Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-04-19
TME GREAT AMERICAN TEMP FRANCE TALE
MRS. BEN DARBY;

THIN uhEhI hWGhlOhN tEMT HhhaUE IhHE
MRS. BEN DARBY;
THE VEAL AND WOE OF SOCIAL LIFE.
One Volume 12mo, 81.
TIME object Of this tale is to exhibit in diforont
i phases, in high life and low life, the accursed
effects of incorporate drinking, tho bano Of social
lifo tho Of civilized The characters are
we'll and sharply drawn and the various scenes ar.
described with much spirit and graphic effect. y
We are disposed to regard tho book as the best
ofits kind that has yet appeared Boston Ir@Delier
1t is not often that we read story Of any kind,
but have broken our practice and have read this
book, not only with pleasure but with qualification
which but very few novels hayo afforded us. IL
is quiet and simple but still striking and effective
picture of American social lifc-Chseago Tribune
Written with marked ability Zaaesvil1e Courier.
thrilling picture Of the effects of that Internal
bane of social life intcmperance.--Rtcjt Iak
Aadsnm. s.iss@a
The style is attractive and fascinating; there is
freshness and originality about it, that very pleas
ing. One of its chief merits is the excel
lenco Of its conversations. Enquirer.
Has SO many thrilling passages and well drawn
characters, that you read it with absorbed attention
1t cannot fail to achieve for Mrs. Collins enviabc
popularity. She takes with her to the drunkard's
home, and tells Of the hunger and tho fear, the toll
and the suffering, that are there She paints with
long abused but unchangng love of the drunknrd's
wife, touches the deepest chords of tho heart anu
makes them vibrate with pity and with indignation.
Christian Herald.
Though Mrs Collins has already hosts of admi-
rcrs OF her literary productions this work we pre-
Dict will increase that number ten-fold, and give
her reputation worthy of her high talents-Ne,c
Albany I}tbune.
The style is easy, natural, beautiful, chaste and
at times very eloquent. We would commend it es-
pccialy to young ladies, that they may to what
dangers they exposed in forming alliances with
the fashionable in high life.---Ohio Organ.
deeply interesting and powerful work, 1t vivid
ly portrays some of the terrific exploits of strong
drink in both high and low Ic Nor are such scenes
MS 1t depicts either imaginary or few Let this book
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byteriGn.
Has skctched it in its dainticst form Of
fascination, rs well in its grim and dismal aspect
of open degradation Rarely has n woman ventnred
to hold the torch to such dark recess Of human
woc.-Daiiy Times.
We know of no passage, anywhere more uniosely
beautiful more intensely absorbing, more ovcrpow-
ering in the pathetic than the thirty fourth chapter
1t is indeed gem. We doubt whether the cclebra-
ted chapter devoted to the death of Eva, in Uncle
Toms Cabin, is superior It is certainly
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perusod-.jomrnai and Messenger.
Beautifully written. work of great
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The incidents dramatic, and the inter
est intense to the cnd-Ohio Statesman.
Yields an easy pen, and sketches men and man
ners to the life Presbyterian Herald.
Graphic. truthful chaste and dcoply affecting, the
story winds itself into feelings and we become
absorbed in the plot if we beheld before our own
eyes the realities of the authors delineatons Dai
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