wetchine taught hers to _forget_
themselves.

"As a biography, the Life of Madame Swetchine is more satisfactory, and
much better written; that of Madame Recamier is fuller of personal
anecdote respecting distinguished persons, and, as a book of reference,
is more valuable. We frequently meet the same people in each,
and, in this respect, they serve to illustrate and explain each
other."--_Providence Journal._

The Friendships of Women. By Rev. W. R. ALGER. Fourth edition. 1 vol.
12mo. Price $2.00.

"Mr. Alger is among our most diligent students and earnest thinkers;
and this volume will add to the reputation he has fairly earned as the
occupant of quite a prominent place in American literature. He deserves
all the popularity he has won; for, always thoughtful, sincere, and
excellent of purpose with his pen, he allows no success to seduce him
into any content with what he has already accomplished. His
'Friendships of Women,' for many reasons, will have a wide circle of
readers, and cannot fail to increase our sense of the worth of human
nature, as it enthusiastically delineates some of its most elevated
manifestations. By telling what woman has been, he tells what woman may
be,--intellectually as well as morally, in the beauty of her mind as
well as in the affections of her heart and the loveliness of her
person."--_Salem Gazette._

Sainte Beuve's Portraits of Celebrated Women. To match "Madame
Recamier," "Madame Swetchine," "The Friendships of Women." In 1 vol.
12mo. Price $2.00.

"The women whose 'portraits' are given in this handsome volume are
Mesdames de Sevigne, de La Fayette, de Souza, Roland, de Staeel, de
Duras, de Remusat, de Krudenor, and Guizot. Most of these names will
have a familiar look and sound to 'well-read' young ladies; but how
many of the latter could give, without special preliminary cramming,
any, even the most superficial, account of the life of any one of these
women,--how she lived, what part she played in social or political
life, what books she wrote, what were her excellences and faults, as
well of character as of style? Those who could not, will do well to buy
this book, and give it a careful reading. Besides adding to their
knowledge of history, they will learn that there have been women,
French women at that, who were neither butterflies nor drones, whose
lives were wider than the ball-room or the nursery, who used their
opportunities to become something and to do something in