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LEWIE, OR THE BENDED TWIG.

BY COUSIN CICELY,

Author of "Silver Lake Stories," etc., etc.

One Volume 12mo.,

Price $1.00

Brief Extracts from Notices of the Press.

A tale which deserves to rank with "The Wide, WideWorld." It is written with graphic power, and full of interest.-Hartford Repub. Her writings are equal to the best. She is a second Fanny Fern-Palmyra Democrat.

✦✦✦ It is recommended by its excellent moral tone and its wholesome practical inculcations -N. Y. Tribune.

Full of grace and charm, its style and vivacity make it a most amusing work. For the intellectual and thinking, it has a deeper lesson, and while it thrills the heart, bids parents beware of that weakness which prepares in infancy the misery of man. "Lewie "is one of the most popular books now before the public, and needs no puffing, as it is selling by thousands.-N. Y. Day Book.

The moral of the book is inestimable. The writer cannot fail to be good, as she so faithfully portrays the evils which owe their origin to the criminal neglect of proper parental discipline.-Hunt's Merchants' Magazine.

* The plot is full of dramatic interest, yet entirely free from extravagance; the incidents grow out of the main plot easily and naturally, while the sentiment is healthy and unaffected. Commend us to more writers like Cousin Cicely-books which we can see in the hands of our young people without uneasiness. Bocks which interest by picturing life as it is, instead of giving us galvanized society.- National Democrat.

* A touching and impressive story unaffected in style and effective in plot.-N. Y. Evangelist.

The story of the Governess, contained in this volume, is one of rare interest.-Highland Eagle.

The story is a charming one-the most affecting we ever read.-Jersey Shore Republican.

"Cousin Cicely" is just the person to portray family scenes. This story will be profitable reading.-Daily Capital City-Fact Columbus, Ohio.

The contents of the work are of the first order, and unexcep tionable. Hartford Daily Times."

Let every youth peruse 1., and we promise them they wi

find their hearts and lives improved by it.-Advocate, Batavia.

Truth is the basis of the work before us. In it the accomplished authoress has done an honor to her sex, and we doubt not secured blessings upon many households by the publication of this finished and elegant litdle volume. Her former labors have endeared her to children. The present one should secure for her the affection and gratitude of parents.— Geneva Courier.

*** It is lively without triviality, and replete with interest from the first to the last.-New York Day Book.

*** Believing this work adapted to lead mothers to rightly trai the little shoots springing up around the parent tree, and to restrain their wandering inclinations, we commend it to their perusal.-Student.

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Cousin Cicely is gifted with rare powers. It is of home incidents she writes, and in a manner highly attractive. * *Traces with graphic force the loved and petted child. The volume is full of instruction te parents, and should have a place in every family library-Providence Daily Post.

* * * Cousin Cicely is well known, and a work from her pen will meet with ready welcome.-Providence Faily Times.

*** Her works are of decided merit, and should be possessed by all.-Rochester Daily American.

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She has got the hearts of patents and children through the Silver Lake Stories and Lewie.-Rochester 'aily Democrat.

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The moral of the story is good, and the plot is so touching, that we cannot wonder at the book's success-N. Y. Commercial Adv. Agnes, the sister of spoiled Lewie, is treated with unmotherly injustice; grows up a character of uncommon oveliness; and, though "only a Governess," marries splendidly.-N. I Church Journal.

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Downright interesting story. It ir crowded with domestic pictures, true to nature. The short at melancholy career of poor Lewie, shows the importance of properly maing children.— Western Literary Messenger.

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The description of an American home is true to the life. Many of the incidents are truly affecting. Passages of remarkable beauty of expression and sentiment. We give the flowing as a specimen of the thought and style which characterizes the work. It is strange how much a human heart may suffer and beat on and reg un tranquility, and even cheerfulness at last. It is a most merciful provision of Providence, that our griefs do not always fall as heavily as they do at first, else how could the burden of this life of change and sorrow be borne. But the loved ones are not forgotton when the tear is dried, and the smile returns to the cheek; they are remembered, but with less of sa..ess and gloom in the remembrance; and at length, if we can think o them as happy, it is only a pleasure to recall them to mind."-Patriot, Jarkson Michigan.

Every one is Enraptured with the Book-Every one will

Read it!

SIX THOUSAND PUBLISHED IN THIRTY DAYS!

UPS AND DOWNS,

Or Silver Lake Sketches.

BY COUSIN CICELY, Author of Lewie or the Bended Twig. One Elegant 12mo. Vol., with Ten Illustrations by Coffin, and engraved by the best artists. Cloth, gilt, $1,25.

BEARDSLEY, Auburn and Rochester, N. Y.,

Publisher

The Critics give it Unqualified Commendation

Cousin Cicely's "Lewie, or the Bended Twig," published and wiasty ead not long ago, was a volume to sharpen the reader's appetite for "more of the same sort." * # * * "Ups and Downs' is a cluste1

of sketches and incidents in real life, narrated with a grace of though t and flow of expression rarely to be met. The sketches well entitle he volume to its name, for they are pictures of many sides of life-some grave, some gay, some cheering and some sad, pervaded by a genia! spirit. and developing good morals.

Either of the fifteen sketches will amply repay the purchaser of the volume, and unless our judgment is false, after a careful reading, “Ups and Downs" will make an impression beyond "the pleasant effect to while away a few unoccupied inoments." The Publishers have given Cousin Cicely's gems a setting worthy of their brilliancy. The ten illustrations are capital in design and execution, and it strikes us as remarkable how such a volume can be profitably got up at the price for which it is sold. The secret must lie in large circulation-which "Ups and Downs" is certain to secure.-N. Y Evening Mirror.

Who is Cousin Cicely?—We begin to think Cousin Cicely is somebody, and feel disposed to ask, who is she? We several months ago noticed her "Lewie" in this journal. It is a story with a fine moral, beautiful and touching in its development. It has already quietly made its way to a circulation of twelve thousand, "without beating a drum or crying oysters." Pretty good evidence that there is something in it. Our readers have already had a taste of "Ups and Downs," for we find among its contents a story entitled "Miss Todd, M. P., or a Disease of the Heart," which was published in this journal a few months ago. We venture to say that no one who read has forgotten it, and those who remember it will be glad to know where they can find plenty more of the "same sort."-U. S. Journal.

* Sketches of life as it is, and of some things as they should be; all drawn with a light pencil, and abounding with touches of real genius. Cousin Cicely has improved her former good reputation in our opinion, by this effort.-1'he Wesleyan.

THE MOST CHARMING BOOK OF THE SEASON.

Of "Lewie," by "Cousin Cicely," we have recently spoken in terms of unqualified praise. "Cousin Cicely" may take her rank with the several remarkably successful female authors of the day, who, within the last two or three years, have created a public mania for female literature.-N. Y. Mirror.

* The stories are pleasingly written. There are many pathetic descriptions, and many others concealing a good deal of covert and wellmerited satire. We make the following extract from a sketch entitled "Miss Tod, M. D., or a Disease of the Heart;" from the portfolio of a young lawyer. The extract will give a sample of the author's style.

"In the course of the afternoon, as I lay upon the sofa, with my hand pressed upon my head, to still its irregular pulsations, there was a soft tap at the door. "Come in,' I called out, and to my surprise in stepped the neatest, brightest, most cheerful looking little woman it had ever been my lot to meet.

"You sent for me, I believe sir?' she said in a brisk, pleasant way. "I? No, Madam-you are laboring under a mistake.'

"Ah! I beg pardon,' said the little woman; I found on my slate the name of Mr. Hubbs, No. 14, Mrs. Grays' boarding-house, with a request that I would call and see him.'

"Your slate, madam! I exclaimed, my astonishment increasing every moment you are surely not a

"Physician! yes, sir,' she interrupted quickly; 'I'm a physician; Dr.

Tod.'

"Extraordinary!' was all that I could say; for, though I had heard at a distance, of such a being, this was my first introduction to a female practitioner of the Esculapean art.""

[N. Y. Despatch.

Cousin Cicely has studied human nature, and expresses her views easily and gracefully. Well written sketches, and are calculated to reprove the follies and vices of life. They will be read, and what is better, they will leave a good impression.-Genesee Evangelist.

These sketches are pictures of many sided life. The grave and gay, the lively and severe, the sad and glad, the fortune of prosperity, and the misfortunes of reverse, are all depicted with a felicity of expression that is rare in this day of "writing for effect." There is no straining or "highfalutin," no construction of mere words for the sake of their own jingle, no appeal to bad passions, and no mere effort at humor. If we mistake not, this book is destined to have a large sale.-Roch. American.

There is a freshness and naturalness about the sketches which make them popular with almost all classes.-N. Y. Day Book. We do not know of a writer whose works evince a purer or more wholesome taste. This book of sketches under the above title, is like her former productions, of a very superior tone. The "Vermont Cousin," and the "Adopted Daughter," are rich in quiet humor, and the latter peculiarly so, in depth of feeling and fine sentiment; while the "Lesson of Contentment is one which every person ought to read, in these hard times.-Orleans Republican.

Cousin Cicely has acquired an enviable reputation as a writer of pleasing stories The sketches in this work are highly interesting, and at the same time of a high moral character. The book will have a great sale. Newark Whig.