The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1854-06-06
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
Price 81 2J.
ELEVEN THOUSAND JUST ISSUED
TICKNOR, REED & FIELDS.

Have recently published the above work,
which has proved one of the most popular
Books ever printed in America. Ali over
the country il 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 as blessings in disguise: il she be
strengthened in the performance of "daily
dntics," however hardly paid !" If she be in
spircI with faith in the power impaired to a
strong pW whose end is gooi-then am
amply rewarded lor my labor. .....
ANNA Cora MowATr.
We have read this book though 18th more
than the interest of II romance. The fair
authoress 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 the bright little
butterfly girl sporting among the fewers of
La Castngne, in Frai, where she happened
TO Lc born. She gives us brief sketch of
her family. descendants, on the maternal
side, of FrnDcis 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
sketches the history Of her sch lol-day lows
and sorrows, ending with an elopement and
prccocious marriage. All the details. both
tragic and comic, are given with the most
amusing, often affecting particularly, and
the sympathetic reader is unvoluptariIy led
to make her JOYS aud sorrows his own
Like every true chapter of chccquercd hu.
man life, the lights and shadows are nearly
equally, often iitiully blended, and we are
alternately moved to te;rs 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. Mowatt. | 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 ut any chapter of con-
tents, is sure TO send you to the text: and
TO start with the text Is to rivpt your atten-
ton in spite of every cxtraneous call Mrs.
Mowatts Autobiography will have per.
manent place in. Americnn literature. Edi
ton after edition will come from the press.
1t will be the exciting theme of book notices
and even of laborcd rcyicws.-Nco 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 gcniusas by hcr womanly tact and
a degree of energy that could scarcely be
expected in so slight and delicate fr.mc
as hers. She has written good poetry good
magazine sketches; the best of modern a.
meriean comedies Fashion y n capital po-
ctical drama (ATmand;) y has taken high rank
Ms an actress. and now she has given TO the
world 4he pleaANn,est bit of autobiography
that we have seen for n long time. II Is n
frank, simple narrative, with little affcctation
and no more cgotism than is always una.
yoidablc where the narrator is the heroine.
Her school days, her courtship and elope-
mcnt, her domestic habits, her revcrics, her
career as public reader and actress, at home
and abroad, hcrwidowhoo 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 n page that
does not exhibit the traits of truly '.smart''
woman. We shall not be surprised if this
book takes the lead of all others in popular
ity this scasOn.--PhiL0, Mail.
TICKNOR, REED g. FIELD.
l35 Washington st, Boston.