“It is written with great spirit and a hearty sympathy, and abounds in incidents of
more than a romantic interest, while the type of piety it discloses is the noblest and
most elevated.”

“Seldom has there been a more interesting volume than this in our hands. Stories
of Scottish suffering for the faith have always thrilled us; but here we have the memoirs
of distinguished female characters, embracing the period of the Covenant and the
Persecution, with such tales of heroism, devotion, trials, triumphs, or deaths, as rouse
subdue, and deeply move the heart of the reader.”

“Many a mother in Israel will have her faith strengthened, and her zeal awakened,
and her courage animated afresh by the example set before her—by the cloud of witnesses
of her own sex, who esteemed everything—wealth, honor, pleasure, ease, and
life itself—vastly inferior to the grace of the Gospel; and who freely offered themselves
and all that they had, to the sovereign disposal of Him who had called them with an
holy calling; according to his purpose and grace.”

“The Scotch will read this book because it commemorates their noble countrywomen;
Presbyterians will like it, because it records the endurance and triumphs of their
faith; and the ladies will read it, as an interesting memorial of what their sex has done
in trying times for truth and liberty.”

“It is a record which, while it confers honor on the sex, will elevate the heart, and
strengthen it to the better performance of every duty.”

“The Descendants of these saints are among us, in this Pilgrim land, and we earnestly
commend this book to their perusal.”

“There are pictures of endurance, trust, and devotion, in this volume of illustrious
suffering, which are worthy of a royal setting.”

“They abound with incidents and anecdotes illustrative of the times and we need
scarcely say are deeply interesting to all who take an interest in the progress of christianity.”

“Mr. Anderson has treated his subject ably; and has set forth in strong light the enduring
faith and courage of the wives and daughters of the Covenanters.”

“It is a book of great attractiveness, having not only the freshness of novelty but
every element of historical interest.

“The author is a clergyman of the Scottish kirk, and has executed his undertaking
with that spirit and fulness which might be expected from one enjoying the best advantages
for the discovery of obscure points in the history of Scotland, and the warmest
sympathy with the heroines of his own creed.”

“The nation may well be proud of this admirable work. In design and
execution, the artist has been singularly felicitous; and nothing can surpass
the beauty, correctness, and finish of style, in which the publisher has presented
it to his countrymen. The book is strictly what it claims to be—a
teacher of the art of Drawing. The method is so thorough, comprehensive,
and progressive; its rules so wise, exact, and clearly laid down; and its classic
illustrations are so skillfully adapted to train the eye and hand, that no pupil
who faithfully follows its guidance, can fail to become, at least, a correct
draughtsman. We have been especially pleased with the treatise on Perspective,
which entirely surpasses anything that we have ever met with upon
that difficult branch of art.”

“Perspective, is one of the most difficult branches of drawing, and one the
least susceptible of verbal explanation. But so clearly are its principles developed
in the beautiful letter-press, and so exquisitely are they illustrated by the
engravings, that the pupil's way is opened most invitingly to a thorough knowledge
of both the elements and application of Perspective.”

“It treats of Perspective with a masterly hand. The engravings are superb,
and the typography unsurpassed by any book with which we are acquainted.
It is an honor to the author and publisher, and a credit to our common country.”

“This number is devoted to the explanation of Perspective, and treats that
difficult subject with admirable clearness, precision, and completeness. The
plates and letter-press of this work are executed with uncommon beauty. It
has received the sanction of many of our most eminent artists, and can scarcely
be commended too highly.”

“This present number is dedicated to the subject of Perspective—commencing
with the elements of Geometry—and is especially valuable to builders,
carpenters, and other artisans, being accompanied with beautiful illustrative
designs drawn by Chapman, and further simplified by plain and perspicuous
directions for the guidance of the student. Indeed, the whole work,
from its undeviating simplicity, exhibits the hand of a master. We trust this
highly useful and elevated branch of art will hereafter become an integral portion
of public education, and as it is more easily attainable, so will it ultimately
be considered an indispensable part of elementary instruction. Its cheapness
is only rivalled by its excellence, and the artistic beauty of its illustrations is
only equalled by the dignified ease and common sense exemplified in the
written directions that accompany each lesson.

“The subject of Perspective we should think would interest every mechanic
in the country; indeed, after all, this is the class to be the most benefited by
sound and thorough instruction in drawing.”

“Permit me here to say I regard your Drawing-Book as a treasure. I was
a farmer-boy, and it was while daily following the plough, that I became acquainted
with the first number of Chapman's Drawing-Book. I found in it
just what I desired—a plain, sure road to that excellence in the Art of Arts, that
my boyish mind had pictured as being so desirable, the first step toward which
I had taken by making rude sketches upon my painted ploughbeam, or using
the barn-door as my easel, while with colored rotten-stone I first took sessons
from Nature. I am now at college. I have a class at drawing, and find in the
several numbers I have obtained, the true road for the teacher also.”

“These volumes are highly creditable to American taste in every department of book-making;—
it is impossible to give an idea of the perfection of workmanship and the admirable
keeping of parts they exhibit. In order to appreciate this, one must see the
volumes, and having seen them, he will at once transfer them to his own table, for the
instruction and amusement of old and young.”

“Moths, glow-worms, lady-birds, May-flies, bees, and a variety of other inhabitants of
the insect world, are descanted upon in a pleasing style, combining scientific information
with romance, in a manner peculiarly attractive.”

“The style is the farthest possible remove from pedantry and dullness, every page
teems with delightful matter, and the whole is thoroughly furnished with grace and
beauty, as well as truth. One giving himself over to its fascinating charms, might readily
believe himself fast on to the borders, if not in the very midst of fairy land.”

“We have in this work deep philosophy and an endless flow of humor, and lessons
set before us, drawn from ants, beetles, and butterflies, which we might do well to ponder.
We can think of nothing more calculated to delight the passing hour than the
beautiful delineations we find in these three volumes.”

“The whole insect world is represented in these volumes, many of them disguised so
as to present what politicians would call a compromise between a human and an insect.
We cordially commend these volumes to the attention of our readers.”

“A book elegant enough for the centre table, witty enough for after dinner, and wise
enough for the study and the school-room. One of the beautiful lessons of this work is
the kindly view it takes of nature. Nothing is made in vain, not only, but nothing is
made ugly or repulsive. A charm is thrown around every object, and life suffused
through all, suggestive of the Creator's goodness and wisdom.”

“What a monument is here raised to that wonderful, tiny race, so often disregarded,
but which nevertheless amply repays the care we may bestow in studying their peculiarities.
The interest of the reader of these volumes is well sustained by the humor
and sprightliness of the writer.”

“It is a beautiful specimen of book-making. The character of the contents may be
already known to our readers from the long and very favorable attention they have received
from the English reviewers. The illustrations are at once grotesque and significant.”

“The book is one of especial beauty and utility, and we heartily thank the publisher
for his enterprise in putting it within the reach of American readers. It is worthy of a
place in every family library. Elegantly illustrated and humorously yet chastely written,
it is calculated to amuse and instruct all classes of readers.”

“A more charming book, fresh with the fragrance of the country air and musical
with the rustle of insect wings, is not likely to be seen often. In the clearness of its
type, the beauty of the illustrations, and the whole manner of its presentment, the
“Episodes” fairly gives the laural to its tasteful and enterprising publisher.”

“There is a moral, we may say a religious lesson, inculcated in every chapter of this
book.”

“The style is easy, flowing, natural, and happy. The ideas are such that the reader
will arise from their perusal, a `wiser and a better man.' ”

“We defy any one to rise from its perusal, without thanking the book for many new
ideas, added to one's previous stock of information, as well as feeling better and more
kindly disposed, for the lessons of humanity and benevolence it teaches.”

“A most attractive work to all ages, for while it is amusing and playful in its language,
it is replete with valuable information. It might be called Science made pleasure, or
Fact made fanciful. A finer specimen of typography is rarely seen, and we commend
it to all those who would see in nature constant illustrations of the power and goodness
of its great Creator.”

“Wonderfully beautiful, graceful, and entertaining. Children can read it with understanding
and be enraptured by it; and this is no small thing to say of a work not
especially intended for juveniles.”

“By a happy combination of taste and knowledge—science and poetry, with anecdote
and description, the naturalist and the mere reader for amusement are equally
gratified. It is a book for the library,—and just the thing as a companion for a journey,
or the winter evening fireside. It is well adapted for the sick-chamber too, and the
weary invalid as he reads may fancy that he smells again the sweet fragrance of spring
flowers, and listens to the hum of a bright summer's day; and, not least of all, the tendency
of these beautiful volumes, is to elevate our conceptions of the grandeur and love
of the Almighty Creator.”

“This is a work of rare and varied beauties. It is beautiful within and without;
beautiful in conception and in execution; beautiful as it comes from the hands of the
author, the engraver, the printer and the binder.”

“This is one of the most tasteful books of the season, very entertaining and amusing,
and at the same time the work of an accomplished naturalist.”

“The author has availed himself not only of the greater abundance of material which
the summer months supply, but also of the brighter hues afforded by the summer sunshine,
for the enrichment of his glowing descriptions, which become gorgeous while
reflecting a parti-colored glory that eclipses the splendor of Solomon.”

“The whole pile of Natural History—fable, poetry, theory, and fact—is stuck over
with quaint apothegms and shrewd maxims deduced, for the benefit of man, from the
contemplation of such tiny monitors as gnats and moths. Altogether, the book is curious
and interesting, quaint and clever, genial and well-informed.”

“We have seldom been in company with so entertaining a guide to the Insect
World.”

“Rich veins of humor in a groundwork of solid, yet entertaining information. Although
lightness and amusement can find subject-matter in every page, the under current
of the “Episodes” is substance and accurate information.”

“A history of many of the more remarkable tribes and species, with a graphic and
imaginative coloring, often equally original and happy, and accompanied both by accurate
figures of species, and ingenious fanciful vignettes.”

“This second series of “Episodes” is even more delightful than its predecessor.
Never have entomological lessons been given in a happier strain. Young and old, wise
and simple, grave and gay, can not turn over its pages without deriving pleasure and
information.”

“The headpiece illustrations of each chapter are beautiful plates of the insects under
description in all their stages, capitally grouped, and with a scenic background full of
playful fancy; while the tailpieces form a series of quaint vignettes, some of which are
especially clever.”

“The book includes solid instruction as well as genial and captivating mirth. The
scientific knowledge of the writer is thoroughly reliable.

This book treats of allegorical dreams, presentiments, trances, apparitions,
troubled spirits, haunted houses, etc., and will be read with interest by many
because it comes from a source laying claim to considerable talent, and is
written by one who really believes all she says, and urges her reasonings with
a good deal of earnestness.

It embraces a vast collection of marvellous and supernatural stories of supernatural
occurrences out of the ordinary course of events.

Miss Crowe has proved herself a careful and most industrious compiler.
She has gathered materials from antiquity and from modern times, and gives
to English and American readers the ghost-stories that used to frighten the
young ones of Greece and Rome, as well as those that accomplish a similar
end in Germany and other countries of modern Europe.

It is written in a philosophical spirit.

This queer volume has excited considerable attention in England. It is not
a catchpenny affair, but is an intelligent inquiry into the asserted facts respecting
ghosts and apparitions, and a psychological discussion upon the reasonableness
of a belief in their existence.

In this remarkable work, Miss Crowe, who writes with the vigor and grace
of a woman of strong sense and high cultivation, collects the most remarkable
and best authenticated accounts, traditional and recorded, of preternatural visitations
and appearances.

This is a copious chronicle of what we are compelled to believe authentic
instances of communication between the material and spiritual world. It is
written in a clear, vigorous, and fresh style, and keeps the reader in a constant
excitement, yet without resorting to claptrap.

The book is filled with facts, which are not to be disputed except by actual
proof. They have long been undisputed before the world. The class of facts
are mainly of a kind thought by most persons to be “mysterious;” but there
will be found much in the book calculated to throw light upon the heretofore
mysterious phenomena.

This book is one which appears in a very opportune time to command attention,
and should be read by all who are desirous of information in regard
to things generally called mysterious, relating to the manifestations of the
spirit out of man and in him.

This is not only a curious but also a very able work. It is one of the
most interesting books of the season—albeit the reader's hair will occasionally
rise on end as he turns over the pages, especially if he reads alone far into
the night.

A very appropriate work for these days of mysterious rappings, but one
which shows that the author has given the subjects upon which she treats
considerable study, and imparts the knowledge derived in a concise manner.

This is undoubtedly the most remarkable book of the month, and can not
fail to interest all classes of people.

To the lovers of the strange and mysterious in nature, this volume will possess
an attractive interest.

The lovers of the marvellous will delight in its perusal..

“The edition is published for the benefit of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Maria
Clemm, for whose sake we may wish it the fullest success. It however, deserves,
and will undoubtedly obtain, a large circulation from the desire so many
will feel to lay by a memorial of this singularly-gifted writer and unfortunate
man.”

“Poe's writings are distinguished for vigorous and minute analysis, and
the skill with which he has employed the strange fascination of mystery and
terror. There is an air of reality in all his narrations—a dwelling upon particulars,
and a faculty of interesting you in them such as is possessed by few
writers except those who are giving their own individual experiences. The
reader can scarcely divest his mind, even in reading the most fanciful of his
stories, that the events of it have not actually occurred, and the characters had
a real existence.”

“We need not say that these volumes will be found rich in intellectual
excitements, and abounding in remarkable specimens of vigorous, beautiful,
and highly suggestive composition; they are all that remains to us of a man
whose uncommon genius it would be folly to deny.”

“Mr. Poe's intellectual character—his genius—is stamped upon all his productions,
and we shall place these his works in the library among those books not
to be parted with.”

“These works have a funereal cast as well in the melancholy portrait prefixed
and the title, as in the three pallbearing editors who accompany them
in public. They are the memorial of a singular man, possessed perhaps of as
great mere literary ingenuity and mechanical dexterity of style and management
as any the country has produced. Some of the tales in the collection
are as complete and admirable as anything of their kind in the language.”

“A complete collection of the works of one of the most talented and singular
men of the day. Mr. Poe was a genius, but an erratic one—he was a comet
or a meteor, not a star or sun. His genius was that almost contradiction of
terms, an analytic genius. Genius is nearly universally synthetic—but Poe was
an exception to all rules. He would build up a poem as a bricklayer builds a
wall; or rather, he would begin at the top and build downward to the base;
and yet, into the poem so manufactured, he would manage to breathe the breath
of life. And this fact proved that it was not all a manufacture—that the poem
was also, to a certain degree, a growth, a real plant, taking root in the mind,
and watered by the springs of the soul.”

“We have just spent some delightful hours in looking over these two volumes,
which contain one of the most pleasing additions to our literature with
which we have met for a long time. They comprise the works of the late
Edgar A. Poe—pieces which for years have been going `the rounds of the
press,' and are now first collected when their author is beyond the reach of
humar praise. We feel, however, that these productions will live. They
bear the stamp of true genius; and if their reputation begins with a `fit audience
though few,' the circle will be constantly widening, and they will retain a
prominent place in our literature.”

If I have in any point receded from what is commonly received, it hath been
for the purpose of proceeding melius and not in aliud.

Truth, peradventure, by force, may for a time be trodden down, but never, by
any means, whatsoever can it be trodder out.

The first work of the kind ever attempted in this country.

Worthy of Teniers, if Teniers had employed the pen instead of the brush.

A dainty volume.

The author must have been there; spirited and amusing—with touching and
pathetic passages—and well deserves a place on every centre-table.

A truthful and vivid picture—an addition to real American literature.

A charming little book, quiet, simple, almost German in its dreamy fancies;
the description true to the life, and giving proof of a master's hand; the few
sad pages touching, but free from sentimental exaggeration, the humorous passages
highly toned, and all the characters brought out in bold relief.

The style is often chaste and beautiful.

A delightful story.

Graphically and beautifully written.

A glorious thanksgiving volume; we can not guess the author—but the
story is charming, and the volume elegant. We have seen no finer holyday
book yet.

To be read in the family circle while the Turkey is digesting—a capital
book.

The author of “Chanticleer” does not put his name on the titlepage, but his
book has the imprint of a truly national spirit. Its style combines the humorous
and pathetic in a happy admixture.

A very interesting story. An appropriate Gift-book.

We wonder, at its close, at the number of persons we have become acquainted
with, and how well we know them. It is the sketch of a master; like the circle
of Giotto, demonstrative as an acre of canvass.

Recommended to precede the turkey and plum-pudding era.

Everyday life and incident presented in a new and telling guise, and written
in peculiarly pure English.

The book is beautifully executed, and harmonizes in its tone and spirit with
the great idea of the day.

Delightfully written.

The materials are skilfully worked by the author into a charming picture of
life and character. All the social and religious characteristics of the season of
thanksgiving are brought out with a fancy, genial, humorous, and reverential.

A beautiful little holyday volume.

There is a freshness and originality about it which will be very attractive to
its readers. The characters have an individuality about them which makes
them portraits. We can promise the reader a treat in its perusal, and could
we disclose the name of the author, he would be convinced that he had a
right to expect a rich fund of entertainment.

“Napier's history is regarded by the critics as one of the best narratives
that has recently been written. His style is direct, forcible, and impetuous,
carrying the reader along often in spite of himself, through scenes of the
most stirring interest and adventures full of excitement. Many of the most
distinguished and remarkable men of European history figure in these pages,
and are sketched with great distinctness of outline. Napoleon, Wellington,
Sir John Moore, Ney, Murat, and others, are the characters of the drama
which Napier describes.”

“We believe the Literature of War has not received a more valuable
augmentation this century than Col. Napier's justly celebrated work. Though
a gallant combatant in the field, he is an impartial historian; he exposes the
errors committed on each side, refutes many tales of French atrocity and
rapine, and does not conceal the revolting scenes of drunkenness, pillage,
ravishment, and wanton slaughter, which tarnished the lustre of the British
arms in those memorable campaigns. We think no civilian chronicler of the
events of this desperate contest has been so just to the adversary of his nation
as has this stern warrior.”

“Napier's History, in addition to its superior literary merits and truthful
fidelity, presents strong claims upon the attention of all American
citizens; because the author is a large-souled philanthropist, and an inflexible
enemy to its ecclesiastical tyranny and secular despots; while his pictures
of Spain, and his portrait of the rulers in that degraded and wretched
country, form a virtual sanction of our Republican institutions, far more
powerful than any direct eulogy.”

“The excellency of Napier's History results from the writer's happy
talent for impetuous, straight forward, soul-stirring narrative and picturing
forth of characters. The military manœuvre, march, and fiery onset, the
whole whirlwind vicissitudes of the desperate fight, he describes with dramatic
force.”

“The reader of Napier's History finds many other attractions, besides the
narrative of battles, marches, plunder, ravages, sieges, skirmishes, and
slaughter—for he learns the dreadful evils of a despotic government—the
inherent corruption of the entire system of European monarchies—the popular
wretchedness which ever accompanies the combination of a lordly, hierarchical
tyranny with the secular authority, and the assurance that the extinction
of both are essential to the peace and welfare of mankind. All
these lessons are derived from Napier's History, which, in connexion with
its literary excellence, and the accuracy of its details, render all other recommendations
utterly superfluous. It is a large, neat, and cheap volume.”

“A series of pleasantly desultory papers—neither history, biography,
criticism, nor romance, but compounded of all four: always lively and
graceful, and often sparkling with esprit, that subtle essence which may be
so much better illustrated than defined. M. Houssaye's aim in these sketches—
for evidently he had an aim beyond the one he alleges of pastime for
his leisure hours—seems to have been to discourse of persons rather celebrated
than known, whose names and works are familiar to all, but with
whose characters and histories few are much acquainted. To the mass of
readers, his book will have the charm of freshness; the student and the
man of letters, who have already drunk at the springs whence M. Houssaye
has derived his inspiration and materials, will pardon any lack of novelty
for the sake of the spirit and originality of the treatment.”

“This is one of the pleasantest books about witchcraft that we ever read;
and Mr. Wright tells his stories and conveys his information with so much
spirit and good sense that we are sorry he has confined himself to only one
department of a subject which he is very well able to treat as a whole.
Mr. Wright has rewritten the criminal annals of witchcraft in a style perfectly
free from any important faults; and he has illustrated his narrative
by rich collateral facts as could be acquired only by long familiarity with a
peculiar and extensive branch of antiquarian learning. We do not see
then that the fortunes of witchcraft have aught to hope from any narrator
who may attempt to supersede him.”

“This is a very curious and highly interesting book. It contains a series
of popular stories of sorcery and magic (the first chiefly) and their victims,
from the period of the middle ages down to that of the last executions for
witchcraft in England and America. Mr. Wright tells these stories admirably;
and without marring their effect as illustrations of the respective
phases of corrupt or imperfect civilization to which they were incident, his
clear comments point the truth or philosophy of the individual case independent
of its subjection to general causes or influences. The range of information
in the book is extraordinarily wide, and it is popularly set forth
throughout, without a touch of pedantry or a dull page.”

“From this wide field Mr. Wright has selected two parts for illustration
viz., sorcery and magic; and must have devoted much reading and research
to produce so comprehensive a view of them, not only in England and
Scotland, but in France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Sweden, and New
England.”

“We do not hesitate to predict for these sketches a wide popularity.
They bear the true stamp of genius—simple, natural, truthful—and evince
a keen sense of the humor and pathos, of the comedy and tragedy, of life
in the country. No one who has ever read it can forget the sad and beautiful
story of Mary Wildermings; its weird fancy, tenderness, and beauty;
its touching description of the emotions of a sick and suffering human spirit,
and its exquisite rural pictures. The moral tone of Alice Carey's writings
is unobjectionable always.”

“Miss Carey's experience has been in the midst of rural occupations, in
the interior of Ohio. Every word here reflects this experience, in the rarest
shapes, and most exquisite hues. The opinion now appears to be commonly
entertained, that Alice Carey is decidedly the first of our female authors;
an opinion which Fitz-Greene Halleck, J. G. Whittier, Dr. Griswold,
Wm. D. Gallagher, Bayard Taylor, with many others, have on various
occasions endorsed.”

“If we look at the entire catalogue of female writers of prose fiction in
this country, we shall find no one who approaches Alice Carey in the best
characteristics of genius. Like all genuine authors she has peculiarities;
her hand is detected as unerringly as that of Poe or Hawthorne; as much
as they she is apart from others and above others; and her sketches of
country life must, we think, he admitted to be superior even to those delightful
tales of Miss Mitford, which, in a similar line, are generally acknowledged
to be equal to anything done in England.”

“Alice Carey has perhaps the strongest imagination among the women
of this country. Her writings will live longer than those of any other
woman among us.”

“Alice Carey has a fine, rich, and purely original genius. Her country
stories are almost unequaled.”

“Miss Carey's sketches are remarkably fresh, and exquisite in delicacy,
humor, and pathos. She is booked for immortality.”

“The Times speaks of Alice Carey as standing at the head of the living
female writers of America. We go even farther in our favorable judgment,
and express the opinion that among those living or dead, she has had no
equal in this country; and we know of few in the annals of English literature
who have exhibited superior gifts of real poetic genius.”