He published, besides, a treatise on "Vulgar Errors," a work of great and acknowledged merit.-Blake. His works, folio, $6 00, London.

Feltham's Resolves.

This work somewhat resembles Lord Bacon's Essays, and exhibits an exuberance of wit and fancy that is perfectly astonishing. Metaphor follows metaphor; and they are not merely introduced as an idle and unmeaning sport, but are exponents in themselves, acute and profound.-Penny Cyc.

Mr. Hallam rates this book more humbly. The moral reflections, says he, of a serious and thoughtful mind are generally pleasing, and to this, perhaps, is partly owing the kind of popularity which the Resolves of Feltham have obtained; but they may be had more agreeably and profitably in other books.

8vo, $175, London.

Basil Montagu's Selections from the Works of Taylor, Hooker, Barrow, South, Latimer, Browne, Milton, and Bacon.

12mo, $1 50, London, 1839.

The Spectator and Tattler.

These earliest of the regular essays were written by Steele and Addison, and their merits were transcendent in contributing to reform the taste, purify the pleasures, and elevate the morals and literature of the nation.-Chancellor Kent. 8vo, $300, London.

Rambler and Idler.

Most of the papers in these two works were written by Dr. Johnson, and are characterized by great force of expression and depth of thought.

Guardian-Adventurer-Observer-and Mir

ror.

The first of these "British Classics" is adorned with papers from Pope and Berkeley, as well as from Steele; the second, intended as a sequel to the Rambler, is from the pen of Hawkesworth and Dr. Johnson; the papers in the Observer were all written by Cumberland; and those in the Mirror principally by Mackenzie, author of the "Man of Feeling."

D'Israeli's Amenities of Literature.

Though at first sight the work appears to be a series of essays, yet it will be found, on examination, that the subject of each essay is a salient point of our vernacular literature.— Lond. Athen.

D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature.

This is a selection made with taste and judgment. The work has passed through several editions.-Enc. Am. 8vo, $5 00, London.

Charles Lamb's Works.

His delicious "Essays" are full of wisdom, pregnant with genuine wit, abound in true pathos, and have a rich vein of humour running through them all.-Hall.

His works, 8vo, $3 75.

Macauley's Miscellany.

Brilliant and instructive, laden with the fruits of much reading, but not always very profound or accurate. 3 vols. 8vo, $4 00, Philadelphia.

Recreations of Christopher North.

These papers of Professor Wilson appeared originally in Blackwood. They are various in character and degree of merit. Some of them are exquisite.

Verplanck's Discourses.

Mr. Verplanck's mind is deeply imbued with much reading in the best authors; his argument is never weak, and he evinces a judgment in a remarkable degree calm and unprejudiced. His style is pure, perspicuous, and beautifully elaborate; not always, perhaps, sufficiently spirited and flowing, and sometimes cumbersome and heavy.-N. Y. Rev.

Dr. W. E. Channing's Prose Works.

Among the present or recent philosophical writers in our own language, few have exhibited the same originality, depth, and power of thought so happily combined with the vigour and beauty of language, which are necessary to give them effect.-N. A. Rev.

5 vols. 12mo, $5 00, Boston, 1841.

Edward Everett's Works.

Judicious, eloquent, and instructive.

Hillhouse's Works.

These elegant volumes are the ripe production of a mind of high powers and high culture.-N. Am. Rev.

Dennie's Works.

Mr. Dennie possessed a brilliant genius and delicate taste, a beautiful style, a ready pen, a rich fund of elegant literature, and an excellent heart.-Enc. Am.

Goldsmith's Prose Works.

His prose, often entwined with humour, and always adorned with graces of a pure style, is among the best in our language. -Blake.

Dana's Poems and Prose Works.

Equally honourable to the author and to the literature of his country.

1 vol. 8vo, $1 25.

Burke's Works.

As a writer, whether we consider the splendour of his diction, the richness and variety of his imagery, or the boundless store of knowledge which he displays, it must be acknowledged that there are few who equal, and none who transcend him.

3 vols. 8vo, $5 00, London.

Pitt's Speeches.

His eloquence, if not more elevated or profound, was, upon the whole, more correct than that of any other orator of his time, and remarkably copious and well arranged.—Enc. Am,

Fox's Speeches.

His speeches were bold and sublime, and his influence over the minds of his audience was irresistible. In eloquence he was never surpassed by any of his countrymen.-Enc. Am.

Canning's Speeches.

His eloquence was persuasive and impassioned, his reasoning clear and logical, his manner graceful, his expression winning.-Enc. Am.

Brougham's Speeches.

As an orator, he is neither finished nor accurate in style, but his characteristics are ingenuity and force of argument, quickness and strength of sarcasm, and a prompt, vigorous, impassioned style of reasoning.-Enc. Am.

Webster's Speeches.

No man can ever cast his eye over the tables of contents of these volumes of speeches without being struck with their great variety, the versatility of talent they imply, and with the severe requisitions made upon the mind of the statesman. -N. Am. Rev.

2 vols. 8vo, $3 50, New-York.

Selections from the Edinburgh Review.

The object of the author was to imbody in these selections the best papers in the Review, particularly those of permanent interest, or likely to attract the greatest number of readers.- Preface.

6 vols. 8vo, $8 50, Paris.

Selections from Foreign Literature, by George Ripley and others.

We owe to these gentlemen many valuable pieces, which, without their aid, would not have been accessible to the merely English reader.

VII. POETRY.

"They say it is an ill mason that refuseth any stone; and there is no knowledge but in a skilful hand serves, either positively as it is, or else to illustrate some other knowledge."-HERBERT's Remains.

Pope's translation of Homer.

3 vols. 18mo, $1 35, New-York.

Eschylus, translated by Potter.

The merit of Eschylus was very great in the department of tragedy.-Eschb.

1 vol. 18mo, 40 cents, New-York.

Euripides, translated by Potter.

The talent of Euripides for philosophy and eloquence ap

pears in his tragedies, which are strikingly marked by sententious passages and pathetic scenes.-Eschb.

3 vols. 18mo, $1 30, New-York.

Sophocles, translated by Francklin.

His tragedies have the merit of a regular and judicious plan, a striking truth in characters, a masterly and energetic expression and play of the passions.—Eschb.

i vol. 18mo, 45 cents, New-York.

Pindar, translated by Wheelwright.

Pindar is marked by his lofty sublimity, his bold energy of thought, his vivid and poetic imagination, and the flowing fulness of his diction.-Eschb.

1 vol. 18mo, 45 cents, New-York.

Aristophanes, translated by Mitchell.

His plays furnish valuable means for learning the state of manners and morals of the Greeks in his age.-Eschb. 2 vols. 18mo, $2 00, Philadelphia, 1822.

Dryden's Virgil.

Dryden's translation of this great poet cannot be considered, without a comparison with the original, more unfavourable to the English poet. His manner always assumes an eloquence in which the judgment is manly and the imagination profuse, and the force and fidelity of language at once preserved and heightened by the noblest structure of English rhyme.-Edinb. Enc.

2 vols. 18mo, 90 cents, New-York.

Horace, translated by Francis.

This version by Mr. Francis, particularly of the Odes, is highly Horatian. It is moral without dulness, gay and spirited with propriety, tender without winning.-Monthly Rev. This praise is overcharged.

2 vols. 18mo, 90 cents, New-York.

Chaucer.

Chaucer's merits as a poet are great and various, but they are all inferior to his power of delineating living character. His men and women are not inferior even to Shakspeare's in comic spirit and resemblance to nature.-Edinburgh Enc.