IN READING AT EVERY LIBRARY. In 3 Vols. Price 31s. 6d. LOVE OR HATRED. BY FANNY FISHER. "A book of very considerable ability."-John Bull. A story which thrills the imagination without debasing it."Chronicle. "Pervaded throughout by an unbroken thread of exciting narrative."-Limerick Reporter. 66 A novel which any one might be proud to have written. Every chapter of the three volumes contains something beautiful-something exciting-or something worthy of being dwelt on."-Record. In 3 Vols. THE ARRANDEL MOTTO. "Its purpose is pure, and it possesses that sort of interest which may fairly render it popular."-Athenæum. We have seldom read a more clever or amusing novel. The interest never flags from a single page."-Bell's Messenger. In 3 Vols. WHICH IS THE HEROINE? By NINA COLE. "This novel is interesting both in its conception and execution, and the author exhibits marks at once of culture and of thought.". Morning Post. -Railways, postages-in a word, all the numerous facilities of the age-have almost annihilated distance, and, as a natural result, caused an individual trade between country customers and London establishments. Those who do not visit town, so as to select and purchase directly, send for patterns from which they can give their orders. But as all apparent advantages on the one hand have more or less their corresponding drawbacks, so this system is not without its bane. Pushing tradesmen make a market by offering goods at lower rates than they can possibly be sold at to realise a fair profit. The bait traps the unreflective, and the result is that the receipts en masse are not equal to the tempting samples. There is no new invention in this; it has been practised in wholesale merchandise and by candidates for contracts, as the proverb hath it, since there were hills and valleys. But we grieve to add it is sometimes resorted to by those whom one would credit for more integrity. Ladies, therefore, need exercise caution, and place confidence only in houses of oldestablished fame, for rapidly-made businesses are hot generally reliable. And to what does this assertion amount more than to the fact that nothing great can be effected not only without labour but without time, and that Rome was not built, as the old saying says, in a day? Messrs. Jay, of Regent-street, whose name is well known amongst the few on the list of bonâ fide establishments in the metropolis, have adopted a plan for assisting country ladies in choosing for themselves London fashions and fabrics. And their customers may rest assured that they will thus be enabled to obtain goods of every quality, both low and high priced, at the most reasonable termsthat is, the terms of small profits for quick returns-and that they may firmly rely upon the thoroughly corresponding character of samples and supplies.-From the Court Journal. OR LOVE'S RIDDLE SOLVED BY A ROYAL SPHINX. A TALE OF THE RESTORATION. IN THREE VOLUMES. BY GEORGE GORDON SCOTT. STHE 7 66 Acerrima proximorum Odia." "I love thee to the level of every day's In my old grief, and with my childhood's faith TACITUS. E. B. BROWNING. VOL. I. LONDON : T. CAUTLEY NEWBY, PUBLISHER, 1871. [ALL RIGHTS RESERVED] 250.7 240 DEDICATION. To GEOFFREY ST. JOHN HARTSFOOT, Esq.,. OF BALDIVALLOCH. MY DEAR HARTSFOOT, " I have As in the Tale of "CLUMBER CHASE,' endeavoured to reproduce your worthy ancestor, Master Oliver, I venture, in grateful remembrance of the happy hours passed in our Excursion to Norway last Autumn, to dedicate this Book to you, knowing that I shall thereby insure at least ONE indulgent critic for the shortcomings of, Yours ever faithfully, GEORGE GORDON SCOTT. AVIGNON, June 22nd, 1871. |