The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1854-05-31
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
Price 81 25.
ELEVEN THOUSAND JUST ISSUED.
TICKNOR. REED & FIELDS.

ELEVEN THOUSAND JUST ISSUED.
TICKNOR, REED & FIELDS.
Have recently published the above work,
which has proved one of the most popular
Books ever ptintcd in America. Al over
the country it has received the most mark ed
attention, and elected universal commenda-
tion.
FROM THE PREFACE.
IL one struggling sister in the great hu-
man family, while listening to the history
of my life, gains courage TO meet and brave
severest trials: if she learn to look upon
them as blessings in disguise: it she be
strengthened in the performance of daily
Duties" however "hardly paid :" if she be- in.
spireI with faith in the power impaired to n
strong toiH whose end is good-then ] am
amply rewarded Tor my labor
ANNA Cora MowATT.
We have read this book though ith more
than the interest of romance. The fair
authorcss herself is one of the rarcst of he
roines. Her eight years upon the stage
furnish volume of the most entertaining
and instructive experience. But this is not
all-not the most interesting portion of her
| remarkable book. She begins with her in
fancy, and introduces us TO tho bright little
butterfly girl sporting among the lcwers of
La Castagne, in Frarce, where she happened
to Le born. She gives us Il brief sketch of
| her family, descendants, on the maternal
side, of Francis Lewis, one Of the heroic
! singers of the Declaration of independence.
We the follow her in stormy voyage
across the Atlantic, in which she was ship
wrecked, when two little brothers were
washed overheard; one was rescued but
"thc other was lost" She thcn nnivpIy
sketches the history of her sch )o-day lows
! and sorrows, ending with an clopemcnt and
a prccocious marriage. All the details. both
tragic and comic, are given with the most
amusing, tften affecting particularly. and
| the sympathetic reader is unvoluntarily led
to make her joys and sorrows his own
Like every true chapter of checqucred hu
man life, the lights and shadows are nearly
equally, often fitfully blended, and we arc
| alternately moved to tears and laughter
Ncto York Mirror.
One of the few books which il is difficult
to lay down till every page is read, is the
| Autobiography Of Mrs. Mowatt. ] have nc.
tually stolen the time which ought TO have
been appropriated to certain special demands
to look through the pages of this strange
volume. To look at any chapter of con
tents, is sure TO send you TO the text; and
w Sb'llt WIFI NHc ttNt Is 70 TlNpt your attpn-
| ton in spite of every extraneous call. Mrs.
Mowatts Autobiography will have per-
mancnt place in American literature. Edi-
ton after edition will come from the press.
Ii will bet the exciting theme of book notices
and even Of labored rcyiews.-Nc,c Core
ndnt.
Mrs. Mowatt is certainly one of the clcv-
crest women living. in all that she under
takes she succeeds, and this not so much by
force of genius as BY her womunly tact and
degree of energy that could scarcely be
expected in so slight and delicate a frame
rs hers. She has written good poetry; good
magazine sketches the best of modern A.
mcrican comedies Fashion y capital po.
eiital drama (Armand y has taken high rank
as an actress. and now. she has given TO the
world the plcasanicst bit of autobiography
| that we have seen for long time. II is q
frank, simple narrative, with little aflcctation
and no more egotism than is always una.
yoIdable where the narrator is the heroine
Her school days, her courtship and clopc.
'ncnt, her domestic habits, her rcvcrics, her
career .as pdbic reader and actress, at home
and abroad, her widowhood, and every THING
IN her recent history except her second
courtship, which is to take her from public
life are admirably told. Anecdotes abound
IN the volume and there is not pare that
does not exhibit The traits of truly "smnrt'
woman. We shall not be surprised if this
book takes the lead of all others in popular.
lty this scason.-Phih, Mail.
TICKNOR, REED & FIELD.
1875 Washington st. Boston.