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" This is the title of a beautiful volume from the pen of the gifted Mrs. Sigourney, a lady whose writings are familiar to our readers, and who has done much to elevate the character of American literature." Boston Mercantile Journal.

" It would be difficult for me to express the pleasure with which I first looked at, and then immediately went through, the beautiful duodecimo volume of Mrs. Sigourney, her 4 Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands. The typographical execution is matter of pride ; both prose and verse resemble honey of roses, delicacy, sweetness ; the kindest extract of the best of objects and purest of sentiments." Philadelphia National Gazette.

" It has all the charms which characterize the works of William Howitt, besides its poetical illustrations of some of the most romantic spots known over the wide earth." Chris tian Register.

" It forms a beautiful and attractive volume of nearly 400 pages." Providence American.

" A pleasant book by that pleasant woman that New England favorite, Mrs. Sigourney. In its outward parapher nalia the work is praiseworthy, and its inward appearance con forms to this remark." Boston Evening Transcript.

" These memories of the lands visited by the author are truly pleasant. She scarcely passes a spot of any interest in France or England, without bestowing on it a few verses from her fluent pen. These are interspersed with passages of agreeable description and narrative in prose." Ne ! w York Evening Post.

" There is more originality in her writings, however, than in those of any other author of the same class, and to the same extent, with which we are acquainted." Boston Notion.

" They are almost always of an interesting, often of a piquant kind ; and the mode of treating them evinces a strong

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