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THE MANUAL OF HERALDRY:
Being a concise description of the several terms used, and containing a Dictionary of every designation in the science. Every one Illustrated by an Engraving on Wood, of which the volume will contain at least Four Hundred.
Lately published, in Demy Quarto, tastefully bound in gilt, 21s.
LAYS AND LEGENDS
Illustrative of English Life.
BY CAMILLA TOULMIN.
"This is, in appearance, an elegant volume, such a one as people like to see on a drawing-room table; for there must be books for show as well as for use, especially in the height of 'the season.' The contents do not belie the promise of the exterior. We have a number of prettily executed engravings, new and old, the subjects as various as form the exhibition of the Royal Academy: on one leaf a pageant of chivalry, by Stephanoff; on another a rural solitude, by Creswick; on another a storm over a harvest-field, by Westall; on others, a cottage girl by Gainsborough, portraits of beauties by Uwins and Chalon, landscapes by Turner, and so on to the concluding plate, from one of Collins's charming forest scenes, with village children, whose very rags are picturesque, and whose smiles are the ideal of rustic joy. Miss Toulmin has constructed a pretty, feeling tale, which embraces all those subjects—a task an author less ingenious might have given up in despair, but which she has happily accomplished. The course of the story is varied by romantic episodes and poetic legends. The object Miss Toulmin proposed to herself she has effectively worked out, and connected recollections of the romance of the past with a tale illustrative of the incidents of the present."—Britannia.
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HIGH LIFE IN NEW YORK.
BY JONATHAN SLICK, ESQ.
"How Jonathan Slick went to see Madame Celeste, and his opinions thereon, and how Fanny Elsler sought him, and his opinions of her, will amuse the reader who seeks them, in these volumes. How, at a milliner's, Jonathan mistook a pair of French corsets for a side saddle—and a capital tale of a milliner which he tells amid some other records of the sorrows of milliner life—are, also, worth referring to at the same source."—Athenæum.
"If this is not Sam Slick under a new prænomen, it is a capital imitation."—Spectator.