13 FEBRUARY 1864, Page 20

Wise Sayings of the Great and Good. (Whittaker and Co.) —

On the whole, a good volume of selections. The error of citing passages from our own best-known writers is avoided, but we certainly get too much of the compiler's modern pets. We could spare an immense number of extracts from the novels of Sir Bulwyer Lytton. Fuller, however, is copiously quoted, as well as Feltham, Sir Thomas Browne, Addison, Dr. Johnson, Jeremy Taylor, and Sir Philip Sydney—and this is right, for these are all great writers whom the public is beginning to forget, if it have not already forgotten them, and it is well to jog its drowsy memory.