NEW WORKS
LATELY PUBLISHED,
AND
PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION,
BY
E. L. CAREY & A. HART, PHILAD.
In Three Volumes, 12mo.
JACOB FAITHFUL;
OR, LIFE ON THE WATER.
COMPLETE.
By the Author of “Peter Simple,” “King’s Own,” &c.
“It is replete with amusement and oddity. Poor Jacob was born on the water. ‘It was,’ says he, ‘in a floating sort of a box, called a lighter, and upon the river Thames, that I first smelt the mud.’”—Baltimore Gazette.
“Equal in merit to Peter Simple, and perhaps even more entertaining, are the adventures of Jacob Faithful, another of the whimsical creations of Captain Marryatt’s prolific brain.”—Saturday Courier.
“It is full of character and incident, and will, we doubt not, be a universal favourite.”—Lit. Gaz.
In Three Volumes, 12mo.
PETER SIMPLE;
OR, ADVENTURES OF A MIDSHIPMAN.
COMPLETE.
By the Author of the “King’s Own,” “Naval Officer,” &c.
“The quiet humour which pervades the work is irresistibly amusing, and the fund of anecdote and description which it contains, entertaining. The humour sometimes approaches to downright burlesque, and the incident to extravagance, if not improbability; but, altogether, as a book of amusement, it is excellent.”—Baltimore Gazette.
“Those who are the most competent to judge, say that Captain Marryatt is altogether superior to any other writer of naval sketches or descriptions, living or dead.”—N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
“This is the best work that Captain Marryatt has produced.”—Atlas.
“‘Peter Simple’ is certainly the most amusing of Captain Marryatt’s amusing novels; a species of picture quite unique; a class by themselves, full of humour, truth, and graphic sketches.”—Literary Gazette.
“This is an admirable work, and worthy of the noble service it is written to illustrate.”—Spectator.
CELEBRATED TRIALS,
AND
CASES OF CRIMINAL JURISPRUDENCE OF ALL AGES AND COUNTRIES.
In One large volume, 8vo., containing 600 closely printed pages.
CONTENTS.
John Thurtell and Joseph Hunt, for the murder of William Ware, at Hertford, January, 1824.
Henry Fauntleroy, Esq., for forgery, at the Old Bailey, October 30, 1824.
Anna Schonleben (Germany), for poisoning, 1808.
John Docke Rouvelett, for forgery, 1806.
John Holloway and Owen Haggerty, for the murder of John Cole Steele, on Hounslow-heath, February 22, 1807.
The unknown Murderer, or the Police at fault (Germany), 1817.
Thomas Simmons, for murder, Oct. 20, 1807.
Major Alexander Campbell, for the murder of Captain Alexander Boyd, at Armagh, in a duel, 1807.
James Stuart, for the murder of Sir Alexander Boswell, in a duel, 1822.
Martha Alden, for murder, 1807.
Francis S. Riembauer, for assassination, 1805.
Eliza Fenning, for an attempt to poison Mr. Olibar Turner and family, April 11, 1815.
William Jones, for murder.
Abraham Thornton, for the murder of Mary Ashford, 1817.
Castaing, the physician, for murder, at Paris, November, 1817.
John Donellan, Esq., for the murder of Sir Theodosius Edward Allesly Boughton; before the Hon. Sir Francis Buller, 1781.
Sir Walter Raleigh, for high-treason, in the reign of James I., A.D. 1602.
James O’Coigley, Arthur O’Connor, John Binns, John Allen, and Jeremiah Leary, for high-treason; at Maidstone, 1798.
Miss Ann Broadric, for the murder of Mr. Errington, 1795.
William Corder, for the murder of Maria Marten, 1827.
William Codlin, for scuttling a ship, 1802.
Joseph Wall, for the murder of Benjamin Armstrong, at Goree, 1802.
Vice-admiral Byng, for neglect of duty; at a court-martial, held on board his majesty’s ship the St. George, in Portsmouth harbour, 1757.
Richard Savage, the poet, James Gregory, and William Merchant, for the murder of James Sinclair, 1727.
Admiral Keppel, for neglect of duty, July, 1778, at a court-martial.
Sir Hugh Palliser, Vice-admiral of the Blue, for neglect of duty, 1779.
Sarah Metyard and Sarah M. Metyard, for murder, 1768.
John Bishop, Thomas Williams, and James May, for the murder of Charles Ferriar, 1831.
Sawney Cunningham, executed at Leith, 1635, for murder.
Sarah Malcolm, for the murder of Ann Price, 1733.
Joseph Baretti, for the murder of Evan Morgan, 1769.
Mungo Campbell, for murder, 1721.
Lucretia Chapman, for the murder of William Chapman, late of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, 1832.
Lino Amalto Espos y Mina, for the murder of William Chapman, at the same court, 1832.
John Hatfield, for forgery, 1803.
Trial by combat, between Henry Plantagenet, duke of Hereford and Lancaster, and afterwards king of England by the title of Henry IV., and Thomas Mowbray, duke of Norfolk, earl-marshal of England, 1897.
Captain John Gow and others, for piracy, 1729.
William Burke and Helen McDougal for murder, 1828.
Charles Macklin (the author), for the murder of Thomas Hallam, May 1735.
Mary Young, alias Jenny Diver, for privately stealing, 1740.
George Henderson and Margaret Nisbet, for forging a bill on the dutchess of Gordon, 1726.
John Chide, of Dalry, for the murder of the Right Hon. Sir George Lockhart, of Carnwith, lord-president of the court of sessions, and member of his majesty’s privy council, 1689.
William Henry, duke of Cumberland, for adultery with Lady Grosvenor, 1770.
Robert and Daniel Perrean, for forgery, 1775.
Margaret Caroline Rudd, for forgery, 1775.
Henry White, Jr., for a libel on the duke of Cumberland, 1813.
Philip Nicholson, for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Bonar, at Maidstone, 1813.
Mr. William Cobbett, for libel, in the court of King’s Bench, 1810.
John Bellingham, Esq., for the murder of the Right Hon. Spencer Perceval, chancellor of the exchequer, in the lobby of the House of Commons, May 11, 1811.
Mary Stone, for child murder, preferred by her sister, at Surry assizes, 1817.
Arthur Thistlewood, James Ings, and others, for high-treason, at the Old Bailey, 1820.
Thomas, earl of Stafford, for high-treason, 1643.
Trial of the Rebels in 1745:
Lords Kilmarnock, Cromartie, Balmerino, and Lovat.—Charles Ratcliffe, Esq.—Townley and Dawson.—Fletcher and Syddall.—Dr. Cameron.
Rob Roy Macgregor, and other Macgregors, 1700 to 1746.
Alexia Petrowitz Czarowitz, presumptive heir to the crown of Russia, condemned to death by his father, 1715.
Joseph Hunton, a Quaker, for forgery, 1828.—His execution.
Captain Witham Kidd, for murder and piracy, 1701.
Remarkable case of witchcraft, before Matthew Hale, 1662.
The Salem Witches.
Sufferers for pretended Witchcraft in Scotland.
Alison Pearson.—Janet Grant and Janet Clark, 1828.—John Cunningham, 1590.—Agnes Sampson, 1591.—John Fien, 1591.—Euphan M’Calzene, 1591.—Patrick Lawrie, 1606.—Margaret Wallace, 1620.—Isobel Young, 1629.—Alexander Hamilton, 1630.—John Neil, 1630.—Janet Brown and others, 1640.
The Samuelston Witches—Isobel Elliot, and nine other women, 1678.
Impostor of Barragan, 1696.
Trial by combat, between Sir John Annesley, Knight, and Thomas Katrington, Esq., 1380.
James George Lisle, alias Major Semple, for stealing, 1795.
Queen Emma, trial by fire-ordeal.
John Horne Tooke, for high-treason, 1791.
Joseph Thompson Hare, for mail-robbery in Virginia, 1818.
Richard Carlile, for a libel, 1819.
Circumstantial Evidence.
Jonathan Bradford.—James Crow.—John Jennings.—Thomas Harris.—William Shaw.
In Two Volumes, 12mo.
TRAVELS TO BOKHARA,
AND VOYAGE UP THE INDUS.
BY LIEUT. BURNES.
“Mr. Burnes is the first European of modern times who has navigated the Indus. Many years have passed since the English Library has been enriched with a book of travels, in value at all comparable with this. Mr. Burnes is evidently a man of strong and masculine talents, high spirit, and elegant taste, well qualified to tread in the steps of our Malcolms and Elphinstones.”—London Quarterly Review.
“Though comparisons may be and often are odious, we do not think we shall excite one resentful feeling, even among the travellers whose productions we have reviewed during a course approaching twenty years, when we say that so interesting a publication of that class as the present, has not fallen under our notice.”—London Literary Gazette.
In Two Volumes, 12mo.
THE SKETCH-BOOK OF CHARACTER;
OR,
CURIOUS AND AUTHENTIC NARRATIVES AND ANECDOTES RESPECTING EXTRAORDINARY INDIVIDUALS:
Exemplifying the Imperfections of circumstantial Evidence; illustrative of the Tendency of Credulity and Fanaticism; and recording singular Instances of voluntary human Suffering and interesting Occurrences. (Nearly ready.)
CONTENTS.
EXTRAORDINARY INDIVIDUALS.
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Arnaud du Tilh, The Demetriuses of Russia, Madam Tiquet, Francœur, the Lunatic, Reneé Corbeau, Madame Rovere, The Diary of Luc Antonio Viterbi, who starved himself to death, The Italian Sleep-walker, William Lithgow, the Traveller Richard Peeke, James Crichton, Mother Damnable, Valentine Greatraks, James Naylor, Henry Jenkins, John Kelsey, Lodowick Muggleton, Mrs. Aphra Behn, Aspasia, Madame du Barré, Phebe Brown, The Mysterious Stranger, George Bruce, Mull’d Sack, a notorious Robber, Sir Jervas Yelvis, Archibald Armstrong, the Jester, The Two Brothers, Anne George Bellamy, Susanna Maria Cibber, Joseph Clark, Titus Oates, alias Bob Ferguson, Thomas Venner, Colly Molly Puff, Eugene Aram, Matthew Hopkins, the Witch-finder, Jeffery Hudson, Blasil de Manfre, Henry Welby, Catharine, Countess Dowager of Schwartzburgh, Richard Savage, Lewis de Boissi, Reverend Father Arthur O’Leary, John Oliver, John Overs, |
John Bigg, Mrs. Corbett, Charlotte Maria Anne Victoire Cordey, Daniel Dancer, Esq. Rev. George Harvest, S. Bisset, the animal Teacher, Roger Crab, Rigep Dandulo, Augustine Barbara Vanbeck, The Chevalier D’Eon, Widow of Ephesus, Mary Frith, Anne Day, Countess of Desmond, Colonel Thomas Blood, Jane Lane, Mary Carleton, Jack Adams, Samuel Boyce, Peter the Wild Boy, Charles Price, alias the Social Monster, George Alexander Stevens, Peter Isaac Thelluson, George Villiers, Hon. Mrs. Godfrey, Lady Godiva, John Philip Barretier, Oliver Cromwell’s Porter, Robert Hill, the Learned Tailor of Buckingham, Hendia, Charlotte Hutton, Mrs. Day, The Abbe Sieyes, Countess of Strathmore Elizabeth Perkins, Margaret Lamburne, Ninon De L’Enclos, Madame Des Houlieres, Mrs. Levy, Louisa, Mrs. Lloyd, Lucretia, Madame de Maintenon, Catherine de Medicis, La Maupin. |
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
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John Calas, Elizabeth Canning, Le Brun, Richard Coleman, Jonathan Bradford, James Crow, John Orme, John Jennings, Girl at Liege, Thomas Harris, |
John Miles, A man tried and convicted for the murder of his own father, William Shaw, Sirven, Monsieur D’Anglade and his family, Joan Perry and her two sons, La Pivardiere, Duke Dorgan, a story of Irish Life, William Richardson. |
CREDULITY AND FANATICISM.
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A Female Monster, (effects of ignorance and superstition,) Yetser, the Fanatic, The Holy Relics, Jerome Savonarola, Sabbatei-Sevi, Anthony, |
Simon Morin, Robert Francis Damiens, Assassination of the King of Portugal, Francois Michel, St. Pol de Leon, Mr. Stukeley, (eccentric Self-delusion), Peter Rombert, the Fanatic of Carolina. |
VOLUNTARY HUMAN SUFFERING.
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Simeon Stylites, Panporee, Indian Widows, Funeral Rites, Conscientious Murder, Conscientious Hindoo, |
Female Infanticide, Processions of Penitents in Spain and Portugal, Penance by Proxy, The Indian Penance of Five Fires, Matthew Loval. |
INTERESTING OCCURRENCES.
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The Miners of Bois-Monzil, Jaques du Moulin, (the uncertainty of human testimony,) Remarkable discovery of a Murder, Charles the Twelfth, Whimsical Marriage, Algerine Conspiracy, Extraordinary Adventure, Otway’s Orphan, |
Prison Escapes, Charbonniers, Porral and others, Grivet, Reign of Terror, Remarkable Trial for Murder, Singular Adventure, Heidegger, Jemmy Taylor. |
In One Volume, 12mo.
MAGPIE CASTLE.
BY THEODORE HOOK.
AND OTHER TALES.
In Two Volumes, 12mo.
LEGENDS AND STORIES OF IRELAND.
BY SAMUEL LOVER.
“Here is a genuine Irish story-book, of the most amusing character. Mr. Lover shows us how to tell a tale in the real Irish manner. We see the people; we hear them; they are dramatized as they exist in nature; and all their peculiarities are touched with a master’s hand.”—Lit. Gaz.
In Three Volumes, 12mo.
THE PORT ADMIRAL.
By the Author of “Cavendish.”
“A work full of interest and variety. The scenes are traced with a powerful hand.”—Sunday Times.
“These volumes will make a stir in what an old writer calls the ‘wooden world.’ They touch too severely upon blemishes in the discipline, manners, opinions, and principles of our maritime government, not to be eagerly examined and perhaps sharply discussed by naval men.”—Athenæum.
In One Volume, 8vo.
CAPTAIN ROSS’S LAST VOYAGE.
Narrative of a Second Voyage in search of a North-west Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions, during the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, and 1833. By Sir John Ross, C. B., K. S. A., &c. Including the Reports of Commander J. C. Ross, and the discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole. With a large Map.
In Two Volumes, 12mo.
THE KING’S OWN;
A TALE OF THE SEA.
By the Author of “The Naval Officer,” “Peter Simple” etc.
“An excellent novel.”—Edinburg Review.
“Captain Marryat may take his place at the head of the naval novelists of the day.”—United Service Journal.
“The adventures of the hero, through bold and stirring scenes, lose not a jot of their interest to the last, while the naval descriptions of sights and deeds on shipboard may be compared with any similar production of which we have any knowledge.”—Atlas.
“A very remarkable book, full of vigour, and characterized by incidents of perfect originality, both as to conception and treatment. Few persons will take up the book without going fairly through it to the catastrophe, which startles the reader by its unexpected nature.”—Literary Gazette.
“Replete with genius. The work will go far permanently to fix the name of Captain Marryat among the most popular and successful writers of fiction of the age.”—Felix Farley’s Bristol Journal.
“A work, perhaps, not to be equalled in the whole round of romance, for the tremendous power of its descriptions, for the awfulness of its subjects, and for the brilliancy and variety of the colours with which they are painted.”—Spectator.
In One Volume, 12mo.
AN ACCOUNT OF
COLONEL CROCKETT’S
TOUR TO THE NORTH AND DOWN EAST,
In the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four. His Object being to examine the grand manufacturing Establishments of the Country; and also, to find out the Condition of its Literature and Morals, the Extent of its Commerce, and the practical Operation of “The Experiment.”
WITH A PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR.
In One Volume, 12mo.
COLONEL CROCKETT’S
LIFE OF VAN BUREN.
The Life of Martin Van Buren, Heir-apparent to the “Government,” and the appointed Successor of General Andrew Jackson. Containing every authentic Particular by which his extraordinary Character has been formed. With a concise History of the Events that have occasioned his unparalleled Elevation; together with a Review of his Policy as a Statesman. By David Crockett.
In Two Volumes 12mo.
THE NAVAL SKETCH-BOOK.
BY CAPTAIN GLASCOCK.
“In ‘The Naval Sketch-book’ there are dozens of ‘delicious bits,’ which, we are sure, will delight our readers.”—John Bull.
“The book abounds with animated sketches of naval opinions and character, described to that style which only a thorough-bred seaman can handle.”—Times.
“We do not think that there ever was a more sailorly publication than this.”—Literary Gazette.
“Unquestionably Captain Glascock is inferior to none as a humorous and talented naval writer. His descriptions are true to nature, and his dialogues full of life and entertainment; in short, his Sketches have all the characteristics of a true British seaman.”—Naval and Military Gazette.
In Two Volumes, 12mo.
THE BLACK WATCH.
BY T. PICKEN.
By the Author of the “Dominie’s Legacy.”
“One of the most powerful and pathetic fictions which have recently appeared.”—Times.
In Two Volumes, 12mo.
TALES OF A PHYSICIAN.
BY W. H. HARRISON.
Containing—The Victim, The Curate, The Gossip, The Fate of a Genius, Disappointments, The Neglected Wife, The Jew, The Stranger Guest, The Smuggler, Cousin Tomkins the Tailor, The Life of an Author, Remorse, The Sexton’s Daughter, The Old Maid, The Preacher, The Soldier’s Bride, The Mortgagee.
“We cannot withhold from these tales the praise which is due to elegant composition, when intended to promote the cause of morality and religion. In point of elegance, simplicity, and interest, few are so attractive.”—Record.
“Graceful in language, displaying cultivated taste.”—Literary Gazette.
“We welcome it with pleasure—they are told in a pleasant style, and with great feeling.”—Athenæum.
“Evidently the production of an experienced essayist: there is not only considerable power of invention manifested in them, but the diction is always pure, and at times lofty. We should say, he will occupy a very high station among the writers of the day.”—British Traveller.
“We cannot withhold from the author of the work before us the warm praise due to its pious design, and decidedly instructive character. The ‘Tales of a Physician’ are written with very considerable talent. The idea is a happy one.”—Eclectic Review.
“A vein of amiable and highly moral feeling runs through the whole volume.”—Monthly Review.
“The book is well written—an amusing addition to the works of the season.”—New Monthly Magazine.
“There is a high moral tone throughout.”—Spirit and Manners of the Age.
(Nearly ready.)
THE HIGHLAND SMUGGLERS.
BY J. B. FRAZER.
Author of the “Kuzzilbash.”
In One Volume, 12mo.
LETTERS AND ESSAYS,
IN PROSE AND VERSE.
BY RICHARD SHARP.
“Messrs. Carey & Hart have reprinted the Letters and Essays of Richard Sharp, in a beautiful little volume. These excellent productions fully deserve the distinction of neatest dress. They are sterling literature.”—National Gazette.
“What a pleasant volume! It is the delightful and instructive writing of a cultivated mind upon ordinary occasions and subjects; and the sound sense and elegant literature with which they are treated afford a great treat for judgment and taste to appropriate.”—Literary Gazette.
In Two Volumes, 12mo.
THE PACHA OF MANY TALES.
By the Author of “Peter Simple,” &c.
ADVENTURES OF
JAPHET IN SEARCH OF HIS FATHER.
By the Author of “Jacob Faithful,” “King’s Own,” &c.
(In Press.)
In Three Volumes, 12mo.
TOM CRINGLE’S LOG.
COMPLETE.
A NEW EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED.
“The scenes are chiefly nautical, and we can safely say that no author of the present day, not even excepting our own Cooper, has surpassed him in his element.”—U. S. Gazette.
“The sketches are not only replete with entertainment, but useful, as affording an accurate and vivid description of scenery, and of life and manners in the West Indies.”—Boston Traveller.
“We think none who have read this work will deny that the author is the best nautical writer who has yet appeared. He is not Smollett, he is not Cooper; but he is far superior to them both.”—Boston Transcript.
“The scenes are chiefly nautical, and are described in a style of beauty and interest never surpassed by any writer.”—Baltimore Gazette.
“The author has been justly compared with Cooper, and many of his sketches are in fact equal to any from the pen of our celebrated countryman.”—Saturday Evening Post.
“A pleasant but a marvellously strange and wild amalgamation of water and earth is ‘Tom Cringle;’ full of quips and cranks, and toils and pranks. A fellow of fun and talent is he, with a prodigious taste for yarns, long and short, old and new; never, or but seldom, carrying more sail than ballast, and being a most delightful companion, both by land and sea. We were fascinated with the talents of Tom when we met him in our respected contemporary from the biting north. His Log was to us like a wild breeze of ocean, fresh and health-giving, with now and then a dash of the tearful, that summoned the sigh from our heart of hearts; but now that the yarns are collected and fairly launched, we hail them as a source of much gratification at this dull season. Tom Cringle and a Christmas fire! may well join in the chorus of ‘Begones dull care!’—The ‘Quenching of the Torch’ as one of the most pathetic descriptions we over read. The ‘Scenes at Jamaica’ are full of vigour. As a whole, we have no hesitation in pronouncing ‘The Log’ the most entertaining book of the season. There has been a sort of Waverley mystery thrown over the authorship of these charming papers; and though many have guessed the author, yet we take unto ourselves the credit of much sagacity in imagining that we only have solved the enigma:—there are passages in ‘Tom Cringle’ that we believe no living author except Professor Wilson himself could write; snatches of pure, exalted, and poetic feeling, so truly Wilsonian, that we penciled them as we read on, and said, There he is again, and again, and again; to the very last chapter.”—New Monthly Magazine.
THE CRUISE OF THE MIDGE.
By the Author of “Tom Cringle’s Log.”
In Two Volumes, 12mo.
THE MAN-OF-WAR’S-MAN.
By the Author of “Tom Cringle’s Log.”
“No stories of adventures are more exciting than those of seamen. The warrior of Tom Cringle’s Log is the most popular writer of that class, and those sketches collected not long since into a volume by the same publishers, in this city, were universally read. A large edition was soon exhausted. The present is, we believe, an earlier production, and has many of the same merits.”—Baltimore Gazette.
In Two Volumes, 12mo.
THE PORT ADMIRAL;
A TALE OF THE SEA.
By the Author of “Cavendish.”
In Two Volumes, 12mo.
LIVES OF THE ENGLISH PIRATES,
HIGHWAY-MEN, AND ROBBERS.
BY CHARLES WHITEHEAD.
“These are truly entertaining volumes, fraught with anecdote, and abounding in extraordinary adventures.”—Naval and Military Gazette.
In Two Volumes, 12mo.
CAVENDISH;
OR, THE PATRICIAN AT SEA.
The following Notice is from the pen of Mr. Bulwer.
“The peculiar characteristics of Captain Marryatt are shared by some of his nautical brethren; and the author of ‘Cavendish’ has evinced much ability and very vigorous promise in the works that have issued from his pen.”
“We should find it very difficult to be very angry with the ‘Patrician,’ even if he had fifty times his real number of faults, on account of the jovial, easy, reckless, off-hand style of character that seems to belong to him. Our sea portraits multiply so fast, and advance so rapidly in excellence, that we become fastidious, and insist upon a likeness where formerly we were contented with a caricature. ‘Cavendish’ partakes of both.... Into these thousand or rather ten thousand scrapes, we cannot follow him, but the reader may, much to his advantage. The Navarine narrative, in particular, will be read with an interest proportioned to the truth and spirit with which it is told.”—New Monthly Magazine.
New and cheap Edition, in Two Volumes, 12mo., of the
MEMOIRS OF VIDOCQ,
THE CELEBRATED AGENT OF THE FRENCH POLICE.
“But it is not our province or intention to enter into a discussion of the veracity of Vidocq’s Memoirs: be they true or false; were they purely fiction from the first chapter to the last, they would, from fertility of invention, knowledge of human nature, and ease of style, rank only second to the novels of Le Sage. The first volume is perhaps more replete with interest, because the hero is the leading actor in every scene; but in the subsequent portions, when he gives the narrative of others, we cannot but admire the power and graphic talent of the author. Sergeant Bellerose is scarcely inferior to the Sergeant Kite of Farquhar and the episodes of Court and Raoul, and that of Adele d’Escara, are surpassed in description, depth of feeling, and pathos, by no work of romance with which we are acquainted.”
From the Boston Traveller.
“Memoirs of Vidocq.—He who reads this book, being previously unacquainted with the mystery of iniquity, will find himself introduced at once into a new world: but it is a world which must be known only to be avoided. Never before was such a mass of depravity opened to the mind of inquiry in a single volume. It was well said by Byron, “truth is strange, stranger than fiction.” Whoever passes through the details of this singular exposition, supposing it to contain correct delineations of fact, will be satisfied of the justness of this remark.
“The details of the varied scenes through which he has passed in private and public life, surpass all the creations of fancy, and all the delineations of fact, from the wonderful relations of the Arabian Nights to the renowned exploits of Mr. Lemuel Gulliver; and from the extraordinary sufferings and escapes of the celebrated Baron Trenck to the still more marvellous exploits of the famous Mr. Thomas Thumb.
“It would seem, on following this singular writer through his adventures, as if all the crimes of which human nature is capable, all the horrors of which the universe has heard, all the astonishing incidents which history can dovelop or imagination portray, all the cold-blooded malice of the assassin, and all the varied machinations of the most ingenious and systematic practitioners in the school of vice, in all its varied departments, had been crowded into the life of a single individual, or come beneath his cognizance. The lover of mystery, who delights to “sup upon horrors,” the admirer of romance, who is pleased with the heightened pictures of the most fanciful imagination, and the inquirer into the policy of crime and its prevention, may here have their utmost curiosity satiated.
“Vidocq, during the early portion of his life, was personally initiated into all the mysteries of crime, and becoming afterward a pardoned man, and an active and successful agent of the French police in the city of Paris, “girt with its silent crimes,” as well as its tumultuous depravities, becomes a fit person to delineate its scenes of vice, depravity, and guilt. His work is a study for the novelist, the annalist, the philosopher, and the Christian. But it is a work which should be read with a guarded mind; with it disposition to profit by its lessons, and to avoid scenes which have little enjoyment, and which invariably end in misery.”
In Two Volumes 12mo.
THE HAMILTONS.
By the Author of “Mothers and Daughters.”
“This is a fashionable novel, and of the highest grade.”—Athenæum.
“Mrs. Gore is undeniably one of the wittiest writers of the present day. ‘The Hamiltons’ is a most lively, clever, and entertaining work.”—Lit. Gaz.
“The design of the book is new, and the execution excellent.”—Exam.
In Two Volumes, 12mo.
TOUGH YARNS;
A SERIES OF NAVAL TALES AND SKETCHES, TO PLEASE ALL HANDS, FROM THE SWABS ON THE SHOULDER DOWN TO THE SWABS IN THE HEAD.
BY THE OLD SAILOR.
“Here, most placable reader, is a title for thee, pregnant with fun, and deeply prophetic of humour, drollery, and all those joyous emotions that so opportunely come to oil the springs of the overworn heart, and prevent the cankering and rust from wearing them away and utterly destroying their healthful elasticity.”—Metropolitan.
“The Old Sailor paints sea scenes with vigour and gusto; now-and-then reminding us of ‘Tom Cringle,’ and with a strong sense of the comical that approaches Smollet.”—Spectator.
“Here we have the ‘Old Sailor’ once more, and in all his glory too! The public will join with us in hailing the reappearance of the ‘old’ boy. He stands at the head of the naval humorists of the nineteenth century. We have rarely seen an affair so richly humorous: it is one of the most amusing and best written volumes of naval fiction we have ever seen.”—Observer.
In Three Volumes, 12mo.
THE COQUETTE.
By the Author of “Miserrimus.”
“The ‘Coquette’ is a most amusing library book. Several of the characters are exceedingly well drawn: indeed, they are obviously sketches from life, and there is a sparkling vivacity throughout the whole work.”—New Monthly Magazine.
In Two Volumes, 12mo.
THE MISERIES OF MARRIAGE;
OR, THE FAIR OF MAY FAIR.
By the Author of “Pin Money,” &c.
“Mrs. Gore certainly stands at the head of the female novelists of the day. But we subjoin the opinion of Mr. Bulwer.”—U. S. Gazette.
“She is the consummator of that undefinable species of wit, which we should call (if we did not know the word might be deemed offensive, in which sense we do not mean it) the slang of good society.
“But few people ever painted, with so felicitous a hand, the scenery of worldly life, without any apparent satire. She brings before you the hollowness, the manœuvres, and the intrigues of the world, with the brilliancy of sarcasm, but with the quiet of simple narrative. Her men and women, in her graver tales, are of a noble and costly clay; their objects are great; their minds are large, their passions intense and pure. She walks upon the stage of the world of fashion, and her characters, have grown dwarfed as if by enchantment. The air of frivolity has blighted their stature; their colours are pale and languid; they have no generous ambition; they are little people! they are fine people! This it is that makes her novel of our social life so natural, and so clear a transcript of the original.”—The Author of Pelham.
In One Volume, 12mo.
SOME PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF
SIR PUMPKIN FRIZZLE, K. C. B.
AND OTHER TALES.
“Decidedly one of the most amusing productions of the year. In addition to the adventures of Sir Pumpkin, there are several capital stories, which cannot fail to be popular.”
In One Volume, 8vo.
MEMOIRS OF THE
BEAUTIES OF THE COURT
OF CHARLES THE SECOND.
BY MRS. JAMESON.
Author of “Diary of an Ennuyee,” “Characteristics of Women,” &c.
“New work.—Messrs. Carey & Hart, Philadelphia, have in press a popular book, ‘The Beauties of the Court of King Charles the Second,’ written by Mrs. Jameson, whose father had been employed by the princess Charlotte to paint cabinet pictures of those too celebrated ladies. The princess died before they were completed, and the consequence was, they were never paid for. The circumstances of the family required some use should be made of the paintings to produce a remuneration; and Mrs. Jameson undertook the delicate task of the letter press, the portraits being engraved in the highest style of art. The London copy costs about twenty-five dollars: the American edition will be an octavo without the portraits. Nell Gwynn, the Duchess of Hamilton, &c. are not unknown characters in history. Mrs. Jameson has executed her department in a remarkably graceful manner.”—Journal of Belles Lettres.
MEMOIRS OF
GREAT MILITARY COMMANDERS
BY G. R. P. JAMES,
Author of “Darnley,” “Henry Masterton,” &c.
Including Henry V. of England; John, Duke of Bedford; Gonzales de Cordova; Ferdinand, Duke of Alva; Oliver Cromwell; Marshal Turenne; The Great Condé; General Monk; Duke of Albemarle; Duke of Marlborough; The Earl of Peterborough; Marquess of Granby; General Wolfe, &c. &c.
“That Mr. James should have been eminently successful in portraying the lives of illustrious military commanders is not surprising; for it is well known that martial achievements have long been his favourite study.”—Morning Post.
“A more interesting series of memoirs could not be presented to the curiosity of readers, inasmuch as in the lives of such men romantic adventures of the most exciting kind co-exist with the strictest truth.”—Courier.
In Two Volumes, 12mo.
ALLEN BRECK.
BY GLEIG,
Author of the “Subaltern.”
“The most striking production of Mr. Gleig.”—U. S. Journal.
“One of the most powerful and highly wrought tales we ever read.”—Edinburg Review.
In Two Volumes, 12mo.
NIGHTS-AT-MESS.
In Two Volumes, 12mo.
LIFE OF A SOLDIER
BY A FIELD-OFFICER.
“A narrative of twenty-seven years’ service in various parts of the world, possessing all the interest of the wildest fiction.”—Sun.
IN PREPARATION,
THE GIFT;
A CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR’S PRESENT,
FOR 1836.
Edited by Miss Leslie, author of “Pencil Sketches,” &c.
Among the contributors will be found Washington Irving, Mrs. Butler, J. K. Paulding, G. W. Simms, Miss Sedgwick, Miss Leslie, &c. &c.
LIST OF THE PLATES.
| A Portrait of Miss Kemble, | engraved by | Cheney. |
| Smuggler’s Repose, | ” | Tucker. |
| The Orphans, | ” | Welch. |
| Soliciting a Note, | ” | Ellis. |
| John Anderson, my Jo! | ” | Lawson. |
| Prawn Fishers, | ” | Graham. |
| Death of the Stag, | ” | Tucker. |
| Mirkwood Mere, | ” | Graham. |
| A Portrait, | ” | Illman. |
In Two Volumes, 12mo.
TRAITS AND STORIES OF THE
IRISH PEASANTRY
FIRST SERIES.
“Admirable—truly, intensely Irish: never were the outrageous whimsicalities of that strange, wild, imaginative people so characteristically described; nor amidst all the fun, frolic, and folly, is there any dearth of poetry, pathos, and passion. The author’s a jewel.”—Glasgow Journal.
“To those who have a relish for a few titbits of rale Irish story-telling,—whether partaking of the tender or the facetious, or the grotesque,—let them purchase these characteristic sketches.”—Sheffield Iris.
“The sister country has never furnished such sterling genius, such irresistibly humorous, yet faithful sketches of character among the lower ranks of Patlanders, as are to be met with in the pages of these delightful volumes.”—Bristol Journal.
“This is a capital book, full of fun and humour, and most characteristically Irish.”—New Monthly Magazine.
“Neither Miss Edgeworth, nor the author of the O’Hara Tales, could have written any thing more powerful than this.”—Edinburgh Literary Gazette.
In two Volumes, 12mo.
TRAITS AND STORIES OF THE
IRISH PEASANTRY.
THIRD SERIES.
“This work has been most extravagantly praised by the English critics: and several extracts from it have been extensively published in our newspapers. It is altogether a better work than any of the kind which has yet appeared—replete with humour, both broad and delicate—and with occasional touches of pathos, which have not been excelled by any writer of the present day. An Edinburgh critic says that ‘neither Miss Edgeworth, nor the author of the O’Hara tales, could have written any thing more powerful than this.’”—Baltimore American.
In two Volumes, 12mo.
PIN MONEY;
By MRS. CHARLES GORE,
Authoress of “Hungarian Tales,” “Polish Tales,” etc.
“Her writings have that originality which wit gives to reality, and wit is the great characteristic of her pages.”—Bulwer’s New Monthly Magazine.
“Light spirited and clever, the characters are drawn with truth and vigour. Keen in observation, lively in detail, and with a peculiar and piquant style, Mrs. Charles Gore gives to the novel that charm which makes the fascination of the best French memoir writers.”—London Literary Gazette.
In Two Volumes, 12mo.
MAKANNA;
OR, THE LAND OF THE SAVAGE.
“One of the most interesting and graphic romances it has been our lot to read for many a year.”—Athenæum.
“There was yet an untrodden land for the writer of fiction, and the author of ‘Makanna’ is its discoverer.”—Atlas.
“The narrative includes some daring adventures which would make timid blood shudder at their magnitude.... This work abounds in interest and is written in a style of great vigour and elegance.”—Weekly Times.
“The work does not want to be invested with any fictitious interest; end the talent which is visible in its pages is its best recommendation to public favour.”—Morning Post.
“The attempt was a bold and hazardous one, but it has been fully successful. We have rarely read a production of deeper interest—of interest sustained from the first page to the last. It has been conceived in a fine spirit; the several characters are ably painted.... He is as much at home on the ocean, and there are many scenes on ship-board equal to the best of the great sea-lord, the author of ‘The Spy.’”—New Monthly Magazine.
In One Volume, 18mo.
COLMAN’S BROAD GRINS.
A NEW EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS.
“‘This is a little volume of the comic,’ which we recollect to have laughed over many a time, in our boyish days, and since. It is old standard fun—a comic classic.”—Baltimore Gazette.
In One Volume, 12mo.
THE LIFE OF DAVID CROCKETT,
OF WEST TENNESSEE.
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.
In One Volume, 12mo.
A SUBALTERN IN AMERICA;
COMPRISING
HIS NARRATIVE OF THE CAMPAIGNS OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT BALTIMORE, WASHINGTON, ETC. DURING THE LATE WAR.
In One Volume, 8vo.
SELECT SPEECHES OF
JOHN SERGEANT,
OF PENNSYLVANIA.
In one Volume, 12mo.
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK.
“It is very clever and very entertaining—replete with pleasantry and humour: quite as imaginative as any German diablerie, and far more amusing than most productions of its class. It is a very whimsical and well devised jeu d’esprit.”—Literary Gazette.
In Two Volumes, 12mo.
FIVE NIGHTS OF ST. ALBANS.
“Some man of talent has taken up the old story of the Wandering Jew, to try what he could make of a new version of it. He has succeeded in composing as pretty a piece of diablerie as ever made candles burn blue at midnight. The horrors of Der Freischutz are mere child’s play compared with the terrors of the Old Man or the demon Amaimon; and yet all the thinking and talking portion of the book is as shrewd and sharp as the gladiatorial dialogues of Shakspeare’s comedies.”—Spectator.
“A romance, called the ‘Five Nights of St. Albans,’ has just appeared, which combines an extraordinary power of description with an enchaining interest. It is just such a romance as we should imagine Martin, the painter, would write; and, to say the truth, the description of supernatural effects in the book, fall very little short in their operation upon different senses of the magical illusions of the talented artist.”—John Bull.
In Three Volumes, 12mo.
FRANCESCA CARRARA.
BY L. E. L.
Author of “The Improvisatrice,” “Romance and Reality,” &c.
“But in prose she lives with us: now sanctifying; now satirizing; now glittering with the French in their most brilliant court, playing with diamonds and revelling in wit; then reposing on one of the finest creations that human genius ever called into existence—the holy friendship of Guido and Francesca. The whole range of modern fiction offers nothing like the portraiture of these two cousins; it is at once beautiful and sublime, and yet perfectly natural and true.”—New Monthly Magazine.
“A sparkling and brilliant performance. The observations on life and society have all the acuteness of Le Sage.”—Literary Gazette.
“A book of remarkable power and genius; unquestionably superior to any other production of the present time, with the single exception of the writings of the author of ‘The Last Days of Pompeii.’”—Examiner.
“A novel it is of beauty, grace, eloquence, noble thoughts, and tender feelings, such as none but a lady—and a lady of exquisite genius, too—could write.”—Fraser’s Magazine.
(Nearly ready.)
In One Volume, 12mo.
THE PAINTER’S AND COLOURMAN’S
COMPLETE GUIDE;
Being a Practical Treatise on the Preparation of Colour, and their application to the different kinds of Painting; in which is particularly described the whole Art of House Painting. By P. F. Tingry, Professor of Chymistry, Natural History, and Mineralogy, in the Academy of Geneva. First American, from the third London Edition, corrected and considerably improved by a practical chymist.
In One Volume, 12mo.
PICTURE OF PHILADELPHIA;
Or a brief account of the various institutions and public objects in this Metropolis, forming a Guide for Strangers, accompanied by a new Plan of the city. In a neat pocket volume.
In Two Volumes, 12mo.
SICILIAN FACTS.
In One Volume, 8vo.
THE AMERICAN
FLOWER GARDEN DIRECTORY,
CONTAINING PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR THE CULTURE OF PLANTS IN THE
HOT-HOUSE, GARDEN-HOUSE, FLOWER-GARDEN, AND ROOMS OR PARLOURS,
For every month in the year; with a description of the plants most desirable in each, the nature of the soil and situation best adapted to their growth, the proper season for transplanting, &c.; instructions for erecting a
HOT-HOUSE, GREEN-HOUSE, AND LAYING OUT A FLOWER-GARDEN.
Also, table of soils most congenial to the plants contained in the work. The whole adapted to either large or small gardens, with lists of annuals, bienniels, and ornamental shrubs, contents, a general index, and a frontispiece of Camellia Fimbriata.
BY HIBBERT AND BUIST,
EXOTIC NURSERYMEN AND FLORISTS.
A WHISPER
TO A NEWLY-MARRIED PAIR.
“Hail, wedded love! by gracious Heaven design’d,
At once the source and glory of mankind.”
“We solicit the attention of our readers to this publication, as one, though small, of infinite value.”—Baltimore Minerva.
“‘The Whisper’ is fully deserving the compliments bestowed upon it, and we join heartily in recommending it to our friends, whether married or single—for much useful instruction may be gathered from its pages.”—Lady’s Book.
“The work contains some original suggestions that are just, and many excellent quotations; some of her hints to the ladies should have been whispered in a tone too low to be overheard by the men.”—Daily Chronicle.
In One Volume, 18mo.
PRINCIPLES OF THE
ART OF MODERN HORSEMANSHIP
FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
IN WHICH ALL THE LATE IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLIED TO PRACTICE.
Translated from the French, by Daniel J. Desmond.
The Art of Horsemanship.—This is the title of a neat little work translated from the French of Mr. Lebeaud, by Daniel J. Desmond, Esq. of this city, and just published by Carey & Hart. It gives full and explicit directions for breaking and managing a horse, and goes into detail on the proper mode of mounting, the posture in the saddle, the treatment of the animal under exercise, &c. An appendix is added, containing instructions for the ladies, in mounting and dismounting.
The Philadelphia public are under obligations to Mr. Desmond for this translation. We have long needed a manual of horsemanship, to correct the inelegant habits in which many of our riders indulge, and to produce uniformity in the art of equitation. We see daily in our streets, mounted men, who totter in their seats as if suffering under an ague-fit; others who whip, spur, and rant, as if charging an enemy in battle; and again others, of slovenly habits, with cramped knees, and toes projecting outwards, who occupy a position utterly devoid of every thing like ease, grace, or beauty. These things are discreditable to our community, and earnestly do we hope, that this book will have many attentive readers.—Philadelphia Gazette.
In One Volume, 12mo
TWO HUNDRED RECEIPTS IN
DOMESTIC FRENCH COOKERY.
By Miss Leslie, Author of the “Seventy-five Receipts.”
Price 50 cents.
“‘The 200 Receipts by Miss Leslie,’ published by Carey and Hart of Philadelphia, has been much praised, and we think deservedly. The selection of subjects made by the accomplished writer is of a most tempting and tasteful description, and we must do her the justice to say, that she has treated them in such an eloquent and forcible manner, as to raise in the minds of all dispassionate readers the most tender and pleasurable associations. We commend her to the careful perusal and respect of all thrifty housewives.”—New York Mirror.
SELECT
MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL TRANSACTIONS.
A collection of the most valuable Memoirs read to the Medico-Chirurgical Societies of London and Edinburgh; the Association of Fellows and Licentiates of the King and Queen’s College of Physicians in Ireland; the Royal Academy of Medicine of Paris; the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh; the Royal Academy of Turin; the Medical and Anatomical Societies of Paris, &c. &c. &c.
Edited by Isaac Hays, M. D.
In One Volume, 8vo.
A PRACTICAL
COMPENDIUM OF MIDWIFERY:
Being the course of Lectures on Midwifery, and on the Diseases of Women and Infants, delivered at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.
By the late Robert Gooch, M. D.
“As it abounds, however, in valuable and original suggestions, it will be found a useful book of reference.”—Drake’s Western Journal.
In One Volume, 8vo.
AN ACCOUNT OF
SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT
DISEASES PECULIAR TO WOMEN;
BY ROBERT GOOCH, M. D.
“In this volume Dr. Gooch has made a valuable contribution to practical medicine. It is the result of the observation and experience of a strong, sagacious, and disciplined mind.”—Transylvania Journal of Medicine.
“This work, which is now for the first time presented to the profession in the United States, comes to them with high claims to their notice.”—Drake’s Western Journal.
In One Volume, 8vo.
TATE ON HYSTERIA.
A TREATISE ON “HYSTERIA.”
BY GEORGE TATE, M. D.
“As public journalists, we take this occasion to return him our hearty thanks for the pains he has taken to shed a new light on an obscure and much-neglected topic.”—North Amer. Med. and Surg. Journ. No. XIX.
Extract of a Letter from Edward H. Courtenay, Professor of Mathematics in the University of Pennsylvania.
“The design of the author—that of furnishing a valuable collection of rules and theorems for the use of such as are unable, from the want of time and previous preparation, to investigate mathematical principles—appears to have been very successfully attained in the present volume. The information which it affords in various branches of the pure and mixed Mathematics embraces a great variety of subjects, is arranged conveniently, and is in general conveyed in accurate and concise terms. To THE ENGINEER, THE ARCHITECT, THE MECHANIC—indeed to all for whom results are chiefly necessary—the work will doubtless form a very valuable acquisition.”
In One Volume, 12mo.
BOLMAR’S LEVIZAC.
A THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL GRAMMAR
OF THE
FRENCH LANGUAGE;
IN WHICH THE PRESENT USAGE IS DISPLAYED AGREEABLY TO THE DECISIONS OF THE FRENCH ACADEMY.
BY M. DE LEVIZAC.
With numerous corrections and improvements, and with the addition of a complete treatise on the Genders of French Nouns; as also with the addition of all the French Verbs, both regular and irregular, conjugated affirmatively, negatively, and interrogatively.
BY A. BOLMAR,
Author of “Key to Telemaque,” “Phrases,” &c. &c.
In One Volume, 8vo.
TEALE ON NEURALGIC DISEASES.
A TREATISE
ON NEURALGIC DISEASES,
DEPENDENT UPON IRRITATION OF THE SPINAL MARROW AND GANGLIA OF THE SYMPATHETIC NERVE.
BY THOMAS PRIDGIN TEALE,
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, of the Royal Medical
Society of Edinburg, Senior Surgeon to the Leeds Public Dispensary.
“It is a source of genuine gratification to meet with a work of this character, when it is so often our lot to be obliged to labour hard to winnow a few grains of information from the great mass of dullness, ignorance, and mistatement with which we are beset, and cannot too highly recommend it to the attention of the profession.”—American Journal of the Medical Sciences, No. X.
In One Volume, 12mo.
FORMULARY FOR THE
PREPARATION AND EMPLOYMENT
OF
SEVERAL NEW REMEDIES.
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF
M. MAGENDIE.
With an Appendix containing the experience of the British Practitioners, with many of the new remedies.
BY JOSEPH HOULTON, M.D.
In One Volume, 8vo.
A TREATISE ON
LESSER SURGERY;
OR THE
MINOR SURGICAL OPERATIONS.
BY BOURGERY, D. M. P.
Author of “A Complete Treatise on Human Anatomy, comprising Operative Medicine.” Translated from the French, with notes and an Appendix; by
WILLIAM C. ROBERTS AND JAS. B. KISSAM.
Copy of a letter from William Gibson, M. D. Professor of Surgery in the University of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia, Nov. 5th, 1833.
It gives me pleasure to say that the elementary work on Surgery, by M. Bourgery, and now under translation by Drs. Roberts and Kissam of New York, appears to me well calculated for the use of students. So far as I can judge from examination of a small portion of the English text, justice has been done by the translators to the author of the work.
W. GIBSON, M. D.
Professor of Surgery in the University of Pennsylvania.
Copy of a letter from George M’Clellen, M. D. Professor of Surgery in the Jefferson Medical College.
Philadelphia, Nov 6th, 1833.
Dear Sirs,
I have examined Bourgery’s manual, or work on Lesser Surgery, and am of opinion that it is an excellent compend, which contains a great deal of matter that will be useful to students. The translation which you are about to make, will deserve a large edition, and I have no doubt will meet with a ready sale.
Yours truly,
GEO. M’CLELLAN.
Drs. Roberts and Kissam.
Transcriber’s Notes: Obvious errors in punctuation have been silently corrected. Other than that, printer's inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation, hyphenation, and ligature usage have been retained.