MR. LEIGHTON'S LIFE OF MAN SYMBOLISED. One volume 4to. Handsomely bound in Rich Turkey Morocco Antique, $25.00. THE PROPER STUDY OF MANKIND IS MAN. ife of SYMBOLISED an, BY THE MONTHS OF THE YEAR, IN THEIR SEASONS AND PHASES, WITH PASSAGES SELECTED FROM ANCIENT AND MODERN AUTHORS ACCOMPANIED BY A SERIES OF TWENTY-FIVE FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS, BY JOHN LEIGHTON, F.S.A. HE VOLUME consists of Twelve Sections, into which the Life of Man is divided, to accord with the twelve Months of the Year, and the progress of nature, from the germination of the seed to the decay of the tree. The progressive developments of the physical and moral attributes of Man are shown in each Month concurrently with the growth of the Year: and the varying phases of his Passions, Pursuits, and Aspirations are exhibited in excerpt passages from Ancient and Modern Writers. These are cited in the typographical characters of their respective periods, appropriately and suggestively illustrated by many hundreds of marginal devices, initial vignettes, and tail-pieces. Each page of the book is enclosed in a framework, which serves as a setting for proverbs, and other aphorismatic sentences, in harmony with the text. Each Section is preceded by two full-page Engravings, of which, including the General Frontispiece, there are Twenty-five, printed within red rules. Twelve of them, illustrating the Life of Man from the Cradle to the Grave, also embody the Progress of the Seasons, and the varying Aspects of Nature, as seen under an English sky. The other Twelve comprise a Series of Medallion Portraits, from the Infant to the Patriarch, combined with Floral Emblems and other Symbolical Attributes, in keeping with the central subject. I OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. NE of the most original, curious, and beautiful books produced since the days of Caxton Its very title-page is an invitation and promise, for it contains, in its flowers and fruits, its stars, crowns, and rubricated lines, a beauty all its own. To it succeeds a pictorial frontispiece, embodying Shakespeare's Seven Ages, the centre exhibiting the world a stage, with the actors coming and going like shadows, and the surrounding medallions portraying the seven ages of the poet; the shields-the transformation of life, as in the egg, the worm, the chrysalis, and the butterfly; the corners of the plate showing Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. Following in regular order throughout the book, are the months of the year as shown in the life and occupations of mankind, the growth of plants, the phenomena of the seasons, &c. Thus in January the birth of the year is symbolized by childhood rescued from the snow, the scion parted from the parent tree. April shows the youth and lover. September exhibits the philosopher and statesman, turning to bodily ease as the reward of mental toil; while in December we see the lamp of life growing dim, and the patriarch preparing for the end that must surely come; and so on through the other months, each portion being illustrated with a large engraving, an ornamental design, appropriate to the time, and several smaller pictures inserted in the text. The larger illustrations are enclosed in borders of conventional design, headed by a winged hour-glass through which the red sand is falling, while the name of the month and its proper motto are printed in crimson, which joins a delicate mosaic T pink at top and bottom, the whole forming a very chaste picture. 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