XXIX.—BARBARA’S HISTORY. BY AMELIA B. EDWARDS, LL.D. “It is not often that we light upon a novel of so much merit and interest as ‘Barbara’s History.’ It is a work conspicuous for taste and literary culture. It is a very graceful and charming book, with a well-managed story, clearly-cut characters, and sentiments expressed with an exquisite elocution. The dialogues especially sparkle with repartee. It is a book which the world will like. This is high praise of a work of art, and so we intend it.”—_The Times._ ------------------ XXX.—LIFE OF THE REV. EDWARD IRVING. BY MRS. OLIPHANT. “A good book on a most interesting theme.”—_Times._ “A truly interesting and most affecting memoir. ‘Irving’s Life’ ought to have a niche in every gallery of religious biography. There are few lives that will be fuller of instruction, interest, and consolation.”—_Saturday Review._ ------------------ XXXI.—ST. OLAVE’S. BY THE AUTHOR OF “JANITA’S CROSS.” “This novel is the work of one who possesses a great talent for writing, as well as experience and knowledge of the world. The whole book is worth reading.”—_Athenæum._ “‘St. Olave’s’ belongs to a lofty order of fiction. It is a good novel, but it is something more. It is written with unflagging ability, and it is as even as it is clever. The author has determined to do nothing short of the best, and has succeeded.”—_Morning Post._ ------------------ XXXII.—SAM SLICK’S TRAITS OF AMERICAN HUMOUR. “Dip where you will into this lottery of fun, you are sure to draw out a prize. These ‘Traits’ exhibit most successfully the broad national features of American humour.”—_Post._ ------------------ XXXIII.—CHRISTIAN’S MISTAKE. BY THE AUTHOR OF “JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN.” “A more charming story has rarely been written. 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.”—_Times._ ------------------ XXXIV.—ALEC FORBES OF HOWGLEN. BY GEORGE MAC DONALD, LL.D. “No account of this story would give any idea of the profound interest that pervades the work from the first page to the last.”—_Athenæum._ “A novel of uncommon merit. Sir Walter Scott said he would advise no man to try to read ‘Clarissa Harlowe’ out loud in company if he wished to keep his character for manly superiority to tears. We fancy a good many hardened old novel-readers will feel a rising in the throat as they follow the fortunes of Alec and Annie.”—_Pall Mall Gazette._ ------------------