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The Christmas Bookshelf

... volume, Mrs. Harris touching lightly on the contested ?? of certain sites most closely connected with our Lorcd' i earth. MANSFIELD PARK To their library of illustrated standard novels Messrs. Macnt and Co. have now adde l Mliss Austen's Mansfield I'ark ...

DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

... again and with ever-increasing pleasure the humour both of incident and character to be found, for example, in Emma, Mansfield Park, and Pride and Prejudice. On this theme much might he said were this the place to say it; but we recommend Mr. Adams ...

NARKA

... of which there have been lately so many dreadful shillingsworth. When shall we have a 1 Vicar of Wakefield or a Mansfield Park again ? We do not place Narka' on a level with these models of psychological truth and humour, but it is no small ...

WHARNOLIFFE RESTAURANT HOTEL GREAT CENTRAL

... not furnish me with the piece of information that I desire. Who wrote “Broken Vows,” the play which was in rehearsal at Mansfield Park when the august Sir Thomas returned from the West Indies ? A reprint in which I take an interest is that of Trollope's ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... Misas Edgcworth's No vels, .3yron's Works,5 &t., price h0S., ~/ISS JANE AUSTEN'S NOVELS, 11 Namely: Pride and Pfee adice Mansfield Park Sense and Sensibility Northangor Abbey Emma I Persuasion. Rtichard Bentley, New Butrl6ngton-ytreet. MIDDLE AND WORKING ...

A MEMOIR OF JANE AUSTEN

... at Bath and Sir Thomas Bertram's sudden return from abroad ; and last, but not least, such easy and natural plots as Mansfield Park and Persuasion-we make our selection from memory-need fear no rival in this domain of English literature. She is now ...

MISS AUSTEN'S LETTERS.*

... appeared in print. It was ijuickly i ' 1 by -l'ride and Prejudice, the success of which roused her to i - . ss. i' Mansfield Park, E}mma, anrd Persuasion were I ii; thle last five years of her life, and vwhen she died, in 1S17, -. u eh!indl ...

MISS AUSTEN*

... thrown upon their hands in some quiet country place, and suddenly to discover on the unexplored bookshelves a copy of Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, or Persuasion. If they do not agree with what Whately and Macaulay said of her before the appearance ...

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE

... with wit and humour- Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Per- suasion, and Mansfield Park, of Miss Austen, exhibiting all the shrewd. truthful force of Fielding, without his grossness- The Scottish Chiefs ...

COMMON ERRORS IN SPEECH AND WRITING

... to entertain her and 'succeed ' so ill, he is pro bably unjust to the author, as it is one of the | I characters in Mansfield Park, not Miss f Austen herself, who is quoted. There is often a difficulty in deciding on the tense to employ when a truth ...

CLERGYMAN IN THE WAVERLEY NOVELS

... drmons e-ersonal of the Waverleys. One might almost as well expect to meet with a Baron of Bradwardine among the company at Mansfield Park, or sitting down to whist with old Mr. Woodhouse in Emma. ...

LADY SUSAN.*

... LADY SUSAN.' THE announcement of a posthumous work by the authoress of Mansfield Park naturally aroused great curiosity among all lovers of the best class of English fiction. And, as the advertisements told us nothing more than the name of it, we ...