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AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
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T1CKNOR, 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
severcst trials; if she learn to look upon
them as blessings in disguise: ii 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 ,ciH whose end is good-then ] am
amply rewarded Tor my labor.
ANNA Cora MowATT.
We have read this book though 18th more
than the interest of romance. The fair
authorcss 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 Frar &C, where she happened
to Le born. She gives us 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 ovcrboard one was rescued; but
''the other was lost" She then naively
sketches the history of her sch Iol-day ioys
and sorrows, ending with an elopement and
precocious marriage. Allthe deiails both
| tragic and comic, are given with the most
amusing, rften affecting particularly. and
| the sympathetic reader is unyountarilv led
to make her joys and sorrows his own
! Like every true chapter of checqucrcd hu-
man life, the lights and shadows are nearly
! equally, often iittully blended, and we are
alternately moved to tears and laughter
! Ncp York lIirrOr.
One of the 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
+" 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
tion in spite of every cxtrancous call. Mrs.
Mowatts Autobiography will have per-
mnnent place in American literature. Edi.
ton after edition will come from the press.
1t will be the exciting theme of book notices
and even Of labored rcviews.-Ne,o 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 womnnly tact and
degree of energy that could scarcely be
| expected in so slight and delicate n fr,mc
rs hers. She has written good poetry good
magazine sketches; the best of modern A.
mcrican comedies (Fashon y n capital po-
ctical drama Armand j has taken high rank
rs an actress. and now she has given TO the
world the pleasantest hit of autobiography
that we have seen for long time II is a
frank, simple narrative, with little affcctation
| and no mure egOtism than is always una.
vOidable where the narrator is the heroine
Her school days, her courtship and elope.
ment, her domestic habits, her revcries, her
career as public reader and actress, ut home
and abroad, her widowhood, and every thing
IN her recent history except her second
conrtShip, which is to take her from public
life. are admirably told. Anecdotes abound
in the volume and there is not a 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.-Phiid. Mail
TICKNOR, REED g. FIELD.
1876 Washington ST. Boston.