POETRY AND FICTION

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American Jurist, Associate Justice of tbe Suprême Court of the United States, and Dane Professor of Law at Harvard University. Edited by bis Son, WILLIAM W. STORY. With a Portrait. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth. Original price, £1 10«. ; reduced to £1. P. 3tf.

"GreaterthananyLawWriterofwhich 1 stone.**— Lord CampbeU, A» tke Haute of Engiand canboastsince the daysof Black- 1 Lwdi^ Ajnilly 1843.

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The Village Fearl: A Domestic Poem; wîth Mis-

cellaneous Pièces. By JOHN CRAWFORD WILSON. Fcap. 8vo, clotb, 8«. 6c?.

The ITemesls of Falth. By j. a. froude, m. a., late

Fellow of Exeter Collège, Oxford. Post 8vo, clotb, 6«. P. 6d

insight into haman minds, and in hls perceptions of nataral beauty Tbe

style of the letters is everywhere cbarming. The confessions of a Sceptic are often bnlliant, and always touching. The closing narnitlTe is fluent» graphie» and only too highly wrought in painfui beauty." — Fromeciive Review^ MaUt 1849.

** The book beoomes in its soul-buming truthftilness, a qnite Invaluable record of the flery struggles and temptations throngh which the youthof this nlneteenth century bas to force its way in religions matters.

Especially is it a great waming

andproteçt against tbree great (ialsehoods. Against' sieilf^ièliided wuni cHbodoxy and biblioUtryi s^tting up the Bib|e tor a mère dead idol instéad of a livihg witness to Christ. Against ft*othy philosophie Infldelity, merely changing the chaff of old Systems for the cha^ of new, adUrassing men's intellects and ignuring their spirits. Agaln!>t Tractarianbm, trying to make men ail belief, as Strasburgers make geese ail liver, by darkness and cramming; manufacturing state foUy as the infidel state wisdom: deliberately giving the lie to God, who bas made man in bis own image, body, soûl, tfnd spirit, by making the two first décrépit for the

sake of pampering tbe last

Against thèse three falsehoods, we say, does the book before us protest : after its own moumful t'ashlon.moststrongly when most unconsciously." — Fraser' t Mae,, May, 1849.

*** The Nemesis of Faith* pos<«sses the first requisites of a book. It bas power, matter, and mastery of subject, with that largeness which must arise trova the writer*8 mlnd, and that indiridual character — those truths of détail — which spring from expérience or observation.

The pictures of an English home in childhood, youth, and early manhood, as well as the thoughts'andfeelingsof the student at Oxford, are painted with feeling pervaded by a current of thought: the re marks on the humbugof the three leamed

{»rofes8ions, more especially on the worldiness of the church, are not mwre df|cla-. mation, but the outpourlng of an eavoiest conviction: the Piçtureof Anglicim Protestantism, dead to faith, to love, and to atmost everything but wealth-worship, with the statement of the objects that Newman flrst proposed to himself, forai the bestdefenoe ot Traotarianism that bas appeared, thoujçh defence dœs not seem to

be the object of the author As the

main Uterary object is to display the struggles of a mind with the growth and grounds of opinion, incidents are subordinate to the intellectual results that spring from them: but there is no paucity of incident if the work be judged by its own standard.'*— .Çj»«?/a/or.

"The most striking quality in Mr.

Froude's wiitlngs Is bis descriptive éloquence. His characters are ail living before us and bave no sameness. His quickuess of eye is manifest equally in his

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88ay83 Foems^ Allégories^ and Fables. By

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Foems by R. W. Bmerson. Post 870, cloth, 4s,

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IToricaj or, Taies of Niirnberg from the Olden Time.

Translated from tbe Gennan of August Hagen. Fop. 8vo, oiTiamental binding, snitable for présentation, uniform witb ''The Artist's Married Life." Original price, 7«. 6d. ; reduced to ôs. P. 6d,

** This pleasant rolume is got up in that style of imitation of the books of a century ago, wliicb lias of late become so moch the vogue. The typographical and mechanical departments of the yolame speak loudly for the taste and enterprise employed upon it. Simple in its style, quaint, pithy, reasonably pungent — the book smacks strongly of the picturesque old days of which it treats. A long study of the art-antiquities of Nflmberg, and a profound acquaintance with the records, îetters, and memoirs, still preserved, of the times of Albert DOrer and his great brother artists, hâve enabled the author to lay l>efore us a forcibly-drawn and highly-finished picture of art and household life inthatwonderrullyart-practis'ng and art-reverencing old city of Gerroany.** —At/as.

** A delicious little book. It is fiill of a quaint garrulity, and charaeterised by an earnest simplicity of thought and diction, whiçli admirably conveys to thereader the

household and artistic German life of the times of Maximilian. Albert Diirer, and Hans Sachs, the celebrated cobbler and ' master siniser,* as well as niost of the artist celebrities of Niirnberg in the 16th century. Art is the chief end and aim of this little history . It is lauded and praised with a sort of unostentatious dévotion, which explains the religions passion of the early nioulders of the idéal and the beautlful ; and, perhaps, throngli a conséquent deeper concentration of thought, the secret of their success." — Weekly Dispatch.

** A volume ftill of interest for the lover of old times ; while the form in which it is presented to us may incite many to thlnk of art, and look into its many wondrous influences with a curious eàrnestness unknown to them before. It points a moral also, in the knowledge that a people may be brought to take interest in what is chaste and beautiAil as in what is coarse and degriading.** — Manchester Examiner.

Searts in Mortmaln^ and Oomelia. A Novel,

in 1 vol. Post 8vo, dotb. Orignal price, 10*. 6cl, ; reduced to 58, P. 6d,

** To come to such writings as * Hearts in Mortmain, and Comelia* after the anxieties and roughrtess of our worldly struggle, is like bathing in fresh waters after the dust and beat of bodily exertion.

To a peculiar and attractive grâce

they Join considérable dramatic power, and one or two of the characters are eonceived and exeouted with real genius."— Promective Review.

** Both stories contidn matter of thought and reflection which would set up a dozen common-place circulating-library productions.**— Examiner.

**It is not often now.a-days that two Works of,such a rare degree of excellence in their class ai*e to be found in one

volume; it is rarer still to find two works, each of which contains matter for two volumes, bound up in thèse times in one cover."— Observer.

*' The above is an extremely pleadng^ book. The first story is written in the antiquated form of letters, but its simplicity and good taste redeem it from the tediousness and appearance of egotism which generally attend that style of composition."— îùsonomist.

•• Well written and interesting."— DoiYy Newn.

*' Two very pleasing and élégant novete. Some passages display descriptive powers of a high order." — Britanm'a,