“A bright idea,” said all the company; and all were up and very busy suspending the garlands from the boughs of the spreading tree. Henry Clavering thanked them for the compliment, and the party set out to return home. The boats were sent up the river with Tom Boddily, Sylvanus, and Betty, having first put on shore the young people, who walked through the woods and lanes in abundance of interesting talk. Supper awaited them, and a joyous welcome for Mr. Clavering from Mr. and Mrs. Woodburn. As the gentlemen took their leave at night, Miss Drury whispered to Ann Woodburn, “I like this Mr. Clavering. He is so thoroughly a gentleman, and, I am sure, so good and sensible.” “True,” said Ann, “but, like us all, not without a fault.” END OF VOL. I. BRADBURY, EVANS, AND CO., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS. BY THE SAME AUTHOR. _Three Vols._ MADAM DORRINGTON ON THE DENE. A STORY OF ENGLISH LIFE. “Round Madam Dorrington’s Dene, country neighbours are sown as rich in peculiarity as in those which diversified the existence of Fredrika Bremer’s heroines. The story is full of vigour and freshness.”—_Athenæum._ “We have now to welcome Mr. Howitt as a fiction writer of high excellence. He has evinced a rare power in the portraiture of his principal character—the inimitable Madam Dorrington. The characters of the sterner sex are also admirably drawn. Jeremiah Gould, the vicar of Westwood, is worthy of Goldsmith.”—_Weekly Chronicle._ “Madam Dorrington is a model of womanly beauty, dignity, tenderness, and truth. There is no female character of modern times worthy of being compared to her.”—_Sunday Times._ “It is English country life in its most charming aspect.”—_Examiner._ _Cheaper Edition. Two Vols. 12s._ THE HALL AND THE HAMLET. “This book deserves a place in the library of fiction by the village books of Miss Mitford.”—_Athenæum._ _Three Vols._ THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE; OR, ENGLAND FORTY YEARS AGO. “A novel which will be admitted into the foremost rank of our political romances.”—_Leader._ “It is a remarkable book, which refers to eventful times, and brings some important persons who belong to fact, into the striking pages of fiction. The lover of literature will admire the eloquent style and spirited tone of these volumes.”—_Sun._ “It is pourtrayed with vividness and truth; the interest of the story is strong and sustained.”—_Spectator._ “Certainly the most important novel of the season.”—_Observer._ “Those persons who feel an interest in learning the condition of society and the state of the working classes, at the period immediately following the peace after the battle of Waterloo, will find a good record of it in ‘The Man of the People.’”—_Athenæum._ HURST AND BLACKETT.