Text: C. F. Briggs (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), February 1, 1845, vol. 1, no. 5, p. ??

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FOREST LIFE. By Mrs. Mary Clavers, in two volumes. Farmer & Daggers, 30 Ann Street.

A new edition of a very popular work. Mrs. Clavers was a resident of Michigan when Forest Life first came out, but she is now a resident of this city.

As a narrative writer she deserves a place at the head of American female authors, and as a delineator of character she is greatly in ad-Vance of them all. Since her return to city life she has published nothing but an occasional sketch in a magazine; but the materials for a book are as abundant in our high-ways, as in the by-ways of the west. And we hope to see an announcement before long, of a work from her hand, sketching the peculiarities of city life, wherein she would be free to exercise her fine powers of observation, without the fear of displeasing one of their high mightinesses, the editors of the pictorial magazines. It is not a little remarkable that these gentlemen are extremely fond of tales of love, seeing that they generally have so so little of that commodity themselves, excepting for themselves.