MISCELLANEOUS.
A NEW SPIRIT OF THE AGE.
Containing Critical Essays, and Biographical Sketches of Literary and other Eminent Characters of the Present Time. Edited by R. H. Horne, Esq., Author of “Orion,” “Gregory the Seventh,” &c. &c. These volumes are illustrated with Engravings on steel, from new and original Portraits of Dickens, Tennyson, Carlyle, Wordsworth, Talfourd, Browning, Southwood Smith, and Miss Martineau. Second Edition, Revised by the Editor, with “Introductory Comments.” In 2 vols. post 8vo., price 24s. cloth.
“In the biographical sketches, the Editor has carefully excluded all disagreeable personalities and all unwarrantable anecdotes. The criticisms are entirely upon abstract grounds. He may be often wrong, but it is with a clear conscience.”—Editor’s Preface.
“We have two volumes of clever and subtile dissertation on the merits of almost every living writer of any pretension, written in a very animated and pleasant style. The author will at least gain the praise of versatility of talent, and of a quick and generous appreciation of contemporary merit, as well as (what his publisher will think quite as much to the purpose) have the satisfaction of having produced a book that people will be inclined, as the phrase is, ‘to run after.’”—Morning Herald, March 25, 1844.
“As we have said before, Mr. Horne’s admirations appear to us to be well placed and his sympathies generous and noble.”—Morning Chronicle.
OUR ACTRESSES;
Or, GLANCES AT STAGE FAVOURITES, Past and Present. By Mrs. C. Baron Wilson, Authoress of the “Life of the Duchess of St. Albans,” “Memoirs of Monk Lewis,” &c. &c. In 2 vols. post 8vo., illustrated with numerous Engravings on Steel, from new and original Portraits, price 24s. cloth.
“Handsome volumes, adorned with several portraits, and the biographies are full of amusing anecdotes.”—Atlas.