JOHN G. WHITTIER, Leaves from Margaret Smith's Journal in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, 1678–9. 1 vol. 16mo. paper 50 cts., cloth 75 cts. Some of our readers have probably read more or less of this exceedingly pleasant work, as it has appeared in the National Era. For those who have not seen it, a great treat is in store. The feeling of reality, which adds so much to the charms of fiction, is never broken from the first page to the last. CAMBRIDGE CHRONICLE. The author has used his material skilfully, and in the exercise of that plastic faculty with which he is so highly gifted, has wrought out a vivid portraiture of scenery, character, and manners in the old colonial age of Massachusetts. The style suits well to the character of a well-educated woman at that period, and the reader may imagine Margaret to be one of Whittier's ancestors, whose mental traits he has himself inherited. 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Those persons who have listened to the greater part of the contents of these two volumes in the various lecture rooms throughout the country, will probably be even more anxious to read them than many who have only heard the name of the author. They will revive in the reader the delightful wit, the clear mental attraction, and the high pleasure which they uniformly excited on their delivery.-EXAMINER. Christian Thought on Life. CONTENTS. - The Worth of Life, The Personality of 1 vol. 16mo. 75 cents. More glowing and thrilling productions were never committed to the press. The many friends and admirers of the gifted and popular lecturer will eagerly embrace the opportunity to obtain copies.PHIL. GAZETTE. EDWIN P. WHIPPLE. Essays and Reviews. A new edition. In 2 vols. 16mo. price $2.00. Lectures on Literature and Life. CONTENTS.-Authors in their Relations to Life, Novels and Novelists, Charles Dickens, Wit and Humor, The Ludicrous Side of Life, Genius, Intellectual Health and Disease. Third Edition, 1 vol. 16mo. 62 cts. Washington and the Principles of the Revo lution. In 1 vol. 16mo. price 25 cents. Mr. Whipple may now fairly be called the most popular Essayist in this country; and he has substantial merits which go far to justify the favor with which his writings have been received. - NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. Mr. Whipple is one of the few American types of the genuine literary man. He would have been at home in that glorious conclave of wits and scholars, where Burke, Johnson, Goldsmith, Garrick, and others used to meet and discourse. He seems penetrated with their spirit, and to be gifted with that same intellectual nerve, which distinguished them. Get his books, read them, and place them on the same shelf with your "Boswell's Johnson," and your "Spectator."-TRANSCRIPT. CHARLES SPRAGUE. The Poetical and Prose Writings. A new and enlarged edition, revised by the Author. This copy of Mr. Sprague's works is the only complete one in the market, and is accompanied with a new Portrait, just engraved in the finest style of the art, by Andrews. 1 vol. 16mo. 75 cents, gilt $1.25. What Mr. Sprague has done, he has well done, and he has the proud satisfaction which few early writers enjoy, that his maturer years are not embittered by the publication of any thing which his ripe judgment cannot sanction.-MERCANTILE JOURNAL. Where the productions of his gifted pen are such exquisite gems, whether prose or poetry, it seems a shame that it should remain so long unproductive; or, to use his own more elegant language, that such a nobly inspired pen should be To life's coarse service sold; Where thought lies barren, and nought breeds but gold.' The public will not be ungrateful for a new and so handsome a reprint of old favorites, of which they can never be tired.-BOSTON ATLAS. This volume includes his admirable and classic Oration on American Independence, his Address on Intemperance, delivered before the Massachusetts Society in 1827, and all his charming Poetical productions, a brilliant collection, but far too few. Many of the gems here found will never tire upon the ear, or fail to reach the heart. We are glad to find them in a setting so chaste and appropriate, and well adapted to preserve them. Would that we might hear from Charles Sprague a little more frequently.-SALEM REGIster. This is a volume to read by the family fireside, to carry into the country, to take up at any leisure moment, and delightfully will the time so bestowed pass away. - KNICKERBOCKer. GRACE GREENWOOD. Greenwood Leaves. PROSE. First Series. A Collection of Stories and Letters by Grace Greenwood. Third edition. 1 vol. 12mo. $1.25, gilt $1.75. Greenwood Leaves. Second Series. (Just out.) 1 vol. 12mo. $1.25. The name of Grace Greenwood has now become a household word in the popular literature of our country and our day. Of the intellectual woman we are not called to say much, as her writings speak for themselves, and they have spoken widely. They are eminently characteristic; they are strictly national; they are likewise decisively individual. All true individuality is honestly social, and also, in Miss Clarke's writings, nothing is sectional, and nothing sectarian. She is one of the spiritual products of the soil, which has of late given evidence of spiritual fertility, and she promises not to be the least healthy, as she is not the least choice among them. HENRY GILES. History of my Pets. With fine Illustrations by Billings. 1 vol. 16mo. 50 cents. Recollections of my Childhood. With designs by Billings. (Just out.) 1 vol. 16mo. 50 cents. |