Her study of Margaret Fuller’s character is thoroughly sympathetic; her relation of her life is done in a graphic and at times a fascinating manner.  It is the case of one woman of strong individuality depicting the points which made another one of the most marked characters of her day.  It is always agreeable to follow Mrs. Howe in this; for while we see marks of her own mind constantly, there is no inartistic protrusion of her personality.  The book is always readable, and the relation of the death-scene is thrillingly impressive.”—­Saturday Gazette.

“Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has retold the story of Margaret Fuller’s life and career in a very interesting manner.  This remarkable woman was happy in having James Freeman Clarke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William Henry Channing, all of whom had been intimate with her and had felt the spell of her extraordinary personal influence, for her biographers.  It is needless to say, of course, that nothing could be better than these reminiscences in their way.”—­New York World.

“The selection of Mrs. Howe as the writer of this biography was a happy thought on the part of the editor of the series; for, aside from the natural appreciation she would have for Margaret Fuller, comes her knowledge of all the influences that had their effect on Margaret Fuller’s life.  She tells the story of Margaret Fuller’s interesting life from all sources and from her own knowledge, not hesitating to use plenty of quotations when she felt that others, or even Margaret Fuller herself, had done the work better.”—­Miss Gilder, in Philadelphia Press.

Famous Women Series.

MARIA EDGEWORTH.

BY HELEN ZIMMERN.

“This little volume shows good literary workmanship.  It does not weary the reader with vague theories; nor does it give over much expression to the enthusiasm—­not to say baseless encomium—­for which too many female biographers have accustomed us to look.  It is a simple and discriminative sketch of one of the most clever and lovable of the class at whom Carlyle sneered as ’scribbling women.’...  Of Maria Edgeworth, the woman, one cannot easily say too much in praise.  That home life, so loving, so wise, and so helpful, was beautiful to its end.  Miss Zimmern has treated it with delicate appreciation.  Her book is refined in conception and tasteful in execution,—­all, in short, the cynic might say, that we expect a woman’s book to be.”—­New York Tribune.

“It was high time that we should possess an adequate biography of this ornament and general benefactor of her time.  And so we hail with uncommon pleasure the volume just published in the Roberts Brothers’ series of Famous Women, of which it is the sixth.  We have only words of praise for the manner in which Miss Zimmern has written her life of Maria Edgeworth.  It exhibits sound judgment, critical analysis, and clear characterization....  The style of the