JOHN G. WHITTIER. PROSE WRITINGS. Old Portraits and Modern Sketches. CONTENTS. - John Bunyan, Thomas Ellwood, James Naylor, Andrew Marvell, John Roberts, Samuel Hopkins, Richard Baxter, William Leggett, Nathaniel P. Rogers, Robert Dinsmore. 1 vol. 16mo. 75 cts., gilt $1.25. Whatever topic Whittier takes he handles with a master's hand. The portraits of these sturdy men are sketched with fidelity. Their faults are not hidden from view, but their sturdy virtues are clearly revealed to the eye. Go to the publishers, purchase and read these thrilling portraits of some of the noblest men the world has seen, sketched by one of the purest writers and truest men of our times.REPUBLICAN. John G. Whittier, the poet, proves himself in this volume to be an admirable painter with his pen. His prose has the strong but mellow coloring of the old masters, not unmingled with the ornamental graces of modern schools. Mr. Whittier makes use of each of his subjects to impress some great truth and advocate some great reform demanded in the present condition of the world. He is earnest and bold, and has given us altogether a most delightful volume. PHILADELPHIA BULLETIN. This splendid volume of 284 pages, from the pen of Whittier, contains sketches of men of thought and action, who have left the impress of their genius upon the world. Some of these sketches were published in the Era, and have been quoted and read with the deepest interest.-U. S. GAZETTE. All are written with ability, and most of them are highly interesting. Whittier is one of the most gifted writers of our country, and he seldom touches any thing that he does not adorn. - PENNSYLVANIA INQUIRER. 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 o that plastic faculty with which he is so highly gifted, has wrough 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. The book deserves praise as a work of art, it is instructive as well as entertaining; and if any lady at the head of a family should happen on some evening to read from its pages for the pleasure of her husband, she would probably find all the children who may be over seven years of age eagerly listening. - CHRISTIAN WATCHMAN. POEMS. Songs of Labor, and other Poems. 1 vol. (Just ready.) REV. HENRY GILES. Lectures and Essays. CONTENTS. Falstaff, Crabbe, Moral Philosophy of Byron's Life, Moral Spirit of Byron's Genius, Ebenezer Elliott, Oliver Goldsmith, Spirit of Irish History, Ireland and the Irish, The Worth of Liberty, True Manhood, The Pulpit, Patriotism, Economies, Music, The Young Musician, A Day in Springfield, Chatterton, Carlyle, Savage, and Dermody. 2 vols. 16mo. $1.50. 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. 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. Christian Thought on Life. CONTENTS.-The Worth of Life, The Personality of 1 vol. 16mo. (Just ready.) EDWIN P. WHIPPLE. 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. 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. In the use of his powers as a lecturer and a writer, Mr. Whipple seems to be doing the work for which he was born for which nature and education have qualified him. He moves serenely in the higher walks of criticism. His step is firm without any air of arrogance. He sees clearly into the heart of things, tells calmly what he sees, and tells it in a way that carries conviction to the mind of the listener. Not only does his glance reach to the core of the objects which he judges, but around all the surfaces, however manysided; takes within its range both the grand and the minute, and distinguishes at once the essential from the accidental. He has a well-balanced combination of faculties; uniting the power of observing facts with that of broad generalization, keen intuition with logical analysis, strong memory with playful imagination, a serious spirit with a quick susceptibility of the ludicrous, warm sympathies with a moral courage inspired by love of truth, and a mental force which concentrates all his energies at will to bear upon a single point.WATCHMAN AND REFLECTOR. 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 book of "Lectures," read it, and place it 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. |