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I.
MACAULAY.

CRITICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
WRITINGS OF
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY.

In One Volume, with a finely engraved portrait, from an original picture by Henry Inman. Cloth Gilt, $2 00.

Contents.

Milton, Machiavelli, Dryden, History, Hallam's Constitutional History, Southey's Colloquies on Society, Moore's Life of Byron, Southey's Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Croker's Boswell's Life of Johnson, Lord Nugent's Memoirs of Hampden, Nare's Memoirs of Lord Burghley, Dumont's Recollections of Mirabeau, Lord Mahon's War of the Succession, Walpole's Letters to Sir H. Maun, Thackaray's History of Earl Chatham, Lord Bacon, Mackintosh's History of the Revolution of England, Sir John Malcolm's Life of Lord Clive. Life and Writings of Sir W. Temple, Church and State, Ranke's History of the Popes, Cowley and Milton, Mitford's History of Greece, The Athenian Orators, Comic Dramatists of the Restoration, Lord Holland, Warren Hastings, Frederic the Great, Lays of Ancient Rome, Madame D'Arblay, Addison, Barere's Memoirs. Montgomery's Poems, Civil Disabilities of the Jews, Mill on Government, Bentham's Defence of Mill, Utilitarian Theory of Government, and Earl Chatham, second part, &c.

"It may now be asked by some sapient critics, Why make all this coil about a mere periodical essayist? Of what possible concern is it to anybody, whether Mr. Thomas Babington Macaulay be, or be not, overrun with faults, since he is nothing more than one of the three-day immortals who contribute flashy and 'taking' articles to a Quarterly Review? What great work has he written? Such questions as these might be put by the same men who place the Spectator, Tattler and Rambler among the British classics yet judge of the size of a cotemporary's mind by that of his book, and who can hardly recognize amplitude of comprehension, unless it be spread over the six hundred pages of octavos and quartos.—Such men would place Bancroft above Webster, and Sparks above Calhoun, Adams, and Everett—deny a posterity for Bryant's Thanatopsis, and predict longevity to Pollok's Course of Time. It is singular that the sagacity which can detect thought only in a state of dilution, is not sadly graveled when it thinks of the sententious aphorisms which have survived whole libraries of folios, and the little songs which have outrun, in the race of fame, so many enormous epics.—While it can easily be demonstrated that Macaulay's writings contain a hundred-fold more matter and thought, than an equal number of volumes taken from what are called, par eminence, the 'British Essayists,' it is not broaching any literary heresy to predict, that they will sail as far down the stream of time, as those eminent members of the illustrious family of British classics."

II.
ARCHIBALD ALISON.

THE CRITICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
WRITINGS OF
ARCHIBALD ALISON,
AUTHOR OF "THE HISTORY OF EUROPE,"
In One Volume, 8vo with a portrait.

Price $1 25.

CONTENTS.

Chateaubriand, Napoleon, Bossuet, Poland, Madame de Stael, National Monuments, Marshal Ney, Robert Bruce, Paris in 1814, The Louvre in 1814, Tyrol, France in 1833, Italy, Scott, Campbell and Byron, Schools of Design, Lamartine, The Copyright Question, Michelet's France, Military Treason and Civic Soldiers, Arnold's Rome, Mirabeau, Bulwer's Athens, The Reign of Terror, The French Revolution of 1830, The Fall of Turkey, The Spanish Revolution of 1820, Karamsin's Russia, Effects of the French Revolution of 1830, Desertion of Portugal, Wellington, Carlist Struggle in Spain, The Affghanistan Expedition, The Future, &c. &c.

III.
SYDNEY SMITH.

THE WORKS OF THE
REV. SYDNEY SMITH.
Fine Edition. In One Volume, with a portrait. Price $1 00.

"Almost every thing he has written is so characteristic that it would be difficult to attribute it to any other man. The marked individual features and the rare combination of power displayed in his works, give them a fascination unconnected with the subject of which he treats or the general correctness of his views. He sometimes hits the mark in the white, he sometimes misses it altogether, for he by no means confines his pen to theories to which he is calculated to do justice; but whether he hits or misses, he is always sparkling and delightful. The charm of his writings is somewhat similar to that of Montaigne or Charles Lamb"—North American Review.

IV.
PROFESSOR WILSON.

THE RECREATIONS OF
CHRISTOPHER NORTH.
In One Volume 8vo., first American Edition with a Portrait. Price $1 00.

CONTENTS.

Christopher in his Sporting Jacket—A Tale of Expiation—Morning Monologue—The Field of Flowers—Cottages—An Hour's Talk about Poetry—Inch Cruin—A Day at Windermere—The Moors—Highland Snow-Storm—The Holy Child—Our Parish—Mayday—Sacred Poetry—Christopher in his Aviary—Dr. Kitchiner—Soliloquy on the Seasons—A Few Words on Thomson—The Snowball Bicker of Piedmont—Christmas Dreams—Our Winter Quarters—Stroll to Grafsmere—L'Envoy.

Extract from Howitt's "Rural Life."

"And not less for that wonderful series of articles by Wilson, in Blackwood's Magazine—in their kind as truly amazing and as truly glorious as the romances of Scott or the poetry of Wordsworth. Far and wide and much as these papers have been admired, wherever the English language is read, I still question whether any one man has a just idea of them as a whole."

V.
Carlyle's Miscellanies.

CRITICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
ESSAYS OF
THOMAS CARLYLE.
In one 8vo. volume, with a Portrait.
Price $1 75.

CONTENTS.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richter—State of German Literature—Werner—Goethe's Helena—Goethe—Burns—Heyne—German Playwrights—Voltaire—Novalis—Signs of the Times—Jean Paul Friedrich Richter again—On History—Schiller—The Nibellungen Lied—Early German Literature—Taylor's Historic Survey of German Poetry—Characteristics—Johnson—Death of Goethe—Goethe's Works—Diderot—On History again—Count Cagliostro—Corn Law Rhymes—The Diamond Necklace—Mirabeau—French Parliamentary History—Walter Scott, &c. &c.

VI.
TALFOURD & STEPHEN

THE CRITICAL WRITINGS
OF
T. NOON TALFOURD
AND
JAMES STEPHEN
WITH A FINELY ENGRAVED PORTRAIT.
In One Volume, 8vo. Price $1 25.

Contents of "Talfourd."

Essays on British Novels and Romances, introductory to a series of Criticisms on the Living Novelists—Mackenzie, The Author of Waverley, Godwin, Maturin, Rymer on Tragedy, Colley Cibber's Apology for his Life, John Dennis's Works, Modern Periodical Literature, On the Genius and Writings of Wordsworth, North's Life of Lord Guilford,