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BACON. ESSAYS, MORAL, ECONOMICAL, AND POLITICAL. BY FRANCIS BACON, LORD VERULAM.

"His other and more elaborate works are in fact extinct to the many, and now generally known only as a mighty name; and the writer of these short compositions, the great Lord Bacon, may not improperly be considered as shrunk like the ashes of an Alexander in a golden urn, within the limits of this little but sterling volume."

BEATTIE. THE MINSTREL, OR THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS, AND OTHER POEMS. BY JAS. BEATTIE, LL.D. "For unaffected devotion and sweetness of sentiment, terse and comprehensive description of rural scenery, and a style of pure and transparent simplicity, the Minstrel is perhaps unequalled."— Book of Gems.

CHANNING.

CHARACTER OF NAPOLEON, AND OTHER ESSAYS, LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL. BY W. E. CHANNING, D.D. 2 vols.

"Channing is unquestionably the finest writer of the age."Fraser's Magazine.

CHAPONE.-LETTERS ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE MIND. BY MRS. CHAPONE.

Notwithstanding the numerous works on female education published within the last few years, Mrs. Chapone's excellent Letters still retain their high stand in public estimation.

COLERIDGE. THE ANCIENT MARINER, AND OTHER POEMS. BY S. T. COLERIDGE.

"Coleridge's verses contain, in small space, treasures of matured philosophy, and mingle intimations of holy truths with pleasant and simple images."-Athenæum.

* COWPER.-POEMS. BY WILLIAM COWPER. 2 vols.

"Cowper is, after Thomson, the best of our descriptive poets. He has a fine manly sense, a pensive and interesting turn of thought, tenderness running into the most touching pathos, and a patriotic or religious zeal mounting almost into sublimity."-HAZLITT.

ELIZABETH, OR THE EXILES OF SIBERIA.

The extensive popularity of this little tale is well known.

FALCONER. THE SHIPWRECK, AND OTHER POEMS. BY WILLIAM FALCONER.

"The Shipwreck' has been always popular. It contains several fine descriptions of scenery. The characters of the officers are drawn by a masterly pencil. The episode of Palemon and Anna is exquisitely wrought."-S. C. HALL.

FENELON.-PIOUS REFLECTIONS & PIOUS THOUGHTS FOR EVERY DAY OF THE MONTH. BY ABP. FENELON.

GEMS OF AMERICAN WIT, OR THE AMERICAN JOE MILLER.

• GEMS OF ANECDOTE, ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. • GEMS OF WIT AND HUMOUR.

In these compilations such anecdotes and jeux d'esprit only.are included as are free from all objectionable tendency.

• GEMS FROM AMERICAN POETS.

"Above a hundred and twenty specimens of popular American Poets adorn the pages, most of them worthy of being so chosen, and some of them eminently sweet and beautiful."-Literary Gazette. GEMS FROM BRITISH POETS. In 4 Series.

First Series-CHAUCER TO GOLDSMITH.
Second Series-FALCONER TO CAMPBELL.
Third Series-LIVING AUTHORS.

Fourth Series-SACRED AND SERIOUS.

• GEMS FROM SHAKSPEARE.

• GOLDSMITH.-THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. BY OLIVER GOLDSMITH.

GOLDSMITH.-ESSAYS. BY OLIVER GOLDSMITH. GOLDSMITH.-THE POETICAL WORKS OF GOLDSMITH. "Goldsmith, both in verse and prose, was one of the most delightful writers in the language. His verse flows like a limpid stream. His ease is quite unconscious. Every thing in him is spontaneous, unstudied, unaffected, yet elegant, harmonious, graceful, and nearly faultless."-HAZLITT.

GRAY.-THE POETICAL WORKS OF THOMAS GRAY.

The greatest of English critics has long since spoken of Gray as one whom it would be "vain to blame and useless to praise." GREGORY.-A FATHER'S LEGACY TO HIS DAUGHTERS. BY DR. GREGORY.

"These letters, written by a tender father, for the instruction of his daughters, contain a rich treasure of admonition and advice." GUIDE TO DOMESTIC HAPPINESS. BY W. GILES, Esq., Author of "THE REFUGE."

A little work, in a series of letters, addressed to a young lady, showing, on Christian principles, the true source of happiness in

domestic life.

OF

• HAMILTON.-COTTAGERS
TALE. BY ELIZABETH HAMILTON.

"A picture of the rural habits of Scotland, of striking and impressive fidelity."-SIR WALTER SCOTT

HAMILTON.-LETTERS ON THE ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF EDUCATION. BY ELIZABETH HAMILTON. 2 vols.

The deep practical philosophy of this admirable work is too well known to require comment.

* IRVING.-ESSAYS AND SKETCHES. BY WASHINGTON

IRVING.

"Whington Irving has been called the Goldsmith of America. He posses: es all the ease and gracefulness indeed of our distinguished countryman; but he excels him in power and pathos."-Preface.

JOHNSON.-HISTORY

OF RASSELAS, PRINCE

OF

ABYSSINIA, A TALE. BY SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. "This tale, with all the charms of oriental imagery, and all the force and beauty of which the English language is capable, leads us through the most important scenes of human life, and shows us that this stage of our being is full of vanity and vexation of spirit."" -BOSWELL.

LAMB.TALES FROM SHAKSPEARE. BY CHAS. LAMB. 2 vols.

"If we except, perhaps, Robinson Crusoe, these Stories claim the very first place, and stand unique, without rival or competitor, as productions of all-absorbing interest."-Critical Review.

LAMB. ROSAMUND GRAY, A TALE, AND OTHER PIECES. BY CHARLES LAMB.

"For mere pathos, all that Lamb has ever done, falls far short of his beautiful tale 'Rosamund Gray."-Recollections of Lamb.

LEWIS.-TALES OF WONDER. BY M. G. LEWIS.

"The wild and imaginative stories in prose and verse, written by Mr. Lewis, and which sprung from a mind tutored in the German school, were in their day extremely popular."-BROCKEDON.

MASON.-SELF KNOWLEDGE; A TREATISE OF THE NATURE OF THAT IMPORTANT SCIENCE, AND THE WAY TO OBTAIN IT. BY JOHN MASON, A.M.

This esteemed little manual is here printed without abridgment or curtailment of any kind.

MILTON.-PARADISE LOST, A POEM. BY JOHN MILTON.

2 vols.

"A genius universal as his theme;

Astonishing as Chaos; as the bloom

Of blooming Eden fair; as Heaven sublime."-THOMSON.

MORE.-PRACTICAL PIETY, OR THE IMPORTANCE OF RELIGION ON THE HEART. BY HANNAH MORE. 2 vols.

⚫ MORE. CŒLEBS IN SEARCH OF A WIFE. BY H. MORE. 2 vols.

"Cœlebs I am really delighted with. I have been kept up night after night reading it after supper. I hope, too, that it will do as much good as such a composition from its very nature can do. It will, I trust, draw on to other and more serious studies."-WILBERFORCE'S CORRESPONDENCE.

PAUL AND VIRGINIA; FROM THE FRENCH OF ST. PIERRE.

The translation of this interesting and affecting little tale was made by the celebrated Helen Maria Williams, at Paris, amidst the horrors of Robespierre's tyrrany. It speedily rose to great favour in England, and has ever since maintained its place in the estimation of persons of taste and refinement.

PURE GOLD FROM THE RIVERS OF WISDOM.

A collection of short extracts on religious subjects from the older writers, BISHOP HALL, SHERLOCK, BARROW, Paley, Jeremy TAYLOR, &c.

SACRED HARP.

A collection of the best pieces of Sacred Poetry in the language. Upwards of twenty thousand copies of this little work have been sold in the short space of a few years.

SCOTT.-BALLADS & LYRICAL PIECES. BY SIR W. SCOTT. This volume contains GLENFENLIS, EVE OF ST. JOHN, CADYOW CASTLE, &c., which first brought Scott into notice as a poet.

SCOTT. THE LADY OF THE LAKE, A POEM. BY SIR WALTER SCOTT.

"There is a richness and spirit in this poem-a profusion of incident and a shifting brilliancy of colouring that remind us of the witchery of Ariosto-and a constant elasticity and occasional energy which seem to be peculiarly his own."-JEFFREY.

* SCOTT.-ROKEBY, A TALE. BY SIR WALTER SCOTT. The scene of this poem is laid in Yorkshire immediately subsequent to the Battle of Marston Moor.-Preface.

SCOTT.-LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. BY SIR WALTER SCOTT.

"For vivid richness of colouring and truth of costume, many of the descriptive passages of the Lay of the Last Minstrel' stand almost unrivalled."-Monthly Review.

SCOTT.-MARMION, A TALE OF FLODDEN FIELD. BY SIR WALTER SCOTT.

"The powerful poetry of some of the passages in Marmion is superior in our apprehension to all that Scott has produced, and equal to anything that has ever been written."-JEFFREY.