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J. & H. G. LANGLEY
Have recently published,
THE MOTLEY BOOK,
BY THE LATE BEN. SMITH;
With Ten Illustrations, by Dick and others.
SECOND EDITION,
CONTAINING
| Beelzebub and His Cart, |
Potter's Field, |
| Greasy Peterson, |
The Adventurers of Sol Clarion,
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| The Vision of Dr. Nicholas Grim, |
The Melancholy Vagabond, |
| The Merry-Makers,Exploit No.I. |
The Great Charter Contest in
Gotham, |
| The Witch and the Deacon, |
The Puffer Dinner, |
| The Druggist's Wife, |
N. A. Society for the Encouragement
of Imposture, |
| The Merry-Makers, ExploitNo.II. |
Disasters of Old Drudge, |
| Parson Huckins' First Appearance,
|
The Unburied Bones. |
“There are many capital strokes of humor and
touches of nature in this light and amusing work.
The author frequently manifests a masterly insight
into character, and some of his sketches of life in
New-York are to the life.”
—New-York Mirror.
“Those who have with us enjoyed the fun of
these amusing sketches, when extracted by us from
time to time, will be pleased to see them in a shape
fit for preservation. They make a very handsome
volume of nearly two hundred pages, and will assist
in handing down the memory of names, places and
scenes, peculiar to this our good city of Gotham.”
—N. Y. American.
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“A pleasant and interesting book, full of fun,
with very excellent illustrations.”
—Cour. and Enq.
“From the first the lucubrations of the late Ben.
Smith gave us much pleasure, and we hailed their
appearance in a new and more attractive dress as an
evidence that the originality and raciness of his humor
and his genuine pathos had not been entirely
unappreciated * * Many of his sketches
are drawn with the graphic pencil of a master, and
the style of several passages is in the highest grade
of excellence. We shrewdly suspect that the author
is a young man, and if so, we think that we claim
not too much for him when we say that he needs
only that improvement which careful practice will
give to take a high and acknowledged rank in
American Literature.”
—Sun. Mor. News.
“Right profitably has Mr. Ben. Smith used the
talents committed to his keeping, for he tells sixteen
stories which would do honor to the club of good
fellows Mr. Pickwick was wont to assemble around
his board.”
—Boston Evening Gazette.
“We knew Ben. He loved a laugh and a lash
right well, and had withal a Sterne-like sensibility,
which in his graver moments exhibited itself with
marvellous pathos. This post mortem production is
just such a work as we always said would be found in
his escritoire by his executor.”
—Sat. Mor. Trans't.
“We had watched its progress in numbers with
much interest, and felt convinced even then that a
true humorest had at length appeared amongst us.
The late Ben. Smith is not to be confounded with the
common herd of writers; albeit, his name is by no
means uncommon. The Motley Book is not one of
those productions which daily issue from the press,
to-day read, to-morrow forgotten—but has peculiar
merits of its own. It indicates a rich fund of
varied excellence, which will, if we mistake not, insure
for the writer, at no distant day, an elevated
rank in our literary records. In the short compass
of less than two hundred pages he has shown a complete
mastery in the apparently opposite fields of
pathos and humor.”
—N. Y. Gazette.
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J. & H. G. LANGLEY,
Have recently published,
THE BEAUTIES OF THE HON. DANIEL WEBSTER,
SELECTED AND ARRANGED,
With a Critical Essay on his Genius and Writings,
By James Rees; 1 vol. 12mo.
OPINIONS OF THE NEW-YORK PRESS.
Beauties of Daniel Webster.—It consists of short
extracts from the speeches and writings of Mr.
Webster, selected by the compiler, Mr. James
Rees. The selections are made with good taste and
discriminating judgment, and together form a work
of rare excellence. We have seen the “beauties”
of Burke, Johnson, Robert Hall, and others, and
in our judgment the “beauties” of our distinguished
countryman bear a favorable comparison
with the very best of them. Owing to the great
length of Mr. Webster's discourses, perhaps very
few have read them with sufficient attention to discern
all their merits; but in the work before us,
the prominent of these, from his numerous productions,
are selected, and can be easily read, and
when perused, we do not doubt they will be exceedingly
admired, fraught as they are with noble sentiments
and profound wisdom, clothed in the most
pure, chaste, and elegant diction. We recommend
every one of our readers to become possessed of
the work when it shall be published.—Commercial
Advertiser, Jan. 24, 1839.
Beauties of Daniel Webster.—Messrs. J. & H.
G. Langley, 57 Chatham-street, have published a
handsome little volume bearing this title, containing
judiciously selected extracts from the speeches, addresses,
&c. of that distinguished gentleman. The
work is edited by James Rees, who has added a
critical essay on the genius and writings of Mr.
Webster. Mr. Rees has discharged both duties
well and ably, and we wish the book might go into
the hands of every person capable of reading, from
New-Brunswick to Texas.—N. Y. Gazette, Feb. 23.
Beauties of Daniel Webster.—This is the title of
a neat little work, prepared with much care by Mr.
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James Rees, and will shortly be issued from the
press. The selections are judiciously made and
admirably arranged. Mr. Webster is one of the
great men of the country never at a loss for words,
powerful in argument, fascinating and beautiful as
an orator. The work will meet with an extensive
sale.—Whig, Feb. 1.
Beauties of Daniel Webster.—The selection of
choice passages from the legal and parliamentary
orations of Mr. Webster, the existence of which in
manuscript, we mentioned a few weeks since, is now
published by J. & H. G. Langley. It makes a handsome
little volume of 92 pages, which ought to have a
sale of thousands in this city alone, and tens of
thousands elsewhere. The passages are selected
with judgment and good taste, presenting a rare assemblage
of noble thoughts clothed in surpassing
eloquence of language. We are glad to see that
the Editor has been careful not to omit that magnificent
outburst of patriotism, the conclusion of the
great speech in answer to Mr. Hayne, on Nullification.—
Commercial, Feb. 22.
The Beauties of Daniel Webster, &c.—Selected
and arranged by James Rees. New-York: J. & H.
G. Langley. Most appropriately is this beautiful
and precious little volume dedicated to “the friends
of liberty throughout the world, and to the admirers
of the English language in its purity.”
A more able, consistent, far-seeing, and devoted
friend of rational liberty; a more disinterested,
clear and constant advocate and expounder of that
constitution which, to this Union, is the pledge alike
of happiness and freedom, or a more pure and polished
writer of “English undefiled,” does not, as
we believe, exist within our wide world.
We rejoice, therefore, that selections so tastefully
made as those in this volume, have been put forth
in a shape and form to give them wide circulation
among all classes; for the extracts are such as no
American, of whatever party, can fail to admire.
We commend these Beauties to all our readers.—
N. Y. American, Feb. 23.
Mathews, Cornelius, 1817-1889 [1839], Behemoth: a legend of the mound-builders (J. & H. G. Langley, New York) [word count] [eaf263].
