A collection of short extracts on religious subjects, from the older writers Bishop Hall, Burrow, Paley, Jeremy Taylor, &c.
ST. PIERRE.—PAUL AND VIRGINIA; FROM THE FRENCH OF J.B.H. DE ST. PIERRE.
The translation of this interesting and affecting little tale was made by the celebrated Helen Maria Williams, at Paris, amidst the horrors of Robespierre's tyranny. It speedily rose to great favor in England and has ever since maintained its place in the estimation of persons of taste and refinement.
LALLAH ROOKH. AN ORIENTAL ROMANCE. By THOMAS MOORE. From the twentieth London Edition.
This exquisite poem has long been the admiration of readers of all classes. Its appearance in its present unique form will recommend it afresh to all lovers of poetry.
SACRA PRIVATA. THE PRIVATE MEDITATIONS AND PRAYERS OF THE RT. REV BISHOP WILSON. Accommodated to general use.
This well known work is perhaps on the whole the best devotional treatise in the language, and it now appears in a dress worthy of its character.
SCOTT.—THE LADY OF THE LAKE, A POEM. By SIR WALTER SCOTT.
"There is a richness and spirit in this poem—a profusion of incident and shifting brilliancy of coloring, that remind us of the witchery of Ariosto—and a constant elasticity and occasional energy which seem to belong more peculiarly to the author now before us."—Jeffrey.
YOUNG. THE COMPLAINT; OR, NIGHT THOUGHTS. By EDWARD YOUNG, D.D.