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her compositions, has succeeded, if the phrase may be permitted, in rendering piety fashionable and popular, where even the name of religion was, and that at no very distant period, treated with indifference, if not with absolute contempt.

After establishing her claim to the highest station in the temple of poetical fame, HANNAH MORE resolved to consecrate her talents wholly to His service from whom she had received them. This determination she carried into effect; and inconceivably great and extensive were the benefits it produced. When licentious principles began to be propagated with industrious zeal, and to threaten the foundations of all moral and social order, then did this Christian heroine, armed in the panoply of truth, appear foremost to oppose the inroads of the enemies of righteousness. The success was unexampled. The tracts, which with uncommon celerity and admirable judgment came from her fertile pen, operated like a charm, in confirming the wavering, and appalling the evil mind.

The venerable Bishop PORTEUS, in a charge delivered to the clergy of his diocese in 1798, having noticed the exertions made by different pious writers to excite the spirit of religion, says, "To these it would now be injustice not to add the name of another highly approved author, Mrs. HANNAH MORE; whose extraordinary and versatile talents can equally accommodate themselves to the cottage and the palace; who, while she is diffusing among the lower orders of the people an infinity of little religious tracts, calculated to reform

and comfort them in this world, and to save them in the next, is at the same time applying all the powers of a vigorous and highly cultivated mind to the instruction, improvement, and delight of the most exalted of her own sex. I allude more particularly to her last work, on female education, which presents to the reader such a fund of good sense, of wholesome counsel, of sagacious observation, of a knowledge of the world, and of the female heart, of high-toned morality, and genuine Christian piety; and all this enlivened with such brilliancy of wit, such richness of imagery, such variety and felicity of allusion, such neatness and elegance of diction, as are not, I conceive, easily to be found so combined and blended together in any other work in the English language. Of the above-mentioned little tracts, no less than two millions were sold in the first year; and they contributed, I am persuaded, very essentially to counteract the poison of those impious and immoral pamphlets, which were dispersed over the kingdom in such numbers by societies of infidels and republicans."

Though forty years have passed since this astonishing moral change was effected by the force of a female pen, the pieces which then accomplished such wonders have not lost their interest. In them the venerable writer, now reposing for ever from her labours, yet speaks, and will continue to speak, with persuasive energy, to the delight and improvement of generations yet unborn.

This edition of Mrs. MORE'S WORKS will comprise Stories for Persons in the Middle Ranks; Tales for the Common People; Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great; Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education; Hints towards forming the Character of a Young Princess; Sacred Dramas; Poetical and Dramatic pieces, &c. ; and will have the advantage of occasional Notes, rendered necessary by frequent personal observations, local allusions, and temporary incidents. It will be completed in about eight monthly volumes, price 5s. each. To Vol. I. will be prefixed a copious Biographical Introduction, containing many interesting anecdotes illustrative of the history of HANNAH MORE and her friends.

The pictorial embellishments will include a Portrait of the Author, a View of Barley Wood, and a series of elegant Vignette Titles, engraved on steel from original designs. The size, foolscap octavo, has been chosen, to render this publication uniform with the new and admired editions of Miss Edgeworth's Tales and Novels, Lord Byron's Life and Works, &c. &c. The work will undergo careful revision while passing through the press, and all means used to insure an accuracy creditable to the present state of literature, and the well-earned reputation of the deceased Author.

LONDON, Nov. 18th, 1833.