s
for an hour's solitude, and one puts the book aside regretfully, even as
one closes the eyes on a delicious vision. The American edition has
taken every one by surprise, that so remarkably good a novel should have
so long escaped attention.

Every body is charmed with it, and its sale will continue for years to
come.

THE GAYWORTHYS.

By the author of "Faith Gartney's Girlhood," "Boys at
Chequasset."

American ladies and gentlemen travelling in England, are amazed and
delighted to find "an American Novel" welcomed with such warmth and
enthusiasm, by the "cultivated" and "influential," in all parts of the
Kingdom.

No American book since "Uncle Tom," is so universally known, read, and
talked about.

The London journals, without exception, have given it a cordial welcome.
Read what they say of it:--

"We wish to write our most appreciative word of this admirable and
unexceptional book. We feel while we read it that a new master of
fiction has arisen.... We can well afford to wait a few years now,
if at the end we are to receive from the same pen a work of such a
character and mark as 'The Gayworthys.'"--_Eclectic Journal._

"It is impossible not to welcome so genial a gift. Nothing so
complete and delicately beautiful has come to England from America
since Hawthorne's death, and there is more of America in 'The
Gayworthys' than in 'The Scarlet Letter,' or 'The House with Seven
Gables.' ... We know not where so much tender feeling and wholesome
thought are to be found together as in this history of the fortunes
of the Gayworthys."--_Reader._

"'The Gayworthys' comes to us very seasonably, for it belongs to a
class of novels wanted more and more every day, yet daily growing
scarcer. We have therefore, a warmer welcome for the book before us
as being a particularly favorable specimen of its class. Without the
exciting strength of wine, it offers to feverish lips all the
grateful coolness of the unfermented grape."--_Pall Mall Gazette._

"We have no misgivings in promising our readers a rich treat in 'The
Gayworthys.' ... 'The Gayworthys' will become a great
favorite."--_Nonconformist._

"... The book is crowded with epigrams as incisive as this, yet
incisive without malice or bitterness, cutting not so much from the
sharpness of the thought as from its weight. There is deep
kindliness in the following