JAMES M. CAMPBELL & CO., 98 CHESTNUT ST. SAXTON & MILES, 205 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. SAXTON, PIERCE & Co., Boston;-N. HICKMAN, Baltimore ;-R. G. BERFORD, AND THE PRINCIPAL BOOKSELLERS, ETC,, THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES. Stereotyped by L. Johnson, 1843. George st., Philadelphia. OF THE BIBLICAL CABINET. THE subscribers propose to publish a Periodical under the above title to contain VALUABLE AND COSTLY TREATISES ON THEOLOGICAL SUBJECTS, which are now beyond the reach of any but the wealthy, from their very high price. It will be the endeavour to give no works but of the highest character, and such as shall be free from the charge of Protestant sectarianism; differing from the "SELECT LIBRARY OF RELIGIOUS LITERATURE" in being confined to works of a more strictly Theological nature. It will be printed in an octavo form, on fine paper, in double columns, and from a font of new Long Primer type, cast expressly for it. Each number will contain ninety-six pages at twenty-five cents per number. The first and second numbers are now ready; the succeeding numbers will be issued on the 1st and 15th of each following month, and can be sent by mail, being a three sheet periodical, to any part of the United States. POSTAGE under one hundred miles four and a half cents, over one hundred miles seven and a half cents. The first Book will be NEANDER'S HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION During the First Three Centuries. This work has never before been published in the United States, and is very rare, the English copy being held at six dollars twenty-five cents. It will be completed in about five numbers, and will be followed by other works of a similar character. Persons from a distance remitting any sum free of postage, will have their orders supplied to the amount of numbers covered by the remittance. All orders must be post paid and accompanied by a remittance, as the very low price requires cash operations. Postmasters are authorized to frank letters containing remittances for periodicals. ORDERS received in New York by Saxton & Miles, No. 205 Broadway. Baltimore, by N. Hickman. Boston, Saxton, Peirce, & Co. Pittsburgh R. G. Berford. Cincinnati, Robinson & Jones. Albany, N. Y., W. C. Little. And by the Periodical Agents generally, throughout the United States. JAMES M. CAMPBELL & Co., 98 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. THE NEIGHBOURS. A Story of Every-day Life. BY FREDERIKA BREMER. TRANSLATED FROM THE SWEDISH, BY MARY HOWITT. FOURTH EDITION. PHILADELPHIA: JAMES M. CAMPBELL & CO., 98 CHESTNUT STREET. SAXTON & MILES, 205 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, STEREOTYPED BY L. JOHNSON. 1843. PREFACE, BY THE TRANSLATOR. Or the rich treasure of intellect and literature in Sweden, little or nothing is known in England. To give a specimen of what exists there, even in the department of living story and scenes of society, I have selected this work of Frederika Bremer, which is one of a series of four; "The Neighbours," "The House," "The President's Daughters," and "Nina." "The Neighbours" has not been first chosen on the principle of presenting the best first, in order to excite expectation, but as believing it a fair and average example. Some of the others possess unquestionably a stronger interest in the narrative, and perhaps more masterly exposition of character. They are, in my opinion, most admirable in their lessons of social wisdom; in their life of relation; in their playful humour; and in all those qualities which can make writings acceptable to the fireside circle of the good and refined. Frederika Bremer is indeed the MISS AUSTEN of Sweden. Her father was an eminent merchant, and since the death of her parents she has resided alternately in Stockholm, and with a female friend in the South of Sweden. She has consequently seen much of the society and scenery of her native land, and no one can sketch these with more graphic truth and vivacity. Since the writings of their great. poet Tegnér, no productions have created such a sensation in Sweden; and abroad they have flown far and wide; have been read with avidity in various parts of the Continent, and in Germany alone three editions have appeared in rapid succession. I take this opportunity to announce, that, if my own countrymen, and especially countrywomen, give this work an equal welcome, the others are ready for publication, and will be issued as speedily as may be required. In any case, I shall be grateful to the author for the perusal of them, for they have certainly both highly amused me and done my heart good. Heidelberg, September, 1842. M. H. 3 |