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“A novel of really high merit. The characters are most skilfully drawn out in the
course of the story. The death of Guy is one of the most touching things we ever
read. * * * The work is one of absorbing interest, and what is still better, the moral
taught in its pages is eminently healthy and elevating. We commend the book most
cordially.”

“The whole tone and feeling of this book is good and true. The reader does not
require to be told that the author is religious; the right principles, the high sense of
duty and honor, softened by the influence of a reverent faith, can be explained on no
other hypothesis. It is eminently a book to send the reader away from the perusal better
and wiser for the lessons hidden under its deeply interesting narrative.”

“A well written, spirited and interesting work. It is full of character, sparkling
with conversation, and picturesque with paintings of nature. The plot is well conceived
and handsomely wrought out. There is a freshness of feeling and tone of healthy
sentiment about such novels, that recommend them to public favor.”

“It is a beautiful and ably written story.”

“The story is well written, and will be read with much pleasure as well as profit.”

“A novel with a deep religious tone, bearing and aim—a most attractive style.”

“We commend her books to the young, as among those from which they have
nothing to fear.”

“A very well told tale, mingling the grave and gay, the tender and severe, in fair
proportions. It displays a genius and skill in the writer of no ordinary measure.”

“The `Dean's Daughter' will doubtless be one of the most successful books of the
season. It abounds in all those beauties which have hitherto distinguished Mrs. Gore's
novels. The management of the incidents of the story is as clever, the style is as brilliant,
the satire as keen, and the conversation as flowing, as in the best of her works.”

“It will be read with pleasure by thousands.”

“Mrs. Gore is perhaps the wittiest of modern novelists. Of all the ladies who in
later times have taken in hand the weapon of satire, her blade is certainly the most
trenchant. A vapid lord or a purse-proud citizen, a money-hunting woman of fashion
or a toad-eater, a humbug in short, male or female, and of whatsoever cast or quality he
may be, will find his pretensions well castigated in some one or other of her brilliant
pages; while scattered about in many places are passages and scenes of infinite tenderness,
showing that our authoress is not insensible to the gentler qualities of out nature
and is mistress of pathos in no common degree.”