“A very singular and effective union of the very best properties which we
seek for in books of travels on the one hand, and in works of the imagination
on the other.”

“The manners of Portugal were never before delineated with so much truth
and vivacity.”

“There are in my recess at home another Series, of Stories, in number and quantity sufficient for a
volume; and as they are much like the former in execution, and sufficiently different in events and characters,
they may hereafter, in peaceable times, be worth something to you; and the more, because I shall,
whatever is mortal of me, be at rest in the chancel of trowbridge church.”

“This work is beautifully got up, and elegantly embellished with exceedingly
clever wood cuts: it is published with the design of affording to youthful minds
a brief, but yet perspicuous, exhibition of the first principles of the physical
sciences, including accounts of the most important discoveries recently made in
the several departments of natural knowledge. All this the book professes to
do, and does it well. We think by the easy and familiar tone that it adopts in
the descriptions, it will become a great favourite with youth.”

“Here is a familiar introduction to the principles of natural philosophy. We
have carefully perused every page, and every page has afforded us proofs of
accuracy and observation which we hardly expected. There cannot be a more
delightful present to the young, or anything better calculated to refresh the
memories of the old. It is the book, of all others, to teach young people how
to think.”

“The present little volume is so written, that, with moderate attention, a
youth may obtain a very clear knowledge of each branch of natural philosophy.
The volume is printed uniformly with the `Boy's Own Book,' and may be said to
be a suitable successor to that little work. The compiler deserves great credit
for the arrangement, and also for the simple, at the same time, correct and
familiar style of conveying information. We cannot do better than recommend
parents to present to their children this elegant little production.”

“Our readers will, doubtless, remember the `Boy's Own Book;' the present
volume is a sequel to that amusing little work. It is got up with extreme care,
and illustrated with an immense number of figures, of extraordinary neatness
of execution.”

“The author has unfolded the principles of Christianity with much candor
and correctness; he has explained our personal and relative duties in a just
and philosophical manner; and, by the ease and unaffected simplicity of his
style, has rendered his treatise pleasing as well as instructive.—His remarks
on brotherly love, in that part of his work embracing the relative duties, possess
much to interest.”

“Every page that directs the mind to what should be deemed the main interest
of life, and causes operative thought in ulterior destinies, is of inestimable
value.”

“The publishers deserve the thanks of the lovers of pure, chastened and
profitable fiction for their reprint of this charming little work. It cannot fail
to become as popular here as it already is in England. It is a collection of tales
and sketches, designed to impress upon the mind useful lessons of piety, virtue
and wisdom. It is written in a style of unusual excellence—masculine in its
vigor, yet light and playful in its delicacy, and embodies several scenes of
pathos and feeling of which Sterne or M'Kenzie might be proud.—To those
whose taste has not been perverted by the flashy wit and nauseous sentimentality
of modern fiction, we commend the immediate purchase of this delightful
little work.”

“In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.”

“It may be read for purposes of devotion by Christians of whatever denomination,
with pleasure and profit.”

“These verses were singularly beautiful in conception and composition, and
breathe the purest poetic taste and the most sincere and fervent spirit of
piety.”

“The work should be in the hands of all who value taste, genius and
piety.”

“We have rarely, perhaps never, met a poetical volume, more appropriate
to family devotion.”

“As a book for family reading—whether as an exercise of taste or devotion—
we know of few that can surpass it.”

“Of the main work we may repeat that it possesses the value of important
history and the magnetism of romantic adventure. It sustains in every respect
the reputation of Irving.” “We may hope that the gifted author will treat in like
manner the enterprises and exploits of Pizarro and Cortes; and thus complete a
series of elegant recitals, which will contribute to the especial gratification of
Americans, and form an imperishable fund of delightful instruction for all ages
and countries.”

“As he leads us from one savage tribe to another, as he paints successive
scenes of heroism, perseverance and self-denial, as he wanders among the magnificent
scenes of nature, as he relates with scrupulous fidelity the errors, and
the crimes, even of those whose lives are for the most part marked with traits
to command admiration, and perhaps esteem—everywhere we find him the same
undeviating, but beautiful moralist, gathering from every incident some lesson
to present in striking language to the reason and the heart.”

“This is a delightful volume; for the preface truly says that the expeditions
narrated and springing out of the voyages of Columbus may be compared with
attempts of adventurous knights errant to achieve the enterprise left unfinished
by some illustrious predecessors. Washington Irving's name is a pledge pledge how
well their stories will be told: and we only regret that we must of necessity defer
our extracts for a week.”

“On the whole, this work will sustain the high fame of Washington Irving.
It fills a blank in the historical library which ought not to have remained so
long a blank. The language throughout is at once chaste and animated; and
the narrative may be said, like Spenser's Fairy Queen, to present one long gallery
of splendid pictures.”

“We have read a part of Washington Irving's new Sketch-Book, the scene
of which is in Spain, the most romantic of European countries, and the best
known by the gifted author. His style has lost nothing of its peculiar charm—
his descriptions are as graphic as usual, and enlivened with racy anecdotes
and happy reflection. We shall probably soon furnish a specimen of this
work, from the whole of which we expect gratification.”

“The reader will at once perceive that the subject, the characters and the
scenes of action, could not have been better selected for the display of the various
and unequalled powers of the author. All that is glorious in arts and splendid
in arms—the glitter of armor, the pomp of war, and the splendor of chivalry—
the gorgeous scenery of the Bosphorus—the ruins of Byzantium—the magnificence
of the Grecian capital, and the richness and voluptuousness of the imperial
court, will rise before the reader in a succession of beautiful and dazzling
images.”

“The History of Scotland, by Sir Walter Scott, we do not hesitate to declare,
will be, if possible, more extensively read, than the most popular work of fiction,
by the same prolific author, and for this obvious reason: it combines much of the
brilliant coloring of the Ivanhoe pictures of by-gone manners, and all the graceful
facility of style and picturesqueness of description of his other charming romances,
with a minute fidelity to the facts of history, and a searching scrutiny
into their authenticity and relative value, which might put to the blush Mr.
Hume and other professed historians. Such is the magic charm of Sir Walter
Scott's pen, it has only to touch the simplest incident of every-day life, and it starts
up invested with all the interest of a scene of romance; and yet such is his fidelity
to the text of nature, that the knights, and serfs, and collared fools with whom
his inventive genius has peopled so many volumes, are regarded by us as not
mere creations of fancy, but as real flesh and blood existences, with all the virtues,
feelings and errors of common-place humanity.”

“We have read a part of Washington Irving's new Sketch Book, the scene of
which is Spain, the most romantic of European countries, and the best known
by the gifted author. His style has lost nothing of its peculiar charm,—his descriptions
are as graphic as usual, and enlivened with racy anecdotes and happy
reflection. We shall probably soon furnish a specimen of this work, from the
whole of which we expect gratification.”

“Let us honestly avow in conclusion, that in addition to the charm of an
interesting fiction to be found in these pages, there is more mental power
in them, more matter that sets people thinking, more of that quality that
is accelerating the onward movement of the world, than in all the Scotch
novels that have so deservedly won our admiration.”

“This now novel from the pen of our countryman, Cooper, will win new
laurels for him. It is full of dramatic interest—“hair-breadth escapes”—
animated and bustling scenes on the canals, in the prisons, on the Rialto,
in the Adriatic, and in the streets of Venice.”

“Of the whole work, we may confidently say that it is very able—a performance
of genius and power.”

“We are surprised, in meeting with an American reprint of this delightful
volume, that a work so universally popular has not been before republished in
this country.”

“One of the most delightful labors of leisure ever seen; not a few of the
most beautiful phenomena of nature are here lucidly explained.”

“`White's History of Selborne,' the most fascinating piece of rural writing
and sound English philosophy that has ever issued from the press.”

“We possess already innumerable discourses on Astronomy, in which the
wonders of the heavens and their laws are treated of; but we can say most
conscientiously that we are acquainted with none—not even La Place's own
beautiful expose in his System du Monde,—in which all that is essentially interesting
in the motions and laws of the celestial bodies, or which is capable of
popular enunciation, is so admirably, so graphically, or we may add, so unaffectedly
and simply placed before us. * * * Is it asking too much of Mrs.
Somerville to express a hope that she will allow this beautiful preliminary
Dissertation to be printed separately, for the delight and instruction of thousands
of readers, young and old, who cannot understand, or are too indolent
to apply themselves to the more elaborate parts of the work? If she will do
this, we hereby promise to exert our best endeavors to make its merits known.”

“It contains the least prejudiced and most acute notices we have read of the
habits and modes of thinking of Englishmen, and the merits and defects of the
country and society.”

“A work that will be fondly treasured by every true lover of nature.”

“We hazard but little in predicting that this volume will be a favorite with
a large class of readers. It is written by a true lover of nature, and one who
most pleasantly records his actual observations.”

“Upon its high interest we need not enlarge: the personal adventures of the princess, her journeyings
on foot and on horseback, in disguise and in her own character, her mental and bodily sufferings, her hopes
and her despair, are a romance, and seem to belong to another age. They recall the wanderings and the
perils of our own Charles Edward, with all the additional interest which must attach to the daring and
the suffering of a woman.”

“Of the many publications which have recently issued from the press, calculated
to give a popular and attractive form to the results of science, we look upon
this volume as by far the most valuable. Mr. Babbage's name is well known
in connexion with the general subject of which he has here undertaken to treat.
But it will be difficult for the reader who does not possess the volume itself, to
understand the happy style, the judgment and tact, by means of which the author
has contrived to lend almost the charm of romance to the apparently dry
and technical theme which he has chosen.”

“The author is a man of solid sense, friendly to this country, and his remarks
have the value and interest of which his character and inquiries authorized
the expectation.”

“The author is a gentleman of classical education, a shrewd observer, a lively
writer, whose natural manner is always agreeable; whose various matter is
generally entertaining and instructive; and whose descriptions are remarkably
graphic. The greater portion of his pages have yielded us both profit and
pleasure.”

“This Atlas far surpasses any thing of the kind which we have seen, and is
made to suit the popular libraries which Dr. Lardner and Mr. Murray are now
sending into every family in the empire.”

“Its very ingenious method of arrangement secures to the geographical student
the information for which hitherto he has been obliged to resort to works
of the largest dimensions.”

“This miniature and beautiful Atlas is likely to supersede, for general purposes,
maps of a more expensive and elaborate character. It appears to us to
answer the double purpose of exercising the attention, while it imprints all that
is important in Geography on the memory.”

“The workmanship is among the best of the kind we have ever witnessed.”

“It contains all the information to be derived from the most expensive and
unwieldy Atlas.”

“We are at length gratified by the appearance of this long-looked for work
from the pen of Sir James Mackintosh. Highly gifted by nature, deeply read,
and singularly accomplished, the view of one of the most memorable epochs in
English history could not have been undertaken by any man of a capacity to do
it justice in every respect, superior to this eminent individual.”

“In every page we perceive the anxiety of the historian to hold the balance
of justice with unfaltering hand, and to watch its slightest vibrations.”

“The Sequel is highly honourable to the industry and talents of its author;
and the Prefatory Memoir is very well written. Altogether, the volume
possesses a sterling character, too rare at this period of evanescent publications.”

“Considering the circumstances under which these volumes are given to the
public, we consider their contents as amongst the most interesting records of
which the assertion of the human mind ever formed the theme.”

“The masterly manner in which Mr. Moore has brought together his arguments,
the great extent and minuteness of his researches into ancient authorities,
his intimacy with the customs and traditions of other times, and his
close and critical knowledge of the ancient languages, will surprise the reader
of his Travels, who may have measured his talents by his songs.”

“His physical biographies, if we may so term them, of Burns, Cowper, Byron,
and Scott, are of a very curious and novel kind; written with equal feeling
and observation. He traces Cowper's malady to its true source, monomania
on religious subjects; and the tone of the remarks is at once so just and
so candid, that we cannot do better than give a brief portion.”

“How could the work be otherwise than interesting, when it traces the career of a statesman, who,
though now in his eighty-first year, has commanding influence in every European cabinet, who acquired
power under the French monarchy, and retained it under the Republic, the Directory, the Consulate, the
Empire, and the Dynasty of Artois and Orleans?”