The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1854-06-14

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 il she be
strengthened in the performance of "daily
duties" however "hardly paid :" if she be in
spireI with faith in the power impaired to u
strong triH whose end is gOod-then am
amply rewarded Tor my labor.
ANNA Cora MowATT
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
roincs. Her eight years upon the stare
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 ilewers of
La Castagne, in France, where she happened
to Le born. She gives us brief sketch of
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 naiyely
sketches the history of her sch )ol-day Joys
and sorrows, ending with an clopcment and
precocious marriage. All the details both
/ tragic and comic, are given with the most
amusing, often affecting particularly, and
the sympathetic render is unvoluntarily led
TO make her joys and sorrows his own
Like every true chapter of chccqucred hu-
man life, the lights and shadows are nearly
equally, often ftfully blended, and we are
alternately moved to tears and laughter
Ne,o York Mirror.
One of the few books which it is difficult
to lay down till every page is read, is the
Autobiography of Mrs. M0watt. have ac-
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 uttcn-
| 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.
IL will be the exciting theme of book notices
and even Of labored rcviews-Nc,o Core
ndnL r
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 frame
as hers. She has written good poetry; good
magazine sketches; the best of modern a.
meriean comedies Fashion y capital po-
! etical drama (Armand y has taken high rank
as an actress, and now she has given to the
world the plcasantest bit of autobiography
| that we have seen for n long time. 1t is a
! frank, simple narrative, with little afTectaiion
| and no more cgotism than is always una.
voidabc where the narrator is the heroine.
Her school days, her courtship and clopc.
ment, her domestic habits, her reveries, her
career rs pub!ic 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 putIic
life, are admirably told. Anecdotes abound
IN the volume and there Is not page that
does not exhibit the traits of truly asmart''
woman We shall not be surprised if this
book takes the lead of all others in popular
lty this season.-PhiLd. Mail.
T1CKNOR, REED g. FIELD.
1875 Washington St Boston.