A Valuable Standard Work. HISTORY OF SPANISH LITERATURE. WITH CRITICISMS ON PARTICULAR WORKS, AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF PROMINENT WRITERS. BY GEORGE TICKNOR, ESQ. 3 VOLS. 8vo, MUSLIN, $6 00; SHEEP, $6 75; HALF CALF, $7 50. It is a contribution to the literature of the world of the highest value. It comprehends all the information that exists in the numerous treatises that have heretofore been published, lucidly arranged, and its various parts presented with a detail proportioned to their comparative importance. The style is dignified and flowing, enriched with varied learning, and fashioned with faultless taste. The work will be classed with Prescott's great histories, and is a production of which Americans may justly be proud. It is brought out in the best style, and in general appearance is equal to the costliest productions of the English press.―Journal of Commerce. *** In summing up upon its merits, we have only to say that it is a book richly deserving the confidence of the literary public. It is stamped with the impress of careful and conscientious preparation. There are no indications of hurried getting up. Mr. Ticknor has had the rare virtue of literary patience, the want of which sends so many half-fledged books fluttering into print, that either fall to the ground by mere force of gravity, or are shot on the wing by the critical sportsman. He has gone on, year after year, adding to his stores of learning, and laying more deeply the foundation of his literary structure, and thus his work has the mellow flavor of fruit that has ripened on the bough. He had learned the extent and capacities of his subject before he began to write, and was not obliged to vary his scale of proportion as the work went on.-Christian Examiner. He has brought to the accomplishment of his task a wide acquaintance with general literature, a singular degree of industry, a refined and correct taste, a spirit of cautious, temperate, though by no means ungenial criticism, a quick sensibility to the beautiful in sentiment or form, a thorough acquaintance with his subject in its most minute and delicate details, and the power of flowing, graceful, and transparent composition. His historical style is, indeed, admirable-lively, energetic, cordial, free from monotony and commonplace, moving with the ease of a limpid stream, and, without being at any time overloaded, embellished with the rich and tasteful ornaments appropriate to literary disquisition. Nor is he wanting in poetical talents of more than ordinary excellence.-New York Tribune. GLIMPSES OF SPAIN; OR, NOTES OF AN UNFINISHED TOUR IN 1847. BY S. T. WALLIS, ESQ. 12MO, PAPER, 75 CENTS; MUSLIN, $1 00. Its felicitous sketches, its piquancy of narrative, and accuracy of observation, we may venture to predict will give it a high position among the best books of travel of the day, excellent as some of these have been of late years.-Baltimore American. We should be pleased if all travelers were as entertaining as Wallis, and all "Notes" as racy and new as these "Glimpses of Spain."-Lit. American. We venture to predict for this volume a very large share of public favor, which we think it most fully deserves. * * * An agreeable and clever work. We repeat that we rarely stumble on one of its kind that has afforded us so much pleasure.-Albion. These "Glimpses" do credit to the eye which saw and the pen which describes them. Mr. Wallis treats of Spain and Spaniards as they are, not as they are not.-Boston Post. The author is an intelligent and well-read man, and tells his story in a very animated manner. He is disposed to take a very favorable view of Spanish character and manners, the effect of which is to render his book the more interesting.-New York Observer. A sensible, well-written, and highly entertaining volume, embodying matured and comprehensive views with interesting personal incident.—Southern Christian Advocate. It furnishes a rich intellectual treat.-Methodist Protestant. It is written with clearness, and in a most agreeable style, which familiarizes, so to speak, the reader with the subject of which it treats, and carries him on his journey as if he were really making it himself, so skillfully and yet so artlessly is the narrative given.-Baltimore Patriot. The book abounds with interest and amusement.-Freeman's Journal. We like this book exceedingly. All the author says is full of sense, and heart, and purpose. Of all the books we have ever read on Spain, commend us to this one.-Christian Alliance. It is characterized by a close observation of all material facts and incidents, a liberal view of existing institutions, and a style easy, graceful, and readable in a high degree.-Methodist Quarterly Review. HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK. THE LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF ROBERT SOUTHEY, D.D., LL.D. EDITED BY HIS SON, THE REV. CHARLES CUTHBERT SOUTHEY, M. A. In Southey's Life and Letters, the lovers of pleasant English prose may make sure of having as agreeable a specimen of unconscious autobiography in the form of letters as any in our language.-Edinburgh Review. Gossipy as womanhood, and garrulous as the "Doctor;" playful and piquant, it forces us to see an interest about persons and things of so little consequence that we wonder how even the connection with Southey can invest them with sufficient materia not to try our patience. But so it is; and the genealogies of families, the notices of common and indifferent people, the descriptions of casual impressions, the nursery, as it were, turned out to view, and the exploits of boy comrades, the characters of various teachers, and small anecdotes of household affairs and relations, are all set forth in so lively and fresh a manner that our amusement never flags, and our sense is ever and anon awakened to suggestions of philosophical import, to the great business of more mature life.-Literary Gazette. The whole volume abounds with interest; the autobiographical portion will be perused with great curiosity, and the remaining portions of this first installment of the "Life and Correspondence" contain a mass of attractive and entertaining literary gossip, combined with delightful notices of Southey's early career.-Morning Advertiser. We have rarely read a more delightful piece of writing than the first fiftyeight pages of this work. There is a gossiping charm in its minute details, a transparent purity in its style, and a gentle tinge of melancholy, natural to such a retrospect at the age of fifty, that throw an unusual charm about this account of his early years.-Watchman and Observer. To the lovers of refined and elegant literature, this announcement will impart anticipations of gratification, such as few biographies are capable of affording. Journal of Commerce. We doubt not that it will be one of the most popular issues of the season.-Hartford Republican. A rare intellectual treat.-Springfield Republican. We do not think the language contains a more delightful piece of autobiography, rich as are its treasures in that style of composition, than these passages of the early life of Southey. It is full of the vividest traits of truth and character expressed with manly unaffectedness.-London Examiner. HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK. SHIRLEY: A TALE BY THE AUTHOR OF "JANE EYRE.” LIBRARY EDITION, 12MO, MUSLIN, $1 00. 8vo, paper, 37 CENTS. A book which, like its predecessor, indicates exquisite feeling, and very great power of mind in the writer.-London Daily News. The book embraces grand character, grand scenes, grand thoughts; it proves, conclusively, that the writer is a wonderful creature, a phenomenon of mind.-Boston Post. It is strongly marked by the peculiar characteristics of "Jane Eyre,” in dicating exquisite feeling and remarkable power of mind in the writer.Boston Rambler. Very ably written, and interesting.-Philadelphia Sat. Evening Post. The women in "Shirley" are marvelously real.-Albion. There are scenes which for strength and delicacy of emotion are not trans cended in the range of English fiction.--London Examiner. There is a racy novelty in its style, in its minute analysis of character, in its descriptions of natural scenery, and in its combinations of conflicting passions.-Eclectic Review. There is great ability in this work; it is full of eloquence.-Bentley's Mis. It is marked by originality of style, and displays command of language, and ability at framing and developing a plot.-Literary American. *** But we must stop here with a general and hearty approval of the book, which is as healthy in tone as it is pleasing in style.-N. Y. Mirror. JANE EYRE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. EDITED BY CURRER BELL. LIBRARY EDITION, 12MO, MUSLIN, $1 00. 8vo, PAPER, 25 CENTS. Since the time when Scott was used to astonish the world no novel has had such success or attracted so much attention.-Daily Times. This novel has excited a deeper and more wide-spread interest than any other book that has been issued from the press for years.-Brattle. Eagle. From the first page to the last it is stamped with vitality.-W. Chronicle. One of the most powerful domestic romances which have been published for many years; full of youthful vigor, of freshness and originality, of nervous diction and consecrated interest. It is a book with a great heart in it.-Atlas. The reading of such a book as this is a healthful exercise.-Tablet. It is a book to make the heart beat, and to fill the eyes with tears.-London Atlas. Original, vigorous, edifying, and absorbingly interesting.-Jerrold's Paper. HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK. A SYSTEM OF ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL GEOGRAPHY, FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. BY CHARLES ANTHON, LL. D. 8vo, MUSLIN, $1 50; SHEEP, $1 75. It will be seen that the book is a history as well as a geography. The two are, in truth, happily combined. This renders the work something more than a dry enumeration of geographical details; it may be read with the same pleasure as one, anxious for information, would read a history. The work is every where instinct with life: it is, in fact, geography historically treated. It contains, besides, much curious and instructive information on points of knowledge concerning which we are accustomed to search elsewhere, and often to search in vain.-S. W. Baptist Chronicle. Those who have attempted to teach Greek and Latin literature, know that a good and complete system of classical geography has been among the absolute wants of American schools and colleges. The work before us is meant precisely to fill the gap; and it takes up the subject in the exhaustive way in which Dr. Anthon generally treats the subjects he undertakes to discuss.-Methodist Quarterly Review. It is well done, and we do not know of a work in the English language that could be substituted for it in the department to which it belongs.—Puritan Recorder. Of the many volumes for which the public are indebted to Dr. Anthon, there is not one more admirably executed, in all respects, than this. Every page evinces the most thorough discrimination.-New York Tribune. The work is a monument of the learning and the unwearied diligence of the author.-Sartain's Magazine. Invaluable to the traveler and the student.-Democratic Review. A CLASSICAL ATLAS, TO ILLUSTRATE ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY, COMPRISED IN TWENTY-FIVE MAPS, SHOWING THE VARIOUS DI- BY ALEXANDER G. FINDLAY, F.R.G.S. 8vo, HALF BOU, PRICE REDUCED TO $3 25. |