For more than a quarter of a century, the most remarkable magazine writer of his time, was the late William Maginn, LL.D., well-known as the Sir Morgan Odoherty of Blackwood's Magazine, and as the principal contributor, for many years, to Fraser's and other periodicals. The combined learning, wit, eloquence, eccentricity, and humor of Maginn, had obtained for him, long before his death, (in 1843), the title of The Modern Rabelais. His magazine articles possess extraordinary merit. He had the art of putting a vast quantity of animal spirits upon paper, but his graver articles—which contain sound and serious principles of criticism—are earnest and well-reasoned.
The collection now in hand will contain his Facetiæ (in a variety of languages), Translations, Travesties, and Original Poetry, also his prose Tales, which are eminently beautiful, the best of his critical articles, (including his celebrated Shakspeare Papers), and his Homeric Ballads. The periodicals in which he wrote have been ransacked, from "Blackwood" to "Punch," and the result will be a series of great interest.
Dr. Shelton Mackenzie, who has undertaken the editorship of these writings of his distinguished countryman, will spare neither labor nor attention in the work. The first volume will contain an original Memoir of Dr. Maginn, written by Dr Mackenzie and a characteristic Portrait, with fac-simile.
Published by J. S. REDFIELD,
110 & 112 Nassau-street, New York
PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION.
THE CONCLUDING VOLUMES OF
DR. MAGINN'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS,
CONTAINING
THE SHAKSPERE PAPERS—HOMERIC BALLADS—FRASERIAN PAPERS, ETC.
ANNOTATED BY
Dr. SHELTON MACKENZIE
EDITOR OF "SHEIL'S SKETCHES OF THE IRISH BAR"—"THE NOCTES AMBROSIANÆ," ETC.
Nearly ready, in Two Volumes,
THE LIFE
OF THE RIGHT HONORABLE
JOHN PHILPOT CURRAN,
MASTER OF THE ROLLS, IRELAND,