THE DOMESTIC LIFE

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This volume brings the life of Jefferson in a brief space within the reach of all. While not writing of him as of the great man or statesman, Miss Randolph has given sufficient outline of the contemporary public events, especially of those in which Jefferson was engaged, to make the history of his times sufficiently clear. Her object, however, she says, has been to give a faithful picture of Jefferson as he was in private life, and for this she was particularly well fitted. Her biography is so artless, so frank, and so uncolored, differing so completely from the lives of public men as generally written. * * * This extremely interesting volume.—Richmond Whig.

One of the most charming and entertaining of books, and its pages will be a source of continual surprise and pleasure to those who, while admiring the statesman, have had their admiration tempered by the belief that he was a demagogue, a libertine, a gamester, and a scoffer at religion. The age in which Jefferson lived was one in which political rancors and animosities existed with no less bitterness than in our later day, and in which, moreover, mutual abuse and malignant recrimination were indulged in with equal fury and recklessness. Charges were made against Jefferson, by his political opponents, that clung to his good name and sullied it, making it almost a by-word of shame, and its owner a man whose example was to be shunned. The prejudices and calumnies then born have existed down to the present day; but the mists of evil report that have hemmed his life and his memory about are now clearing away, and this sunny book will dispel the last shadow they have cast, and will display the maligned victim of party hate in his true character—as a fond, an amiable, and a simple-hearted father; a firm friend; a truly moral and God-fearing citizen, and one of those few great men who have had the rare fortune to be likewise good men.—Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.

The author of this charming book has had access to the best possible sources of information concerning the private character of Mr. Jefferson, embracing both the written testimony of his correspondence and the oral testimony of family tradition. From these materials, guided by a profound reverence for the subject, the writer has constructed a most interesting personal biography. * * * A most agreeable addition to American literature, and will revive the memory of a patriot who merits the respect and gratitude of his countrymen.—Philadelphia Age.

This handsome volume is a valuable acquisition to American history. It brings to the public observation many most interesting incidents in the life of the third President; and the times and men of the republic’s beginnings are here portrayed in a glowing and genial light. The author, in referring to the death-scenes of Jefferson, reports sentiments from his lips which contradict the current opinion that the writer of the Declaration of Independence was an infidel. We are glad to make this record in behalf of truth. Young people would find this book both entertaining and instructive. Its style is fresh and compact. Its pages are full of tender memories. The great man whose career is so charmingly pictured belongs to us all.—Methodist Recorder.

There is no more said of public matters in it than is absolutely necessary to make it clear and intelligible; but we have Jefferson, the man and the citizen, the husband, the father, the agriculturist, and the neighbor—the man, in short, as he lived in the eyes of his relatives, his closest friends, and his most intimate associates. He is the Virginian gentleman at the various stages of his marvelous career, and comes home to us as a being of flesh and blood, and so his story gives a series of lively pictures of a manner of existence that has passed away, or that is so passing, for they are more conservative at the South, socially speaking, than are we at the North, though they live so much nearer the sun than we ever can live. * * * We can commend this book to every one who would know the main facts of Mr. Jefferson’s public career, and those of his private life. It is the best work respecting him that has been published, and it is not so large as to repel even indolent or careless readers. It is, too, an ornamental volume, being not only beautifully printed and bound, but well illustrated. * * * Every American should own the volume.—Boston Traveller.

A charmingly compiled and written book, and it has to do with one of the very greatest men of our national history. There is scarcely one on the roll of our public men who was possessed of more progressive individuality, or whose character will better repay study, than Thomas Jefferson, and this biography is a great boon.—N. Y. Evening Mail.

Both deeply interesting and valuable. The author has displayed great tact and taste in the selection of her materials and its arrangement.—Richmond Dispatch.

A charming book.—New Orleans Times.

It is a series of delightful home pictures, which present the hero as he was familiarly known to his family and his best friends, in his fields, in his library, at his table, and on the broad verandah at Monticello, where all the sweetest flavors of his social nature were diffused. His descendant does not conceal the fact that she is proud of her great progenitor; but she is ingenious, and leaves his private letters mostly to speak for themselves. It has been thought that “a king is never a hero to his valet,” and the proverb has been considered undeniable; but this volume shows that Jefferson, if not exactly the “hero” to whom a little obscurity is so essential, was at least warmly loved and enthusiastically esteemed and admired by those who knew him best. The letters in this volume are full of interest, for they are chiefly published for the first time now. They show a conscientious gentleman, not at all given to personal indulgences, quick in both anger and forgiveness, the greatest American student of his time, excepting the cold-blooded Hamilton, absolutely without formality, but particular and exacting in the extreme—just the man who carried his wife to the White House on the pillion of his gray mare, and showed a British embassador the door for an offense against good-breeding.—Chicago Evening Post.

The reader will recognize the calm and philosophic yet earnest spirit of the thinker, with the tenderness and playful amiability of the father and friend. The letters can not but shed a favorable light on the character of perhaps the best-abused man of his time.—N. Y. Evening Post.

No attempt is made in this volume to present its subject as a public man or as a statesman. It is simply sought to picture him as living in the midst of his domestic circle. And this it is which will invest the book with interest for all classes of readers, for all who, whatever their politics, can appreciate the beauty of a pure, loving life. * * * It is written in an easy, agreeable style, by a most loving hand, and, perhaps, better than any other biography extant, makes the reader acquainted with the real character of a man whose public career has furnished material for so much book-making.—Philadelphia Inquirer.

The perusal of this interesting volume confirms the impression that whatever criticisms may be brought to bear upon the official career of Mr. Jefferson, or his influence upon the politics of this country, there was a peculiar charm in all the relations of his personal and social life. In spite of the strength of his convictions, which he certainly often expressed with an energy amounting to vehemence, he was a man of rare sunniness of temperament and sweetness of disposition. He had qualities which called forth the love of his friends no less than the hatred of his opponents. His most familiar acquaintance cherished the most ardent admiration of his character. His virtues in the circle of home won the applause even of his public adversaries.—N. Y. Tribune.

It lifts up the curtain of his private life, and by numerous letters to his family allows us to catch a glimpse of his real nature and character. Many interesting reminiscences have been collected by the author and are presented to the reader.—Boston Commercial Bulletin.

These letters show him to have been a loving husband, a tender father, and a hospitable gentleman.—Presbyterian.

Jefferson was not only eloquent in state papers, but he was full of point and clearness amounting to wit in his minor correspondence.—Albany Argus.

It is the record of the life of one of the most extraordinary men of any age or country.—Richmond Inquirer.

With the public life of Thomas Jefferson the public is familiar, as without it no adequate knowledge is possible of the history of Virginia or of the United States. Its guiding principles and great events, as likewise its smallest details, have long been before the world in the “Jefferson Papers,” and in the laborious history of Randall. But to a full appreciation of the politician, the statesman, the publicist, and the thinker, there was still wanting some complete and correct knowledge of the man and his daily life amidst his family. This want Miss Randolph has endeavored most successfully to supply. As scarcely one of the founders of the republic had warmer friends, or exerted a deeper and a wider influence upon the country, so scarcely one encountered more bitter animosity or had to live down slander more envenomed. Truth conquered in the end, and the foul rumors, engendered in partisan conflicts, against the private life of Jefferson have long shrunk into silence in the light of his fame. Nevertheless, it is well done of his descendant thus to place before the world his life as in his letters and his conversation it appeared from day to day to those nearest and dearest to him. Nor is it a matter of small value to bring to our sight the interior life of our ancestors as it is delineated in the letters of Jefferson, touching incidently on all the subjects of dress, food, manners, amusements, expenditures, occupations—in brief, neglecting nothing of what the men of those days were and thought and did. It is of such materials that consist the pictures of history whose gaunt outlines of battles, sieges, coronations, dethronements, and parliaments are of little worth without the living and breathing details of everyday existence. * * * The author has happily performed her task, never obtruding her own presence upon the reader, careful only to come forward when necessary to explain some doubtful point or to connect the events of different dates. She may be congratulated upon the grace with which she has both written and forborne to write, never being beguiled by the vanity of authorship or that too great care which is the besetting sin of biography.—Petersburg Daily Index.

It is a highly interesting book, not only as a portraiture of the domestic life of Jefferson, but as a side view of the parties and politics of the day, witnessed in our country seventy years ago. The correspondence of the public characters at that period will be read with special interest by those who study the early history of our government.—Richmond Christian Observer.

In the unrestrained confidence of family correspondence, nature has always full sway, and the revelations presented in this book of Mr. Jefferson’s real temper and opinions, unrestrained or unmodified by the caution called for in public documents, make the work not only valuable but entertaining.—N. Y. World.

The author has done her work with a loving hand, and has made a most interesting book.—N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.

It gives a picture of his private life, which it presents in a most favorable light, calculated to redeem Jefferson’s character from many, if not all, the aspersions and slanders which, in common with most public characters, he had to endure while living.—New Bedford Standard.

The letters of Jefferson are models of epistolary composition—easy, graceful, and simple.—New Bedford Mercury.

The book is a very good picture of the social life not only of himself but of the age in which he lived.—Detroit Post.

One of the most charming memoirs of the day.—N. Y. Times.

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This really important book.—Christian Union.

Written in Dr. Lewis’s free and lively style, and is full of good ideas, the fruit of long study and experience, told in a sensible, practical way that commends them to every one who reads. The whole book is admirably sensible.—Boston Post.

Full of practical and very sensible advice to young women.—Episcopalian.

Dr. Lewis is well known as an acute observer, a man of great practical sagacity in sanitary reform, and a lively and brilliant writer upon medical subjects.—N. Y. Observer.

We like it exceedingly. It says just what ought to be said, and that in style colloquial, short, sharp, and memorable.—Christian Advocate.

The whole tone of the book is pure and healthy.—Albany Express.

Every page shows him to be in earnest, and thoroughly alive to the importance of the subjects he discusses. He talks like one who has a solemn message to deliver, and who deems the matter far more essential than the manner. His book is, therefore, a series of short, earnest appeals against the unnatural, foolish, and suicidal customs prevailing in fashionable society.—Churchman.

A timely and most desirable book.—Springfield Union.

Full of spicy, sharp things about matters pertaining to health; full of good advice, which, if people would but take it, would soon change the world in some very important respects; not profound or systematic, but still a book with numberless good things in it.—Liberal Christian.

The author writes with vigor and point, and with occasional dry humor.—Worcester Spy.

Brimful of good, common-sense hints regarding dress, diet, recreation, and other necessary things in the female economy.—Boston Journal.

Dr. Lewis talks very plainly and sensibly, and makes very many important suggestions. He does not mince matters at all, but puts every thing in a straightforward and, not seldom, homely way, perspicuous to the dullest understanding. His style is lively and readable, and the book is very entertaining as well as instructive.—Register, Salem, Mass.

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A series of sensible, well-written, and pleasant essays on the care of the person, manners, etiquette, and ceremonials. The titleBazar Bookis taken from the fact that some of the essays which make up this volume appeared originally in the columns ofHarper’s Bazar. This in itself is a sufficient recommendation—Harper’s Bazarbeing probably the only journal of fashion in the world which has good sense and enlightened reason for its guides. The “Bazar Book of Decorum” deserves every commendation.—Independent.A very graceful and judicious compendium of the laws of etiquette, taking its name from theBazarweekly, which has become an established authority with the ladies of America upon all matters of taste and refinement.—N. Y. Evening Post.It is, without question, the very best and most thorough work on the subject which has ever been presented to the public.—Brooklyn Daily Times.It would be a good thing if at least one copy of this book were in every household of the United States, in order that all—especially the youth of both sexes—might read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest its wise instruction, pleasantly conveyed in a scholarly manner which eschews pedantry.—Philadelphia Press.Abounds in sensible suggestions for keeping one’s person in proper order, and for doing fitly and to one’s own satisfaction the thousand social duties that make up so large a part of social and domestic life.—Correspondence of Cincinnati Chronicle.Full of good and sound common-sense, and its suggestions will prove valuable in many a social quandary.—Portland Transcript.A little work embodying a multitude of useful hints and suggestions regarding the proper care of the person and the formation of refined habits and manners. The subject is treated with good sense and good taste, and is relieved from tedium by an abundance of entertaining anecdotes and historical incident. The author is thoroughly acquainted with the laws of hygiene, and wisely inculcates them while specifying the rules based upon them which regulate the civilities and ceremonies of social life.—Evening Post, Chicago.* * * It would be easy to quote a hundred curt, sharp sentences, full of truth and force, and touching points of behavior and personal habitude that concern us all.—Springfield Republican.By far the best book of the kind of which we have any knowledge.—Chicago Journal.An eminently sensible book.—Liberal Christian.

A very graceful and judicious compendium of the laws of etiquette, taking its name from theBazarweekly, which has become an established authority with the ladies of America upon all matters of taste and refinement.—N. Y. Evening Post.

It is, without question, the very best and most thorough work on the subject which has ever been presented to the public.—Brooklyn Daily Times.

It would be a good thing if at least one copy of this book were in every household of the United States, in order that all—especially the youth of both sexes—might read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest its wise instruction, pleasantly conveyed in a scholarly manner which eschews pedantry.—Philadelphia Press.

Abounds in sensible suggestions for keeping one’s person in proper order, and for doing fitly and to one’s own satisfaction the thousand social duties that make up so large a part of social and domestic life.—Correspondence of Cincinnati Chronicle.

Full of good and sound common-sense, and its suggestions will prove valuable in many a social quandary.—Portland Transcript.

A little work embodying a multitude of useful hints and suggestions regarding the proper care of the person and the formation of refined habits and manners. The subject is treated with good sense and good taste, and is relieved from tedium by an abundance of entertaining anecdotes and historical incident. The author is thoroughly acquainted with the laws of hygiene, and wisely inculcates them while specifying the rules based upon them which regulate the civilities and ceremonies of social life.—Evening Post, Chicago.

* * * It would be easy to quote a hundred curt, sharp sentences, full of truth and force, and touching points of behavior and personal habitude that concern us all.—Springfield Republican.

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Few men enjoy a wider or better earned popularity as a writer for the young than Jacob Abbott. His series of histories, and stories illustrative of moral truths, have furnished amusement and instruction to thousands. He has the knack of piquing and gratifying curiosity. In the book before us he shows his happy faculty of imparting useful information through the medium of a pleasant narrative, keeping alive the interest of the young reader, and fixing in his memory valuable truths.—Mercury, New Bedford, Mass.

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Being Part I. ofScience for the Young. ByJacob Abbott. Copiously Illustrated. 12mo, Illuminated Cloth, black and gilt, $1 50.

Perhaps that eminent and ancient gentleman who told his young master that there was no royal road to science could admit that he was mistaken after examining one of the volumes of the series “Science for the Young,” which the Harpers are now bringing out. The first of these, “Heat,” by Jacob Abbott, while bringing two or three young travelers from a New York hotel across the ocean to Liverpool in a Cunarder, makes them acquainted with most of the leading scientific principles regarding heat. The idea of conveying scientific instruction in this manner is admirable, and the method in which the plan is carried out is excellent. While the youthful reader is skillfully entrapped into perusing what appears to be an interesting story, and which is really so, he devours the substance and principal facts of many learned treatises. Surely this is a royal road for our young sovereigns to travel over.—World, N. Y.It combines information with amusement, weaving in with a story or sketch of travel dry rules of mechanics or chemistry or philosophy. Mr. Abbott accomplishes this object very successfully. The story is a simple one, and the characters he introduces are natural and agreeable. Readers of the volume, young and old, will follow it with unabating interest, and it can not fail to have the intended effect.—Jewish Messenger.It is admirably done. * * * Having tried the book with children, and found it absolutely fascinating, even to a bright boy of eight, who has had no special preparation for it, we can speak with entire confidence of its value. The author has been careful in his statements of facts and of natural laws to follow the very best authorities; and on some points of importance his account is more accurate and more useful than that given in many works of considerable scientific pretensions written before the true character of heat as what Tyndall calls “a mode of motion” was fully recognized. * * * Mr. Abbott has, in his “Heat,” thrown a peculiar charm upon his pages, which makes them at once clear and delightful to children who can enjoy a fairy tale.—N. Y. Evening Post.* * * Mr. Abbott has avoided the errors so common with writers for popular effect, that of slurring over the difficulties of the subject through the desire of making it intelligible and attractive to unlearned readers. He never tampers with the truth of science, nor attempts to dodge the solution of a knotty problem behind a cloud of plausible illustrations. The numerous illustrations which accompany every chapter are of unquestionable value in the comprehension of the text, and come next to actual experiment as an aid to the reader.—N. Y. Tribune.

It combines information with amusement, weaving in with a story or sketch of travel dry rules of mechanics or chemistry or philosophy. Mr. Abbott accomplishes this object very successfully. The story is a simple one, and the characters he introduces are natural and agreeable. Readers of the volume, young and old, will follow it with unabating interest, and it can not fail to have the intended effect.—Jewish Messenger.

It is admirably done. * * * Having tried the book with children, and found it absolutely fascinating, even to a bright boy of eight, who has had no special preparation for it, we can speak with entire confidence of its value. The author has been careful in his statements of facts and of natural laws to follow the very best authorities; and on some points of importance his account is more accurate and more useful than that given in many works of considerable scientific pretensions written before the true character of heat as what Tyndall calls “a mode of motion” was fully recognized. * * * Mr. Abbott has, in his “Heat,” thrown a peculiar charm upon his pages, which makes them at once clear and delightful to children who can enjoy a fairy tale.—N. Y. Evening Post.

* * * Mr. Abbott has avoided the errors so common with writers for popular effect, that of slurring over the difficulties of the subject through the desire of making it intelligible and attractive to unlearned readers. He never tampers with the truth of science, nor attempts to dodge the solution of a knotty problem behind a cloud of plausible illustrations. The numerous illustrations which accompany every chapter are of unquestionable value in the comprehension of the text, and come next to actual experiment as an aid to the reader.—N. Y. Tribune.

Being Part II. ofScience for the Young. ByJacob Abbott. Copiously Illustrated. 12mo, Illuminated Cloth, black and gilt, $1 50.

Treats of the theory of “Light,” presenting in a popular form the latest conclusions of chemical and optical science on the subject, and elucidating its various points of interest with characteristic clearness and force. Its simplicity of language, and the beauty and appropriateness of its pictorial illustrations, make it a most attractive volume for young persons, while the fullness and accuracy of the information with which it overflows commends it to the attention of mature readers.—N. Y. Tribune.Like the previous volume, it is in all respects admirable. It is a mystery to us how Mr. Abbott can so simplify the most abstruse and difficult principles, in which optics especially abounds, as to bring them within the grasp of quite youthful readers; we can only be very grateful to him for the result. This book is up to our latest knowledge of the wonderful force of which it treats, and yet weaves all its astounding facts into pleasing and readable narrative form. There are few grown people, indeed, whose knowledge will not be vastly increased by a perusal of this capital book.—N. Y. Evening Mail.Perhaps there is no American author to whom our young people are under so great a debt of gratitude as to this writer. The book before us, like all its predecessors from the same pen, is lucid, simple, amusing, and instructive. It is well gotten up and finely illustrated, and should have a place in the library of every family where there are children.—N. Y. Star.It is the second volume of a delightful series started by Mr. Abbott under the title or “Science for the Young,” in which is detailed interesting conversations and experiments, narratives of travel, and adventures by the young in pursuit of knowledge. The science of optics is here so plainly and so untechnically unfolded that many of its most mysterious phenomena are rendered intelligible at once.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.It is complete, and intensely interesting. Such a series must be of great usefulness. It should be in every family library. The volume before us is thorough, and succeeds in popularizing the branch of science and natural history treated, and, we may add, there is nothing more varied in its phenomena or important in its effects than light.—Chicago Evening Journal.Any person, young or old, who wishes to inform himself in a pleasant way about the spectroscope, magic-lantern cameras, and other optical instruments, and about solar, electric, calcium, magnesium, and all other kinds of light, will find this book of Mr. Abbott both interesting and instructive.—Lutheran Observer.

Like the previous volume, it is in all respects admirable. It is a mystery to us how Mr. Abbott can so simplify the most abstruse and difficult principles, in which optics especially abounds, as to bring them within the grasp of quite youthful readers; we can only be very grateful to him for the result. This book is up to our latest knowledge of the wonderful force of which it treats, and yet weaves all its astounding facts into pleasing and readable narrative form. There are few grown people, indeed, whose knowledge will not be vastly increased by a perusal of this capital book.—N. Y. Evening Mail.

Perhaps there is no American author to whom our young people are under so great a debt of gratitude as to this writer. The book before us, like all its predecessors from the same pen, is lucid, simple, amusing, and instructive. It is well gotten up and finely illustrated, and should have a place in the library of every family where there are children.—N. Y. Star.

It is the second volume of a delightful series started by Mr. Abbott under the title or “Science for the Young,” in which is detailed interesting conversations and experiments, narratives of travel, and adventures by the young in pursuit of knowledge. The science of optics is here so plainly and so untechnically unfolded that many of its most mysterious phenomena are rendered intelligible at once.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.

It is complete, and intensely interesting. Such a series must be of great usefulness. It should be in every family library. The volume before us is thorough, and succeeds in popularizing the branch of science and natural history treated, and, we may add, there is nothing more varied in its phenomena or important in its effects than light.—Chicago Evening Journal.

Any person, young or old, who wishes to inform himself in a pleasant way about the spectroscope, magic-lantern cameras, and other optical instruments, and about solar, electric, calcium, magnesium, and all other kinds of light, will find this book of Mr. Abbott both interesting and instructive.—Lutheran Observer.

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She attempts to show how the trials, perplexities, joys, sorrows, labors, and successes of life deepen or wither the character according to its inward bent.She cares to teach,nothow dishonesty is always plunging men into infinitely more complicated external difficulties than it would in real life, but how any continued insincerity gradually darkens and corrupts the very life-springs of the mind:nothow all events conspire to crush an unreal being who is to be the “example” of the story, but how every event, adverse or fortunate, tends to strengthen and expand a high mind, and to break the springs of a selfish or merely weak and self-indulgent nature.She does not limit herself to domestic conversations, and the mere shock of character on character; she includes a large range of events—the influence of worldly successes and failures—the risks of commercial enterprises—the power of social position—in short, the various elements of a wider economy than that generally admitted into a tale.She has a true respect for her work, and never permits herself to “make books,” and yet she has evidently very great facility in making them.There are few writers who have exhibited a more marked progress, whether in freedom of touch or in depth of purpose, than the authoress of “The Ogilvies” and “John Halifax.”

She attempts to show how the trials, perplexities, joys, sorrows, labors, and successes of life deepen or wither the character according to its inward bent.

She cares to teach,nothow dishonesty is always plunging men into infinitely more complicated external difficulties than it would in real life, but how any continued insincerity gradually darkens and corrupts the very life-springs of the mind:nothow all events conspire to crush an unreal being who is to be the “example” of the story, but how every event, adverse or fortunate, tends to strengthen and expand a high mind, and to break the springs of a selfish or merely weak and self-indulgent nature.

She does not limit herself to domestic conversations, and the mere shock of character on character; she includes a large range of events—the influence of worldly successes and failures—the risks of commercial enterprises—the power of social position—in short, the various elements of a wider economy than that generally admitted into a tale.

She has a true respect for her work, and never permits herself to “make books,” and yet she has evidently very great facility in making them.

There are few writers who have exhibited a more marked progress, whether in freedom of touch or in depth of purpose, than the authoress of “The Ogilvies” and “John Halifax.”

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T.(“Mrs. Thomson”)Lady of MilanTieck, Ludwig(“Tieck”)The Elves, &c.Trollope, Frances Milton(“Mrs. Trollope”)Petticoat GovernmentTrollope, AnthonyBarchester TowersThe Belton EstateBertramsCan You Forgive Her?Castle RichmondThe ClaveringsDoctor ThorneFramley ParsonageHe Knew He was RightLast Chronicle of BarsetMiss MackenziePhineas FinnOrley FarmRachel RayRalph the HeirSir Harry Hotspur of HumblethwaiteSmall House at AllingtonThe Struggles of Brown, Jones, and RobinsonThree ClerksVicar of BullhamptonThe WardenTrollope, Frances EleanorAnne FurnessMabel’s ProgressVeronicaTrollope, T. AdolphusDurnton AbbeyLindisfarn ChaseA SirenWarburton, Eliot(“Warburton”)DarienReginald HastingsWard, R. Plummer(“Ward”)ChatsworthWhite, BabingtonCirceWigram, W. Knox(“a Barrister”)Five Hundred Pounds RewardWiley, Calvin HendersonAlamanceWilkinson, Janet W.(“Miss Wilkinson”)Hands not HeartsWilliams, Robert Folkestone(“F. Williams”)The LuttrellsWills, William Gorman(“Wills”)Notice to QuitThe Wife’s EvidenceWright, Caleb E.Wyoming, A TaleWynne, Catherine SimpsonMargaret’s EngagementYates, EdmundBlack SheepKissing the RodLand at LastWrecked in PortZschokke, Heinrich(“Zschokke”)Veronica“Author of...”:BookAuthorAunt Margaret’s TroubleFrances Eleanor TrollopeCarlyon’s YearJames PaynCecilMrs. GoreDoctor JacobMatilda Betham-EdwardsA First FriendshipHenry JacksonGilbert RuggeHenry JacksonLost Sir MassingberdJames PaynMabel’s ProgressFrances Eleanor TrollopeMattie: a StrayF. W. RobinsonOlive VarcoeFrances Eliza Millet Notley (Francis Derrick)Paul MassieJustin H. McCarthyRachel’s SecretEliza Tabor (Stephenson)Raymond’s HeroineIsabella Harwood (Ross Neil)St. Olave’sEliza Tabor (Stephenson)Books Identified Only by Title:Some titles have been used for many different books. In case of ambiguity, the one known to have been published by Harper & Brothers in or before 1872 was assumed.BookAuthorAlamanceCalvin Henderson WileyBelialG. J. MastermanBound to John CompanyM. E. BraddonThe Breach of PromiseHarriet M. G. (Mrs. Gordon) SmythiesCasteEmily JollyCharles Auchester. A Memorialby Elizabeth Sara SheppardThe Chronicles of ClovernookDouglas William JerroldThe Citizen of PragueHenriette Wach von PaalzowThe Discipline of LifeLady Emily PonsonbyEstelle RussellMary Allan-OlneyFalkenburgHamilton MurrayThe Female MinisterEugène LièsA First FriendshipHenry JacksonThe Gold WorshipersEmma RobinsonThe Green Hand. A “Short Yarn”Mrs. George CupplesIn Duty BoundIsa Craig KnoxJessie’s FlirtationsHarriot F. CurtisThe JiltHarriet M. G. (Mrs. Gordon) SmythiesLady Lee’s WidowhoodEdward Bruce HamleyLivonian TalesLady Elizabeth Rigby EastlakeThe Maid of HonorDe Bawr, Mme.Full Title:The Maid of Honor; or, The Massacre of St. Bartholomew. A Tale of the Sixteenth CenturyThe Maid of OrleansEmma RobinsonMargaret Denzil’s HistoryFrederick GreenwoodMargaret’s EngagementCatherine Simpson WynneMiss Van KortlandFrank Lee BenedictMy Daughter ElinorFrank Lee BenedictMy Husband’s CrimeM. R. HousekeeperMy Uncle the CurateM. W. SavageThe Nabob at HomeMrs. MonklandNora and Archibald LeeIsa BlagdenA Point of HonorAnnie EdwardsPride and IrresolutionLady Emily PonsonbyThe Professor’s LadyBerthold AuerbachRachel’s SecretEliza Tabor (Stephenson)Raymond’s HeroineIsabella Harwood (aka Ross Neil)Recollections of Eton.Charles Frederick JohnstoneThe Regent’s DaughterDumasSt. Olave’sEliza Tabor (Stephenson)Tales from the GermanFull Title:Tales from the German, comprising specimens from the most celebrated authorsTom Brown(both titles)Arthur HughesThe True History of a Little RagamuffinJames GreenwoodThe Tutor’s WardFelicia SkeneWhich is the Heroine?Lady Mary Duffus HardyThe White SlaveCharles Frederick HenningsenFull Title:The white slave; or, The Russian peasant girlWyomingCaleb E. WrightFull Title:Wyoming, A Tale

Some authors on this list were eithernot namedat all, or identified only as“Author of...”: see following lists. Most were identified only by last name, usually but not always with “Miss” or “Mrs.” if female.

Andersen, Hans Christian(“Andersen”)

Baker, William M.(“Baker (Wm.)”)

Black, William(“W. Black”)

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth(“M. E. Braddon”, “Miss Braddon”)

Bremer, Fredrika(“Miss Bremer”)

Bronte, Anne[aka Acton Bell]

Bronte, Charlotte[aka Currer Bell]

Bronte, Emily[aka Ellis Bell]

Brooks, Shirley(“Brooks”)

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George(“Bulwer”)

Bulwer, Robert(“Owen Meredith”)

Burbury, E. J.(“Mrs. Burbury”)

Campbell, Harriette(“Miss Campbell”)

Flygare-Carlèn, Emilie(“Miss Carlen”)

Clarke, Charles(“Clarke”)

Cleghorn, Elizabeth(“Mrs. Gaskell”)

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock(“Miss Mulock”)

De Beauvoir, Roger(“De Beauvoir”)

De Forest, John William(“De Forest”)

Douglas, Ann Jane Dunn(“Mrs. George Cupples”)

De Mille, James(“De Mille”)

De Vigny, Alfred(“De Vigny”)

Dickens, Charles(“Dickens”)

Dumas, Alexandre(“Dumas”)

Dupuy, Eliza A.(“Miss Dupuy”)

Edgeworth, Maria(“Edgeworth”)

Eiloart, Elizabeth (Mrs. C. J.)(“Mrs. Eiloart”)

Ellis, Sarah(“Mrs. Ellis”)

Ferrier, Susan Edmonstone(“Miss S. Ferrier”)

Francillon, Robert Edward(“R. E. Francillon”)

Fullom, Stephen Watson(“Fullom”)

Gardiner, Harriet Anne Frances(“Countess D’Orsay”)

Gore, Catherine Grace Frances (Moody)(“Mrs. Gore”)

Grattan, Thomas Colley(“T. C. Grattan”)

Grey, Elizabeth Caroline(“Mrs. Grey”)

Hall, Anna Maria (Mrs. S. C.)(“Mrs. Hall”)

Hamilton, Mrs. Charles Granville(“G. C. H.”)

Hannay, James(“Hannay”)

Hannay, David(“D. Hannay”)

Hardy, Mary (McDowell) Duffus(“Lady Hardy”)

Harwood, Isabella[aka Ross Neil]

Inchbald, Elizabeth(“Mrs. Inchbald”)

James, George Payne Rainsford(“James”)

Jeaffreson, John Cordy(“Jeaffreson”)

Jewsbury, Geraldine Endsor(“Miss Jewsbury”)

Kingsley, Charles(“Kingsley”)

Knowles, James Sheridan(“Knowles”)

Lamartine, Alphonse de(“Lamartine”)

Lawrence, George(“Geo. Lawrence”)

Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan(“J. S. Le Fanu”)

Lee, Holme[aka Harriet Parr]

Lever, Charles James(“Lever”)

Lewes, George Henry(“G. H. Lewes”)

Linton, Elizabeth Lynn(“Mrs. E. Lynn Linton”)

Marlitt, Eugenie(“E. Marlitt”)

Marsh-Caldwell, Anne(“Mrs. Marsh”)

Melville, Herman(“Melville”)

Milman, Edward Augustus(“E. H. Milman”, “Captain Milman”)

Mühlbach, Luise(“L. Mühlbach”)

Murray, Charles Augustus(“C. A. Murray”)

Notley, Frances Eliza Millet[aka Francis Derrick]

Oliphant, Margaret Oliphant Wilson(“Mrs. Oliphant”)

Won—Not Wooed[title also published asNot wooed but won]

Pickering, Ellen(“Miss Pickering”)

Prittie, Kate Charlotte(“Mrs. Maberly”)

Riddell, Charlotte Eliza Lawson(“Mrs. J. H. Riddell”)[Mrs. Joseph H. Riddell, aka F. G. Trafford]

Robinson, Frederick William(“F. W. Robinson”)

Sedgwick, Catharine Maria(“Miss Sedgwick”)

Sedgwick, Susan Anne Livingston Ridley(“Mrs. Sedgwick”)

Sewell, Elizabeth Missing(“Miss Sewell”)

Sherwood, Mary Martha(“Mrs. Sherwood”)

Sinclair, Catherine(“Miss Sinclair”)

Smith, Horace(“H. Smith”)

Smythies, Harriet M. G. (Mrs. Gordon)

Steele, Anna Caroline (Wood)(“Mrs. A. C. Steele”)

Sue, Eugène(“Sue”)

Temme, Jodocus Donatus Hubertus(“Temme”)

Anne Isabel Thackeray (Ritchie)(“Miss Thackeray”)

Thackeray, William Makepeace(“Thackeray”)

Thomson, A. T.(“Mrs. Thomson”)

Tieck, Ludwig(“Tieck”)

Trollope, Frances Milton(“Mrs. Trollope”)

Warburton, Eliot(“Warburton”)

Ward, R. Plummer(“Ward”)

Wigram, W. Knox(“a Barrister”)

Wilkinson, Janet W.(“Miss Wilkinson”)

Williams, Robert Folkestone(“F. Williams”)

Wills, William Gorman(“Wills”)

Zschokke, Heinrich(“Zschokke”)

Some titles have been used for many different books. In case of ambiguity, the one known to have been published by Harper & Brothers in or before 1872 was assumed.

Harriet M. G. (Mrs. Gordon) Smythies

Full Title:The Maid of Honor; or, The Massacre of St. Bartholomew. A Tale of the Sixteenth Century

Full Title:Tales from the German, comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors

Tom Brown(both titles)

The True History of a Little Ragamuffin

Full Title:The white slave; or, The Russian peasant girl

Full Title:Wyoming, A Tale

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