WORKS PUBLISHED OR SOLD BY J. TEMPLEMAN, 248, REGENT STREET, NEAR OXFORD ST. THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED, The Second Edition, in 2 vols. foolscap 8vo. cloth, 12s. ON DRAMATIC ART AND BY LITERATURE. AUGUSTUS WILLIAM SCHLEGEL. TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL GERMAN BY JOHN BLACK. This is a work of extraordinary merit. It was originally delivered at Vienna in the form of Lectures, and professed to be a Review of Dramatic Literature in the different countries where it has successfully flourished. It has since been carefully revised, and now comes before the public with the author's last touches and improvements. In conclusion, we consider the Dramatic Lectures every way worthy of that individual whom Germany venerates as the second, and whom Europe has classed among the most illustrious of her characters.— Quarterly Review, No. 23. In this excellent treatise on the Dramatic Art, Shakspeare has found one of his ablest commentators.-Lowndes. With Portrait, 8vo. cloth (published at 10s.) reduced to Es. 6d. THE SPEECHES OF CHARLES PHILLIPS, ESQ. DELIVERED AT THE BAR, AND ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS IN IRELAND AND ENGLAND. Second Edition. Edited by Himself. PUBLIC N. B. More than 100,000 of these speeches have been sold separately; and, when collected, a very large edition was sold in a few months; and of the present edition only a few copies remain unsold. 2 J. TEMPLEMAN, 248, Regent Street. SECOND EDITION, With Portrait, 8vo. cloth (published at 10s. 6d.) reduced to 4s. 6d. RECOLLECTIONS OF CURRAN AND SOME OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES. BY CHARLES PHILLIPS, ESQ., BARRISTER AT LAW. In the following pages I have endeavoured to sketch a likeness of Curran, as he lived in society, introducing such of his contemporaries as might serve to illustrate his character. My object has been to preserve as much as possible of the mind and manners of this extraordinary man; for the gratification of those who knew him, and for the information, however faint, of those who knew him not. This was my sole intention.-Vide Preface. It may seem an omission in a work professing to give the orators, as well as the statesmen of the last age, that Curran should not appear among them, the greatest orator, after Grattan and Plunket, that Ireland has produced, and in every respect worthy of being placed on a line with the great masters of speech. But there is really an insuperable difficulty in attempting a task which has been so inimitably performed already, and within only a few years. Mr C. Phillips's sketch of his friend is certainly one of the most extraordinary pieces of biography ever produced. Nothing can be more lively and picturesque than its representation of the famous original. The reader of it can be hardly said not to have personally known Curran and Curran's contemporaries. It has been justly said of this admirable work, that it is Boswell minus Bozzy. No library should be without such a piece; and, instead of hopelessly attempting any addition to it, there will be more use in copying one of the numerous characteristic descriptions in which it abounds. "I caught the first glimpse of the little man through the vista of his garden, &c. &c. &c." his Let one specimen of Curran's powers be added, and it is one of the most certainly known to be unpremeditated of any in the history of the rhetorical art, for who could ever have supposed a judge capable of sneering at a barrister's poverty, by telling him he suspected law library was rather contracted?" Yet this was the brutal remark of Judge Robinson, the author of many stupid, slavish, and scurrilous political pamphlets, and by his demerits raised to the eminence which he thus disgraced. "It is very true, my lord, that I am poor, and the circumstance has certainly somewhat curtailed my library: my books are not nume. rous, but they are select, and I hope they have been perused with proper dispositions. I have prepared myself for this high profession rather by the study of a few good works, than by the composition of a great J. TEMPLEMAN, 248, Regent Street. 3 many bad ones. I am not ashamed of my poverty; but I should be ashamed of my wealth, could I have stooped to acquire it by servility and corruption. If I rise not to rank, I shall at least be honest; and should I ever cease to be so, many an example shows me that an illgained elevation, by making me the more conspicuous, would only make me the more contemptible."-Lord Brougham's Statesman, vol. ii, P. 191-2. It is always a matter of difficulty to draw the character of a person who belongs to another, and, in some particulars, a very different country. This has been felt in making the attempt to give a sketch of Mr Grattan, and whoever has read the most lively and picturesque piece of biography that was ever given to the world, Mr Phillips's Recollections of Curran,' will join in the regret here expressed, that the present work did not fall into hands so able to perform it in a masterly manner. The constant occupation consequent upon great professional eminence has unfortunately withdrawn him from the walks of literature, in which he was so remarkably fitted to shine.-Lord Brougham's Speeches, vol. iv, p. 10. 2 vols. foolscap 8vo. cloth (published at 12s.) reduced to 5s. THE WORKS OF CHARLES LAM B. The two volumes now presented to the world altogether justify the previous eulogium of his admirers. They contain miscellaneous poetry, a tragedy, a farce, a tale, and a variety of essays. The essays upon Shakspeare and the contemporary dramatists evince a fine taste and a deep reading in the dramatic literature of England. The tale is a sweet and melancholy story: it is not unlike the finer part of Mackenzie. The first volume contains the poetry, the tragedy, the tale of Rosamond Gray, and a very interesting paper upon Christ's Hospital. In the second volume are the essays, the letters under assumed signatures, and the farce. Upon the whole, we consider Mr Lamb to be gifted with talents of no common order.-Literary Gazette. Foolscap 8vo. cloth (published at 6s.) reduced to 2s. INCLUDING STRICTURES ON THE PRINCIPAL COUNSEL PRACTIS. ING IN THE COURTS OF KING'S BENCH, COMMON PLEAS, CHANCERY, AND EXCHEQUER. By J. P. COLLIER, BARRister at Law. Contents:-On the Decline of Eloquence at the English Bar; Mr Scarlett, now Lord Abinger; Marryatt; Serjeant Best, now Lord Wyn 4 J. TEMPLEMAN, 248, Regent Street. ford; Sir S. Shepherd; Sir A. Piggot; Topping; Serjeant Lens; Serjeant Vaughan, now Justice Vaughan; Dauncey; Gurney, now Baron Gurney; Denman, now Lord Denman; Serjeant Copley, now Lord Lyndhurst; Jervis; Raine; Sir S. Romilly; Sir Charles Wetherell ; Serjeant Bosanquet, now Justice Bosanquet; Richardson; Brougham, now Lord Brougham; Hart; Bell; Nolan; Gaselee, now Justice Gaselee; Casberd; Warren; Harrison; Serjeant Pell; Cullen; Horne, now Sir W. Horne; Heald; Wingfield, &c. With regard to the particular contents of this volume, it will be found that, independent of the addition of some new pieces of criticism, not included in the original series, various alterations and improvements have been made in almost every character; for wherever I found reason to change the impression under which I first wrote, I have not scrupled to state it, whether in favour or against the individual under observation. Some notes have also been appended to render certain points more intelligible, as well as to communicate facts necessary to be known, and to mention events that have occurred since the first appearance of the article. Vide Preface. HAZLITT. Two vols. 8vo. with Portrait (published at 28s.) reduced to 158. LITERARY REMAINS OF THE LATE WILLIAM HAZLITT, WITH A NOTICE OF HIS LIFE, BY HIS SON; AND THOUGHTS ON HIS GENIUS AND WRITINGS. By SIR E. L. BULWER AND SERJEANT TALFOURD. He was singularly versatile, his taste encircled all things, Literature, Art, Philosophy, and Manners. Scattered throughout these Essays, is a wealth of thought and poetry, beside which half the contemporaries of their Author seem as paupers. Nothing can be more delightful than the freshness of thought and feeling which appears in the Essay on 'The Love of the Country.' To the next age he will stand amongst the foremost of the thinkers of the present: it is with great truth that to him may be applied the hackneyed praise, “he was in advance of his time."-Metropolitan Magazine. * First printed in the · Examiner.' J. TEMPLEMAN, 248, Regent Street. 5 Few works have lately issued from the press in every respect more acceptable to the thinking scholar than these Remains.' His was a great and powerful mind. The grasp of his intellect was essentially Johnsonian, while the delicacy of his perception of the beautiful enabled him to impart an elegant charm to everything he handled.-News. The work before us is a collection of Essays, literary, political, and philosophical. Valuing, as we do, the stern fidelity with which Hazlitt adheres to his subject, we are rejoiced to see these searching papers rescued from the obscurity of magazines and reviews. There are some interesting letters from Hazlitt, written in the years 1802 and 1803, expressive of the writer's first feelings on visiting the Louvre, and studying the immortal portraits of Titian, and creations of Raphael; we only grieve that these letters are so few in number, as they breathe the true feeling of the enthusiastic critic. The work, too, is enriched with some thoughts on the genius of Hazlitt, by the author of Eugene Aram;' and Thoughts,' by Serjeant Talfourd; and a very faithful portrait of the fine head of Hazlitt.-Athenæum. He is at home in the closet-in the fresh fields-in the studiesat the theatre. Has felt intensely; he imbued-he saturated himself with the genius he examined; his criticisms are therefore eminently scientific; and his remarkable faculty of saying brilliant things, in which the wit only ministers to the wisdom, is very conspicuous in all: a biographical memoir is prefixed; and a clever characteristic portrait. -Literary Gazette. Just published, foolscap 8vo. cloth, 6s. SKETCHES AND ESSAYS NOW FIRST COLLECTED BY HIS SON. We have no hesitation in saying that no one of his previous volumes surpasses it in the varied excellence of its contents-whether we regard the philosophical subtlety of their spirit of observation, the fearless force of their satire, the unrivalled critical acumen of their literary discussions, the felicitous truth of their pictures of society, or the power, the purity, and the brilliancy of their style. The volume contains no less than Eighteen Essays, more, we believe, than are contained in any previous volume of Hazlitt's. We need say no more to evince the sterling value of this volume, and the claims which it possesses on the attention of every lover, not merely of literature, but of truth and moral beauty; claims, too, which can hardly fail to meet with almost universal practical recognition.-Court Journal. In each and every page we recognize the familiar hand of the acute, sturdy, wilful, but benevolent philosopher-writing in the same lucid, |