The Steam-Packet: A Tale of the River and the Ocean — page 171: what you’re looking at

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MR. EMANS HAS JUST PUBLISHED * THE FOLLOWING AND POPULAR WORKS : — baits in One Vol. pp. 594, Price Sixteen Shillings, ¢ nbe beautiful Steel Engravings, (or in Fif cen F ‘ hilling each, mace and we see no reason in the work before us for ee that opinion. Part. a ‘ Master Timothy’ s Book-Case ’ contains forty pages of letter-press and two beautif steel engravings, and is sold at the usual price of one shilling. At. that rate itisde- _ cidedly one of the cheapest works of the day ; and its intrinsic merits will. cab a 1 ¢ ia not a little in procuring for it an“@dequate share of public patronage. The bss the — tale is singular : the hero, Sir) dimine ‘Mortimer, becomes possessed of a magic eb which reveals to him all the sécrets and mysteries of human life. — The chief of Mr. Reynolds i in this work seems to involve his hero in a series of doubts: and gc msti- fication ; and, when his curiosity and suspense are worked up to the highest ol Se e appeals to the book-case, and the truth is immediately made apparent. That which at o first sight appeared virtuous, turns out to be vicious; seeming injustice proves to R be i justice ; and every thing turns out in a contrary manner from what either the hero 9 rt 16 ue reader of the tale anticipate. We are told in the Preface that ‘ one of the principal « ainis ih, 25 of the author, is to illustrate the truth of the ancient aphorism that we should nev me > sor trust to appearances.’ The interest of the reader is most acutely excited ; and emust lay down this first Part with a wish to become acquainted with the next. We “perce Re ad by the Preface, that in the course of forthcoming Parts the story of Madame Laffarge = and the historical subject of the Man with the Iron Mask are to form episodes in the tale. The plot i is ingenious and original 5 for, although, from the title, the reader might imagine that it is an imitation of ‘ Master Humphrey’s Clock,’ we can vouch that no- a & " ¥ similitude of design i is apparent in the tale now before nee s —Dispatch, July 4th, ee Aas at: ‘aye => 4 aN - Psnalete in te Fok on, 672, Price Haledon Shillings embellished with Fourteen beautiful Steei i be or im Fourteen Paris, bere oy m4 che Price One Shilling each, )— | ec THE FORTUNE TELLER ; c. ee OR, THE HEIR OF HAZELMORE. a By EUPHEMIA GERALDINE WALKER, aaa ts AUTHOR OF “THE CHILD oF TWO raruens,” &e &e. ‘‘ We have no ieatation in strongly advising the perusal of this rane to our readers ‘ : ag old or young—grave or sad.’’— Chambers’s Sub eee Feb. ie iaisincis x ee en we ee ee THOMS, PRINTER AND STEREOTYPER, WARWICK squarg. X\ 4 Dae ; ‘ * a * ' : eo < * 2 a ie Ge ap ‘ at Ps fe 2 ¢