Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-08-08
EdgslieId sfale ACADEMY.

Rev. LUTHER X. GWAtTaEY, whose name alone
is sufficient to attract the attention of parents and
guardians who arc desirous of obtaining foftheif
sons and wsrdssthe advantages and accomplish
meni,s ofsa thorough educatiopg announces that
he will reopen his, school on Monday, the. srd
issptember. .~ "a
There can bono doubt! that the instruction inn
parted to the pupils entrusted To- the care Of the
ssRey:Mr. GwAITsEy, has. been, and will be, of
the highest trder; while too much cannok.be
said in praise of the admirable discipline and
high moral and religious influence which he
brings to bear upon his scholars. To be enabled
10 eutrustntheir sons to ssas man Whose learn
learning, whose spiety, whose judgment, whose
bsneyolence5 are all Of example even more than
of precept, is an advantage which our community
should very dearly prize.
Mr.. GwALTSEY's announcements will be found
in our advertising columns. ~ &,
A Word about the Qninns..andz Books.
The QuLHys are q. set Of, bsothers-ge know not
bow. luany-famous just now, in Augusta and
pors,and Stationary. They keep for sale all pub,
Iications in the line of elegant light Literature
sndmt, thsirsshops may generally be found nj
fhemost popular Periodicals published IN tn this
country. They take, subscriptions for all Maya,
sines.and Papers, North or South, aud forward w !!
the,same, by1nail, to subscribers, with pnerrine
punctuality. The best.w to subscribe Tor suct M
publications., in these days, is perhaps through
the QuIsNs. Their place Of business in Augusta
is 1s9 Broad Street., next door to the eConstiti.
tionalist Office III 81. 81. $50 -
We are indebted to them for The Atlantic
Monthly for August; it presents its usual vel
spread table of literary yands, containing m ar y
tice on Spiders and theirspinning, which is alone
worth the retail price of the Magazine. Southern
spiders too; James Island spiders.
And sincs We speak of the eUrSss and of ele
CANT literature ;,and since people will read novels
and perhaps ought to, let US recommend tw'
works of fiction; Of the higher class, which w
have latsly dcyourod and both of which can b.
had Mt Qulss's in Augusta. One is "Armadate'
by Wilkie Collins, IN English literary name 'whici
has become as familiar as household words
Nextto Charles Dickens--whose sop-in-lau b.
il, by the way-he is decidedly the best and mos
successful novclist in England. His stories ar
remarkable for the intense and absorbing interes
which runs through them from the; first page 4
the la.t lie has a faculty. of,coloring the mys
terry Of plot, exciting terror pity, curiosity, ant
other passions, such as belongs to few, If any,
his confreres. The work Of, which we speak
"a ,nodalc," is his latest, and perhaps best;
cannot but have o. very extensive ssle. 1t.ha
been before the public, MS published in Iarpcr'
3roqazine, in serial form, for about year 1t j
now served up to the reading community com
p!ete in one volume, with elegant and well exc
cuted illustrations, which gdd.so much to the in
te.est If this style Of novel.
The other is dPomolo," by George Eliot, autho
of Adam Bed.," Yaich created go universal
sensation two OF three years before the wal
George Eliot i, however, but nom de plume
The writer is o woman-a maiden lady OF fort
-summers-her name, Evans. Her literary repr
tation in her own country, England, as we'll
this, is very great. Whoever takes up Romola,
his whole soul will be fascinated and cnchainct
The scene is laid in Italy, in the 18th century,
period among, the most interesting in histor, ist,
The London Times says it is the most remarkabl
tale of the kind which has appeared in Englsn
for a half century. It places Mics Evans, no.
and always, among the grest original thinker
and imaginative artists Of her country.