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In Three Volumes.

THE STUDENT'S WIFE.

By the Author of "My Sister Minnie."

Mrs. Daniels has long stood high as a novelist, but "The Student's Wife" will place her above all her lady contemporaries; it is graceful in language, flowing in style, powerful in pathos, and absorbing in interest.”—Evening Post.

A story of great interest, full of the deepest pathos."—Weekly Dispatch. "The present volumes are the best Mrs. Daniels has written."-Sunday Times.

The book is charming, full of interest, commanding the feelings and emotions of the reader by its exquisite truthfulness and simple pathos."Bath and Cheltenham Gazette.

In Three Volumes.

PEQUINILLO.

By G. P. R. JAMES, Esq., Author of " Adrian, or the Clouds of the Mind." "The Fate," "Revenge," "Henry Smeaton," "The Forgery," "The Woodman," "Dark Scenes of History," &c.

In Two Volumes.

THE GIPSY'S

DAUGHTER.

Edited by the Author of "The Gambler's Wife."

"The Gipsy's Daughter is in every respect equal to Mrs. Grey's former novels-indeed, with the expection of 'The Gambler's Wife,' superior."Evening Post."

In Three Volumes, 31s. 6d.
REVENGE.

By G. P. R. JAMES, Esq., Author of "The Fate," "The Woodman,” &c. "This novel will be read with greater interest than any novel Mr. James has published for many years. It is intensely exciting throughout."-Clifton Chronicle.

A Second Edition, in Three Volumes.

SMUGGLERS AND FORESTERS.

"In it will be found more beauty of thought and deep feeling than in any novel this season has produced."-Sunday Times.

"There is a genuine interest in it."- Examiner.

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A novel combining the grace of Bulwer, the descriptive powers of James, and exciting the reader as powerfully as the Paul Dombey of Charles Dickens."-Boston Atheneum.

Second Edition. In Three Volumes.

THE FARCE OF LIFE.

By LORD B*******, Author of "Masters and Workmen." "Full of striking situations and passages of remarkably fine writing."Glasgow Sentinel.

"A novel we have read with extraordinary pleasure, and we assure our readers it is calculated not only to entertain them highly, but also to suggest exceedingly useful views.-Sunday Times.

"It will reward perusal."-Critic.
"It is no ordinary novel."- Observer.

"The novel sparkles with variety, all the characters are clearly discriminated and cunning manoeuvred."—Athenæum.

"Whoever may be the author of this truthful fiction, it will confer upon him a more imperishable fame than any previous work of his life. It is without exception the most valuable novel that has ever been presented to the public; a more pure code of morals has rarely been penned, and well would it be for the world if those clothed in purple and fine linen' would study ell, reflect, and ponder deeply the lessons of The Farce of Life."—Athenæum (Boston).

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The tale is ascribed to a nobleman whose manifold acquirements and indomitable energy and spirit have been manifested for a long series of years for the promotion of sound principles among the mass of the people. Brusque, but forcible-severe, yet delicate-the work exhibits all the characteristics of a powerful mind. It is full of matter, racy in style, admirably pure in diction, and lofty in the enunciation of sentiment and duty."-People's Athenæum.

"A constant succession of scenes and incidents awaken interest, and make the novel sparkle with variety."-Dispatch.

In Three Volumes, 31s. 6d.

THE DELAMERES OF DELAMERE COURT. By the Author of The Duchess."

"A gracefully told story, full of exquisite delineation of character, and original and piquant remarks; dispersed throughout with pure and elevated sentiments."-Daily News.

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'The moral of this novel is unexceptionable."-Sunday Times.

"The author is an admirable delineator of character, and possesses a fund of rich humour."-Naval and Military.

"The action and the passion move rapidly, and we read on with as much eagerness as though we had been unable to foresee for a page's length that was going to befall the lessoned hero, and the lesson-giving heroine."Athenæum.

'There is in many of the characters of this drama an originality of conception, which stamps the merit of the work."-Britannia.

THE

BARONET'S FAMILY.

A Novel.

BY MISS A. BEALE,

AUTHOR OF THE VALE AND THE TOWEY."

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

THOMAS CAUTLEY NEWBY, PUBLISHER,

30, WELBECK STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE.

1852.

249. V. 78.

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THE

BARONET'S

FAMILY.

CHAPTER I.

Now the lit lake shines,. a phosphoric sea,
And the big rain comes dancing to the earth;
And now again 'tis black-and now, the glee
Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain mirth,
As if they did rejoice in a young earthquake's
birth.

BYRON.

As it is the fashion, now-a-days, to take sudden trips to the Continent, and to return from them almost as fast as the

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