TALES AND NOVELS BY MARIA EDGEWORTH. EIGHTEEN VOLUMES BOUND IN NINE. VOLS. I. & II. VOL. I. CONTAINING CASTLE RACKRENT; AN ESSAY ON IRISH BULLS; AN ESSAY ON AND MORAL TALES. NEW-YORK: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. & J. HARPER, NO. 82 CLIFF-STREET. AND SOLD BY THE PRINCIPAL BOOKSELLERS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES 32 1834. PUBLISHERS' ADVERTISEMENT. THIS edition of the TALES and NOVELS of MISS EDGEWORTH, which, in conformity with the present prevailing taste, is embellished with plates, will consist of Castle Rackrent, Irish Bulls, The Moral Tales, Popular Tales, Tales of Fashionable Life, The Modern Griselda, Belinda, Leonora, Patronage, Harrington and Ormond, and a few smaller pieces. It is not intended to include in it any of those writings of Miss Edgeworth which are of a more juvenile character than the Moral Tales, a smaller size being deemed more appropriate. Of these a fitter opportunity for speaking will occur hereafter. At present it is only necessary to say that there are few persons who have not, in their earliest years, experienced the greatest pleasure, and imbibed the highest moral truths, from the perusal of the "Early Lessons" and "The Parent's Assistant." "Rosamond and Frank," "The Little Dog Trusty," and "The Cherry Orchard" will not be easily forgotten by them; and in their after-years they will delight to renew, and will profit by renewing, their early acquaintance, by a perusal of works from the same pen, but adapted to maturer age. With respect to her works of higher pretensions, it may be justly said that her TALES and NOVELS form a class by themselves. They are for the most part Irish, but without any of those savage features so painfully characteristic of the novels which for the last few years have turned on the circumstances of Ireland, or Her mother une te Wiss Sror of |