“This work belongs to the historic school; but it has that talent which
bestows its own attraction on whatever subject its peculiar taste may select.”

“An admirable historical romance, full of interest, and with many new
views of character. The plot is extremely well conceived, very artful and
progressing, the story never flags, and you open at once upon the main interest.”

“This is especially a tale of adventure—an historical romance of the days
of Cromwell, who, with the poet Milton, is a prominent character in the fable.
Almost all the other personages are imaginary, but they are conceived and
executed with admirable fidelity to the time wherein they are made to figure.
Indeed, the keeping is in every respect perfect, and demonstrates the intimate
acquaintance of the writer with the peculiarities of the era she has undertaken
to exhibit.”

“There is a great deal of beauty, and a great deal of talent in the composition
of this work; and as to the historical part of it, we must say for a poetical
view of Cromwell, the best is here taken of that extraordinary man yet
given in fiction, by no means excepting `Woodstock.'
The perusal of these volumes warrants our preconceived impressions of
the ample capacities of Mrs. Hall to sustain the bolder flight she has undertaken.”

“The whole work is very amusing.”

“Those who want a few hours of pleasant reading are not likely to meet
with a book more to their taste.”

“The labor and power, as well as knowledge, displayed—the `New Gil Blas'
deserves to stand forth to the public view with every advantage. We have
read these volumes with great delight.”

“A clever and intelligent author. There is a quaint humor and observance
of character in his novels, that interest me very much; and when he chooses
to be pathetic, he fools one to his bent; for, I assure you, the `Entail' beguiled
me of some portion of watery humors, yclept tears, albeit unused to the melt-ing
mood. He has a sly caustic humor that is very amusing.”

“The perusal of a few pages of the work must impress every reader with
the opinion that the writer is no ordinary person.”

“His pages abound with passages of vigor and beauty, with much fund
for abstract thought; and with groups of incidents which not only fix the
attention of the reader, but awake his admiration.”

“It is one of the most pleasing, chaste, and spirited productions that we
have met with for a long time. We may claim it with pride as an American
production.”

“This is the production of an American who we think is destined to add
largely to our reputation, in the line which he has selected for his future
efforts—that of a novelist. The work before us is well written, and particularly
happy in its dialogue. The delineation of character is excellent,
and there are occasional flashes of wit which will pass as such with
critics far more severe than we are disposed to be. As a first attempt—for
such we know it to be—it is a production of no ordinary merit, and will,
we think, meet with a reception calculated to inspire the author to further
and still more successful efforts. We take pleasure in recommending Rosine
Laval to our readers as being far, very far, superior to nineteen-twentieths
of the novels which are daily issuing from the press.”

“We conscientiously recommend Mrs. Markham to our readers.”

“These volumes contain excellent instruction in a very agreeable form.”

“We have two neat volumes, containing a series of Dialogues, by Mrs.
Markham, designed for the improvement of young people. We have examined
them carefully, and can say that we think them well adapted to the purpose
of the author. They are sufficiently simple to be understood by boys and girls
who have just begun to take to their books; they convey lessons well worth
the study of all who are yet classed among young people; and they are interesting
enough to secure the attention of those whom they are designed to instruct.”

“The title of this book is not altogether so precise as it might be. Children
are always new; but children—new or old, little or big—will find some very
entertaining matter in these volumes.”

“The books are intended for the young folks—to recommend virtue, piety,
and a good life, by kindly precepts and the exhibition of good examples. The
writer appears to have in view the good of children, and to write from a feeling
of love for her kind. She consequently writes well, and must do good.”

“This work contains a number of tales, written in a simple and easy style,
and well calculated for the amusement and instruction of children.”

“We cannot praise too much this excellent work, in which good sense and
good feeling are as conspicuous as good taste.”

“The commissioners appear to have pursued their researches with much
industry and intelligence, and to have rendered themselves thoroughly acquainted
with the subject.”
“The translation of the work could not have been committed to better
hands than Mr. Leiber's, and with his notes and additions, it forms one of
the best practical treatises extant on the causes and prevention of crime.
We shall probably have occasion to recur again to this valuable work.”

“A work unequalled in modern English historical literature.”

“A delightful little bouquet of `elegant extracts,' from the best writers of
prose and poetry in Great Britain and America. The premiums would be a
pretty present for young ladies, or students, emulous to be noticed or rewarded.”

“It is a collection, or rather let us say, a selection of pieces in prose and
verse, that have real merit, with reference both to style and sentiment. They
are choice, and will be useful to improve the taste and strengthen the morals.
The author has done a good work, and those who wish to give the most deserving
a beautiful and a useful `premium,' will find the work to which we
refer altogether suitable.”

“Carey, Lea & Blanchard have given us a choice selection of gems, from
the best popular writers of the day, under the above title. It contains articles
from the pens of Croley, Wilson, Byron, Mary Howitt, Mrs. Hemans,
Moore, Hood, Dr. Bird, Campbell, Manning, Irving, Webster, Sprague, Braining,
Percival, &c. The volume is a pleasant one, and the selections such as
their respective authors have no need to be ashamed of.”

“This is a neat volume composed of extracts from the celebrated writers of
the present century. The selections are admirably made, and the work is
got up with unusual elegance. The binding is a beautiful specimen of the
skill which has been attained in this important department of book making.
The volume is one of rare beauty, and constitutes a cheap, elegant, and appropriate
present.”

“A very neat and instructive present for youth at all seasons.”

“The present treatise is in no wise inferior to its predecessor; it is characterized
by the same agreeable and elegant style, the same facility of illustration—
added to which it possesses unrivalled precision and accuracy of demonstration.
Avoiding, therefore, the abstruse niceties and the transcendental
mathematics of the subject, the author has nevertheless produced a volume
calculated, we are fully persuaded, to impress upon his readers the magnitude
and importance of the science, and to initiate them in no mean degree into
its mysteries.”

“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.”

“It is remarked by the author, that there was nothing in the manner of
Lord Byron towards him during the conversations, approaching levity, or any
thing that indicated a wish to mock at religion.
“Much conversation is recorded which is not connected with the religious
lectures, and occasions are used to represent Lord Byron in a favorable light.”

“This is a very valuable and interesting work, full of new views and curious
deductions; beginning with general remarks on the influence of literary
habits, on the constitution, and thence proceeding to make the theory more
actual by its application to particular instances.
“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, monoma-nia
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.”

“We have been delighted with the perusal of these volumes, and we pronounce
them a boon to those who do the wearying work in the literary mill.
All men of genius—the acknowledged, who are too few, and the unacknowledged,
who are too many, and the self-estimated, who are countless—will
read the pages eagerly, reflect upon their contents deeply, and, we are well
convinced, derive from them more practical benefit than from any other work
that has yet appeared, tending to show the cause and cure of those gentle
aberrations of intellect that seem insuperable to the poetic temperament.”

“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.”

“The book has a high reputation in Great Britain, and there is no being
capable of reflection, who has not need, and upon whom it is not incumbent,
to obtain light, and bestow concern on the topics which are here discussed.
“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.”

“A very captivating little book, one that cannot be carefully read without
moving the feelings and improving the heart. It contains so much truth under
the garb of fiction, so much that is like nature and like life, that the
picture though drawn from the imagination must make a deep and enduring
impression. The author, Miss Sarah Stickney, is to us little known; but hereafter
her name will be connected with those of the gifted ladies of the present
age, who have successfully exerted their talents in the progressive cause of
education and of morals.”

“We cannot but wish these pictures of P. L. may be contemplated by all
our young friends, who think they cannot be happy in any situation, however
humble, in which God may have placed them.”

“We predict that this interesting volume will become a universal favorite.
We have in fact never met with a book, besides the Sacred Oracles, which
might be more advantageously put into the hands of young persons.”

“This beautiful little volume cannot be perused without affecting and improving
the head and the heart, and to young ladies particularly, would we
most earnestly recommend it.”

“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.”

“The tone of feeling and reflection which pervades the work is in the characteristic
mood of the writer, considerate, ardent, and chivalrous; his principles,
as might be expected, are sound and independent, and his language is frequently
rich in those beauties which distinguish his previous writings. To us it appears
a work which will not discredit its illustrious subject.”

“Miss Baillie's Plays on the Passions have been long known as among the
best in the language. No one who reads them can entertain a doubt of the character
of the writer's affections. Such works could never have been dictated by
a cold heart.”

“We are among the most earnest admirers of her genius, her literary attainments
and skill, her diction, her success, her moral designs, and her personal
worth. Some of her tragedies have deservedly passed into the stock of the principal
British and American theatres. They are express developments and delineations
of the passions, marked by a deep insight into human nature, great
dramatic power of treatment, a fertile spirit of poetry, and the loftiest and
purest moral sentiment.”

“A work of first-rate importance in the science to which it relates, and which
must henceforth take its place in the library of every student in Geology.”

“Mr. De la Beche's Geological Manual is the first and best work of the kind,
and he has performed his task with a perfect knowledge of all that has been
ascertained in Geology, and with considerable judgment and taste in the manner
of doing it. So much geological science was never before compressed in so
small a space.”

“This artist will gratify all reasonable expectation; he is neither ostentatious,
nor dogmatical, nor too minute; he is not a partisan nor a carper; he admires
without servility, he criticises without malevolence; his frankness and
good humor give an agreeable color and effect to all his decisions, and the object
of them; his book leaves a useful general idea of the names, works, and deserts,
of the great masters; it is an instructive and entertaining index.”

“We have made a copious extract in preceding columns from this interesting
work of our countryman, Rembrandt Peale, recently published. It has received
high commendation from respectable sources, which is justified by the portions
we have seen extracted.”

“Mr. Peale must be allowed the credit of candor and entire freedom from affectation
in the judgments he has passed. At the same time, we should not omit to
notice the variety, extent, and minuteness of his examinations. No church,
gallery, or collection, was passed by, and most of the individual pictures are
separately and carefully noticed.”

“Such is the outline of a life, which, in Mrs. Thomson's hands, is a mine of interest;
from the first page to the last the attention is roused and sustained, and
while we approve the manner, we still more applaud the spirit in which it is
executed.”

“In all respects a most appropriate volume for the Cabinet Library. We
shall take an opportunity in another notice, to give some of the many interesting
passages in the volume that offer themselves for quotation.”

“The book is unquestionably the best Life of Ralegh that has ever been
written.”

“This is a piece of biography which combines the fascinations of romance
with the deeper interest that attaches to historical narrative.”

“This beautiful and most useful little volume,” says the Literary Gazette,
“is a perfect picture of elegance, containing a vast sum of geographical information.
A more instructive little present, or a gift better calculated to be long
preserved and often referred to, could not be offered to favored youth of either
sex. Its cheapness, we must add, is another recommendation; for, although
this elegant publication contains 100 beautiful engravings, it is issued at a price
that can be no obstacle to its being procured by every parent and friend to youth.”
“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.”

“An excellent little work, engraved with a clearness and correctness which
is quite surprising: when complete, travellers will have a system of Geography
and a complete Atlas, which they may carry in their pocket.”

“This is the most perfect gem of an Atlas which has ever been published.”

“It corresponds in size with those popular publications to which it will form
so useful an addition—namely, `The Family Library,' `The Classical Library,'
and `Cabinet Cyclopædia.”'

“Nothing could be devised better calculated to impress upon the mind a knowledge
of the general principles of Geography, than the plan of this publication.”

“It will be a crying shame in this age of intellect, if this able and beautiful
work be not extensively patronized; but we cannot doubt the success which we
feel assured its intrinsic merits must secure to it.”

“It is scarcely in the nature of things, that a work of so much public service
should fail in meeting with that extensive patronage which can alone remunerate
the projectors.”

“The plates are beautifully executed; and the geographical student may obtain
in this little work, such is the excellence of its arrangement, as much information
as he could gain by wading through several books of far greater
bulk.”

“We have seldom seen a work so perfect in its arrangement, and so elegant
in its execution.”

“For the accuracy of its delineation, and the extent of the information which
it conveys, it stands without a rival in English topography.”

“The plan of this useful and elegant work may, indeed, be called original.
The style and execution of the Maps are of the first character.”

This work is one of the most useful publications which has yet issued from
the press; it will be an unique and brilliant accession to the library, and a very
useful work to the student in Geography.”

“Its qualifications will render it one of the most popular, highly interesting,
and useful publications of the day.”

“We cannot but remark on the versatility of Mr. Cooper's genius, which
imparts equal life to the wild Indian, the weatherbeaten sailor, the picturesque
pirate, the romantic and mysterious tyranny of Venice, and the bold feudal
spirit of the middle ages. In this very work, Heinrich, the burgomaster, is a
complete Flemish picture.”

“Vigorous, terrible, and with its interest sustained to the last, Frankenstein
is certainly one of the most original works that ever proceeded from a female
pen.”

“Universally and cordially do we recommend this delightful volume. Impressed
with the genuine spirit of Christianity; a diary, as it were, of the feelings,
hopes, and sorrows of a family,—it comes home to all, either in sympathy
or example. It is a beautiful picture of a religious household, influencing to
excellence all within its sphere. We believe no person could read this work,
and not be the better for its pious and touching lessons.”

“We fearlessly pronounce this delightful little volume to be not only one of
the most faultless, but every way valuable works it has ever fallen to our lot
to recommend to public persual.”

“The Rectory of Valehead is a beautiful model of domestic life in the Christian
home of a well-regulated family, and combines literary amusement with the most
refined and intellectual improvement.”

“One of the first female novelists.”

“The most correct of female writers, Miss Austen.”

“Her fables appear to us, in their own way, nearly faultless. * * * She conducts
her conversations with a regard to character hardly exceeded by Shakspeare
himself. Like him, she shows as admirable a discrimination in the character of
fools, as of people of sense: a merit which is far from common. * * * Those
who delight in the study of human nature, may improve in the knowledge of it,
and in the profitable application of that knowledge, by the perusal of such
fictions as those before us.”

“It is one of the most elegant fictions of common life we ever remember to
have met with.”

“Mansfield Park contains some of Miss Austen's moral lessons, as well as
her most humorous descrptions.”

“The work, Sense and Sensibility, is of the same correct and instructive
character as those which have preceded it, showing the same knowledge of characters
and dramatic skill in portraying them; the same simplicity of plot, the
same power of interesting the feelings deeply, and the same elevated tone of sentiment.”

“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 new 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.”