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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 13

By Mrs Eliza W. Farnham

By Mrs Eliza W. Farnham.

Woman and Her Era. The most important book on Woman ever written. An original, exhaustive, and fundamental treatise, by a writer of great power. A remarkable work—learned, thoughtful, independent, full of reflection, full of vigour, full of purpose. Broader, deeper, and more comprehensive than any work on Woman that has preceded it. Two elegant 12mo volumes, cloth, 15s; extra gilt, 20s; two vols, in one, library sheep, 18s.

Eliza Woodson; or, the Early Days of one of the World's Workers. A tale of real life. A singularly interesting life-history, possessing all the vivid charm of the best fiction, yet the veritable autobiography of the author of "Woman and Her Era." An entertaining and helpful book for persons of all ages. One vol., 12mo, 425 pages, cloth, 6s.

The Ideal Attained; being the Story of Two Steadfast Souls, and how they won their happiness and lost it not. This production is more than an ordinary story. The purity of motive, the exaltedness of aim, tenderness of feeling, and the truthfulness of description of the great purposes of life, render it a most appropriate book for family reading, or for presents to young persons. It is full of sentiment as well as page 7 incident; not less instructive than entertaining. It is an embodiment in vivid, life-like characters, of the author's high ideal. The lessons it teaches will be found new and unparalleled in the history of fiction. Elegantly bound, 510 pages, 8s.

Album Portraits of Mrs Farnham, 1s each.

This remarkable woman closed her earthly life, December 15,1864. Judge Edmonds says of her—"Could you know her as I have done, you would agree with me that she was one of the most extraordinary women of the age." The Friend of Progress, in a memoir, gives the following striking incident: "Early in the autumn of 1862, she returned from California, with the Ms. of her great work—'Woman and her Era'—well advanced toward completion. An incident connected with her return is worthy of mention, particularly as to it we are indebted for this valuable contribution to progressive literature. The narrative is thus given in her own words : "Being in Santa Cruz, Cal., in the early part of June, 1862, and intending to come east during the summer, I one morning stated to my friend Mrs K——, in whose house I was visiting, that I had concluded to sail on the 21st of July. While we were talking on the subject, Mrs Glover, a medium resident in the town, came in, and was presently influenced by a spirit whom I had known when a child of about ten years, who said: "We do not wish you to go on the vessel you talk of." I did not know what steamer would sail from San Francisco on the 21st of July, and had not even thought about it at all; but I asked, "Why not—isn't she safe?" "They have been overhauling her, but she is wrong about her fire works." "Won't she get to Panama?" "No, she will never get to Panama again." "Will she be lost at sea?" "No; she will get to the land somewhere down there, but half her people will be lost."' In consequence of this warning, she did not take passage in the ill-fated Golden Gate, and her life was prolonged to complete the book, the MS. of which would have been in her possession, and doubtless lost to the world, had she not been persuaded from following her first intent."