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 &quot; 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.&quot; Boston Mercantile Journal.

&quot; 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.&quot; Philadelphia National Gazette.

&quot; 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.&quot; Chris tian Register.

&quot; It forms a beautiful and attractive volume of nearly 400 pages.&quot; Providence American.

&quot; 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.&quot; Boston Evening Transcript.

&quot; 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.&quot; Ne ! w York Evening Post.

&quot; 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.&quot; Boston Notion.

&quot; 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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