Wright American Fiction

FEMALE LIFE IN NEW YORK CITY. ILLUSTRATED WITH FORTY-FOUR REAL PORTRAITS FROM LIFE.

BY THE LATE

WILLIAM BURNS

, EDITOR OF "THE NEW YORK SUNDAY DISPATCH.""The graphic and caustic pen of the late editor of the Sunday Dispatch has done justice to almost every phase of life in New York, in the publication before us. The milliner, the choir-singer, the dress-maker, the school marm', the pocket-book maker, the ballet girl, the bazaar tender, the market woman, &c., &c., all stand out before us thoroughly individualized. It would be difficult to conceive of sketches more perfect. There is no namby-pambyism about them; no mawkish sentiment, revamped from the penny-a-line publications of London. The style is clear, forcible and original, and the work as a life-like gallery of the portraits of all classes of female life in this city is quite invaluable.

Philadelphia: T. B. PETERSON, No. 102 CHESTNUT STREET.