book is written, and welcome it to a place among the minor - Harriet Martineau

biographies; and because there is nothing else so good, the volume is

indispensable to library and study."--_Boston Evening Traveller._

"Another life of the great actress Rachel has been written. It forms

part of the 'Famous Women Series,' which that firm is now bringing

out, and which already includes eleven volumes. Mrs. Kennard deals

with her subject much more amiably than one or two of the other

biographers have done. She has none of those vindictive feelings which

are so obvious in Madame B.'s narrative of the great tragedienne. On

the contrary, she wants to be fair, and she probably is as fair as the

materials which came into her possession enabled her to be. The

endeavor has been made to show us Rachel as she really was, by relying

to a great extent upon her letters.... A good many stories that we are

familiar with are repeated, and some are contradicted. From first to

last, however, the sympathy of the author is ardent, whether she

recounts the misery of Rachel's childhood, or the splendid altitude to

which she climbed when her name echoed through the world and the great

ones of the earth vied in doing her homage. On this account Mrs.

Kennard's book is a welcome addition to the pre-existing biographies

of one of the greatest actresses the world ever saw."--_N.Y. Evening

Telegram._

_Sold everywhere. Mailed postpaid, by the Publishers_,

ROBERTS BROTHERS, BOSTON.

MADAME ROLAND.

BY MATHILDE BLIND,

AUTHOR OF "GEORGE ELIOT'S LIFE."

One volume. 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.00.

"Of all the interesting biographies published in the Famous Women

Series, Mathilde Blind's life of Mme. Roland is by far the most

fascinating.... But no one can read Mme. Roland's thrilling story, and

no one can study the character of this noble, heroic woman without

feeling certain that it is good for the world to have every incident

of her life brought again before the public eye. Among the famous

women who have been enjoying a new birth through this set of short

biographies, no single one has been worthy of the adjective _great_

until we come to Mme. Roland....

"We see a brilliant intellectual woman in Mme. Roland; we see a

dutiful daughter and devoted wife; we see a woman going forth bravely

to place her neck under the guillotine,--a woman who had been known as

the 'Soul of the Girondins;' and we see a woman struggling with and

not being overcome by an intense and passionate love. Has history a

more heroic picture to present us with? Is there any woman more

deserving of the adjective 'great'?

"Mathilde Blind has had rich materials from which to draw for Mme.

Roland's biography. She writes graphically, and describes some of the

terrible scenes in the French Revolution with great picturesqueness.

The writer's sympathy with Mme. Roland and her enthusiasm is very

contagious; and we follow her record almost breathlessly, and with

intense feeling turn over the last few pages of this little volume. No

one can doubt that this life was worth the writing, and even earnest

students of the French Revolution will be glad to refresh their

memories of Lamartine's 'History of the Girondins,' and again have

brought vividly before them the terrible tragedy of Mme. Roland's life

and death."--_Boston Evening Transcript._

"The thrilling story of Madame Roland's genius, nobility,

self-sacrifice, and death loses nothing in its retelling here. The

material has been collected and arranged in an unbroken and skilfully

narrated sketch, each picturesque or exciting incident being brought

out into a strong light The book is one of the best in an excellent

series."--_Christian Union._

_For sale by all booksellers. Mailed, post-paid, on receipt of price

by the publishers_,

ROBERTS BROTHERS, BOSTON.

End of Project Gutenberg's Harriet Martineau, by Florence Fenwick Miller