“This English translation, which has been very faithfully rendered, is
still more valuable than the original work, as upon all points where any
obliquity from other published recitals occurs, the translator has given several
accounts, and thus, in the form of notes, we are presented with the
statements obtained from Napoleon's own dictation at St. Helena, from the
Memoirs of the Duke of Rovigo, of General Rapp, of Constant, from the
writings of the Marquis of Londonderry, &c.”

“We know from the best political authority now living in England, that
the writer's accounts are perfectly corroborated by facts.”

“The only authentic Life of Napoleon extant.”

“This splendid publication that literally leaves nothing to be desired.

“These volumes may be read with all the interest of a romance.”

“No person who is desirous rightly to appreciate the character of Bonaparte,
will neglect the perusal of this work; whoever wishes to know, not
merely the General or the Emperor, but what the man really was, will
find him well pictured here.”

“The completest personal recollections of Napoleon that have appeared.”

“As a part of the history of the most extraordinary man, and the most
extraordinary times that ever invited elucidation, these memoirs must continue
to the latest ages to be records of invaluable interest.”

“The most interesting of the whole series of expeditions to the North
Pole.”

“This expedition will be for ever memorable as one which has added
immensely to our knowledge of this earth that we inhabit.”

“Captain Beechey's work is a lasting monument of his own abilities,
and an honor to his country.

“This, in our humble opinion, is the best offspring of the pen of an author
who in philosophical spirit, knowledge and reflection, richness of
moral sentiment, and elegance of style, has altogether no superior—perhaps
no equal—among his contemporaries. Some time ago we made copious
extracts from this beautiful work. We could not recommend the
whole too earnestly.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The editors and publishers should receive the thanks of the present
generation, and the gratitude of posterity, for being the first to prepare in
this language what deserves to be entitled not the ENCYCLOPÆDIA
AMERICAN, but the PEOPLE'S LIBRARY.”

“THE WORLD RENOWNED CONVERSATIONS-LEXICON.”

“To supersede cumbrous Encyclopædias, and put within the reach of the poorest
man, a complete library, equal to about forty or fifty good-sized octavos, embracing
every possible subject of interest to the number of 20,000 in all—provided
he can spare either from his earnings or his extravagancies, twenty cents a week,
for three years, a library so contrived, as to be equally suited to the learned and
the unlearned,—the mechanic—the merchant, and the professional man.”

“The reputation of this valuable work has augmented with each volume; and
if the unanimous opinion of the press, uttered from all quarters, be true, which
in this instance happens to be the case, it is indeed one of the best of publications.
It should be in the possession of every intelligent man, as it is a library
in itself, comprising an immense mass of lore upon almost every possible subject,
and in the cheapest possible form.”

“Witnesses from every part of the country concurred in declaring that the
Encyclopædia Americana was in a fair way to degrade the dignity of learning
and especially the learning of Encyclopædias, by making it too—that the
multitudes of all classes were infatuated with it in saying in so many words
from the highest to the lowest, `the more we see of the work the better we like
it.' ”

“The articles in the present volume appear to us to evince the same ability
and research which gained so favorable a reception for the work at its commencement.
The Appendix to the volume now before us, containing an accouint
of the Indian Languages of America, must prove highly interesting to the reader
in this country; and it is at once remarkable as a specimen of history and philology.
The work altogether, we may again be permitted to observe, reflects
distinguished credit upon the literary and scientific character, as well as the
scholarship of our country.”

“The copious information which this work affords on American subjects,
fully justifies its title of an American Dictionary; while at the same time the
extent, variety, and felicitous disposition of its topics, make it the most convenient
and satisfactory Encyclopædia that we have ever seen.”

“If the succeeding volumes shall equal in merit the one before us, we may
confidently anticipate for the work a reputation and usefulness which ought to
secure for it the most flattering encouragement and patronage.”

“The variety of topics is of course vast, and they are treated in a manner
which is at once so full of information and so interesting, that the work, instead
of being merely referred to, might be regularly perused with as much pleasure as
profit.”

“We view it as a publication worthy of the age and of the country, and cannot
but believe the discrimination of our countrymen will sustain the publishers,
and well reward them for this contribution to American Literature.”

“It reflects the greatest credit on those who have been concerned in its production,
and promises, in a variety of respects, to be the best as well as the most
compendious dictionary of the arts, sciences, history, politics, biography, &c.
which has yet been compiled. The style of the portion we have read is terse
and perspicuous; and it is really curious how so much scientific and other information
could have been so satisfactorily communicated in such brief limits.”

“A compendious library, and invaluable book of reference.”

“Those who can, by any honest modes of economy, reserve the sum of two
dollars and fifty cents quarterly, from their family expenses, may pay for this
work as fast as it is published; and we confidently believe that they will find at
the end that they never purchased so much general, practical, useful information
at so cheap a rate.”

“If the encouragement to the publishers should correspond with the testimony
in favor of their enterprise, and the beautiful and faithful style of its execution,
the hazard of the undertaking, bold as it was, will be well compensated; and
our libraries will be enriched by the most generally useful encyclopedic dictionary
that has been offered to the readers of the English language. Full enough
for the general scholar, and plain enough for every capacity, it is far more convenient,
in every view and form, than its more expensive and ponderous predecessors.”

“The high reputation of the contributors to this work, will not fa it a favorable reception, and its own merits will do the rest.”

“If the encouragement to the publishers should correspond with the testimony
in favor of their enterprise, and the beautiful and faithful style of its execution,
the hazard of the undertaking, bold as it was, will be well compensated; and
our libraries will be enriched by the most generally useful encyclopedic dictionary
that has been offered to the readers of the English language. Full enough
for the general scholar, and plain enough for every capacity, it is far more convenient,
in every view and form, than its more expensive and ponderous predecessors.”

“The high reputation of the contributors to this work, will not fail to insure
it a favorable reception, and its own merits will do the rest.”

“The work will be a valuable possession to every family or individual that
can afford to purchase it; and we take pleasure, therefore, in extending the
knowledge of its merits.”

“The Encylopædia American is a prodigious improvement upon all that has
gone before it; a thing for our country, as well as the country that have it birth,
to be proud of; an inexhaustible treasury of useful, pleasant, and familiar learning
on every possible subject, so arranged as to be speedily and safety refered to
on emergency, as well as on deliberate inquiry; and better still, adapted to to the
understanding, and put within the reach of the multitude. * * * The clopædia Americana is a work without which no library worthy of the name
can hereafter be made up.”

“This work appears to improve as it issues from the press. The number of
able writers, who contribute original matter in all the departments of literature
and science is amply sufficient to give it celebrity and high character. To men
engaged in the active pursuits of life—whose time is precious—this popular dictionary
is a most valuable and ready mode of reference. It embraces brief
views and sketches of all the late discoveries in science—and the present condition
of literature, politics, &c. &c. Every merchant's counting-room—every
lawyer's library—every mechanic—every farmer ought to possess a copy of this
useful and valuable work.”

“From the specimen which has already been given, we have no hesitation in
saying, that in regard to intelligence, skill, and faithful diligence, it is a work
of the very highest order. We know of no similar publication that can bear
any comparison with it for the rich variety of valuable information, which it
condenses within so small a compass. It is free from all the narrowness of English
prejudice, it contains many important and interesting details which can be
found in no English production, and is a work which could be written by none
but German scholars, more than two hundred of whom were employed in the
original compilation.”

“This cannot but prove a valuable addition to the literature of the age.”

“The vast circulation this work has had in Europe, where it has already been
reprinted in four or five languages, not to speak of the numerous German editions,
of which SEVEN have been published, speaks loudly in favor of its intrinsic
merit, without which such a celebrity could never have been attained. To every
man engaged in public business, who needs a correct and ample book of reference
on various topics of science and letters, the Encyclopædia Americana will
be almost invaluable. To individuals obliged to go to situations where books
are neither numerous nor easily procured, the rich contents of these twelve volumes
will prove a mine which will amply repay its purchaser, and be with difficulty
exhausted; and we recommend it to their patronage in the full conviction
of its worth. Indeed, it is difficult to say to what class of readers such a book
would not prove useful, nay, almost indispensable, since it combines a great
amount of valuable matter in small compass, and at moderate expense, and is
in every respect well suited to augment the reader's stock of ideas, and powers
of conversation, without severely taxing time or fatiguing attention.”

“The department of American Biography, a subject of which it should be disgraceful
to be ignorant, to the degree that many are, is, in this work, a prominent
feature, and has received the attention of one of the most indefatigable
writers in this department of literature, which the present age can furnish.”

“According to the plan of Dr. Lieber, a desideratum will be supplied; the substance
of contemporary knowledge will be brought within a small compass;—
and the character and uses of a manual will be imparted to a kind of publication
heretofore reserved, on strong shelves, for occasional reference. By those
who understand the German language, the Conversation Lexicon is consulted ten
times for one application to any English Encyclopædia.”

“The volume now published is not only highly honorable to the taste, ability,
and industry of its editors and publishers, but furnishes a proud sample of the
accuracy and elegance with which the most elaborate and important literary
enterprises may now be accomplished in our country. Of the manner in which
the editors have thus far completed their task, it is impossible, in the course of a
brief newspaper article, to speak with adequate justice.”

“It continues to be particularly rich in the departments of Biography and
Natural History. When we look at the large mass of miscellaneous knowledge
spread before the reader, in a form which has never been equalled for its condensation,
and conveyed in a style that cannot be surpassed for propriety and perspicuity,
we cannot but think that the American Encyclopædia deesrves a
place in every collection, in which works of reference form a portion.”

“By far the best work of the kind ever offered for sale in this country.”

“BOOKS THAT YOU MAY CARRY TO THE FIRE, AND HOLD READILY IN YOUR
HAND, ARE THE MOST USEFUL AFTER ALL. A MAN WILL OFTEN LOOK AT
THEM, AND BE TEMPTED TO GO ON, WHEN HE WOULD HAVE BEEN FRIGHTENED
AT BOOKS OF A LARGER SIZE, AND OF A MORE ERUDITE APPEARANCE.”

“What parent or guardian that throws his eye over the list of its contributors
but must be rejoiced by meeting the names of those who are in themselves a
guarantee of intellectual and moral excellence?”

“The plan of the work appears well adapted to the purpose it is proposed to
fulfil—that of supplying a series of publications, embracing the whole range of
literature and science, in a popular and portable form; while the excellence of
the execution is guarantied by the judgment displayed in the selection of writers.
The list of authors employed in this ambitious undertaking comprises some of
the most eminent men of the present age.”

“In science, the list is not less promising. The names of the President, Vice-Presidents,
and most distinguished Fellows of the Royal Society, are contained
in it. A treatise on astronomy, by Herschel; on optics, by Brewster; and on
mechanics, by Lardner; need be only recommended by the subjects and the writers.
An eminent Prelate, of the first rank in science, has undertaken a noble
subject which happily combines philosophy with religion. Twelve of the most
distinguished naturalists of the age, Fellows of the Linnæan and Zoological
Societies, are preparing a course of natural history. Others not less eminent in
literature and science, whose names it is not needful yet to mention, have shown
symptoms of an ambition to take a place among such fellow-laborers.”

“The topics, as may be supposed, are both judiciously selected and treated
with ability. To general readers, and as part of a family library, the volumes
already published possess great recommendations. For the external beauties of
good printing and paper they merit equal commendation.”

“The uniform neatness of these volumes, their very moderate price, and the
quantity of information which they contain, drawn from the best and most
attractive sources, have given them deserved celebrity, and no one who desires
to possess such information, should hesitate a moment to add them to his
library.”

“This excellent work continues to increase in public favor, and to receive
fresh accessions of force to its corps of contributors.”

“Its plan and arrangement are entitled to our best commendations.”

“It is not easy to devise a cure for such a state of things (the declining
taste for science;) but the most obvious remedy is to provide
the educated classes with a series of works on popular and practical
science, freed from mathematical symbols and technical terms,
written in simple and perspicuous language, and illustrated by facts
and experiments, which are level to the capacity of ordinary minds.”

“Without disparaging any other of the many interesting and instructive volumes
issued in the form of cabinet and family libraries, it is, perhaps, not too
much to place at the head of the list, for extent and variety of condensed information,
Mr. Herchel's discourse of Natural Philosophy in Dr. Lardner's Cyclop
ædia.”

“The finest work of philosophical genius which this age has seen.”

“By far the most delightful book to which the existing competition between
literary rivals of great talent and enterprise has given rise.”

“Mr. Herschel's delightful volume. * * * We find scattered through the
work instances of vivid and happy illustration, where the fancy is usefully called
into action, so as sometimes to remind us of the splendid pictures which crowd
upon us in the style of Bacon.”

“It is the most exciting volume of the kind we ever met with.”

“One of the most instructive and delightful books we have ever perused.”

“A work which contains an uncommon amount of useful information, exhibited
in a plain and very intelligible form.”

“This volume has been lately published in England, as a part of Dr. Lardner's
Cabinet Cyclopædia, and has received the unsolicited approbation of the most
eminent men of science, and the most discriminating journals and reviews, in
the British metropolis.—It is written in a popular and intelligible style, entirely
free from mathematical symbols, and disencumbered as far as possible of technical
phrases.”

“Admirable in development and clear in principles, and especially felicitous in
illustration from familiar subjects.”

“Though replete with philosophical information of the highest order in mechanics,
adapted to ordinary capacities in a way to render it at once intelligible
and popular.”

“A work of great merit, full of valuable information, not only to the practical
mechanic, but to the man of science.”

“It fully sustains the favorable opinion we have already expressed as to this
valuable compendium of modern science.”

“Dr. Lardner has made a good use of his acquaintance with the familiar facts
which illustrate the principles of science.”

“It is written with a full knowledge of the subject, and in a popular style,
abounding in practical illustrations of the abstruse operations of these important
sciences.”

“The volume treats of everything relating to the fabric, embracing many
historical observations and interesting facts in natural history, with practical
directions of the minutest kind, for the guidance of those engaged in the production
or the manufacture of silk. These details, with the accompanying engravings
of machinery, must prove particularly valuable to those who wish to
attain an accurate knowledge of a very important art, on the history of which
alone the general reader will find much to interest him in the first part of the
volume.”

“It contains abundant information in every department of this interesting
branch of human industry—in the history, culture, and manufacture of silk.”

“There is a great deal of curious information in this little volume.”

“The excellencies, defects, and fortunes of the governments of the Italian
commonwealths form a body of the most valuable materials for political philosophy.
It is time that they should be accessible to the American people, as
they are about to be rendered in Sismondi's masterly abridgment. He has done
for his large work, what Irving accomplished so well for his Life of Columbus.”

“This volume appears to contain all useful information on the subject of
which it treats.”

“These volumes are full of interest. * * * The present volume embraces the
manufactures of Iron and Steel only, and describes the present state of the
more important branches of both. Bridges, cannon, anchors, chains, screws,
figure in the first department—files, edge-tools, and saws, the latter; and the
history of all forms not the least interesting portion.”

“A very delightful volume, and on a subject likely to increase in interest as
it proceeds. * * * We cordially commend the work both for its design and execution.”

“The Life of More, being from the pen of Sir James Mackintosh, engaged
and fully rewarded our attention. It is a rich theme, and has been treated
with the lofty philosophical spirit and literary skill which distinguish the
writings of Sir James.”

“We are certain, that no one can rise from the perusal of the work, without
having his understanding enlarged, and the best affections of his heart improved.”

“A most interesting and valuable volume.”

“The author has given proof of his well-known industry, and extensive acquaintance
with the results of science in every part of Europe.”

“The subject is, as might be expected, ably treated, and clearly illustrated.”

“In the first volume of Sir James Mackintosh's History of England, we find
enough to warrant the anticipations of the public, that a calm and luminous
philosophy will diffuse itself over the long narrative of our British History.”

“In this volume Sir James Mackintosh fully developes those great powers, for
the possession of which the public have long given him credit. The result is the
ablest commentary that has yet appeared in our language upon some of the most
important circumstances of English History.”

“Worthy in the method, style, and reflections, of the author's high reputation.
We were particularly pleased with his high vein of philosophical sentiment, and
his occasional survey of contemporary annals.”

“If talents of the highest order, long experience in politics, and years of application
to the study of history and the collection of information, can command
superiority in a historian, Sir James Mackintosh may, without reading this work,
be said to have produced the best history of this country. A perusal of the
work will prove that those who anticipated a superior production, have not reckoned
in vain on the high qualifications of the author.”

“Our anticipations of this volume were certainly very highly raised, and unlike
such anticipations in general, they have not been disappointed. A philosophical
spirit, a nervous style, and a full knowledge of the subject, acquired by
considerable research into the works of preceding chroniclers and historians,
eminently distinguish this popular abridgment, and cannot fail to recommend it
to universal approbation. In continuing his work as he has begun, Sir James
Mackintosh will confer a great benefit on his country.”

“Of its general merits, and its permanent value, it is impossible to speak,
without the highest commendation, and after a careful and attentive perusal of
the two volumes which have been published, we are enabled to declare that, so
far, Sir James Mackintosh has performed the duty to which he was assigned,
with all the ability that was to be expected from his great previous attainments,
his laborious industry in investigation, his excellent judgment, his superior talents,
and his honorable principles.”

“We shall probably extract the whole of his view of the reformation, merely
to show how that important topic has been handled by so able and philosophical
a writer, professing Protestantism.

“The talents of Sir James Mackintosh are so justly and deeply respected, that
a strong interest is necessarily excited with regard to any work which such a
distinguished writer may think fit to undertake. In the present instance, as in
all others, our expectations are fully gratified.”

“The second volume of the History of England, forming the sixth of Carey &
Lea's Cabinet Cyclopædia, has been sent abroad, and entirely sustains the reputation
of its predecessors. The various factions and dissensions, the important
trials and battles, which render this period so conspicuous in the page of history,
are all related with great clearness and masterly power.”

“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.”

“OF THE MANY WORKS WHICH HAVE BEEN LATELY PUBLISHED IN IMITATION, OR
ON THE PLAN ADOPTED BY THE SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE,
DR. LARDNER'S CYCLOPÆDIA IS BY MUCH THE MOST VALUABLE, AND
THE MOST RECOMMENDED BY DISTINGUISHED ASSISTANCE, SCIENTIFIC AND LITETARY.”

“The style is concise and clear; and events are summed up with much vigor
and originality.”

“His history of France is worthy to figure with the works of his associates,
the best of their day, Scott and Mackintosh.”

“For such a task Mr. Crowe is eminently qualified. At a glance, as it were,
his eye takes in the theatre of centuries. His style is neat, clear, and pithy; and
his power of condensation enables him to say much, and effectively, in a few
words, to present a distinct and perfect picture in a narrowly circumscribed
space.”

“The style is neat and condensed; the thoughts and conclusions sound and
just. The necessary conciseness of the narrative is unaccompanied by any
baldness; on the contrary, it is spirited and engaging.”

“To compress the history of a great nation, during a period of thirteen hundred
years, into two volumes, and to preserve sufficient distinctness as well as
interest in the narrative, to enable and induce the reader to possess himself
clearly of all the leading incidents, is a task by no means easily executed. It
has, nevertheless, been well accomplished in this instance.”

“Written with spirit and taste.”

“Could we but persuade our young friends to give these volumes a careful
perusal, we should feel assured of their grateful acknowledgments of profit and
pleasure.”

“At once concise and entertaining.”

“It is but justice to Mr. Grattan to say that he has executed his laborious
task with much industry and proportionate effect. Undisfigured by pompous
nothingness, and without any of the affectation of philosophical profundity, his
style is simple, light, and fresh—perspicuous, smooth, and harmonious.”

“Never did work appear at a more fortunate period. The volume before us
is a compressed but clear and impartial narrative.”

“A long residence in the country, and a ready access to libraries and archives,
have furnished Mr. Grattan with materials which he has arranged with skill,
and out of which he has produced a most interesting volume.”

“A very delightful volume, and on a subject likely to increase in interest as it
proceeds. * * * We cordially commend the work both for its design and
execution.”

“The Cabinet Library bids fair to be a series of great value, and is recommended
to public and private libraries, to professional men, and miscellaneous
readers generally. It is beautifully printed, and furnished at a price which will
place it within the reach of all classes of society.”

“The series of instructive, and, in their original form, expensive works,
which these enterprising publishers are now issuing under the title of the
“Cabinet Library,” is a fountain of useful, and almost universal knowledge;
the advantages of which, in forming the opinions, tastes and manners of that
portion of society, to which this varied information is yet new, cannot be too
highly estimated.”

“Messrs. Carey and Lea have commenced a series of publications under the
above title, which are to appear monthly, and which seem likely, from the specimen
before us, to acquire a high degree of popularity, and to afford a mass of
various information and rich entertainment, at once eminently useful and
strongly attractive. The mechanical execution is fine, the paper and typography
excellent.”

“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.”

“We again most strongly recommend this little unpretending volume to the
attention of every lover of nature, and more particularly of our country readers
It will induce them, we are sure, to examine more closely than they have
been accustomed to do, into the objects of animated nature, and such examination
will prove one of the most innocent, and the most satisfactory sources of
gratification and amusement. It is a book that ought to find its way into every
rural drawing-room in the kingdom, and one that may safely be placed in every
lady's boudoir, be her rank and station in life what they may.”

“We think that there are few readers who will not be delighted (we are certain
all will be instructed) by the `Journal of a Naturalist.”'

“This is a most delightful book on the most delightful of all studies. We are
acquainted with no previous work which hears any resemblance to this, except
`White's History of Selborne,' the most fascinating piece of rural writing and
sound English philosophy that ever issued from the press.”

“The author of the volume now before us, has produced one of the most
charming volumes we remember to have seen for a long time.”

“A delightful volume—perhaps the most so—nor less instructive and amusing—
given to Natural History since White's Selborne.”

“The Journal of a Naturalist, being the second number of Carey and Lea's
beautiful edition of the Cabinet Library, is the best treatise on subjects connected
with this train of thought, that we have for a long time perused, and we
are not at all surprised that it should have received so high and flattering encomiums
from the English press generally.”

“Furnishing an interesting and familiar account of the various objects of
animated nature, but calculated to afford both instruction and entertainment.”

“One of the most agreeable works of its kind in the language.”

“It abounds with numerous and curious facts, pleasing illustrations of the
secret operations and economy of nature, and satisfactory displays of the power,
wisdom and goodness, of the great Creator.”

“No history of the events to which it relates can be correct without reference
to its statements.”

“The events detailed in this volume cannot fail to excite an intense interest.”

“The only connected and well authenticated account we have of the spirit-stirring
scenes which preceded the fall of Napoleon. It introduces us into the
cabinets and presence of the allied monarchs. We observe the secret policy of
each individual: we see the course pursued by the wily Bernadotte, the temporizing
Metternich, and the ambitious Alexander. The work deserves a place in
every historical library.”

“We hail with pleasure the appearance of the first volume of the Cabinet
Library.” “The author had singular facilities for obtaining the materials of
his work, and he has introduced us to the movements and measures of cabinets
which have hitherto been hidden from the world.”

“It may be regarded as the most authentic of all the publications which profess
to detail the events of the important campaigns, terminating with that
which secured the capture of the French metropolis.”

“It is in fact the only authentic account of the memorable events to which
it refers.”

“The work deserves a place in every library.”

“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 no hesitation in classing this among the most powerful of the romances
of our countryman.”

“We could not break from the volumes, and may predict that they will excite
the same interest in the minds of almost every reader. The concluding chapters
produce intense emotion.”

“Put forth in the most unpretending manner, and without a name, this work
is of paramount importance to the subjects of which it treats.”

“The author has corrected many grave errors, and in general given us a clearer
insight into transactions of considerable national interest.”—Ib. “Will it not,”
says the author, with just astonishment, “be deemed almost incredible, that the
very instrument in the Records of England, which recites the Great Discovery,
and plainly contemplates a scheme of Colonization, should, up to this moment,
have been treated by her own writers as that which first gave permission to go
forth and explore?”—Ib. “We must return to investigate several collateral
matters which we think deserving of more space than we can this week bestow.
Meanwhile we recommend the work as one of great value and interest.”

“The general reader, as well as the navigator and the curious, will derive
pleasure and information from this well-written production.”

“A specimen of honest inquiry. It is quite frightful to think of the number of
the inaccuracies it exposes: we shall cease to have confidence in books.” “The
investigation of truth is not the fashion of these times. But every sincere inquirer
after historical accuracy ought to purchase the book as a curiosity: more
false assertions and inaccurate statements were never exposed in the same compass.
It has given us a lesson we shall never forget, and hope to profit by.”

“Mr. Jacob's Historical Inquiry into the Production and Consumption of the
Precious Metals is one of the most curious and important works which has
lately issued from the press. The influence of the precious metals on the industry
of mankind is acknowledged to be great; though, perhaps, the notions respecting
the precise mode of its operation were obscure, and undoubtedly the
history of its effects had never been traced with accuracy and ingenuity. Mr.
Huskisson, who had maintained a friendship with Mr. Jacob for more than five-and-twenty
years, first put the author on the investigation; it is one of the minor
obligations which the country owes to that enlightened statesman.”

“It was written at the suggestion of the late Mr. Huskisson, and displays
the fruits of much industry and research, guided by a sound judgment, and embodying
more learning than is usually brought to bear on statistical or economical
subjects. We recommend the book to general attention.”

“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 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.”

“Collecting his materials from various historians, and adopting in some
degree the tone and manner of a monkish chronicler, he has embodied them in
a narrative which in manner reminds us of the rich and storied pages of Froissart.
He dwells on the feats of chivalry performed by the Christian Knights,
with all the ardor which might be expected from a priest, who mixed, according
to the usage of the times, not only in the palaces of courtly nobles, and their gay
festivals, as an honored and welcome guest, but who was their companion in
the camp, and their spiritual and indeed bodily comforter and assistant in the
field of battle.

“We have been highty pleased with this little volume. This work supplies a
want which we have often painfully felt, and affords a manual which we should
gladly see placed in the hands of every embryo under-graduate. We look forward
to the next portion of this work with very eager and impatient expectation.”

“Mr. Coleridge's work not only deserves the praise of clear, eloquent and
scholar like exposition of the preliminary matter, which is necessary in order to
understand and enter into the character of the great Poet of antiquity; but it
has likewise the more rare merit of being admirably adapted for its acknowledged
purpose. It is written in that fresh and ardent spirit which to the congenial
mind of youth, will convey instruction in the most effective manner, by
awakening the desire of it; and by enlisting the lively and buoyant feelings in
the cause of useful and improving study; while, by its pregnant brevity, it is
more likely to stimulate than to supersede more profound and extensive research.
If then, as it is avowedly intended for the use of the younger readers of Homer,
and, as it is impossible not to discover, with a more particular view to the great
school to which the author owes his education, we shall be much mistaken if it
does not become as popular as it will be useful in that celebrated establishment.”

“We sincerely hope that Mr. Coleridge will favor us with a continuation of
this work, which he promises.

“The author of this elegant volume has collected a vast mass of valuable information.
To the higher classes of the public schools, and young men of universities,
this volume will be especially valuable; as it will afford an agreeable
relief of light reading to more grave studies, at once instructive and entertaining.”