Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-03-07
'llG GREAT AMERICAN TEMP PERaNCR TALE
MRS. BEN DARBY;


MRS. BEN DARBY;
Or
THE VEAL AND WOE OF SOCIAL LIFE.
One Volume 12mo, 81
TIME object Of this tale is to exhibit in different
. i phases, in high life and low life, the accursed
effects OF intemperate drinking the bano Of social
life, tho curse of civilized man. The characters are
we'll and sharply drawn and the various scenes arc
described with much spirit and graphic effect. y
We ARE disposed To regard the book the best
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It is not often that we read q story of any kind,
but We have broken our practice and have read this
book not only with pleasure but with qualification
which but very few novels have ever afforded us. 1t
is quiet and simple, but still striking and effective
picture OF American social life.-Chicago Tribune
Written with marked ability zansspslls Courier.
thrilling picture of the offocts of that internal
bane Of social life, intcmperance. -Rictmond Pal
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Tho style is attractive and fascinating; there is
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Has so many thrilling passages and we'll drawn
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II cannot fail to achieve for Mrs Collins an enviabe
popularity She takes with her to the drunk ards
home and tells Of tho hunger and the fear the toll
and the suffering, that are there She paints with
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long abused, but unchanging love of the drunkard's
wife, touches tho deepest chords of the heart and
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Christian Herald.
rers Of her literary productions this work. wo pro
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The style Is easy, natural beautiful, chaste, and
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dangers they exposed in forming alliances with
the fashionable in high Ife.-Ohio Organ
A deeply interesting and powerful work II vivid
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Has sketched II in its daintiest form Of
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Wo know of no passage, anywhere moro unias ely
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cring IN the pathetic, than the thirty fourth chapter
Ii Is indeed gcm We donbt whether tho celebra.
tod chapter devoted TO tho death of Eva Ia Unro
Toms Cabin Is ssuperior. III certainly
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- The incidents dramatic, and the inter
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ncrs to the life Fres6yferiaa Heysld
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