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The Biglow Papers. By James Russell LOWELL. (Alluded to by John Bright in the House of Commons.) WITH AN ILLUSTRATION BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.
⁂ This Edition has been Edited with additional Notes explanatory of the persons and subjects mentioned therein.
“The rhymes are as startling and felicitous as any in ‘Hudibras.’ ‘Sam Slick’ is a mere pretender in comparison.”—Blackwood’s Magazine.
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☞ There is an edition of this work extant, hastily got up after my own was announced, edited by Mr. Hughes, the author of Tom Brown’s School Days. It gives an introduction, long and occasionally amusing, but of not the least value in explaining to the English reader the peculiarities of the work. The Globe pointed out this sad defect in reviewing the present edition:—“The copy beside us,” remarks the writer, “is apparently edited and published by Mr. Hotten, who gives a preface—which has the rare merit of explaining exactly what the ordinary English reader requires to know of satirical political poems, written in the Yankee dialect, touching the Mexican war, and the extension of the slave states—and of attempting to explain nothing else.”—Globe, Dec. 8, 1859.
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Macaulay; the Historian, Statesman, and ESSAYIST: Anecdotes of his Life and Literary Labours, with some Account of his Early and Unknown Writings.
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☞ Includes Anecdotes of Sydney Smith, Moore, Rogers, and Lord Jeffrey; and gives numerous examples of Lord Macaulay’s extraordinary memory and great powers of conversation.