at the Press Say:

COUSIN CICELY is very industrious--whether in penciling lights or
shadows, in describing domestic scenery, or inculcating religious
principles, the fair author possesses a happy facility, so as to
render her productions alike agreeable and instructive.--_Protestant
Churchman._

This book is written in a style well calculated to please, and
contains an inestimable moral--plain, concise, and void of
superfluities, that a child may understand it--characters life-like
and well sustained, and the whole plan of the work is good.--_Yates
Co. Whig._

The contents of the work are of the first order and
unexceptionable.--_Rochester Daily Union._

The story is not only well written, but it has merits in the dramatic
grouping of incidents, graphic delineation of character, and the
affecting interest which attracts and supports the reader's
attention through the whole work, from the opening scene to the
finale.--_Rochester Daily Democrat._

This is a new work from the pen of the gifted author of the "Silver
Lake Stories." It is got up in a style of mechanical elegance equal to
the issues of Putnam and Appleton, and the quality of its contents
will not be found behind that of three-fourths of the publications
that emanate from the pens of more wide-known authors, and
from publishing houses that employ none but the _best
writers_.--_Canandaigua Messenger._

It is a story designed to illustrate the deplorable effects of a
neglect of proper parental discipline in infancy; in a well-written
preface, the authoress, "Cousin Cicely," assures us it is
substantially a narrative of facts. It traces the career of a spoiled
and petted boy, whose mother was too weak and indolent to restrain him
as she ought, through the several stages of a perverse childhood, a
reckless boyhood, and a passionate, ungovernable youth, till this
victim of a parent's folly is found in a felon's cell, with the mark
of Cain on his brow.--_Auburn Daily Advertiser._

The authoress, who, by the way, need not be afraid to sail under her
own proper colors hereafter, claims that most of the incidents are
taken from real life; a very creditable averment, as the work, with
slight modifications in each individual case, would prove a faithful
portraiture of the early training and subsequent career of nine-tenths
of the victims of the gallows, and of the penitentiary.--_Mirror,
Lyons, N. Y._

The writer of this, and of many other pleasant volumes--"