionary to be weak in mind, will be startled
by such boldness of thought, as none but the strong can conceive; yet visionary and
enthusiastic as some may pronounce her, and bold to think what the present thinks
itself unprepared for, there is nothing of harsh statement to be found in her expressions.
So far from it, that her mind rather resembles the vine which hangs in graceful
festoons upon the oak; and its visions remind one not of the spiendours of a
thunder-storm with gleams of lightning at night, but of the soft light of the morning,
or the clouds which crowd around the west to see the sun go down. A gentler,
purer, happier spirit, it has not been our fortune to meet with in print.”
—Bost. Cour.
THE MOTHER'S BOOK.
New Edition—Revised and Amended.
The value and usefulness of this little book is well known,—it having passed
through eight editions in this country and twelve in England.
Contents of the Chapters.—I. On the means of developing the bodily senses in earliest
infaney.—II. Early development of the affections.—III. Early cultivation of
intellect.—IV. Management in childhood.—V. Amusements and employments.—
VI. Sunday. Religion. Views of Death. Supernatural appearances.—VII. Advice
concerning books. List of good books for various ages.—VIII. Politeness.—
IX. Beauty. Dress. Gentility.—X. Management during the teens.—XI. Views
of Matrimony.—Concluding observations.
FLOWERS FOR CHILDREN.
A Series of volumes in Prose and Verse, for Children of various ages.
“These are flowers which have budded and blossomed for others beside children;
and as none may now look upon the lilies of the field, bowing their heads in pure
effulgence, or in gorgeous luxuriance of show, without remembering a lesson impressed
upon every petal, by that mind look of the Saviour's, which he gave them
while observing that human hearts might be instructed by them, so these little flowers,
gathered in the fields of Christian wisdom, in the company of the spirit of the
Saviour, suggest lessons to instruct the minds of the wisest, and open the springs of
pure emotion in the hearts of the best.”
—Boston Courier.
“Verify, we are delighted ourselves, and congratulate our readers who are blessed
with the heritage of children, upon this accession to our juvenile libraries, and hope
that Mrs. Child will not be chary of her volumes. These “Flowers” are so sweet
and unfading that we would make our youngsters' libraries redolent of their perfums
and beauty.”
—Commercial Advertiser.
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