MISCELLANIES OF LITERATURE,
By J. D’ISRAELI, Esq.
12mo. New Edition, with numerous Additions and Revisions by the author.
Price $3 00, muslin.
“In the volumes before us, there is not an uninteresting line from title page to finis.”—Bro. Jonathan.
“It is a work that enchains you from beginning to end; in the perusal of which you feel reluctant to pause, till you find yourself compelled by the unwelcome finis.”—Merchants’ Magazine.
“This valuable work puts us at once into fellowship with the master spirits of the past, and brings up the scenes and events of other days with life-like freshness. This work supplies us with what we have long needed—a home description of literature and the master builders of it; their difficulties, hardships, dispositions, social wants and pleasures. It is a good counterpart to the ‘Curiosities of Literature,’ and like that will amuse as well as instruct.”—New Yorker.
“The writings of D’Israeli belong to a class no less peculiar in their character, than they are valuable in their kind. Few authors have laboured so assiduously, or rendered such efficient service to the interests of literature. His style is pre-eminent for its nervousness and classic beauty, and it is doubtless to this cause no less than to the immense collection of amusing and characteristic anecdote which he has supplied that we are to ascribe the high estimation with which his former writings have been received. We cordially recommend these delightful volumes to all who can appreciate the pleasing combination of the utile et dulce in books.”—New World.
“Take up either of the volumes, and open where you please, the reader will at once find his attention chained by something curious and new, though very old: indeed for casual and curious reading D’Israeli is incomparable.”—N. Y. American.
“Had this popular author now for the first time appeared before the reading world, these volumes would be amply sufficient to ensure him a proud rank among the first writers of the age. The work abounds in entertaining anecdotes, pertinent quotations, and philosophical reflections; there in a power of thought and patient research manifested throughout which has rarely if ever been equalled.”—The Classic.