Montagu’s Selections from Old English Writers.
Selections from the Works of Taylor, Latimer, Hall, Milton, Barrow, Lowth, Brown, Fuller, and Bacon. By Basil Montagu. 1 vol., 12mo, green cloth, 50 cents; cloth gilt, $1.
“This volume contains choice extracts from some of the noblest of the old English writers.”—Cincinnati Atlas.
“A book of delight. It is for the head, the heart, the imagination and the taste, all at once.”
Peacock.—Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey.
1 vol., 12mo, green cloth, 50 cts.
“Works of singular merit, but of a character so peculiar that we cannot give any descriptive account of them in the space at our command. Wide sweeping, vigorous satire is their characteristic; satire not so much of men as of opinions * * * The production of a mind contemplative in its turn, but keenly alive to the absurdity of human pretension. There is scarcely a topic which is not here embodied or glanced at; and modern philosophy is pretty severely hit, as may be inferred from the motto of Headlong Hall:
‘All philosophers, who find
Some favorite system to their mind,
In every point to make it fit,