have perhaps
too many."

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NOW READY, A NEW EDITION OF

_THE HOUSEHOLD OF BOUVERIE._

BY THE AUTHOR OF "MIRIAM MONFORT."

_From Gail Hamilton, author of "Gala Days," etc._

"'The Household of Bouverie' is one of those nuisances of books that
pluck out all your teeth, and then dare you to bite them. Your interest
is awakened in the first chapter, and you are whirled through in a
lightning-express train that leaves you no opportunity to look at the
little details of wood, and lawn, and river. You notice two or three
little peculiarities of style--one or two 'bits' of painting--and then
you pull on your seven-leagued boots, and away you go."

_From John G. Saxe, the Poet._

"It is a strange romance, and will bother the critics not a little. The
interest of the book is undeniable, and is wonderfully sustained to the
end of the story. I think it exhibits far more power than any lady-novel
of recent date, and it certainly has the rare merit of entire
originality."

_From Marion Harland, author of "Alone," "Hidden Path," etc._

"As to Mrs. Warfield's wonderful book, I have read it twice--the second
time more carefully than the first--and I use the term 'wonderful'
because it best expresses the feeling uppermost in my mind, both while
reading and thinking it over. As a piece of imaginative writing, I have
seen nothing to equal it since the days of Edgar A. Poe, and I doubt
whether he could have sustained himself and reader through a book of
half the size of the 'Household of Bouverie.' I was literally hurried
through it by my intense sympathy, my devouring curiosity--it was more
than interest. I read everywhere--between the courses of the
hotel-table, on the boat, in the cars--until I had swallowed the last
line. This is no common occurrence with a veteran romance-reader like
myself."

_From George Ripley's Review of "The Household of Bouverie," in Harper's
Magazine, November, 1860._

"Everywhere betraying a daring boldness of conception, singular
fertility of illustration, and a combined beauty and vigor of
expression, which it would be difficult to match in any recent works of
fiction. In these days, when the most milk-and-watery platitudes are so
often welcomed as sibylline inspirations, it is somewhat refreshing to
meet with a female novel-writer who displays the unmistakable fire of
genius, however terrific its brightness."

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