LEWIE; OR, THE BENDED TWIG! BY COUSIN CICELY

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Author of "SILVER LAKE STORIES."


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What the Press Say:

Cousin Cicely is very industrious—whether in penciling lights or shadows, in describing domestic scenery, or inculcating religious principles, the fair author possesses a happy facility, so as to render her productions alike agreeable and instructive.—Protestant Churchman.

This book is written in a style well calculated to please, and contains an inestimable moral—plain, concise, and void of superfluities, that a child may understand it—characters life-like and well sustained, and the whole plan of the work is good.—Yates Co. Whig.

The contents of the work are of the first order and unexceptionable.—Rochester Daily Union.

The story is not only well written, but it has merits in the dramatic grouping of incidents, graphic delineation of character, and the affecting interest which attracts and supports the reader's attention through the whole work, from the opening scene to the finale.—Rochester Daily Democrat.

This is a new work from the pen of the gifted author of the "Silver Lake Stories." It is got up in a style of mechanical elegance equal to the issues of Putnam and Appleton, and the quality of its contents will not be found behind that of three-fourths of the publications that emanate from the pens of more wide-known authors, and from publishing houses that employ none but the best writers.—Canandaigua Messenger.

It is a story designed to illustrate the deplorable effects of a neglect of proper parental discipline in infancy; in a well-written preface, the authoress, "Cousin Cicely," assures us it is substantially a narrative of facts. It traces the career of a spoiled and petted boy, whose mother was too weak and indolent to restrain him as she ought, through the several stages of a perverse childhood, a reckless boyhood, and a passionate, ungovernable youth, till this victim of a parent's folly is found in a felon's cell, with the mark of Cain on his brow.—Auburn Daily Advertiser.

The authoress, who, by the way, need not be afraid to sail under her own proper colors hereafter, claims that most of the incidents are taken from real life; a very creditable averment, as the work, with slight modifications in each individual case, would prove a faithful portraiture of the early training and subsequent career of nine-tenths of the victims of the gallows, and of the penitentiary.—Mirror, Lyons, N. Y.

The writer of this, and of many other pleasant volumes—"Cousin Cicely," as she chooses to be called—is gifted with rare talents, which she is wisely devoting to useful ends. Her charming "Silver Lake Stories," have effected much good, and this work is well calculated to do the same, both with children of the larger and of the smaller growth. * * * Difficulties of various natures arise, on the last and most important of which hangs the catastrophe of the story. But what that is, and how the book ends, is for the reader to find out, not for us to tell.—Albany Eve Journal.

* * * One of the domestic sort—speaking of home, dwelling upon home affections and family character, and the incidents of common life, yet as deeply interesting as the most romantic narrative. It has not been paraded before the public with ostentatious praise; but it will be far more acceptable to the reader than many works that have thus attracted interest in advance, without being able to meet and repay it.—Albany Atlas.


Transcriber's Notes:

The transcriber made the following changes to the text:

1. p. 24, "two" changed to italic "two"
3. p. 68, Cries she; "but let ... no closing quote
4. p. 84, "warant" changed to "warrant"
5. p. 110, "jeweleries" changed to "jewelries"
6. p. 192, "outage, But" changed to "outage. But"
7. p. 214, will of Legree?" closing quote deleted
8. p. 216, "contend its exists" changed to "contend it exists"
9. p. 234, "manisfestation, They" changed to "manisfestation. They"
10. p. 235, But the Spirit said, "Not so; ... no closing quote
11. Footnote #7, "Ye christian Bondous" changed to "Ye Christian Bondous"
12. p. 293, "cotemporaries" changed to "contemporaries"
13. p. 302, "procelain" changed to "porcelain"

Several page numbers in the Contents are not correct.

"Massacre at Blount's Fort" is actually found on page 16, not 14.
Likwise, "A Wish" is found on page 209, not 207. And "Mary Smith" will
be found on page 236, not 237. The page numbers in the Contents remains
as published but the hyperlink will go to the correct page.





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