“Mr. Thornbury has produced a volume of songs and ballads worthy to rank with Macaulay’s or Aytoun’s Lays.”—Chronicle. “Those who love picture, life, and costume in song will here find what they love.”—Athenæum.
POEMS. BY THE AUTHOR OF “JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN,” “A WOMAN’S THOUGHTS ABOUT WOMEN,” &c. 1 vol. with Illustrations by Birket Foster. 10s. 6d. bound.
“A volume of poems which will assuredly take its place with those of Goldsmith, Gray, and Cowper, on the favourite shelf of every Englishman’s library. We discover in these poems till the firmness, vigour, and delicacy of touch which characterise the author’s prose works, and in addition, an ineffable tenderness and grace, such as we find in few poetical compositions besides those of Tennyson.”—Illustrated News of the World.
“We are well pleased with these poems by our popular novelist. They are the expression of genuine thoughts, feelings, and aspirations, and the expression is almost always graceful, musical and well-coloured. A high, pure tone of morality pervades each set of verses, and each strikes the reader as inspired by some real event, or condition of mind, and not by some idle fancy or fleeting sentiment.”—Spectator.
A LIFE FOR A LIFE. BY THE AUTHOR OF “John Halifax Gentleman,” &c.
“In ‘A Life for a Life’ the author is fortunate in a good subject, and she has produced a work of strong effect. The reader, having read the book through for the story, will be apt (if he be of our persuasion) to return and read again many pages and passages with greater pleasure than on a first perusal. The whole book is replete with a graceful, tender delicacy; and, in addition to its other merits, it is written in good, careful English.”—Athenæum.
“This book is signally the best its author has yet produced. The interest is intense, and is everywhere admirably sustained. Incident abounds, and both dialogue and style are natural and flowing. Great delicacy in the development of character, and a subtle power of self-analysis are conspicuous in ‘A Life for a Life,’ while the purity of its religious views, and the elevation—the grandeur, indeed—of its dominating sentiments, render its influences in every sense healthy and invigorating.”—The Press.
“‘A Life for a Life’ is one of the best of the author’s works. We like it better than ‘John Halifax.’ It is a book we should like every member of every family in England to read.”—Herald.
REALITIES OF PARIS LIFE. BY THE AUTHOR of “FLEMISH INTERIORS,” &c. 3 vols. with Illustrations. 31s. 6d.