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AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
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TICKNOR, REED & FIELDS.
Have recently published the above work,
which has proved one of the most popular
Books ever printed in America. All over
the country it has received the most marked
attention, and elected universal commenda-
ton.
FROM THE PREFACE.
If 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 us blessings in disguise: if she be
strengthened in the performance of "daily
duties" however hardly paid :" if she be in
spireI with faith in the power impaired to a
strong ,oiH whose end is gOod--then ] am
amply rewarded Tor my labor. ....
ANNA CORA MowATr.
We have read this book though nth more
than the interest of n romance. The fair
authoress herself is one of the rarest 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 the bright little
butterfly girl sporting among the fewers of
La Castagne, in France, where she happened
to Lc born. She gives us n 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
"the other was lost" She then naively
ul ,hnS h., Ia. - 4
and sorrows, ending with an elopement and
precocous marriage. All the details. bot,
tragic and comic, are given with the most
amusing, often affecting particularly, and
the sympathetic reader is unvoluntarily led
TO make her joys and sorrows his own
Like every true chapter of chccquercd hu-
man life, the lig hts and shadows are nearly
! equally, often ftfully blended, and we are
alternately moved to tears and laughter
| Sem York Mirror.
One ofthe few books which it 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
to start with the text is to rivet your atten-
tion in spite of every extraneOus call. Mrs.
Mowatts Autobiography will have per-
manent place in American literature. Edi-
tion after edition will come from the press.
1t will be the exciting theme Of book notices
and even of labored rcviews.-NeD Core
mani.
Mrs. Mowatt is certainly one of the clev-
crest women living In all that she under
takes she succeeds, and this not so much BY
force of genius as by her womanly tact and
degree of energy that could scarcely be
expected in so slight and delicate n frume
as hers. She has written good poetry; good
magazine sketches the best of modern A
merican comedies Fashion y a capital po-
ctical drama Armand y has taken high rank
as an actress, and now she has given to the
world the peasantest bit of autobiography
that we have seen for long time. IL is a
frank, simple narrative, with little affectation
anu no more egotism than is always una.
voidable where the narrator is the heroine.
Her school days, her courtship and elope-
mcnt, her domestic habits, her revcrics, her
career rs public reader and actress, ut home
and abroad, her widowhood, and every thins-
m her recent history except her second
courtship, which is TO take her from public
lifc. are admirably told. Anecdotes abound
inthc volume and there is not n page that
does not exhibit the traits of 4 truly ..smart''
woman: We shall not be surprised if this
book takes the lead of all others in popular
ity this seasOn.-Phika. Mail
TlCKNOR, REED g. FIELD.
1875 Washington St. Boston,