“Miss Blind’s little biographical study of George Eliot is written with sympathy and good taste, and is very welcome.  It gives us a graphic if not elaborate sketch of the personality and development of the great novelist, is particularly full and authentic concerning her earlier years, tells enough of the leading motives in her work to give the general reader a lucid idea of the true drift and purpose of her art, and analyzes carefully her various writings, with no attempt at profound criticism or fine writing, but with appreciation, insight, and a clear grasp of those underlying psychological principles which are so closely interwoven in every production that came from her pen.”—­Traveller.

“The lives of few great writers have attracted more curiosity and speculation than that of George Eliot.  Had she only lived earlier in the century she might easily have become the centre of a mythos.  As it is, many of the anecdotes commonly repeated about her are made up largely of fable.  It is, therefore, well, before it is too late, to reduce the true story of her career to the lowest terms, and this service has been well done by the author of the present volume.”—­Philadelphia Press.

FAMOUS WOMEN SERIES.

MARY LAMB.

BY ANNE GILCHRIST.

+One volume. 16mo.  Cloth.  Price, $1.00.+

“The story of Mary Lamb has long been familiar to the readers of Elia, but never in its entirety as in the monograph which Mrs. Anne Gilchrist has just contributed to the Famous Women Series.  Darkly hinted at by Talfourd in his Final Memorials of Charles Lamb, it became better known as the years went on and that imperfect work was followed by fuller and franker biographies,—­became so well known, in fact, that no one could recall the memory of Lamb without recalling at the same time the memory of his sister.”—­New York Mail and Express.

“A biography of Mary Lamb must inevitably be also, almost more, a biography of Charles Lamb, so completely was the life of the sister encompassed by that of her brother; and it must be allowed that Mrs. Anne Gilchrist has performed a difficult biographical task with taste and ability....  The reader is at least likely to lay down the book with the feeling that if Mary Lamb is not famous she certainly deserves to be, and that a debt of gratitude is due Mrs. Gilchrist for this well-considered record of her life.”—­Boston Courier.

“Mary Lamb, who was the embodiment of everything that is tenderest in woman, combined with this a heroism which bore her on for a while through the terrors of insanity.  Think of a highly intellectual woman struggling year after year with madness, triumphant over it for a season, and then at last succumbing to it.  The saddest lines that ever were written are those descriptive of this brother and sister just before Mary,