“We are always glad to welcome Mrs. Craik. She writes from her own convictions, and she has the power not only to conceive clearly what it is that she wishes to say, but to express it in language effective and vigorous. In ‘A Life for a Life’ she is fortunate in a good subject, and she has produced a work of strong effect. The reader, having read the book through for the story, will be apt (if he be of our persuasion) to return and read again many pages and passages with greater pleasure than on a first perusal. The whole book is replete with a graceful, tender delicacy; and, in addition to its other merits, it is written in good careful English.”--_Athenæum._ “‘A Life for a Life’ is a book of a high class. The characters are depicted with a masterly hand; the events are dramatically set forth; the descriptions of scenery and sketches of society are admirably penned; moreover, the work has an object--a clearly defined moral--most poetically, most beautifully drawn, and through all there is that strong, reflective mind visible which lays bare the human heart and human mind to the very core.”--_Morning Post._ X.--THE OLD COURT SUBURB. BY LEIGH HUNT. “A book which has afforded us no slight gratification.”--_Athenæum._ “From the mixture of description, anecdote, biography, and criticism, this book is very pleasant reading.”--_Spectator._ “A more agreeable and entertaining book has not been published since Boswell produced his reminiscences of Johnson.”--_Observer._ XI.--MARGARET AND HER BRIDESMAIDS. BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE VALLEY OF A HUNDRED FIRES.” “We recommend all who are in search of a fascinating novel to read this work for themselves. They will find it well worth their while. There are a freshness and originality about it quite charming, and there is a certain nobleness in the treatment both of sentiment and incident which is not often found.”--_Athenæum._ XII.--THE OLD JUDGE; OR, LIFE IN A COLONY. BY SAM SLICK. “A peculiar interest attaches to sketches of colonial life, and readers could not have a safer guide than the talented author of this work, who, by a residence of half a century, has practically grasped the habits, manners, and social conditions of the colonists he describes. All who wish to form a fair idea of the difficulties and pleasures of life in a new country, unlike England in some respects, yet like it in many, should read this book.”-- _John Bull._ XIII.--DARIEN; OR, THE MERCHANT PRINCE. BY ELIOT WARBURTON. “This last production of the author of ‘The Crescent and the Cross’ has the same elements of a very wide popularity. It will please its thousands.”--_Globe._ “Eliot Warburton’s active and productive genius is amply exemplified in the present book. We have seldom met with any work in which the realities of history and the poetry of fiction were more happily interwoven.”--_Illustrated News._ XIV.--FAMILY ROMANCE; OR, DOMESTIC ANNALS OF THE ARISTOCRACY. BY SIR BERNARD BURKE, ULSTER KING OF ARMS.