THIS little book was written before either "Jane Eyre" or " Shirley," and yet no indulgence can be solicited for it on the plea of a first attempt. A first attempt it certainly was not, as the pen which wrote it had been previously worn a good deal in a practice of some years. I had not indeed published anything before I commenced " The Professor," but in many a crude effort, destroyed almost a…
T. S. Arthur's The Withered Heart! is a romantic novel displaying high morals and filled with character-building lessons. His works are wholesome, inculcate morality and purify the feelings - by tastefully illustrating the beauties of virtue, and the iniquities of vice. "He had grown wiser through the elevation of his understanding as to the higher truths of spiritual wisdom; and she had grown …