Of reprints, new editions, or works of a similar nature,
we hare 1. The Lounger's Commonplace Book. The first edition of this work was published towards the close of' the last century, and was reprinted once, it' not oftener, during the writer's life. The contents of the volumes are very miscellaneous,—now an article on classical literature or criticism ; now a notice of somebody or something of the middle ages ; and very often, which is the most valuable feature of the work, biographical anecdotes, not of the famous but of notorious persons who were the writer's con- temporaries. For occasional, relaxing, or lounging reading, these two volumes are an agreeable companion.
2. The fourth volume of the Masterpieces of English Prose Literature, containing Sir THOMAS MOORE'S Utopia and BACON'S New Atlantis, with an analysis of PLATO'S Republic, by Mr. Sr. Jowl, in an Introductory Essay—a cheap pennyworth of theo- retical politics, and in a small compass.
3. A new and elegant edition, profusely illustrated with por- traits and wood-cuts, of IZAAR WALToN's Lives of five worthies— DONNE, WOTTON, HOOKER, GEORGE HERBERT, and ROBERT SANDERSON the casuist.
4. The First Volume of the Pictorial History of England, which we reviewed at length some months since, on the appearance of its earlier Parts, is now completed ; and comes down to the close of the fourteenth century and the Parliamentary deposition of RICHARD the Second.
5. The Illustrated Family Bible is a cheap and elegant reprint, in the form of a small folio, of Dr. BROWN'S Self-interpreting Bible, with his Concordance ; to be completed in about twenty parts, forming one handsome volume. The typography is per- fectly beautiful ; and the first page of each book is ornamented by a rich and fanciful bordering, printed in red, enclosing highly- finished wood engravings from original designs, printed as usual in black.
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