WORKS IN THE PRESS.
THE REV. DR. CROLY.
THE PATRIARCHS—THE PROPHETS—THE APOSTLES.
Their characters and influence on the ages in which they lived, considered in connection with the Christian dispensation. To form a series of three separate and independent volumes. The first, treating of the Patriarchs, is in preparation.
NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE NOVITIATE.”
THE JESUIT IN THE FAMILY.
By Andrew Steinmetz, Author of “The Novitiate; or, a Year among the English Jesuits,” 1 vol. post 8vo.
(nearly ready.)
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A NEGRO SLAVE.
THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ZAMBA,
An African Negro Chief. Written by himself. 1 vol. post 8vo.
(nearly ready.)
MR. G. P. R. JAMES.
THE CASTLE OF EHRENSTEIN,
A Romance, by G. P. R. James, Esq., 3 vols. post 8vo.
(just ready.)
MR. LEIGH HUNT.
MEN, WOMEN, AND BOOKS:
A Collection of Essays, by Leigh Hunt, 2 vols. post 8vo.
(very shortly.)
NEW NOVEL.
A WHIM AND ITS CONSEQUENCES,
3 vols. post 8vo.
(just ready.)
SIR JOHN HERSCHEL’S
OBSERVATIONS IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE.
Made during a recent residence at the Cape of Good Hope. In one volume, royal 4to. Illustrated by numerous Plates.
SAVAGE LIFE AND SCENES IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND.
Being an Artist’s impressions of Countries and People at the Antipodes. By George French Angas, Esq. In two vols. post 8vo., with numerous Illustrations.
“These are two volumes of good artistical description, with much of finer staple than the title-page promises. Mr. Angas observed nature in the Southern hemisphere with a painter’s eye, and has thrown much poetical feeling into his impressions of it.”—Morning Chronicle.
“He has not the bias or coarseness of many who have gone out to the antipodes; he has a better taste, in some sense a more cultivated mind, and is lifted above the atmosphere of Colonial partizanship.”—Spectator.
“Already favourably known to the public, both as an artist and an author, Mr. Angas has fully confirmed every expectancy by his new publication. Generally speaking, we might say it was artistical and descriptive, picturesque and poetical, did we not fear that these epithets might mislead the reader into an impression that it was not at the same time curious in actual observation and faithful in details.”—Literary Gazette.
“Mr. Angas has produced a very interesting work, and illustrated it with sketches which do much credit to his ability in his profession.”—The Britannia.
“After a careful reading of these two volumes, we pronounce them, without any hesitation, to afford on the whole the most faithful pictures of savage life in Australia and New Zealand yet published.”—Weekly Chronicle.
LEIGH HUNT’S SELECTIONS FROM THE ENGLISH POETS,
EXEMPLIFYING
I. IMAGINATION AND FANCY.
II. WIT AND HUMOUR.
Each volume is complete in itself, and preceded by an Essay illustrative of the qualities respectively exemplified in the selections; the best passages are marked and commented upon by Mr. Leigh Hunt, who also characterizes each author. Bound in cloth, with gilt edges, price 10s. 6d. each.
Opinions of the Press, on Wit and Humour.
“The design of this delightful series extends beyond a collection of elegant extracts, while it combines the best features of such collections. The two volumes already published are precisely the books one would wish to carry for companionship on a journey, or to have at hand when tired of work, or at a loss what to do for want of it. They are selections of some of the best things some of our best authors have said, accompanied with short but delicate expositions and enforcements of their beauties. They are truly most genial, agreeable, and social books.”—Examiner.
“This is really a delightful volume, forming a proper complement and companion to its predecessor on ‘Imagination and Fancy.’ Each of them gives us the best passages of the best writers, in their respective kinds, illustrated by one who will himself leave no mean remembrance to posterity, in the spirit of genial criticism, informed by a delicate faculty of discrimination. What more could literary epicures desire?”—Morning Chronicle.
“If we were to choose the subject and the author of a fireside book for the long winter evenings, we should certainly call some such volume as this into existence. The reader will look for exquisite things in this book, and he will find a great deal more than he looks for in the prodigal resources opened up in its pages. It is the very essence of the sunniest qualities from English poets.”—Atlas.
“There is something genial in the very title of this volume; and it does not belie its title. ‘Wit and Humour,’ forms a pendant to ‘Imagination and Fancy,’ by the same author. A like design is embodied in both works. The book is at once exhilarating and suggestive: it may charm frivolous minds into wisdom, and austere ones into mirth.”—Athenæum.
A NARRATIVE OF THE RECOVERY OF H. M. S. GORGON.
(Charles Hotham, Esq., Captain), Stranded in the Bay of Monte Video, May 10, 1844. By Astley Cooper Key, Commander, R.N., (late Lieut, of H. M. S. Gorgon). 1 vol. 8vo. with numerous Plates. Price 7s. 6d. cloth.
“MODERN PAINTERS.”
Volume the First. By A Graduate of Oxford. A New Edition, revised by the Author, being the Third. In imperial 8vo., uniform with Vol. II.
SECOND VOLUME OF “MODERN PAINTERS.”
Treating of the Imaginative and Theoretic Faculties. By a Graduate of Oxford. In one volume, imperial 8vo., price 10s. 6d. cloth.
“We are prepared emphatically to declare, that this work is the most valuable contribution towards a proper view of painting, its purpose and means, that has come within our knowledge.”—Foreign Quarterly Review.
“A work distinguished by an enlightened style of criticism, new to English readers, and by the profound observation of nature displayed by the author.”—Dublin University Magazine.
“This is the production of a highly gifted mind, one who has evidently bestowed time and labour to obtain a practical knowledge of the fine arts, and who writes eloquently, feelingly, and fearlessly.”—Polytechnic Review.
“It has seldom been our lot to take up a work more admirably conceived and written than this beautiful and elaborate essay. To a perfect idea of the scope of the inquiry, and a mastery of all the technicalities required for its due treatment, the Graduate unites considerable metaphysical power, extent of philosophical and scientific knowledge, a clear and manly style of expression, and no inconsiderable command of humour and satire.”—Atlas.
“The Oxford Graduate is a bold revolutionist in art.... A very Luther in art-criticism.... He has asserted and established the claims of Landscape painting to a much higher rank than it hitherto enjoyed.... The second volume of this remarkable work rises above the first. Indeed, we question if any but a high order of mind will embrace the full grandeur of its design, or follow the masterly analysis by which its propositions are elucidated.”—English Gentleman.
“The author now comes forward with additional force, and, we must hope, with still higher effect, on the public taste.... He directs his attention in the present volume from the individual artists to the art itself.”—Britannia.
MR. JAMES’S NEW ROMANCE.
HEIDELBERG:
A Romance. By G. P. R. James, Esq. 3 vols. post 8vo., 1l. 11s. 6d.
NEW VOLUMES OF MR JAMES’S WORKS ILLUSTRATED.
Vol. 11, containing
THE KING’S HIGHWAY, Medium 8vo. price 8s. cloth.
Was published on the 12th instant.
Vol. 12,
THE GENTLEMAN OF THE OLD SCHOOL,
Will appear on the 1st April.
CLINICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE DISEASES OF INDIA: As Exhibited in the Medical History of a body of European Soldiers, for a Series of Years from their Arrival in that Country. By William Geddes, M.D., Member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, and the Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta, and late Surgeon of the Madras European Regiment. In one vol., 8vo. Price 16s. cloth.
“A more elaborate display of medical statistics has rarely been given to the public. As a vast amount of facts the book is really, we believe, unrivalled.”—Spectator.
“It is hardly possible to conceive a more complete medical history than the one furnished by Dr. Geddes. He has conferred an inestimable benefit upon medical science; and no practitioner who regards either his interest or his duty can be without the book.”—Indian News.
“To the medical officers in India, and especially to those about to proceed thither, this will be found a valuable book of reference, and well merits to be included in the list of works with which officers are required to provide themselves on joining the service.”—British and Foreign Medical Review.
ENGLAND’S COLONIAL EMPIRE.
An Historical, Political, and Statistical Account of the British Empire, its Colonies and Dependencies. By Charles Pridham, Esq., B.A., Member of the Royal Geographical Society, &c.
Volume I.—Comprising
THE MAURITIUS AND ITS DEPENDENCIES.
“The first volume of a work intended to completely exhibit England’s Colonial Empire. The author is Mr. Pridham, who, in a modest preface, apologizes for having at so early an age undertaken so gigantic a task. The first volume, however, shows no lack of either ability, research, or knowledge. It is occupied with an excellent account of the Mauritius, divided into four parts: the first part gives its history from its discovery by the Portuguese to the present time; the second describes its inhabitants, and their institutions and states; the third its physical features and natural productions; and the fourth its industry, commerce, and government. Ample information is given on all these heads, and regarding the extent of the author’s design, and the evidence he gives of the requisite qualification to carry it out satisfactorily, we make no doubt that his work will be a valuable addition to the history and geography of our colonial empire. The present volume is complete in itself.”—Britannia.
“This is the first volume of what promises to be an important national work. The instalment now before us is brimful of valuable and interesting information, making up by far the most complete account of Mauritius which has yet been given to the world. The author has the qualifications necessary to the due fulfilment of the task which he has set himself. He is patient and painstaking, accurate and impartial.”—Atlas.
“This is the first volume of a series, which we hope to see completed in the spirit with which the task has been undertaken. As a whole, we are bound to say that the book is a standard one, and that ‘England’s Colonial Empire’ has met with a chronicler of zeal, industry, and ability.”—Colonial Gazette.
“There is no other such description of the Mauritius extant. The author has not only consulted the best, and perhaps all the authorities, but he has added information of his own, apparently gathered on the spot.”—Economist.
THE INDIAN MEAL BOOK:
Comprising the beat American Receipts for the various Preparations of that excellent Article. By Eliza Leslie, of Philadelphia; Author of “American Domestic Cookery;” “The House Book;” “Seventy-five Receipts;” “French Cookery,” &c. &c. Second edition. Foolscap 8vo. sewed in a wrapper, price 4s. 6d.
“Next to the corn itself, we cannot conceive a more acceptable present to the poor of any neighbourhood, either individually or in parochial libraries, than Miss Leslie’s work. It is very simple, and embraces recipes for every purpose to which maize is put in the United Slates, and therefore cannot but add to the comfort of the too limited table of the labouring man.”—Indian News.
“As the Indian Meal is probably destined to take its place among our standard ‘Bread Stuffs.’ Miss Leslie’s book will be welcomed as a necessary supplement to the usual English instructors in the everywhere important mystery of Cookery.”—Colonial Gazette.
“This little volume contains about sixty receipts for different preparations of Indian Meal, and all of which may be found useful in the threatened dearth. Maize, or Indian Corn, is now admitted to be the best and most available substitute for the potato.”—Economist.
THE HISTORY OF CHARLEMAGNE,
With a Sketch of the State and History of France, from the Fall of the Roman Empire to the Rise of the Carlovingian Dynasty. By G. P. R. James, Esq. A new edition, in demy 8vo., price 12s. cloth.
THE CHURCH AND DISSENT.
GLENDEARG COTTAGE.
A Tale Concerning Church Principles. By Miss Christmas. With a Preface by the Rev. Henry Christmas, M.A., F.R.S., F.S.A. One vol. fcap. 8vo., price 3s.
“A tale as pleasing in its unstudied simplicity as in the correct views which it displays of the principles of the Church.”—British Churchman.
REV. H. MACKENZIE’S COMMENTARY.
COMMENTARY ON THE HOLY GOSPELS,
Arranged according to the Table of Lessons for Daily Service; designed for Family Reading. By the Rev. Henry Mackenzie, M.A., of Pembroke College, Oxford; Incumbent of Great Yarmouth. To be completed in Four Quarterly Parts, price 1s. 3d. each. Part I. appeared on April 1st. Part II. on 1st July.
LIFE IN NORTH WALES.
LLEWELYN’S HEIR;
Or, North Wales; its Manners, Customs, and Superstitions during the last Century, illustrated by a Story founded on Facts. In 3 vols. post 8vo., price 1l. 11s. 6d.
“It is a real work, with more material and original knowledge than half the manufactured novels that appear in these days.”—Spectator.
“We can most cordially recommend it as a series of Sketches of North Wales well worthy of perusal; so various and so curious as to be as welcome to the library of the antiquary and portfolio of the artist as to the leisure hour of the novel reader.”—Literary Gazette.
SCOTTISH LYRICS.
THE STRATHMORE MELODIST:
Being a Collection of Original Poems and Songs. By John Niven. Fcap. 8vo., price 3s.
MANAGEMENT OF RAILWAYS.
THE RATIONALE OF RAILWAY ADMINISTRATION.
With a view to the greatest possible amount of Accommodation, Cheapness, and Safety. By Thornton Hunt. In 8vo., price 2s. 6d.
“This is the best pamphlet on Railways that we have seen for a long time: informing but not heavy; business-like, suggestive; logical in the analysis; neat in the arrangement; tersely, yet pleasantly written.”—Spectator.
RAILWAY SPECULATION.
THE LIABILITIES INCURRED BY THE PROJECTORS, MANAGERS, & SHAREHOLDERS OF RAILWAY
And other Joint Stock Companies Considered; and also the Rights and Liabilities arising upon Transfers of Shares. Written expressly for Non-Professional use. By George Henry Lewis, of the Middle Temple, Esq. Third Edition, in post 8vo., price 1s. 6d. sewed.
“Projectors, and provisional and managing committee-men will find matter of startling interest in Mr. Lewis’s sensible little tract. It contains also some curious intimation of the responsibility incurred by the sale of Letters of Allotment, and Banker’s receipts before the issue of scrip, and of scrip itself before the company is completely registered. It is, in short, a very useful and timely publication.”—Examiner.
THE JESUITS IN ENGLAND.
THE NOVITIATE:
Or, A Year among the English Jesuits: a Personal Narrative. With an Essay on the Constitutions, the Confessional Morality, and History of the Jesuits. By Andrew Steinmetz. In one vol. post 8vo. price 10s. 6d. bound in cloth.
“This is a remarkable book—a revealer of secrets, and full of materials for thought.... It is written with every appearance of strict and honourable truthfulness. It describes, with a welcome minuteness, the daily, nightly, hourly occupations of the Jesuit Novitiates at Stonyhurst, their religious exercises and manners, in private and together; and depicts, with considerable acuteness and power, the conflicts of an intelligent, susceptible, honest-purposed spirit, while passing through such a process. If our readers should be disposed to possess themselves of this volume, it will be their own fault if the reading of it be profitless.”—British Quarterly Review.
“This is as singular a book of its kind as has appeared since Blanco White’s ‘Letters of Doblado,’ with the advantage of dealing with the Jesuits in England instead of Popery in Spain. * * * It will be found a very curious work.”—Spectator.
“If it be desirable to know what is that mode of training by which the Jesuit system prepares its novices for their duties, this is the book to inform us, for it is a chronicle of actual experience.... The work of Mr. Steinmetz is throughout marked by great fairness, ... he neither conceals nor exaggerates: a spirit of candour pervades the whole narrative.... Could we know the experience of other novices, we should find that all have undergone, with more or less of intensity, the process so vividly described in this volume.... It is written in an extremely animated style. The author’s thoughts are original, and the passages relating to his personal history and feelings are agreeably introduced, and add to the interest of his narrative. It is a sufficient proof of his accuracy that, though the Jesuits have many pens in this country, not one has been hardy enough to impugn a sentence of his statements.”—Britannia.
“Mr. Steinmetz writes a most singular and interesting account of the Jesuit seminary, and his way of life there.... He seems to be a perfectly honest and credible informer, and his testimony may serve to enlighten many a young devotional aspirant who is meditating ‘submission’ to Rome, and the chain and scourge systems. There is nothing in the least resembling invective in the volume.”—Morning Chronicle.
“At a time when Jesuitism seems to be rising once more, any work on this subject comes very opportunely. How the writer became a member of this mysterious body gives a key to the character of the man himself and the spirit of his book.... This narrative is well written, and as interesting as we expected.”—Weekly Chronicle.
“An unvarnished account of the Jesuits’ College at Stonyhurst, its discipline and routine of observances and customs,—of these we have the most minute details, and the whole is a faithful picture of a remarkable condition of life.... From this curious book you may form some idea of the Jesuits and their course of proceeding.”—Literary Gazette.
“This is a curious volume, of no little interest and eloquence, written by a scholar and an enthusiast.”—Atlas.
“There is internal evidence that this is a genuine narrative, and a very singular one it is; full of very curious and striking matter.... The ‘Essay on the Constitutions, Confessional Morality, and History of the Jesuits,’ will amply reward the task of perusal.”—Globe.
“The work has all the interest of a romance, and yet we do not believe that any portion of it is fictitious.... The author writes well, and evinces a strong and disciplined mind. The picture he draws of Jesuitism is a fearful one. The reader will find abundant matter for grave consideration in this most singular and striking volume.”—John Bull.
“A more remarkable work it has seldom been our fortune to peruse. We hear and read much of the Quietism and Passive obedience inculcated amongst the Jesuit body; but here we become personal spectators of these principles in action.... Mr. Steinmetz appears to be a most remarkable character. He may be received as an unbiassed witness.... We repeat it, Mr. Steinmetz’s book is most valuable; earnest and truthful in its tone, and extremely interesting in its detail.”—New Quarterly Review.
“The volume presents a true and valuable picture of Jesuit education in England, and on that ground every Protestant will find the volume worthy of an attentive perusal.”—British Churchman.
FIRST SERIES OF TALES OF THE COLONIES.
TALES OF THE COLONIES; OR, THE ADVENTURES OF AN EMIGRANT.
By Charles Rowcroft, Esq., a late Colonial Magistrate. The Fourth Edition. In foolscap 8vo., price 6s. cloth.—This work was originally published in 3 vols. post 8vo. at 1l. 11s. 6d., in which size two large editions have been sold.
“‘Tales of the Colonies’ is an able and interesting book. The author has the first great requisite in fiction—a knowledge of the life he undertakes to describe; and his matter is solid and real.”—Spectator.
“This is a book, as distinguished from one of the bundles of waste paper in three divisions, calling themselves ‘novels.’”—Athenæum.
“The narration has a deep and exciting interest. No mere romance, no mere fiction, however skilfully imagined or powerfully executed, can surpass it. The work to which it bears the nearest similitude is Robinson Crusoe, and it is scarcely, if at all inferior to that extraordinary history.”—John Bull.
“Since the time of Robinson Crusoe, literature has produced nothing like these ‘Tales of the Colonies.’”—Metropolitan Magazine.
”... Romantic literature does not supply instances of wonderful escape more marvellous.... The book is manifestly a mixture of fact and fiction, yet it gives, we have every reason to believe, a true picture of a settler’s life in that country; and is thickly interspersed with genuine and useful information.”—Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal.
“The contents of the first volume surpass in interest many of the novels of Sir Walter Scott.”—Westminster Review.
“An exceedingly lively and interesting narrative, which affords a more striking view of the habits of emigrant colonial life than all the regular treatises, statistical returns, and even exploratory tours which we have read.... It combines the fidelity of truth with the spirit of a romance, and has altogether so much of De Foe in its character and composition, that whilst we run we learn, and, led along by the variety of the incidents, become real ideal settlers in Van Diemen’s Land.”—Literary Gazette.
SECOND SERIES OF TALES OF THE COLONIES.
THE BUSHRANGER OF VAN DIEMEN’S LAND.
By C. Rowcroft, Esq., Author of “Tales of the Colonies.” In 3 vols. post 8vo. price 1l. 11s. 6d.
“These volumes have the same qualities that gained so much popularity for the Author’s previous work ‘Tales of the Colonies.’ No one has depicted colonial life, as manifested in the settlements of Australia, with so much vigour and truth as Mr Rowcroft. He rather seems to be a narrator of actual occurrences than an inventor of imaginary ones. His characters, his manners, and his scenes are all real. He has been compared to De Foe, and the comparison is just.”—Britannia.
“These volumes form a second series of ‘Tales of the Colonies,’ and the pages are marked by the same vigorous and graphic pen which procured such celebrity for the first series. The interest, generally well sustained throughout, is occasionally of the most absorbing and thrilling kind. Altogether, there is a freshness about these volumes which brings them out in strong contrast to the vapid productions with which the press is teeming.”—Globe.
“The story contains all the merits of the ‘Tales or the Colonies’ as regards style; being simple and Crusoite, if we might use the term, in its narrative. Mr. Rowcroft possesses invention to an extraordinary degree, in the manner in which he manages the escapes of the bushranger,—and he produces, by the simplest incidents, most interesting scenes;—pictures of nature and of a society totally different from anything to be found elsewhere.”—Weekly Chronicle.
FANNY THE LITTLE MILLINER; OR, THE RICH AND THE POOR.
By Charles Rowcroft, Esq. In one vol. 8vo., handsomely bound in cloth gilt, with Plates, price 14s.—The twelve parts may be had separately, price 1s. each, sewed.
MR. JAMES’S RECENT NOVELS.
THE STEP-MOTHER.
By G. P. R. James, Esq. In 3 vols. post 8vo., price 1l. 11s. 6d.—Just published.
Lately published by the same Author,
ARRAH NEIL; OR, TIMES OF OLD. Three vols. post 8vo., price 1l. 11s. 6d.
THE SMUGGLER, a Novel. Three vols., price 1l. 11s. 6d.
NEW & ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF MR. JAMES’S WORKS.
THE WORKS OF G. P. R. JAMES, ESQ.
Now publishing in Quarterly Volumes, medium 8vo. cloth, with engraved Frontispieces, each volume containing a complete novel, price 8s.
This handsome series of Mr. James’s Works has been carefully revised by the Author; and is “got up in that superior style, and agreeable size of type, which renders it fit for every age and every library.”
| Contents: | —Vol. | 1. | The Gipsy. | — | 5. | Philip Augustus. | ||
| — | 2. | Mary of Burgundy. | — | 6. | Henry of Guise. | |||
| — | 3. | The Huguenots. | — | 7. | Morley Ernstein. | |||
| — | 4. | One in a Thousand. | — | 8. | The Robber. |
Vol. 9, containing Darnley; or, The Field of Cloth of Gold, on the 1st of July.
Vol. 10, containing Corse de Leon, on the 1st of October.
“Messrs. Smith, Elder and Co., of Cornhill, have just published the first volume of a New Edition of the Works of this gentleman, which has the advantage of the latest revisions and corrections of the author. The writings of James are so well known to the readers of fiction, that it is unnecessary to call their attention to them, or to say anything which previous criticism may have left unsaid. The present edition is well got up, the type is clear, sharp, and legible, and the size of the volume convenient for the reader, and appropriate for the shelves of a bookcase. The book, as it is, will form a pleasing addition to the collections of readers of modern literature, of the class to which it belongs.”—Times.
“We are glad to see our prognostication respecting the New Edition of Mr. James’s Works, more than fulfilled by the rapid absorption of a very large first edition, and a second in the course of speedy disappearance. This is as it should be, with a writer whose vraisemblance is always so perfect; and even what he invents so like truth, that we can never fancy we are reading fiction: nor, indeed, are we, in the historical portions of his publications,—and these form the far greater division,—which are all drawn from diligent research, deep study, and elaborate comparison.”—Literary Gazette.
“Mr. James is a pure and pleasing writer, and we are glad to see that his Works are now to be thrown into a handy, handsome, and accessible shape.”—Scotsman.
“This is a most admirable edition of the Works of this popular author, convenient in size, and handsome in appearance. It, moreover, possesses the advantage of being revised and corrected by the author,—no small recommendations, since, the generality of Mr. James’s Works being connected with history, a careful perusal of his productions increases their value, and renders them a source of amusement, through the medium of instruction.”—Atlas.
“We are glad to perceive that such volumes are being published at a price which will place them within the reach of the middle classes, and we shall find, as the result of this movement, that tradesmen and others will furnish their book-shelves with good and select works, instead of subscribing to circulating libraries. We learn it is the publishers’ intention to continue the volumes until all the author’s works are republished in this style.”—Plymouth Herald.
LEIGH HUNT’S SELECTIONS OF POETRY.
IMAGINATION AND FANCY;
Or, Selections from the English Poets, illustrative of those First Requisites of their Art, with Markings of the best Passages, Critical Notices of the Writers, and an Essay in Answer to the Question, “What is Poetry?” By Leigh Hunt. Third Edition. In post 8vo. price 10s. 6d. handsomely bound in a new kind of cloth, gilt; or 9s. boards.
“This volume is handsomely printed, and beautifully bound in a new style of exquisite delicacy and richness. In external beauty ‘Imagination and Fancy’ equals any gift-books that have appeared; and it will form a more enduring memorial than any other volume that might he selected as a gift for the coming season.”—Spectator.
“This is a Christmas gift, worth half a dozen of the Annuals put together, and at half the cost of one of them. We have often wished for such a book, and in our aspiration, the name of Leigh Hunt has ever presented itself as that of the man above all others qualified to do justice to so charming a subject.”—Morning Chronicle.
“The volume is, we trust, the precursor of many more, which will complete and do justice to the plan. The series so completed would be the best ‘elegant extracts’ in the language.”—Examiner.
“This is a charming volume, both externally and internally it is most attractive.”—Atlas.
“It is a book that every one who has a taste must have, and every one who has not should have in order to acquire one.”—Jerrold’s Magazine.
“This book is tastefully got up, and we should think better of the house where we saw a well read copy of it lying about.”—Tait’s Magazine.
“These illustrations of ‘Imagination and Fancy’ are distinguished by great critical sagacity, and a remarkable appreciation of those qualities.”—Herald.
“This elegant volume contains the most exquisite passages of the best English Poets, selected and commented upon by Leigh Hunt, and for this task there is, in our opinion, no author living so well qualified.”—Indian News.
⁂ The Second Volume of this series, “WIT AND HUMOUR,” is in the press, uniform with “Imagination and Fancy.”
MRS. ELLIS’S MORAL FICTIONS.
PICTURES OF PRIVATE LIFE.
By Mrs. Ellis, Author of the “Women of England,” &c. &c. &c. Each Volume is complete in itself, and may be purchased separately. In 3 vols, fcap. 8vo. beautifully illustrated, price 7s. 6d. each, in a handsome and uniform cloth binding, or 10s. 6d. morocco. Contents:—
Vol. I. “Observations on Fictitious Narrative,” “The Hall and the Cottage,” “Ellen Eskdale,” “The Curate’s Widow,” and “Marriage as it May Be.”
Vol. II. “Misanthropy,” and “The Pains of Pleasing.”
Vol. III. “Pretension; or, the Fallacies of Female Education.”
“I could give abundant evidence, gratuitously offered to the writer, that these simple stories were not sent forth to the world without some degree of adaptation to its wants and its condition.”—Author’s Introduction.
WAR WITH THE SIKHS.
THE PUNJAUB:
Being a brief account of the Country of the Sikhs, its Extent, History, Commerce, productions, Government, Manufactures, Laws, Religion, &c. By Lieut-Col. Steinbach, late of the Lahore Service. A new edition, revised, with additions, including an account of the recent events in the Punjaub. In post 8vo. price 5s. cloth, with Map. The Map may be had separately, price 1s. coloured, and 1s. 6d. in case.
“There is much in formation in this volume, condensed into brief space, about a people to whom late occurrences have given a common interest.”—Examiner.
THE HAND-BOOK OF USEFUL AND ORNAMENTAL AMUSEMENTS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Including Artificial Flower-Making, Engraving, Etching, Painting in all its styles, Modelling, Carving in Wood, Ivory, and Shell; also Fancy Work of every Description. By a Lady. In one vol. post 8vo., handsomely bound in cloth gilt, with Plates, price 10s. 6d.
“A prettier and more useful present could scarcely be selected for an ingenious young lady.”—Atlas.
“Any lady desirous of filling up her leisure hours by following the occupations described will be able to do so without the aid of any other instruction.”—Weekly Chronicle.
THE DUTIES OF JUDGE ADVOCATES,
Compiled from Her Majesty’s and the Hon. East India Company’s Military Regulations, and from the Works of various Writers on Military Law. By Captain R. M. Hughes, 12th Regiment Bombay Army; Deputy Judge-Advocate General, Scinde Field Force. In one vol. post 8vo., price 7s. cloth.
“Captain Hughes’s little volume on this important subject will well supply the absence of that full and particular information which officers suddenly appointed to act as ‘Deputy Judge Advocates’ must have felt the want of, even though tolerably well versed in military law.”—Spectator.
“A professional vade-mecum, relating to most important duties, and executed in the ablest manner. We consider this, the only complete separate treatise on the subject, to be one of great value, and deserving the study of every British officer.”—Lit. Gazette.
“This book is a digest as well as a compilation, and may be emphatically called ‘The Hand-Book of Military Justice.’”—Atlas.
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