Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1853-08-13

EVERYBODY BUYS IT-EVERYBODY
IL READS IT-EVERYBODY ADMlRES
lr-FANNY FERNS NEW BOOK. Now
ready, tho Twentieth Thousand.
Fern Leaves from Fanny's Portfolio. With
Eight Illustrations by Fred NJ. Coffin. One
Volume, 400 pages, Emo. Price 81 20.
THE VOICE OF THE PRESS!
Brief Extracts from Lengthy NOtires.
The leaves of Spring will not be more well
come than these Fern Lcayes.-Syraease
Standard.
Will call many smile to tho lips, md ma
ny tear to the eye of the reader, IL thcrcis n
mite Of love left in thcm.-Defroh AdrerfiSer.
Everybody will buy tho book-cvcrybody
will read it-oyerybody will admire it-and
Fanny will become more cmphatically than cv-
er, tho favouri,c of her people and kindred
Buffalo Express.
We find in her volume much genial senti-
mcnt, genuine holy feeling in sympathy with
tho true, the meek and tho lowly; keen ap-
probation of tho beautiful, and hearty sense
Of the humorous.-Uticf Herald.
1t will be the book Of the season, and the
circulation cannot fail to be very great.-frsr-
idenee Journal.
Buy Fanny FERNS book, and thank US for
recommending it to you.-Bl0dlo Courier.
LISA glorious work, and ono that We rulue
beyond pricc.-SyrGcase Journal.
Long may Fanny Fern labor in the field she
has chosen, and rich be her reward. me
smile and the tear she so much covcts from het
readers, cannot fail her, VIC KNOWN. Y. SUM-
She has looked deep down into the human
heart, disscctcd tho varying coniormatIons OF
human nature, and touches many vibrant
cord, by the magic Of her pcn.-indfpenaenf
Press.
You can laugh or cry, as you please, BY o.
pening at different pages. She is, without
doubt nj this moment the most popular "'''e'
in the country.-Puritan Recorder.
There are pictures of love, Of beauty, and
of suffering here, equal to tho best sketches Of
Dickens. Compared with tho graceful leaves
of !" Grace Greenwood" Fanny Fern has wo-
ven wreath that Is as oak-lcaves to clover
" Y Mirror
They arc tho product Of an inventive and
beautiful mind, and breathe pure, gentle and
loving spirit.-Aibany Argw
Her book reads better as whole, than any
of her scattered productions which we remeil-
Der. This is rare experience in authorship.
II is the hes, tribute to the authenticity Of her
fame, We predict that her Leaves" will be-
come general favorites.-N y Tribune
This is truly charming book. It's contents
are so excellent and varied, passing rapidly
g from grave to gay-ftom lively to scvcrc,"
,hstthcy keep the mind Of the reader constant
IL on The qui uire, and nourish every humoar
Of his head and hcart.-N Y Commercial Id
rertiser
Who has not heard of Fanny Fern ! and
read Fanny Fern and laughed at Fanny Fern !
and wcpt ut Fanny Fern and wondered anu
fed at Fanny Ferni-Erening Chronicle
The satircal thistle, the laughing rose, or
thcmodcstl lily, alike draw sustenancc from her
unlailinr thoughts, which fall like stars from
The warm armament of her boundlcss imagi-
nation. There is not hearth OF n homestead
that will not commune with hcr-thcrels mt a
heart that will not echo back the breathlngs oil
her nature.-B4GaiO Republic
Now amusing her readers by her bold yet
broadly humorous hts of life and character,
and now winning upon their uticctionsas ten
ueE, tHOusntIui ahu peaNeS
thurs Home Ga<eitc
Full Of flashes Of light, wit, pathos and pow
er.-Jpes!eycn
The rich and the poor, young and old, grave
and gay, father and mother, youths and chi,
drep, husbands and wives, old bachelors and
old maids, housckccpcrs, boardcrs, anu ioaiefs
will find some profitable truths in the 'leaves'
from Fanny, uttered for the special good oil
each cass.-CiacinaGti Daily
If any ono character in them be more mark
cd than another, is their sympathy with home
" feelings, and tender regard Tor domestic aes'
children, friends and kindred. This has made
them prime faroritcs by the fireslde; anu the
volume wherein they are now compact, de-
serves its corner on>cYery stting-room tapie'
and made to yield one oil its short but beauti-
lul lessons.-N Y Times
Her hook will create such sensation in the
literary world us few similar works have done.
-B1idria Adrocdte
We do no. hesitate to pronounce 1t one OF
the most readable and remarkable books otthe
day.-ChicaSo Journal
Asa brilliant writer, Fanny is uncGaallcd by
any writer either American or foreign.-Nsr
York Duich'nan
She is keen as a razor in her satire-and her
urayer shctckcs 80 straight to the heart.-N'r
iilrcn Palladium
Every article and every line in her book spar
klc aud glow with the exquisite pathos, the
keen satire, tho brilliant wit, the deep khowl'
edge of tho human heart, and the immense
power over it, which have achieved for her SO
world-widca rcputusion.-BostOn True Fog
1t is the most beautiful gem in the literary
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