PENCIL SKETCHES:

OR,

OUTLINES OF CHARACTER AND MANNERS.

BY MISS LESLIE.

INCLUDING "MRS. WASHINGTON POTTS," AND "MR. SMITH,"
WITH OTHER STORIES.

"So runs the world away."—Shakspeare.

PHILADELPHIA:
A. HART, LATE CAREY & HART,
126 CHESTNUT STREET.
1852.

Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by
A. HART,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States,
in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

E. B. M
EARS, STEREOTYPER. T. K. & P. G. COLLINS, PRINTERS.


ADVERTISEMENT.

The work from which the following is a selection, has been long out ofprint; and many inquiries have been made concerning it. Since its firstappearance, a new generation of young people has grown up; and they may,perhaps, find amusement and improvement in pictures of domestic life,that were recognised as such by their mothers.

The present volume will probably be succeeded by another, containing theremainder of the original Pencil Sketches, with additional stories.

Eliza Leslie.

United States Hotel,
Philadelphia, March 25th, 1852.

CONTENTS.

MRS. WASHINGTON POTTS.13
MR. SMITH.50
UNCLE PHILIP.82
THE ALBUM.131
THE SET OF CHINA.147
LAURA LOVEL.157
JOHN W. ROBERTSON.197
THE LADIES' BALL.217
THE RED BOX,240
THE OFFICERS:266
PETER JONES.297
THE OLD FARM-HOUSE.314
THAT GENTLEMAN:333
THE SERENADES.358
SOCIABLE VISITING.376
COUNTRY LODGINGS.402
CONSTANCE ALLERTON;415


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