"We strongly recommend Rollin's Ancient History, and we can also safely add, Dearborn's edition. It is not only elegantly printed on good paper, in a distinct and legible type, provided with maps of countries, plans of cities and fortifications, and routes of the most remarkable military expeditions, but it is the most perfect and complete edition that ever has been given to the American public. It contains the several Prefaces, the History of the Arts and Sciences of the Ancients, and all the passages, which in former publications have been altered, mutilated, or suppressed. It is the best American, perhaps the best existing edition."

Am. Monthly Magazine.

"It is, in short, the only entire or unmutilated edition of Rollin's Ancient History in English, which has issued from the press for more than eighty years, and it will unquestionably supersede all the imperfect copies now in use in our country. Its typographical execution is of the best description."-Knickerbocker.

"Not only the best edition of this invaluable work ever published-but the handsomest edition of any work which has perhaps issued from the American Press. N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.

"The present edition of this most valuable work contains all the portions of the original, relating to the Arts and Sciences of the Ancients, which from some unknown cause have been left out for some time by the English publishers." Evening Star.

"It has the merit of containing Rollin's History of the Arts and Sciences of the Ancients, which important part of the Ancient History has of late years been omitted by the English publishers, and has never before been given in any American edition." N. Y. Evening Post.

"It is the only complete edition of the work ever published in America."

Albany Evening Journal. "We do not hesitate to pronounce this one of the most elegant and liberal publications that has long issued from the American Press." N. Y. American.

"The publisher must have the credit of having issued not only the best edition of this most valuable work, but the only edition ever published in this country containing Rollin's entire History of the Ancients." N. Y. Courier and Enquirer.

"We do not hesitate to assert that in the publication of the volumes before us the cause of substantial Literature has been more effectually subserved than in that of any other work within the last ten years." New-Yorker.

LIBRARY OF STANDARD LITERATURE.

A series of Works is now in course of publication, entitled The Library of Standard Literature. It is intended to include works in most of the departments of Literature, and such only as are of acknowledged value-nothing being admitted which may not strictly be pronounced to come within the pale of Standard Literature. The various "Libraries" issuing from the press in this country, are valuable acquisitions to the reading public, and presented in a form at once cheap and attractive. They combine a vast deal of information, thrown out in a manner which amuses while it instructs—and are unquestionably taking the place of that class of the works of fiction, whose only merit has been that they were new Novels or Roman

ces. And it is undoubtedly true also, that these "Libraries" have, with other causes, tended to raise the works of fiction to a higher standard than they have hitherto held.

But the works of which these several "Libraries" are composed, are most of them new, and a large portion prepared for the places they occupy—and while it is desirable that they should be read extensively, it is also equally desirable that the works of older authors, which have long stood the test of public opinion, should also be presented to the public in a shape that may come within the reach of the great mass of readers.

The works which will compose the Library of Standard Literature, have at no time been published in any connected Series. They are emphatically such as will be read as long as language continues to exist.

In determining upon the size, a medium between the 12mo. and the large 8vo. has been selected, for the purpose of avoiding the objections made to both-to the latter, that it is too large for convenience in reading; to the former, as being too voluminous and costly.

Great complaint has been, and still is made, that in the style of publishing, books from the press in this country bear no comparison with those published in England. It is the intention of the publisher, that, so far as the materials to be commanded will allow, this objection shall not hold against the "Library of Standard Literature.” The Stereotype plates are cast from type that is new and easy to be read, and great care has been taken to have correctness in typography; the paper is made expressly for this series, and is not exceeded in quality by any hitherto made in this country; the printing and binding will be the best that can be procured, and the plates exe. cuted upon steel by the first artists.

The following works of this Series are now published, viz.

The Complete WORKS of EDMUND BURKE, with a MEMOIR-In three volumes-with plates.

"The public have now within their reach the writings of this great man, at a cheaper rate we presume than they were ever before offered, and at the same time in a style of much neatness and beauty." Journal of Commerce.

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"Equal in the careful and beautiful accuracy of the typography, and exquisite fabric of the paper to the finest English books, they prove that our country supplies within itself the means of rivalling in elegance the handsomest works of the London Publishers." N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.

"As specimens of typographical excellence they challenge competition either in England or America." N. Y. Traveller.

"It is a very neat edition of the writings of that great and eloquent man." N. Y. Evening Post. "The Works of Burke, however politicians may cavil about some of his principles, are well entitled to lead in any series of publications." N. Y. American.

"The work is printed on fine cold pressed paper, in a beautiful clear type, and is bound in the neatest manner imaginable." N. Y. Gazette.

"We cannot doubt that a valuable portion of our community will feel under obligation to the publisher for getting up, amidst the ephemeral works crowding in upon us at the present day, a collection of Standard Literature, which we can calculate on as a valuable legacy for our children." Boston Evening Gazette.

"This edition is truly a splendid one, and the most creditable to the American Press of any large work which has recently been issued from it."

American Traveller.

The DRAMATIC WORKS OF SHAKSPEARE, with the Corrections of Dr. JOHNSON, G. STEEVENS, and others-revised by ISAAC REED-with an account of the LIFE and WRITINGS of SHAKSPEARE, Dr. JOHNSON'S PREFACE, and an ESSAY on the Learning of SHAKSPEARE, in six volumes, with 19 plates.

"This edition of Shakspeare's Plays is in six uncommonly beautiful post octavo volumes, uniform in size with the excellent edition of Burke-and is in all respects a very fine edition, much preferable in our judgment to the recent London edition in fifteen duodecimo volumes by Valpy, and far superior to Pickering's in eleven volumes." N. Y. Evening Post.

"In the edition now before us the publisher has given the public a gem which will not fail to be highly appreciated by the literary portion of the community." N. Y. Courier and Enquirer. "The style in which these volumes are published is excellent; clear, open type, good paper, and no overlaying the text with notes." N. Y. American.

"The volumes are of good size, and the type large and plain." Evening Star. "It is in six volumes-elegantly done, but afforded at a price which, ten years ago, would have been considered a miracle of economy." Boston Evening Gazette.

Complete WORKS of LORD BYRON-Containing Notices of the LIFE of the Author by MOORE—his LETTERS, JOURNAL, POEMS, etc.-in six volumes-with splendid engravings executed for this edition. The present edition of the Works of Lord Byron will be completed in six

volumes.

The first two volumes contain notices of the Life of the author, by Moore, including Letters, Journals, &c.—to which is added in this edition a large number of Letters and other Prose Writings not to be found in the English copy. The Poems will occupy the four last volumes-the order in which they will be printed is the same as that adopted in the octavo edition issued by the publisher of this-many Poems will be included which are not to be found in the last London edition.

This work will be published in monthly volumes-the first two are now ready.

The WORKS of JOHN DRYDEN, VERSE and PROSE-with a LIFE of the Author by the REV. JOHN MITFORD-first American Edition-in two volumes, with plates.

The Complete WORKS of MACKENZIE, Author of "MAN of FEELING," is in progress, and will form a part of this series.

The several works composing the Library of Standard Literature may be had separately or together.

LETTERS of HORACE WALPOLE, EARL of ORFORD, to SIR HORACE MANN, British Envoy to the Court of Tuscany-Now first published from the originals in possession of the EARL of WALDEGRAVE.-Edited by LORD DOVER-In two volumes 12mo.

"Great is the obligation that the lovers of that most captivating species of Literature-which carries us as it were behind the scenes of the great tragi-comedy of life—are under to the publisher for the beautiful edition here presented them of one of the most entertaining, and, we may surely add, instructive works of this sort." N. Y. American.

"No wonder that so much of interest and high expectation has been excited by the long promised appearance of the beautiful work now before us; the familiar correspondence of the polished, the witty, the learned and versatile Walpole.” N. Y. Traveller.

"Full of life, wit, anecdote, and political reminiscence."

N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.

"The author has long been familiarly known as a fascinating writer in this department of literature-and, in addition to his usual merit, as a Letter writer, the correspondence now first published has special claims to public favour."

Boston Evening Gazette.

"Of these Letters it may be justly remarked, that it would be difficult to find such a union of taste, humour, and almost dramatic power of description and narrative as they exhibit." American Traveller.

"These Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, are the most exact chronicles of the events of the day, and elucidate very amusingly both the manners of the time and the characters of the persons then alive." Poulson's Daily Advertiser.

"These Letters, so long withheld from the world by the testamentary directions of Walpole, have not disappointed the expectations that were excited by the character and other productions of that celebrated personage, and the secresy to which they were consigned. They form a treat for the literary epicure."

National Gazette.

"A more delightful collection of Letters is not to be found in the English language." N. Y. Standard.

LUCIA THE BETROTHED-from the Italian of ALLESSANDRO MANZONI-in two volumes 12mo.

"This translation from a Novel-if so we must call a work full of the finest developments of character, and tending to the highest moral aims-renowned in Italian literature, is a welcome contribution to our own." N. Y. American.

"Its character-its plot-its execution alike evidence a master spirit-Its materials contain all those stirring attributes of romance that were so rife in the lawless society of Italy at the close of the middle ages." N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. "Those who have been charmed with the beauty of the original, in confessing the translation to be faithfully executed, must feel, with the translator, the inadequacy of any version to convey a distinct idea of the author's genius and design." American Traveller.

"This is a Novel worth reading-the production of one of the most eminent Italian writers of the present day, who is nos distinguished by his virtues in private life, than by his exalted genius." Baltimore Gazette.

"The Promessi Sposi is one of the finest productions of the present day; it abounds, it teems, with startling incident, magnificent description, and lofty sentiment." N. Y. Mirror.

Popular ESSAYS on NAVAL SUBJECTS-By the Author of

"A YEAR in SPAIN"-In one volume 18mo.

"These Essays are dedicated most appropriately to the junior officers of the navy-they furnish useful information to the young officer, and valuable to all, in a style easy and polished, and at the same time unambitious." N. Y. American. "A charming little volume, written with spirit and grace, and full of interesting and valuable information on naval subjects." N. Y. Standard.

"The three topics of these essays are, ships, navigation, and naval war; and these themes, commonly made repulsive to young students by being ostentatiously encumbered with a mass of dry and difficult learning, are so treated by him, that he who begins the book will read it through as a pleasure, not persevere to the end merely as a sense of duty." N. Y. Evening Post.

An OLD SAILOR'S YARNS, By N. AMES, Author of " MARI

NER'S SKETCHES."

"Some of these tales are written with a high degree of power, and all of them display a warm imagination, and an apt and ever-brilliant fancy."

N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.