BRADDON, Miss 3Liatr ELTZAISETIL one of the most popular novelists of the day, was born in London in the year 1837. Her father, Mr. Henry Braddon, was a solicitor. &he very early showed a turn for literature, which she indulged in the usual manner, by sending versos and other trifles to the magazines and newspapers. In 1860, she essayed a somewhat more sustained effort in a little rout nedietta called The Lases of ilreldia, which was brought out at the Strand theater; and the year after, she published a volume of verse entitled Garibaldi, awl other Poems. Neither these, however, nor the tales which she now be-.an to issue through the medium of the Temple Bar and St. James's Magazine —Lady L14e, The Captaia of the Vulture, Ralph the Bailiff. etc.—in any decisive way succeeded in drawing to her the attention of the public. Iler first great success came with the publication, in 1862, of Lady Andley's Secret, which instantly attained a great , popularity. This has since been extended by the appearance of Aurora Floyd. Eleanor's ; Victory; John, Marchmont's Legacy; The Trail of the Serpent; The Ladies' Mile; .Sir Jas
per's Tenant; Only a (Rod; The Doctor's Wife; flea to Earth; 7 he Lords, of Arden; Birds of Prey; Dead Sea Fruit; Ti) the Bitter End; Strangers and Pilgrims; Wearers and Weft; The %eel& Boo! (1879), etc. Miss B. has contributed very extensively to Belgraria. London magazine which she conducts. Few books of the period have secured a wider circle of readers than Miss Braddon's. They mainly depend for their interest on good bold effects of what is termed, in the slang of the day, sensation, and the an of their appeal to " low vice, curiosity," in the conduct of a story. carefully leading tip to some suspended and unforeseen denouement. In their particular way, though without much claim to attention as regards either character or sentiment, they display undoubted taleat: in style. they are fresh and vigorous, and their narrative power strongly excites the reader's interest. Miss B, Is still in uninterrupted literary activity.