“The circumstances under which this little volume, for the amusement of children, has been produced, give an additional charm to its truth, simplicity, and feeling. The tale, though in one passage sorrowful enough to moisten many a pair of eyes, is full of interest and character. The latter, we may add, is as much appreciated by children as the former; and they will take as lively an interest in Ailwin’s ignorant and unselfish fidelity and her stalwart arms, and in Roger Redfurn the gipsy boy’s gleams of better nature, as in the developement of the main incident of the book, a disastrous flood which spread devastation over the Isle of Axholme two hundred years ago.”—_Athenæum._ “The early tales of Miss Martineau, written to inculcate and illustrate, by practical examples, the truths of political economy, will survive her later and more controversial works. So in this little story of the History and ill-treatment of some Dutch settlers, in the fens of Lincolnshire—during the wars of the Parliament because they were strangers, and because, moreover, they interfered with the wild and ague-shaken gunners and fishermen of the fens,—we see again the same shrewdness of observation—the same real interest in the welfare of the humble classes—the same sagacity, and occasional natural pathos, which rendered the politico-economical tracts so attractive, in despite of their name and subject.”—_New-York American._ =EARLY FRIENDSHIP=: a Tale by MRS. COPLEY. 1 vol. 18mo., plates. In introducing the name of a new writer to this series of popular works, the publishers cannot but express their desire that all who have purchased previous volumes, will buy this, being assured it will commend itself to the reader so that the name of Mrs. Copley will soon, like the name of _Howitt_, be a passport to the notice and favour of the whole reading community. =FAMILY SECRETS=: or Hints to those who would make Home Happy, by Mrs. ELLIS, author of “The Women of England,” “Poetry of Life,” etc. “The tendency of this book is one of the best and noblest. The scenes and characters are, it is believed, portraits. Aiming as it does at the correction of a too prevalent vice—it is expected that the Family Secrets will command amongst the serious and thinking part of the community as extensive a popularity as Nicholas Nickleby does in its peculiar circle.” =PAST DAYS=; a Story for Children. By ESTHER WHITLOCK. Square 18mo. “It is a delightful, instructive little book; and if the child, when she closes the volume, find her ‘eyes red with weeping,’ let her not be ashamed; one old enough to be her grandfather, caught the same disease from the same source.”—_Philadelphia United States Gazette._ HAZEN’S SYMBOLICAL SPELLING-BOOK. The Symbolical Spelling Book, in two parts. By EDWARD HAZEN. Containing 288 engravings, printed on good paper. “This work is already introduced into upwards of one thousand different schools, and pronounced to be one of the best works published.”