6 J. TEMPLEMAN, 248, Regent Street. short, and vehement style-heartily relishing beauty and genius wherever he found them. Nor is the treatment less characteristic than the subjects; plenty of quotable and memorable passages.-Examiner. These Essays are brilliant and exquisitely beautiful. So terse and condensed is the matter in some of them, that they may be well designated a body of maxims. To relish thoroughly the caustic, pointed remarks, abundantly scattered throughout the Essays in this volume, they must be read; but at random we select a few brilliants. But we might thus transcribe half the volume, and yet give an imperfect view of its beauties. Sheffield Iris. An excellent companion to the " Table Talk."- Literary Gazette. They are characterised by original and deep thought.- Asiatic Journal. They abound in glowing images and brilliant passages. We know no living author that could rival them.- Sunday Times. They are stamped on every page with marks of his genius that cannot be mistaken, and will be welcome to all lovers of English literature.— Monthly Chronicle. Lately published, Third Edition, foolscap 8vo. cloth, 6s. CHARACTERS OF SHAKSPEARE'S PLAYS. This is a very pleasing book, and we do not hesitate to say a book of considerable originality and genius. What we chiefly look for in such a work is a fine sense of the beauties of the Author, and an eloquent exposition of them--and all this and more may be found in the volume before us.-Edinburgh Review. We rejoice to see this cheap reprint of a most valuable work, brimful of originality, meaning, and sentiment, and which, however prized by a great and increasing class of readers, has not yet met with a tithe of the popularity it deserves. In fact, every reader and lover of Shakspeare ought to be furnished with a copy of this work-the best commentary that has ever been written on the greatest of our poets.Metropolitan Magazine. We have not a doubt of this neat, beautiful, and cheap edition of a highly original and valuable work meeting with a rapid sale, unless all the relish for the immortal dramatist, and all desire to possess some of the most eloquent and searching criticisms that have ever been written, have departed from us.-Monthly Review. His style is like the diamond mine-a few glittering and remarkable passages strike the searcher at the outset, but it is only by digging deeply and diligently that his real beauties are discovered. Many have read Shakspeare themselves, and many have written of him for others, but no one has placed his beauties so clearly and laconically before us as Hazlitt.-No admirer of Shakspeare should be without this master-key to admit him into all the secret workings and beauties of this greatest of English poets.-Sheffield Iris. J. TEMPLEMAN, 248, Regent Street. Royal 18mo, cloth, 3s. CHARACTERISTICS: IN THE MANNER OF ROCHEFA UCALT'S MA X.I M S. Second Edition, 7 With an Introduction by R. H. HORNE, Author of "Cosmo de Medici." Here we have "in the rough" all the author's well-known theories of human character and action, as well as his happiest principles of criticism and poetry;-truly admirable, profoundly reasoned, and well expressed. We commend them a general perusal.—Examiner. These Characteristics of Hazlitt's were too long floating about like the bright things of a dream, without a "local habitation and a name," under which they might be enshrined, as they deserve to be, in the respect and admiration of future times.-We possess nothing like them in the English language.-Met. Conservative Journal. Two of these maxims only can we quote, but these two are delicious examplars of the whole.-Bell's New Weekly Messenger. This book is a capital three shillings' worth of four hundred and thirty-four maxims. It is a compendium of wisdom, and contains a variety of deliciously palateable matter, suppings of excellent champagne, stout port, veritable claret, cooling hock, and not a few drops of brandy; nor are honies and perfumes wanting to delight the olfactories and suit the palates of those who love sweets and aroma. It is a feast at which all may find something to their taste.-Sheffield Iris. THE FOLLOWING WORKS ARE BY THE SAME AUTHOR. Second Edition, 12mo, cloth, 4s. 6d. ESSAYS ON THE PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN ACTION, ON THE THEORIES OF HARTLEY AND OTHERS; ABSTRACT IDEAS. A work full of original remarks, and worthy a diligent perusal.-Sir E. L. Bulwer. It is a work of great ability.—Sir James Macintosh, 8 J. Templeman, 248, Regent Street. Second Edition, 8vo. (published at 10s. 6d.) reduced to 5s. 6d. SPIRIT OF THE AGE; OR CONTEMPORARY PORTRAITS. Contents:-Jeremy Bentham, Godwin, Coleridge, Rev. E. Irving, Scott, Horne Tooke, Byron, Southey, Wordsworth, Macintosh, Malthus, Gifford, Jeffrey, Brougham, Burdett, Eldon, Wilberforce, Cobbett, Campbell, Crabbe, Moore, Leigh Hunt, Charles Lamb, and Washington Irving. His views of Literary Men are almost invariably profound and searching. Metropolitan. Four vols. 8vo, cloth (published at 31.), only 11. 8s., THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON. It is well for the readers of this splendid work, that there is more in it of the painter than of the metaphysician; that its style glows with the fervour of battle, or stiffens with the spoil of victory; yet we wonder that this monument to imperial grandeur should be raised from the dead level of jacobinism by an honest and profound thinker.Serjeant Talfourd. Two vols. 8vo, (published at 28s.) 15s. TABLE TALK; OR ORIGINAL ESSAYS ON MEN, MANNERS, AND THINGS. Each Essay is a pure gathering of the author's own mind, and not filched from the world of books, in which thievery is so common, and all strike out some bold and original thinking, and give some vigorous truths in stern and earnest language. They are written with infinite spirit and thought. There are abundance of beauties to delight all lovers of nervous English prose, let them be ever so fastidious.—New Monthly Magazine. Two vols. 8vo. (published at 24s.) 11s. SPEAKER; OR, OPINIONS ON MEN, BOOKS, AND THINGS. The quantity of thought which is accumulated upon his favourite subjects; the variety and richness of the illustrations; and the strong J. TEMPLEMAN, 248, Regent Street. 9 sense of beauty and pleasure which pervades and animates the composition, give them a place, if not above, yet apart from the writings of all other essayists, they disclose the subtle essences of character, and trace the secret springs of the affections with a more learned and penetrating spirit of human dealing than either Steele or Addison.Metropolitan Magazine. 8vo. (published at 14s.) reduced to 6s. 6d. POLITICAL ESSAYS, CHARACTERS. WITH SKETCHES OF PUBLIC I am no party man, but I have a hatred of tyranny and contempt for its tools; and this feeling I have expressed as often and as strongly as I could. Vide Preface. One vol. foolscap 8vo. cloth (published at 5s.) 2s. 6d. NINETEEN SELECT SERMONS On the Evidence and Duties of Religion, from the Works of the most eminent Divines. SUBJECTS. Atheism and Infidelity refuted from Reason and History. The Falsehood of Mahometanism deduced from the history of its Founder. The Situation of the World at the time Conversation in Heaven. The Connection between Duty and Hap- The good Exercise of Faith. The Duties of the Christian Sabbath. Discretion in Religion. Our imperfect Knowledge of a Future The Parable of the Marriage Feast. The Character of Balaam. Character of Abraham. Archibald Alison, L.L. B. ... Evil Communication. Dr Abraham Rees ... "An excellent selection." The Prodigal Son. 10 J. TEMPLEMAN, 248, Regent Street. RELIQUES OF ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY, By THOMAS PERCY, D.D., F.S A. BISHOP OF DROMORE. Complete in 7 Parts, or handsomely bound in cloth, 8s. 6d. This excellent and highly interesting reprint of Percy has now reached its completion, and forms a handsome volume, containing an amount of type that is usually distributed through half-a-dozen. The celebrated Hermit of Warkworth' is appended for the first time to this collection, and the whole forms a volume, whose price and poetical character should command for it a place in every library.-New Monthly Magazine. Of the republication of standard poetry and rich gatherings together of poets, we have spoken as they appeared; among the last of these, there is not one in the whole series, the appearance of which we hail with more pleasure than this new and excellent edition of the Percy Reliques, while the circumstance that a SECOND EDITION of the book is already required proves the awakening taste of the time.-Monthly Chronicle. The taste with which the materials were chosen, the extreme felicity with which they were illustrated, the display at once of antiquarian knowledge and classical reading which the collection indicated, render it difficult to imitate, and impossible to excel, a work which must always be held among the first of its class in point of merit.-Sir Walter Scott's Essays. Dr Percy conferred on Literature an inestimable benefit. He dug up many precious jewels from among the ruins of Time. He excited the interest of the Poet and of the Historian, and united in friendly league criticism and antiquarian science.-Edinburgh Review.-Vol. i. p. 396. The most agreeable selection which exists in any language.-Ellis.】 The most elegant compilation of the early poetry of a nation that has ever appeared in any age or country; every page evinces the refined taste, the genius, and learning of the Editor; it deserved, and has received, unbounded applause, from men fully capable of appreciating its merits.-Evans' Preface to Old Ballads. To Bishop Percy we owe the recovery as well as the restoration of some of our finest Historical Ballads-strains alike welcome to the rude and polished.---Penny Magazine, No. 445. But above all the valuable acquisitions, made about his time, was an acquaintance with Bishop Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poe try. It may be imagined, but cannot be described, with what delight I saw pieces of the same kind which had amused my childhood, and still continued in secret the Delilahs of my imagination, considered as the subject of sober research, grave commentary, and apt illustration, by an Editor who showed his poetical genius was capable of emulating the best qualities of what his pious labour preserved.-Sir W. Scott's Autobiography. |