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the pictures of history whose gaunt outlines of battles, sieges, coronations, dethronements, and parliaments are of little worth without the living and breathing details of everyday existence. * * * The author has happily performed her task, never obtruding her own presence upon the reader, careful only to come forward when necessary to explain some doubtful point or to connect the events of different dates. She may be congratulated upon the grace with which she has both written and forborne to write, never being beguiled by the vanity of authorship or that too great care which is the besetting sin of biography. --Petersburg Daily Index.
It is a highly interesting book, not only as a portraiture of the domestic life of Jefferson, but as a side view of the parties and politics of the day, witnessed in our country seventy years ago. The correspondence of the public characters at that period will be read with special interest by those who study the early history of our government. --Richmond Christian Observer.
In the unrestrained confidence of family correspondence, nature has always full sway, and the revelations presented in this book of Mr. Jefferson's real temper and opinions, unrestrained or unmodified by the caution called for in public documents, make the work not only valuable but entertaining. --N. Y. World.
The author has done her work with a loving hand, and has made a most interesting book. --N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
It gives a picture of his private life, which it presents in a most favorable light, calculated to redeem Jefferson's character from many, if not all, the aspersions and slanders which, in common with most public characters, he had to endure while living. --New Bedford Standard.
The letters of Jefferson are models of epistolary composition--easy, graceful, and simple. --New Bedford Mercury.
The book is a very good picture of the social life not only of himself but of the age in which he lived. --Detroit Post.
One of the most charming memoirs of the day. --N. Y. Times.

THE TOM BROWN BOOKS.
[Illustration {Arthur Hughes}]
TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS. [1480]
By An Old Boy. New Edition. Beautifully Illustrated by Arthur Hughes and Sydney Prior Hall. 8vo, Paper, 50 cents.
Nothing need be said of the merits of this acknowledged on all hands to be one of the very best boy's books ever written. "Tom Brown" does not reach the point of ideal excellence. He is not a faultless boy; but his boy-faults, by the way they are corrected, help him in getting on. The more of such reading can be furnished the better. There will never be too much of it. --Examiner and Chronicle.
Can be read a dozen times, and each time with tears and laughter as genuine and impulsive as at the first. --Rochester Democrat.
Finely printed, and contains excellent illustrations. "Tom Brown" is a book which will always be popular with boys, and it deserves to be. --World (N. Y.).
For healthy reading it is one book in a thousand. --Advance.
TOM BROWN AT OXFORD.
By the Author of "Tom Brown's School Days." New Edition. With Illustrations by Sydney Prior Hall. 8vo, Paper, 75 cents.
A new and very pretty edition. The illustrations are exceedingly good, the typography is clear, and the paper white and fine. There is no need to say any thing of the literary merits of the work, which has become a kind of classic, and which presents the grand old Tory University to the reader in all its glory and fascination. --Evening Post.
A book of which one never wearies. --Presbyterian.
Fairly entitled to the rank and dignity of an English classic. Plot, style, and truthfulness are of the soundest British character. Racy, idiomatic, mirror-like, always interesting, suggesting thought on the knottiest social and religious questions, now deeply moving by its unconscious pathos, and anon inspiring uproarious laughter, it is a work the world will not willingly let die. --Christian Advocate.
Both books, in One Volume, 8vo, Cloth, $1 50.
Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York.
HARPER & BROTHERS also publish RECOLLECTIONS OF ETON. By an Etonian. With Illustrations. 8vo, Paper, 50 cents.
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TWO VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD BOOKS
Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York.
OUR GIRLS.
By DIO LEWIS, A.M., M.D.
NEW EDITION. 12mo, Cloth, $1 50.
The book not only deserves to be read; it will be read, because it is full of interest, concerning itself, as it does, with such matters as girls' boots and shoes; how girls should walk; low neck and short sleeves; outrages upon the body; stockings supporters; why are women so small? idleness among girls; sunshine and health; a word about baths; what you should eat; how to manage a cold; fat and thin girls, etc., etc. --N. Y. Evening Post.
Dr. Dio Lewis has written a sensible and lively book. There is not a dull page in it, and