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BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE'S "PAUL AND VIRGINIA." With Illustrations by Lalauze. SOUTHEY'S "LIFE OF NELSON." With Illustrations by Birket Foster. VOLTAIRE'S "LIFE OF CHARLES THE TWELFTH." With Maps and Portraits. MARIA EDGEWORTH'S "CLASSIC TALES." With a biographical Sketch by Grace A. Oliver. LORD MACAULAY'S "LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME." With a Biographical Sketch and Illustrations. BUNYAN'S "PILGRIM'S PROGRESS." With all of the original Illustrations in fac-simile. CLASSIC HEROIC BALLADS. Edited by the Editor of "Quiet Hours." CLASSIC TALES. By Anna Letitia Barbauld. With a Biographical Sketch by Grace A. Oliver. CLASSIC TALES. By Ann and Jane Taylor. With a Biographical Sketch by Grace A. Oliver. AND OTHERS. MESSRS. ROBERTS BROTHERS' PUBLICATIONS. Famous Women Series. GEORGE ELIOT. BY MATHILDE BLIND. One vol. 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.00. "Messrs. Roberts Brothers begin a series of Biographies of Famous Women with a life of George Eliot, by Mathilde Blind. The idea of the series is an excellent one, and the reputation of its publishers is a guarantee for its adequate execution. This book contains about three hundred pages in open type, and not only collects and condenses the main facts that are known in regard to the history of George Eliot, but supplies other material from personal research. It is agreeably written, and with a good idea of proportion in a memoir of its size. The critical study of its subject's works, which is made in the order of their appearance, is particularly well done. In fact, good taste and good judgment pervade the memoir throughout."--_Saturday Evening Gazette._ "Miss Blind's little book is written with admirable good taste and judgment, and with notable self-restraint. It does not weary the reader with critical discursiveness, nor with attempts to search out high-flown meanings and recondite oracles in the plain 'yea' and 'nay' of life. It is a graceful and unpretentious little biography, and tells all that need be told concerning one of the greatest writers of the time. It is a deeply interesting if not fascinating woman whom Miss Blind presents," says the New York _Tribune_. "Miss Blind's little biographical study of George Eliot is written with sympathy and good taste, and is very welcome. It gives us a graphic if not elaborate sketch of the personality and development of the great novelist, is particularly full and authentic concerning her earlier ye
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