J. C. DERBY'S PUBLICATIONS. THE HIDDEN PATH. Ꭺ NOVEL. BY MARION HARLAND. AUTHOR OF "ALONE." 12mo. Price $1 25. "High as has been the reputation acquired by the many authoresses of our country, we shall be mistaken if the writer of Alone' and of 'The Hidden Path' does not take ere long, place and precedence. She combines as many excellences with as few faults as any one we can at the present writing call to mind. There is an originality in her thinking which strikes one with a peculiar force, and he finds himself often unconsciously recurring to what has had such a powerful effect upon him. She is emphatically an authoress not to be forgotten; her works are no short-lived productions, for they have in them a genius, a power and a purpose."-Boston Evening Gazette. "It forms a series of delightful home pictures, changing from place to place, but chiefly confined to Virginia, the writer's native State, and she paints its beauties with a master hand. She loves her native State, and has paid it no mean tribute in her book. We congratulate the young and gifted authoress for having produced a work so remarkable for its delicacy, purity and general worth, and prophesy for her a brilliant and successful career in the world of letters."-Old Colony Memorial, Plymouth, Mass. "It will every way sustain the praise so worthily won by the author's first effort. It exhibits the same healthful sentiment and beautiful feeling, the same truthful simplicity and yet charming elegance, the same just appreciation of different phases of social and domestic life. The tale is one of American life, and is most aptly and gracefully wrought."-N. Y. Courier and Enquirer. "The Hidden Path' is a work of originality and genius, full of striking thoughts, eautiful descriptions, and graceful conversation, and just interesting enough as a story to carry the reader through a volume from the perusal of which one rises better at heart and with a more genial, kindly feeling toward humanity in general."-Boston Daily Journal. We have read 'The Hidden Path' with unmingled pleasure. It is one of the best novels of the day. The promise given by Miss Harland in her 'Alone' has been full met. She takes rank among the best writers of fiction of this age. The story is interest ing; the language pure, often eloquent; the plot natural and interesting; and the mora excellent."-New York Daily News. "We take the liberty of confidently commending it to our readers as one of those gentle, earnest books which will be found acceptable to all pure hearts, and become, we sincerely trust, an especial favorite with the women readers of America."—Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. "Home, sincerity and truth, are invested with most attractive charms, and their value enhanced by painful contrasts. While engaging the imagination by its well-conceived plot, it makes all submit to its moral impression, and enlists the reader's approbation exclusively with the virtuous and true."-New York Evangelist. "Its great charm, like that of Alone,' consists in the sincerity which pervades it, and in the delicate sentiments of love and friendship which, in all their unadulterated sweetness, throw a magic grace over the whole volume."-New York Day Rook. A BOOK OF RARE HUMOR! THE WIDOW BEDOTT BY FRANCIS M. WHITCHER PAPERS WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALICE B. NEAL. One volume 12mo., with 8 spirited illustrations by Dallas and Orr Extract from a Letter to the Author by the late Joseph C. Neal "Our readers talk of nothing else, and almost despise 'Neal' if the 'Widow' be not there. An excellent critic in these matters, said to me the other day, that he regarded then as the best Yankee papers yet written, and such is indeed the general sentiment. I know, for instance of a lady who, for several days after reading one of them, was continually, and often at moments the most inopportune, bursting forth into fits of violent laug) r, and, believe me, that you, gifted with such powers, ought not to speak disparag ing/ f the gift which thus brings wholesome satire home to every reader." The Widow Resorts to Elder Sniffles for Mrs. Maguire's Account of Deacon WhipReligious Instruction. The Widow concludes to Publish. The Widow Prepares to Receive Elder Snif iles on Thanksgiving-Day. The Widow Retires to a Grove in the rear of Elder Sniffles' House. ple. Mrs. Mudlaw's Recipe for Potatoe Pud- Morning Calls; or, Every Body's Particular |