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A NEW BOOK BY THE LATE MR. THACKERAY.
The Student’s Quarter; or, Paris Life Five-and-Twenty Years Since. By the late WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY. With numerous coloured illustrations after designs made at the time.
⁂ For these interesting sketches of French literature and art, made immediately after the Revolution of 1830, the reading world is indebted to a gentleman in Paris, who has carefully preserved the original papers up to the present time.
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Thackeray: the Humorist and the Man of Letters. The Story of his Life and Literary Labours. With some particulars of his Early Career never before made public. By THEODORE TAYLOR, Esq., Membre de la Société des gens de Lettres. Price 7s. 6d.
⁂ Illustrated with Photographic Portrait (one of the most characteristic known to have been taken) by Ernest Edwards, B.A.; view of Mr. Thackeray’s House, built after a favourite design of the great novelist’s; facsimile of his Handwriting, long noted in London literary circles for its exquisite neatness; and a curious life sketch of his Coat of Arms, a pen and pencil humorously introduced as the crest, the motto, “Nobilitas est sola virtus” (Virtue is the sole nobility).
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This day, neatly printed, price 1s. 6d.; by post 1s. 8d.
Mental Exertion: its Influence on Health. By Dr. BRIGHAM. Edited, with additional Notes, by Dr. ARTHUR LEARED, Physician to the Great Northern Hospital. This is a highly important little book, showing how far we may educate the mind without injuring the body.