“The reader will find these narratives calculated to remind him of that truth and energy of human portraiture, that spell over human affections and emotions, which have stamped this author as one of the first novelists of our day.”—_John Bull._ ------------------ THE WOMAN’S KINGDOM. “‘The Woman’s Kingdom’ sustains the author’s reputation as a writer of the purest and noblest kind of domestic stories. The novelist’s lesson is given with admirable force and sweetness.”—_Athenæum._ “‘The Woman’s Kingdom’ is remarkable for its romantic interest. The characters are masterpieces. Edna is worthy of the hand that drew John Halifax.”—_Post._ ------------------ STUDIES FROM LIFE. “These studies are truthful and vivid pictures of life, often earnest, always full of right feeling, and occasionally lightened by touches of quiet genial humour. The volume is remarkable for thought, sound sense, shrewd observation, and kind and sympathetic feeling for all things good and beautiful.”—_Post._ ------------------ CHRISTIAN’S MISTAKE. “A more charming story, to our taste, has rarely been written. Within the compass of a single volume the writer has hit off a circle of varied characters, all true to nature—some true to the highest nature—and she has entangled them in a story which keeps us in suspense till the knot is happily and gracefully resolved; while, at the same time, a pathetic interest is sustained by an art of which it would be difficult to analyse the secret It is a choice gift to be able thus to render human nature so truly, to penetrate its depths with such a searching sagacity, and to illuminate them with a radiance so eminently the writer’s own. Even if tried by the standard of the Archbishop of York, we should expect that even he would pronounce ‘Christian’s Mistake’ a novel without a fault.”—_The Times._ “This is a story good to have from the circulating library, but better to have from one’s bookseller, for it deserves a place in that little collection of clever and wholesome stories which forms one of the comforts of a well-appointed home.”—_Examiner._ ------------------ MISTRESS AND MAID. “A good, wholesome book, as pleasant to read as it is instructive.”—_Athenæum._ “This book is written with the same true-hearted earnestness as ‘John Halifax.’ The spirit of the whole work is excellent”—_Examiner._ “A charming tale charmingly told.”—_Standard._ ------------------ A NOBLE LIFE. “This is one of those pleasant tales in which the author of John Halifax’ speaks out of a generous heart the purest truths of life.”—_Examiner._ “Few men, and no women, will read ‘A Noble Life’ without finding themselves the better.”—_Spectator._