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(Boswell's Johnson.)

the BEST NOTES of other EDITORS, &c.

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List of Persons who have contributed Information or Notes to this

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Vols. IX. and X. consist of JOHNSONIANA;

Or, Miscellaneous Anecdotes and Sayings, gathered from nearly a hundred different publications, which could not have been produced as notes to Boswell, without overloading and perplexing his pages, but which are essential to the completion of the intellectual portrait of Johnson.

II.

A JOURNAL.

By FRANCES ANNE BUTLER (Fanny Kemble).

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"We take the book as it is. Confining ourselves then to the printed text, we should like to know, whom and what the public can have imagined the present journal was to place before them? Instead of getting up for the booksellers a book which a hundred other travellers could have manufac tured as skilfully as herself, she has given us one of those vivid realities which it is beyond the faculty of authorship to create. Her picture is a picture from the life; the original drawings taken on the spot. Our surprise, however, is perhaps as great as that of our neighbours, only of a more agreeable kind; first, at the extraordinary rapidity and truth with which the impression of the moment has been committed to paper-so little lost,

so little added; next, at the frankness and good faith with which she has retained these her first impressions, in spite of the thousand and one terrors, temptations, and prudential considerations of preparing for the press. "The way in which the supposed specimens of bad taste have been selected, in the newspapers and other publications, for exposure- sentences or half sentences détached from their quick and flowing context-makes them appear infinitely worse than they really are.

"The paragraphs to which the supposed objection fairly applies are very few in number; and the alteration of a word or two to some more quiet and pretty behaved expression, would set every thing right.

"The anger of our good cousins over the water would be still more ridiculous than the sensitiveness of our purists."- Edinburgh Review.

III.

LEGENDS of the CONQUEST of SPAIN.
By the Author of "The Sketch-Book."
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IV.

A TOUR on the PRAIRIES.

By the Author of "The Sketch-Book."
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V.

ABBOTSFORD and NEWSTEAD.

By the Author of "The Sketch-Book."
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VI.

INDIAN SKETCHES,

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"This work forms a kind of Continuation to my Tour on the Prairies,' the Expedition being led by the same Commissioner; and it brings the reader among the Pawnee Tribes, of which we heard a great deal, but saw nothing."

"The Sketches here given present, in my opinion, some of the most spirited, lively, and familiar views of Indian life that I have met with. They partake too of the youthfulness and freshness of the Author, and of a peculiar turn for the grotesque by which he is characterised. We have not yet had much of the comic of the Indian character; writers have all represented the Indians according to a conventional and artificial model; this unhackneyed youngster presents them as they are."- Letter from

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THE BIBLICAL KEEPSAKE for 1836;

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Views from the "Land-
Numbers IX. to XVI.

VIII.

MAJOR DOWNING'S LETTERS, Second English Edition, with Three additional Letters. 18mo, 3s.

IX.

COLERIDGE'S TABLE TALK.

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X.

A RESIDENCE and TOUR in the UNITED STATES.

By E. S. ABDY, A.M.

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XI.

ESSAY on ARCHITECTURE.

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XII.

EGYPT, and THEBES;

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Twelve Years.

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