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POPLAR HOUSE ACADEMY.

“A tale as touching and alluring as it is simple—­a tale sure to interest, whether by its sweet scenes of pathos, its continuous interest, its exquisite traits of nature, or its unaffected, unobtrusive tone of true piety.”—­Literary Gazette.

“In every thing that the author of ‘Mary Powell’ writes, there is a pleasant vein of quiet, refined cheerfulness, which, like the tone of a sweet voice, makes one listen with pleasure.”—­Athenaeum.

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THE GOOD OLD TIMES.

A Tale of Auvergne.

“It is written in a clear, pointed style, embellished with original fancies, and eloquent with an earnest meaning.  The various scenes and characters are obviously studies from life—­the life of restlessness, of fear, of devotion, among the friends of martyrs, described by the chroniclers of that epoch, stained with the blood of fanatical wars and persecutions.  Colette, as delicately and distinctly limned in the successive chapters, might have formed a figure in the fifteenth-century group, drawn by a home-inspired artist.  Then, the struggle round the walls of Le Puy is a picture of olden warfare, of arquebus and halberd battles, of priestly soldiers, sworn to shed no blood, but casuistically, with a ponderous club, immortalizing the miserable routiers.  Again, the cretin is a portrait painfully accurate.  Indeed, the entire story is vivified by its evident reality.”—­Athenaeum.

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THE PROVOCATIONS OF MADAME PALISSY.

“On the basis of the true history of Palissy, the writer has formed the present work; has given a very spirited sketch of his labours; has exhibited the extravagances, amounting to crime, of a man of genius driving on in pursuit of his darling object; and has depicted, as the title promises, with a good deal of power, the plagues of a wife who has such a husband.”—­Christian Observer.

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FAMILY PICTURES.

  TWILIGHT IN AN UNINHABITED HOUSE. 
  OF A FINE OLD ENGLISH MERCHANT. 
  FATHER AND SON. 
  A GENTLEMAN OF THE OLD SCHOOL. 
  A GHOST STORY. 
  CHARLES LAMB. 
  SIR FRANCIS BARING. 
  ON LEAVING AN OLD FAMILY HOUSE. 
  LONE HEATHS AND HIGHWAYMEN. 
  ON THE SACRED AFFECTIONS. 
  A SCRAP OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 
  THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER. 
  THE EVELYNS OF WOTTON. 
  FABIAN’S DILEMMA. 
  CLAREMONT AND THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE. 
  THE FATHER OF A FAMILY.

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