* * * * * This day, price 7s. 6d., post 8vo., cloth, THE DAY OF SMALL THINGS. By the Author of "Mary Powell." "Close the curtains, draw the sofa by the fire, fit the ottoman to your feet, and adjust the light. If the reader be thus prepared he is ready to commence reading 'The Day of Small Things.' What is this neat and unpretending volume by the authoress of 'Mary Powell?' It is a string of pearls. Yes. Yet the simile will not be perfect unless the thread on which they are strung be golden. Then we will accept the resemblance.... The authoress of 'Mary Powell,' and, we add, 'The Day of Small Things,' feels her own power, and knows how deeply trifles, when judiciously introduced, will tell.... It is a cornucopia filled with rich moral fruits of every kind; and, though small are the hints thrown out here and there, or the advice casually given, still in the aggregate their voice becomes powerful, and we find that we have been reading a powerful lesson while we were scanning the jottings of a diary.... The work is worthy of its author, and will be a general favourite."--_Atlas._ * * * * * New and Cheaper Edition, post 8vo., price 7s. 6d., cloth gilt, POPLAR HOUSE ACADEMY. "A tale as touching and alluring as it is simple--a tale sure to interest, whether by its sweet scenes of pathos, its continuous interest, its exquisite traits of nature, or its unaffected, unobtrusive tone of true piety."--_Literary Gazette._ "In every thing that the author of 'Mary Powell' writes, there is a pleasant vein of quiet, refined cheerfulness, which, like the tone of a sweet voice, makes one listen with pleasure."--_Athenaeum._ * * * * * Second Edition, price 7s. 6d., post 8vo., cloth, with Frontispiece, THE GOOD OLD TIMES. A Tale of Auvergne. "It is written in a clear, pointed style, embellished with original fancies, and eloquent with an earnest meaning. The various scenes and characters are obviously studies from life--the life of restlessness, of fear, of devotion, among the friends of martyrs, described by the chroniclers of that epoch, stained with the blood of fanatical wars and persecutions. Colette, as delicately and distinctly limned in the successive chapters, might have formed a figure in the fifteenth-century group, drawn by a home-inspired artist. Then, the struggle round the walls of Le Puy is a picture of olden warfare, of arquebus and halberd battles, of priestly soldiers, sworn to shed no blood, but casuistically, with a ponderous club, immortalizing the miserable _routiers_. Again, the _cretin_ is a portrait painfully accurate. Indeed, the entire story is vivified by its evident reality."--_Athenaeum._ * * * * * Third Edition, price 7s. 6d., post 8vo., cloth, with Coloured Frontispiece by WARREN, THE PROVOCATIONS OF MADAME PALISSY.