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Well bound in cloth, full gilt back, black printing on side, cut edges. Price 1s. 6d. each.

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72 Joe Wilson's Ghost. 73 Cinq Mars.

74 My Brother's Keeper. 75 Henpecked Husband. 76 Family Feud.

77 Nothing but Money. 78 Letter Bag of the Great Western.

| 71 Pride and Prejudice.

70 Northanger Abbey. VARIOUS AUTHORS. 79 Respectable Sinners.

So Moods.

86 The

Wife.

Ambassador's

81 Land and Sea Tales. 87 The House of the 82 The Duke:

83 The Warlock.
84 The Celebrated Jump-
ing Frog.

85 The Royal Favourite.

Seven Gables.

88 The Pride of the Mess. 89 Stories of Waterloo. 90 Kindness in Women.

LONDON: GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS,
THE BROADWAY, LUDGATE.

HANDSOMELY BOUND IN CLOTH.

Under this title, Messrs. GEORGE Routledge AND SONS are about to issue, in Monthly Volumes, a Series of the Best Novels by W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, FRANK SMEDLEY, SAMUEL LOVER, ANTHONY TROLLOPE, CHArles Lever, ALEXANDRE DUMAS, and other Authors, each Illustrated by the original Steel Plates and Woodcuts of CRUIKSHANK, PHIZ, MILLAIS, and other eminent Artists.

ALEXANDRE DUMAS.

W. H. AINSWORTH.

CHARLES LEVER.

CHARLES LEVER.

FRANK SMEDLEY.

W. H. AINSWORTH.

CHARLES LEVER.

FRANK SMEDLEY.

CHARLES LEVER,

ANTHONY TROLLOPE.

CHARLES LEVER.

ANTHONY TROLLOPE.

CHARLES LEVER.

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The Count of Monte Cristo.
With Twenty full-page Illustrations
and a Portrait of the Author.
The Tower of London:
A HISTORICAL Romance.
40 Illustrations on Steel and numerous
Woodcuts by George Cruikshank.

Charles O'Malley.

THE IRISH DRAGOON.

44 Illustrations on Steel by "Phiz." Jack Hinton, the Guardsman. 36 Illustrations on Steel by "Phiz."

Harry Coverdale's Courtship,

AND WHAT CAME OF IT.
30 Illustrations on Steel by "Phiz."
Old St. Paul's:

A TALE OF THE PLAGUE & THE FIRE.
With 20 Illustrations on Steel by
7. Franklin and H. K. Browne.

Confessions of Con Oregan,

THE IRISH GIL BLAS.
With Illustrations on Steel and
numerous Woodcuts by "Phiz."

Frank Fairlegh;

OR, SCENES FROM THE LIfe of a
PRIVATE PUPIL.

With Thirty Illustrations on Steel
by George Cruikshank.

Harry Lorrequer's Confessions.

22 Illustrations on Steel by "Phiz."

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21 ILLUSTRATIONS.

40 ILLUSTRATIONS.

44 ILLUSTRATIONS.

86 ILLUSTRATIONS.

30 ILLUSTRATIONS.

20 ILLUSTRATIONS.

24 ILLUSTRATIONS.

80 ILLUSTRATIONS.

22 ILLUSTRATIONS.

39 ILLUSTRATIONS.

44 ILLUSTRATIONS.

40 ILLUSTRATIONS.

44 ILLUSTRATIONS.

LONDON: GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS,

THE BROADWAY, LUDGATE.

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THE BROADWAY, LUDGATE

NEW YORK: 416 BROOME STREET

250. J. 178.

PREFACE.

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STUDENTS of English Literature may well regard the "Pamela of SAMUEL RICHARDSON as one of the most illustrative books of the last century. It marks a period during which the style and character of works of fiction underwent a remarkable change, and itself contributed not a little to the reformation which introduced stories of modern life and society to take the place of monstrous and inflated romances.

From Richardson's own statement, it would appear that the outlines of the plot of this, his first novel, were related to him as those of an actual narrative of events, which had taken place some years before. In his first preface he says, “I thought if written in an easy and natural manner, suitable to the simplicity of it; it might possibly turn young people into a course of reading different from the pomp and parade of romance-writing, and, dismissing the improbable and marvellous, with which novels generally abound, might tend to promote the cause of religion and virtue."

Although "Pamela" was Richardson's first work, and is generally ranked below "Sir Charles Grandison" and "Clarissa Harlowe," it may be doubted whether it does not exceed both these, in the subtle ability and simplicity with which the author assumes the phraseology and even the mode of thought of the characters he introduces into the tale.

To sustain so much interest in a long autobiography, which is intended to develop an entire individual history, by means of a supposed interchange of letters, surely requires rare art, and the success with which this object is achieved, is scarcely less surprising than the delicacy with which a story professing to deal with such an experience as that of Pamela, is for the most part distinguished.

It is of course improbable that any such sympathy can now be

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