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. I . Sampson Low , Marston . s fCo . 's I NEW PUBLICATIONS FOR THE SEASON . Biographical anb ibtstortcaL ¦ * + jr % * K ***\* X * + ™ The Lancashire Life of Bishop Fraser . By John W . Diggle , M . A ., Vicar of Mossley Hill , Liverpool , Hon . Canon of Liverpool , Author ¦¦ of 1 vol ' Godliness . de 8 vo and . with Manliness Illustrations , ' * True cloth Religion 12 s , . ' & 6 c d . . ; also Editor of Bishop Fraser ' s Sermons . ; my , , I Contents . —Chapter I . Some Personal Characteristics . II . Appointment to Manchester . III . Arrival in Manchester . IV . At Work : the Manchester Mission . V . The Lancashire Strike . VI . Commercial Depression . VIF . Co-operation : Social Science . VIII . Diocesan Synods and Conferences . IX . Lambeth Conference : Convocation : Church Congresses . X . Confirmations and I j Ordinations Bishop . XIV . . XI The . Obiter Bishop Dicta and . the XII Working . The Bishop Classes of . all XV . Denominations Secularism , Science . XIII , . Faith The . Citizen XVI . \ Miles Platting and Cheetham Hill . ~ XVII . Letters . XVIII . Home Life . XIX . Closing Scenes . in possessio ' Mr . Digg n le cf may the best now external have the monume proud satisfaction nt j ^ et erected of feeling to the memory that he of has Fraser put Lancashire . '—Manchestee people ; Examiner . i 'In the preparation of this vigorous and fascinating book Canon Diggle has bad the invaluable t a Many -ssistance fresh of letters Mrs . Fraser appear , as in well the book as the , and co-op it e also ration is enriched of almost with all the a good Bishop portrait ' s confidential and an i friends llustra- . i , tration of the beautiful effigy in marble in the Cathedral , where his manly and eloquent voice so ; often held , in years which Lancashire will never forget , the great congregation spellbound . No prelate has yet arisen in the English Church who was less of a priest and more of a power than I ; James Fraser . '—Leeds Mercuky . The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe . Edited by her son , Rev . Charles E . Stowe . 1 vol . crown 8 vo ., about 500 pages , cloth , 15 s . This work is the narrative of Mrs . Stowe ' s life told in her own words , carefully compiled from numerous unpublished Letters and Journals , and revised by herself , thus being virtually an auto-Inography . . _ It contains many Letters and Documents of unusual interest . An Original Composition 3 written Soul be by proved Mrs . from Stowe the , when Light a child of Nature of twelve ? ' This years ear , on ly the production theme , of Can an the unusually Immortality strong of and the : active religious mind doubt is of ; struggles xery great with interest poverty . The , sickness strugg , les and of the Mrs disappointments . Stowe's early life of ; early the battle authorshi with p , } aie vividly and graphically described from the pen of Mrs . Stowe herself . The Volume contains numerous Letters from such distinguished persons as Archbishop Whately , Charles Martineau Kingsley , Lady , B Mrs } ron . Browning , all of immediate , Rt . Hon . John interest Brig as ht throwing , Mr . Ruskin light , James on the Russell personality Lowell , of Harriet Mrs . ; Stowe , and illustrating the works which have emanated from her pen . Louisa May ~ Alcott : her Life , Letters , and JOURNALS . Edited by EdnAH D . Cheney . With Two Portraits of Miss Alcott , and a View of her Concord Home . 450 pages . Crown 8 vo . cloth , 6 s . to have ' Miss for Cheney girls such has a done compact her best and with interes her ting subject memorial and with of a her writer materials whose , and appreciation we may be can glad do \ them should nothing read this but volume good . . And It throws further side , it would lights be on a domestic pity to and leave literary the impression America before that no the others war , i and is ' If by among no means contemporary without such writers humour of as fiction appeal the s to name any who of Louisa love their M . fellow Alcott -men does . '— no Spectator € take rank . ; with " Little the Women highest * ' , and she the occup numerous ied at other least a tales unique of the place same as kind a writer are certainly of stories the for most the popular young . j of all modern children ' s stories . The life of Miss Alcott was well worth writing , as it is certainly ; jud well gment worth . reading The book . is Louisa to a great M . Alcott extent " autobiograp has been edited hical by , and Ednah the passages D- Cheney written with great by Miss taste Alcott and i I to herself the point are perhaps . —Graphic the most . interesting . But the editor's elucidatory notes are always good and j London : SAMPSON LOW , MARSTON ? SEARLE & RIVINGTON , Limited , St . Dunstan ' s House , Fetter Lane , Fleet Street , E . C .

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