[Transcriber's Notes: Originally Published in "Pencil Sketches: Or
Outlines of Character and Manners" by Miss Leslie.]
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I.
=MACAULAY.=
CRITICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS OF THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY.
_In One Volume, with a finely engraved portrait, from an original
picture by Henry Inman._ _Cloth Gilt_, $2 00.
Contents.
Milton, Machiavelli, Dryden, History, Hallam's Constitutional History,
Southey's Colloquies on Society, Moore's Life of Byron, Southey's
Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Croker's Boswell's Life of Johnson, Lord
Nugent's Memoirs of Hampden, Nare's Memoirs of Lord Burghley, Dumont's
Recollections of Mirabeau, Lord Mahon's War of the Succession, Walpole's
Letters to Sir H. Maun, Thackaray's History of Earl Chatham, Lord Bacon,
Mackintosh's History of the Revolution of England, Sir John Malcolm's
Life of Lord Clive. Life and Writings of Sir W. Temple, Church and
State, Ranke's History of the Popes, Cowley and Milton, Mitford's
History of Greece, The Athenian Orators, Comic Dramatists of the
Restoration, Lord Holland, Warren Hastings, Frederic the Great, Lays of
Ancient Rome, Madame D'Arblay, Addison, Barere's Memoirs. Montgomery's
Poems, Civil Disabilities of the Jews, Mill on Government, Bentham's
Defence of Mill, Utilitarian Theory of Government, and Earl Chatham,
second part, &c.
"It may now be asked by some sapient critics, Why make all this coil
about a mere periodical essayist? Of what possible concern is it to
anybody, whether Mr. Thomas Babington Macaulay be, or be not, overrun
with faults, since he is nothing more than one of the three-day
immortals who contribute flashy and 'taking' articles to a Quarterly
Review? What great work has he written? Such questions as these might be
put by the same men who place the Spectator, Tattler and Rambler among
the British classics yet judge of the size of a cotemporary's mind by
that of his book, and who can hardly recognize amplitude of
comprehension, unless it be spread over the six hundred pages of octavos
and quartos.--Such men would place Bancroft above Webster, and Sparks
above Calhoun, Adams, and Everett--deny a posterity for Bryant's
Thanatopsis, and predict longevity to Pollok's Course of Time. It is
singular that the sagacity which can detect thought only in a state of
dilution, is not sadly graveled when it thinks of the sententious
aphorisms which have survived whole libraries of folios, and the little
songs which have outrun, in the race of fame, so many enormous
epics.--While it can easily be demonstrated that Macaulay's writings
contain a hundred-fold more matter and thought, than an equal number of
volumes taken from what are called, _par eminence_, the 'British
Essayists,' it is not broaching any literary heresy to predict, that
they will sail as far down the stream of time, as those eminent members
of the illustrious family of British classics."
II.
=ARCHIBALD ALISON.=
THE CRITICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS OF ARCHIBALD ALISON, AUTHOR OF
"THE HISTORY OF EUROPE," In One Volume, 8vo with a portrait.
_Price_ $1 25.
CONTENTS.
Chateaubriand, Napoleon, Bossuet, Poland, Madame de Stael, National
Monuments, Marshal Ney, Robert Bruce, Paris in 1814, The Louvre in 1814,
Tyrol, France in 1833, Italy, Scott, Campbell and Byron, Schools of
Design, Lamartine, The Copyright Question, Michelet's France, Military
Treason and Civic Soldiers, Arnold's Rome, Mirabeau, Bulwer's Athens,
The Reign of Terror, The French Revolution of 1830, The Fall of Turkey,
The Spanish Revolution of 1820, Karamsin's Russia, Effects of the French
Revolution of 1830, Desertion of Portugal, Wellington, Carlist Struggle
in Spain, The Affghanistan Expedition, The Future, &c. &c.
III.
=SYDNEY SMITH.=
THE WORKS OF THE REV. SYDNEY SMITH. Fine Edition. In One Volume, with a
portrait. Price $1 00.
"Almost every thing he has written is so characteristic that it would be
difficult to attribute it to any other man. The marked individual
features and the rare combination of power displayed in his works, give
them a fascination unconnected with the subject of which he treats or
the general correctness of his views. He sometimes hits the mark in the
white, he sometimes misses it altogether, for he by no means confines
his pen to theories to which he is calculated to do justice; but whether
he hits or misses, he is always sparkling and delightful. The charm of
his writings is somewhat similar to that of Montaigne or Charles
Lamb"--_North American Review._
IV.
=PROFESSOR WILSON.=
THE RECREATIONS OF =CHRISTOPHER NORTH.= In One Volume 8vo., first
American Edition with a Portrait. Price $1 00.
CONTENTS.
Christopher in his Sporting Jacket--A Tale of Expiation--Morning
Monologue--The Field of Flowers--Cottages--An Hour's Talk about
Poetry--Inch Cruin--A Day at Windermere--The Moors--Highland
Snow-Storm--The Holy Child--Our Parish--Mayday--Sacred
Poetry--Christopher in his Aviary--Dr. Kitchiner--Soliloquy on the
Seasons--A Few Words on Thomson--The Snowball Bicker of
Piedmont--Christmas Dreams--Our Winter Quarters--Stroll to
Grafsmere--L'Envoy.
_Extract from Howitt's "Rural Life."_
"And not less for that wonderful series of articles by Wilson, in
Blackwood's Magazine--_in their kind as truly amazing and as truly
glorious as the romances of Scott or the poetry of Wordsworth_. Far and
wide and much as these papers have been admired, wherever the English
language is read, I still question whether any one man has a just idea
of them as a whole."
V.
=Carlyle's Miscellanies.=
CRITICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS OF THOMAS CARLYLE. _In one 8vo.
volume, with a Portrait._ PRICE $1 75.
CONTENTS.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richter--State of German
Literature--Werner--Goethe's Helena--Goethe--Burns--Heyne--German
Playwrights--Voltaire--Novalis--Signs of the Times--Jean Paul Friedrich
Richter again--On History--Schiller--The Nibellungen Lied--Early German
Literature--Taylor's Historic Survey of German
Poetry--Characteristics--Johnson--Death of Goethe--Goethe's
Works--Diderot--On History again--Count Cagliostro--Corn Law Rhymes--The
Diamond Necklace--Mirabeau--French Parliamentary History--Walter Scott,
&c. &c.
VI.
=TALFOURD & STEPHEN=
THE CRITICAL WRITINGS OF T. NOON TALFOURD AND JAMES STEPHEN WITH A
FINELY ENGRAVED PORTRAIT. In One Volume, 8vo. Price $1 25.
_Contents of "Talfourd."_
Essays on British Novels and Romances, introductory to a series of
Criticisms on the Living Novelists--Mackenzie, The Author of Waverley,
Godwin, Maturin, Rymer on Tragedy, Colley Cibber's Apology for his Life,
John Dennis's Works, Modern Periodical Literature, On the Genius and
Writings of Wordsworth, North's Life of Lord Guilford, Hazlitt's
Lectures on the Drama, Wallace's Prospects of Mankind, Nature and
Providence, On Pulpit Oratory, Recollections of Lisbon, Lloyd's Poems.
Mr. Oldaker on Modern Improvements, A Chapter on Time, On the Profession
of the Bar, The Wine Cellar, Destruction of the Brunswick Theatre by
Fire, First Appearance of Miss Fanny Kemble, On the Intellectual
Character of the late Wm. Hazlitt.
_Contents of "Stephen."_
Life of Wilberforce, Life of Whitfield and Froude, D'Aubigne's
Reformation, Life and Times of Baxter, Physical Theory of Another Life,
The Port Royalists, Ignatius Loyola, Taylor's Edwin the Fair.
"His (Talfourd's) Critical writings manifest on every page a sincere,
earnest and sympathizing love of intellectual excellence and moral
beauty. The kindliness of temper and tenderness of sentiment with which
they are animated, are continually suggesting pleasant thoughts of the
author."--_North American Review._
VII.
LORD JEFFREY.
THE CRITICAL WRITINGS OF FRANCIS LORD JEFFREY.
_In One Volume 8vo., with a Portrait._
From a very able article in the North British Review we extract the
following:
"It is a book not to be read only--but studied--it is a vast repository;
or rather a system or institute, embracing the whole circle of
letters--if we except the exact sciences--and contains within itself,
not in a desultory form, but in a well digested scheme, more original
conceptions, bold and fearless speculation and just reasoning on all
kinds and varieties of subjects than are to be found in any English
writer with whom we are acquainted within the present or the last
generation. ... His choice of words is unbounded and his felicity of
expression, to the most impalpable shade of discrimination, almost
miraculous. Playful, lively, and full of illustration, no subject is so
dull or so dry that he cannot invest it with interest, and none so
trifling that it cannot acquire dignity or elegance from his pencil.
Independently however, of mere style, and apart from the great variety
of subjects embraced by his pen, the distinguishing feature of his
writings, and that in which he excels his cotemporary reviewers, is the
deep vein of practical thought which runs throughout them all."
VIII.
SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH.
SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH'S
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE EDINBURGH REVIEW.
_Collected and Edited by his Son._
In One Volume 8vo., with a Portrait, $1 75.
THE POEMS OF FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD.
Illustrated by the best artists.
_In one volume octavo, uniform, with Carey & Hart's illustrated Bryant,
Willis, &c._
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Zuleika.
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waywardness. The great charm of her poetry is its unaffected simplicity.
It is the transparent simplicity of truth, reflecting the feeling of the
moment like a mirror."--_Rev. Dr. Davidson._
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EMBRACING
Selections from the Poetical Literature of the United States, from the
Time of the Revolution,
WITH A
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_From the Earliest Period to the Present Time._
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HISTORICAL AND SECRET MEMOIRS OF THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE,
(Marie Rose Tascher de la Pagerie,)
FIRST WIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
BY MLLE. M. A. LE NORMAND.
_Translated from the French by Jacob M. Howard, Esq._
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_Complete in One Volume Octavo._
=Contents.=
Luther, Boehme, Sancta Clara, Moser, Kant, Lessing, Mendelssohn,
Hamann, Wieland, Musäus, Claudius, Lavater, Jacobi, Herder, Goethe,
Schiller, Fichte, Riehter, A. W. Schlegel, Schleiermacher, Hegel,
Zschokke, F. Schlegel, Hardenberg, Tieck, Schelling, Hoffmann, Chamisso.
"The author of this work--for it is well entitled to the name of an
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H. Hedge of Bangor, is qualified, as few men are in this country, or
wherever the English language is written, for the successful
accomplishment of the great literary enterprise to which he has devoted
his leisure for several years.
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far as was possible in his limited space.
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