...ighed and wept and sighed again, and which had the most extensive sale of any work of the kind that had been published in this country, twenty-five thousand copies having been sold in a few years. Mrs. Rawson 's biographer, the Rev. Elias Nason, says of it that editions almost innumerable have appeared of it, both in England and America. Up to the time of Scott, he says, no fiction had compared to it in...