PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. & J. HARPER, AND SOLD BY THE PRINCIPAL BOOKSELLERS THROUGHOUT THE Publishers have now the pleasure of submitting to the public the concluding chapters of the "Passages from the Diary of a late Physician." In order to render the present volume uniform in size with the first, a few additional stories have been added as a "Supplement." Although these are of a different character from the main body of the work, still it is hoped they will prove equally interesting and instructive. For the information of those (and those only) who have not read the first volume of these "Passages," the following opinions of its merits are presented. "The scenes the author describes are truly affecting-they possess a thrilling interest. No one who reads these sketches, taken from real life, will have occasion to look through works of fiction for scenes to excite and amuse him. The vivacity and good taste discovered in the author's manner, and the impressive moral given by his affecting narratives, will render his work highly acceptable to the literary public."S. Religious Telegraph. "It amuses, excites our sympathies, lets us into the knowledge of the depths of the human soul, and sets forth the value of the balm of Gilead and the physician there.'"-Christian Intelligencer. "They are written in a masterly style, calculated to attract and fix the attention of all classes of readers, and we think they will produce a salutary effect."-N. E. Baptist Register. "We have read this work with unusual interest. It is evidently the production of a powerful writer, who maintains throughout a control over the mind and heart of his reader, equal to that which is delightfully acquiesced in when exercised by the master-spirits of poetic inspiration. Indeed, the finely-wrought, vivid description, accurate delineation of suffering humanity, in various moods and diversified conditions, and deep pathos of the writer, entitle him, although his work is written in prose, to take rank with the most highly-gifted poetic geniuses of modern date."-Wesleyan M. Visiter. "They are drawn with a masterly hand, and apparently from real life. Many of them are not only interesting but instructive, and fitted to convey important moral lessons."-Journal of Commerce. "The writer of these stories has made up a remarkable book, and one of singular interest."-N. Y. American. |