NEW BOOKS.
Carey, Lea & Blanchard have lately published,
GLEANINGS IN EUROPE—FRANCE.
By the author of the Spy, &c. in 2 vols. 12mo.
Extremely amusing, light and piquant, and abounding in anecdotes.—London Sun.Characteristic and entertaining volumes, containing much amusing anecdotes, and well executed sketches of society in Paris.—Morning Post.As a man of talents, of sound and judicious observation, this work will add largely to the reputation of the great American Novelist. It is truth, in its way a masterly performance.—Scotsman.
Extremely amusing, light and piquant, and abounding in anecdotes.—London Sun.
Characteristic and entertaining volumes, containing much amusing anecdotes, and well executed sketches of society in Paris.—Morning Post.
As a man of talents, of sound and judicious observation, this work will add largely to the reputation of the great American Novelist. It is truth, in its way a masterly performance.—Scotsman.
EXCURSIONS ON THE RHINE, IN SWITZERLAND, &c.
By the author of the Spy, in 2 vols. 12mo.
“Knowing by delightful experience the great descriptive powers of the author of ‘Excursions,’ we may safely conclude that whoever peruses them will do so with an additional satisfaction when he reflects that they are described by the same pen which has drawn such animated portraits of men and of nature before. This work is indeed a most lively narrative of travels.”—Times.
“Knowing by delightful experience the great descriptive powers of the author of ‘Excursions,’ we may safely conclude that whoever peruses them will do so with an additional satisfaction when he reflects that they are described by the same pen which has drawn such animated portraits of men and of nature before. This work is indeed a most lively narrative of travels.”—Times.
SKETCHES OF SWITZERLAND.
Part First, by the same author, in 2 vols. 12mo.
“The author of ‘The Spy,’ not content with the fame already acquired in the field of literature, has here made another effort to impart some valuable thoughts to the gratification of his friends and the public. The two volumes before us are a compilation of letters written from France to the author’s personal friends in America, but these letters will not be less acceptable because written as private epistles, inasmuch as they contain much of that peculiar character which instructs while it amuses. Mr. Cooper’s testimony in relation to the then existing state of society in France, may be considered as honest; whilst in relation to the more weighty matters which fell under his observation, he appears to have acted upon that most excellent appeal of Othello, ‘nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice’”—American Citizen.“Whatever Mr. Cooper undertakes to describe, he does it with the hand of a master, and a single chapter of description from his vigorous pen, conveys more distinct ideas of the things and persons of whom he writes, than all the volumes of First Impressions which have ever been published. His views of society are also such as may be studied with advantage; and it is to be hoped that the results of his experience will not be entirely lost on his fellow citizens.”—Saturday News.
“The author of ‘The Spy,’ not content with the fame already acquired in the field of literature, has here made another effort to impart some valuable thoughts to the gratification of his friends and the public. The two volumes before us are a compilation of letters written from France to the author’s personal friends in America, but these letters will not be less acceptable because written as private epistles, inasmuch as they contain much of that peculiar character which instructs while it amuses. Mr. Cooper’s testimony in relation to the then existing state of society in France, may be considered as honest; whilst in relation to the more weighty matters which fell under his observation, he appears to have acted upon that most excellent appeal of Othello, ‘nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice’”—American Citizen.
“Whatever Mr. Cooper undertakes to describe, he does it with the hand of a master, and a single chapter of description from his vigorous pen, conveys more distinct ideas of the things and persons of whom he writes, than all the volumes of First Impressions which have ever been published. His views of society are also such as may be studied with advantage; and it is to be hoped that the results of his experience will not be entirely lost on his fellow citizens.”—Saturday News.
New Work, by Washington Irving.
THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS;OR, SCENES, INCIDENTS AND ADVENTURES IN THE FAR WEST.—Digested from the Journal of Captain B. L. E. Bonneville, of the U.S., and illustrated from various other sources, by Washington Irving, author of Astoria &c. &c. in 2 vols. 12mo. with Maps.
LADY MONTAGUE’S LETTERS AND WORKS.
In two handsome volumes.
The correspondence of Lady Mary Wortley Montague with the Countess of Pomfret, the Countess of Bute, the Countess of Mar, Lady Rich, the Countess of Bristol, Mr. Wortley, Sir James Stewart of Colkness, &c., including upwards of one hundred and fifty Letters, hitherto unpublished: a memoir of the Court of George 1st, by Lady Mary Wortley Montague: a sketch of the state of parties by Mr. Wortley, and a life of the authoress: the whole work illustrated with anecdotes and explanatory notes. Edited by Lord Wharncliffe, her great-grandson.
In this edition the names formerly given only in initials and the suppressed passages are restored, from the original MSS. in the possession of Lord Wharncliffe.
“Beautiful, classical and interesting are the letters and works of Lady Mary Wortley Montague. Long as the English language shall hold a place amongst the nations of the earth—just so long will those eloquent letters be considered amongst the standards of its purity and excellence. We would ask—where, either in ancient or modern times, have a series of letters, extending through many years, been published, that contain so elegant a commixture of theutile et dulce—the instructive and the entertaining.”The entire work is edited by her ladyship’s great-grandson, Lord Wharncliffe, who has added a large quantity of additional correspondence from the family papers, and anecdotes which his lordship obtained from the Marquis of Bute and Lord Dudley Stuart.All who desire to acquire an elegant and fluent style, with a lively and agreeable diction, should read the writings of Lady Mary Wortley Montague.—Penn. Inquirer.
“Beautiful, classical and interesting are the letters and works of Lady Mary Wortley Montague. Long as the English language shall hold a place amongst the nations of the earth—just so long will those eloquent letters be considered amongst the standards of its purity and excellence. We would ask—where, either in ancient or modern times, have a series of letters, extending through many years, been published, that contain so elegant a commixture of theutile et dulce—the instructive and the entertaining.”
The entire work is edited by her ladyship’s great-grandson, Lord Wharncliffe, who has added a large quantity of additional correspondence from the family papers, and anecdotes which his lordship obtained from the Marquis of Bute and Lord Dudley Stuart.
All who desire to acquire an elegant and fluent style, with a lively and agreeable diction, should read the writings of Lady Mary Wortley Montague.—Penn. Inquirer.
TUCKER’S JEFFERSON.
The Life of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States, with parts of his correspondence, never before published, and notices of his opinions on questions of Civil Government, National Policy, and Constitutional Law, by George Tucker, Professor of Moral Philosophy in the Universityof Virginia, with an engraved bust, in two volumes.
“The style of the work is altogether historical, and in its method and manner is alike deserving of praise. So many points of interest, however, arise to our mind in speaking of the work, and which it would be impossible to discuss in a newspaper, that we must dismiss it with the general commendation, that it is one which every political party will derive equal interest and instruction in perusing.”“The work is written throughout with candour and temperance of feeling. In the difficult necessity of pursuing an even and continuous thread of narrative amid the innumerable distracting influences of public and private questions, with which his subject is necessarily connected, and usually so fatal to the biographer of a public character—Professor Tucker has been singularly successful, diverging just enough to exhibit the cause and its effect in juxtaposition, and never enlarging into a needless prolixity of detail.”—Metropolitan.“From an author of such capacity, possessed of so many valuable sources of information, the public may reasonably expect a full and perfect history of the political and private life of Thomas Jefferson—friendly to his reputation and character of course—but as impartial as the imperfection of human nature will permit.”—Baltimore Gazette.
“The style of the work is altogether historical, and in its method and manner is alike deserving of praise. So many points of interest, however, arise to our mind in speaking of the work, and which it would be impossible to discuss in a newspaper, that we must dismiss it with the general commendation, that it is one which every political party will derive equal interest and instruction in perusing.”
“The work is written throughout with candour and temperance of feeling. In the difficult necessity of pursuing an even and continuous thread of narrative amid the innumerable distracting influences of public and private questions, with which his subject is necessarily connected, and usually so fatal to the biographer of a public character—Professor Tucker has been singularly successful, diverging just enough to exhibit the cause and its effect in juxtaposition, and never enlarging into a needless prolixity of detail.”—Metropolitan.
“From an author of such capacity, possessed of so many valuable sources of information, the public may reasonably expect a full and perfect history of the political and private life of Thomas Jefferson—friendly to his reputation and character of course—but as impartial as the imperfection of human nature will permit.”—Baltimore Gazette.