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 PLEASANT MEMORIES OF PLEASANT LANDS.

By Mrs. L. H. SIGOURNEY. Illustrated by /-TUO engrav ings on steel. Ne f w Edition, ivith additions. i6mo. pp. 408.

&quot; Out of her Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands, Mrs. Sigourney has made quite a pleasant book. She pours out poetry with apparently the same facility as prose. But whether she employs blank verse, rhyme, or simple prose, she gives utterance to those kindly feelings and that pure sentiment that find a ready echo in the bosoms of all.&quot; Christian Exam iner.

&quot; The beautiful gleanings of such a mind as Mrs. Sigour ney, and the more beautiful arrangements in such a volume, are priceless. Carpere et collegere belongs to few.&quot; United States Gazette.

&quot; We have read this volume with interest, and although the author has not indeed (as she forewarns us) led us into new paths in the old world, yet she has contrived, by her very agreeable variety of prose and verse scattered along the way, to invest former acquaintances with much that is new and entertaining. She has apostrophized, in different metres, many of the places she has visited, and her poetry, as is with her invariably the case, is instructive and moral.&quot; Boston Re- co rder.

&quot; Poetry and prose interspersed, and both in Mrs. Sigour- ney s most felicitous manner, make the book doubly attrac tive.&quot; Knickerbocker.

&quot; This little volume is marked by the same characteristics that distinguish the fair author s preceding productions an easy, graceful, and often felicitous flow of versification a pure or elevated strain of thought and feeling, and an entire freedom from affectation which forms the besetting sin of the rising generation of Poets.&quot; Boston Daily Advertiser.

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