The Author’s style is terse, lucid, and nervous, and his plan not only moral, but more instructive than any hitherto pursued in treating of general history.
THE LIFE OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON.
By Sir David Brewster, LL.D., F.R.S.
Portrait and Woodcuts.
This is the only extended life of the greatest of English philosophers. In attempting to fill up this gap in our philosophic and scientific literature, Sir David Brewster has not only sought out, from resources hitherto unknown, every fresh and novel particular regarding his life, but has given the most lucid explanation of Newton’s great discoveries—and has endeavoured to render these intelligible to all classes of readers.
A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR.
By Daniel De Foe.
A New Edition, with Historical Notes by E. W. Brayley, F.S.A.
“From De Foe’s History of the Plague we may derive more information than from all the other publications on the subject put together. He has collected all the facts attending the rise, progress, and termination of the malady; an accurate report of the number of deaths, as published by authority; a faithful account of the regulations adopted to arrest and mitigate its fury. But that which imparts life to the whole, and forms its distinguishing feature, is its descriptive imagery. The effects upon the affrighted minds of the inhabitants are depicted with all the genuine pathos of nature, without any aim at effect, but with the ease and simplicity of real life.”
A CLASSICAL TOUR THROUGH ITALY.