In introducing the name of a new writer to this series of popular works, the publishers cannot but express their desire that all who have purchased previous volumes, will buy this, being assured it will commend itself to the reader so that the name of Mrs. Copley will soon, like the name of Howitt, be a passport to the notice and favour of the whole reading community.
FAMILY SECRETS: or Hints to those who would make Home Happy, by Mrs. Ellis, author of “The Women of England,” “Poetry of Life,” etc.
“The tendency of this book is one of the best and noblest. The scenes and characters are, it is believed, portraits. Aiming as it does at the correction of a too prevalent vice—it is expected that the Family Secrets will command amongst the serious and thinking part of the community as extensive a popularity as Nicholas Nickleby does in its peculiar circle.”
PAST DAYS; a Story for Children. By Esther Whitlock. Square 18mo.
“It is a delightful, instructive little book; and if the child, when she closes the volume, find her ‘eyes red with weeping,’ let her not be ashamed; one old enough to be her grandfather, caught the same disease from the same source.”—Philadelphia United States Gazette.
HAZEN’S SYMBOLICAL SPELLING-BOOK.
The Symbolical Spelling Book, in two parts. By Edward Hazen. Containing 288 engravings, printed on good paper.
“This work is already introduced into upwards of one thousand different schools, and pronounced to be one of the best works published.”
Lafever’s Modern Architecture.