No. 39. AND ROMANCES. In one volume, neatly bound and embellished, A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred. BY THOMAS COLLEY GRATTAN. 29 "For its local descriptions, and its happy transcript of manners and customs, this novel will be read with pleasure. Mr. Grattan was resident in the midst of the scenes where he lays his plot, and writes out his own impressions. The marks of reality are visible in his pages." Atlas. "This is a very masterly work; and approaches nearer to the popular romances of Scott than any publication which has recently appeared. Its style is manly, animated, and characteristic."-Court Journal. In one volume, neatly bound and embellished, revised and corrected, with a new Preface by the Author, written expressly for this edition, No. 40. THE RED ROVER. BY J. FENIMORE COOPER. "This story is unabatingly interesting, and the characters brought into fine contrast one with another; several scenes are quite dramatic in their effect.”—Literary Gazette. "The best romance of nautical adventure that the times have produced.”—Globe. No. 41. In one volume, neatly bound and embellished, CASTLE OF OTRANTO. BY HORACE WALPOLE. BRAVO OF VENICE. By M. G. LEWIS. · "The tale of Vathek,' which was originally written in French, and published before the author had closed his twentieth year, has for more than half a century continued in possession of all the celebrity which it at once commanded. Vathek' is, indeed, without reference to the time of life when the author penned it, a very remarkable performance." · Quarterly Review. "For correctness of costume, beauty of description, and power of imagination, Vathek' far surpasses all European imitations. As an Eastern tale, even Rasselas' must bow before it: his happy valley will not bear a comparison with the Hall of Eblis.'"-LORD BYRON, In one volume, neatly bound and embellished, No. 42. THE COUNTRY CURATE. BY THE REV. G. R. GLEIG. "This is a book as soothing and consolatory, by the mildness and beauty of the spirit in which it is written, as it is interesting, by the force and vigour of its descriptions, and the general truth and interest of the materials of which it is composed."-Spectator. "We have risen from the perusal of this work with feelings of unmixed satisfaction. 'The Country Curate' will increase the well-merited fame of the author.”— Literary Gazette. "An intensely interesting work, that enriches the literature of our country."-Sun. No. 43. In one volume, neatly bound and embellished, BY MANZONI. "The Betrothed' has much to commend it to the reader. The manners of past times are vividly and correctly painted; the characters are well and boldly conceived, and in good keeping with the age to which they belong; and the scenes are many of them powerful and deeply interesting."-Morning Post. 30 THE STANDARD NOVELS In one volume, neatly bound and embellished, revised by the Author expressly for this edition, No. 44. HAJJI BABA. BY JAMES MORIER. "A series of faithful and easy sketches of oriental scenery, manners, and life, under the agreeable veil of a fictitious narrative, beguiling us into familiarity with the peculiar and expressive features of society in countries dearest to the imagination.”—Quarterly Review. "Hajji' is indeed a classic; Morier has become the rival of Le Sage, and, taking his hero from the far East, has given to the English language its own Gil Blas.' To present such a publication on cheap terms to the reading public is to be a public benefactor." Morning Herald. In one volume, neatly bound and embellished, revised by the Author expressly for this edition, with an Appendix, No. 45. HAJJI BABA IN ENGLAND. BY JAMES MORIER. "Here is laughter for a month' and entertainment for a year. It is rare that an author should be so perfectly master of the feelings of two utterly dissimilar countries as to be able to pourtray both minutely, and, by the clever grouping and juxtaposition of them, make a work so curious and amusing as the present."-Literary Gazette. In one volume, neatly bound and embellished, revised by the Author, No. 46. THE PARSON'S DAUGHTER. BY THEODORE HOOK. "Written with great ease and sprightliness in many of the familiar scenes, and with much force and effect in the working out of its serious incidents."-Athenæum. "The Parson's Daughter' possesses all the charms so peculiar to Mr. Hook,-great knowledge of the world, an accurate perception of character, an exquisite skill in its development, a fund of wit and humour quite inexhaustible, a lively invention, and a happy current of pure unadulterated English."-Dublin Evening Mail. No. 47. 66 In one volume, neatly bound and embellished, BY SIR E. L. BULWER, BART. Perhaps the most original of all Sir E. L. Bulwer's works. Paul Clifford' will at once vary and add to its writer's reputation; for the man of the world, there is shrewdness and satire; for the moralist, matter of deep thought; for the young, all the interest of narrative and all the poetry of feeling."-Literary Gazette. "This work is written with an ability and an acuteness, with a rich and copious flow of pleasant and appropriate images, that render it greatly amusing; at the same time that the rapidity and vivacity of the incidents keep the more didactic parts in a state of perfect fluidity —it is all eau-vive, a pure and perpetually flowing spring of thought and action."-Spectator. In one volume, neatly bound and embellished, No. 48. THE ADVENTURES OF A YOUNGER SON. BY CAPTAIN TRELAWNEY. "Having truth for their ground-work, The Adventures of a Younger Son' possess in addition all the stirring interest of the most romantic fiction. Since Anastasius, we have met with no work which gives us such glowing and faithful pictures of the domestic habits of the oriental nations, which is so fruitful in wild incident, so uniformly vigorous in style, and so relieved with touches of the truest and gentlest pathos."-Sun. AND ROMANCES. 31 In one volume, neatly bound and embellished, revised by the Author expressly for this edition, No. 49. TALES OF THE ALHAMBRA. BY WASHINGTON IRVING. THE LAST OF THE ABENCERRAGES. "There is no writer of the day who possesses such a power of picturesque description as Washington Irving. Those who have not yet read his 'Tales of the Alhambra' may rely on it they have a rich treat in store for them."-Sun. "All the fascinating elegance of style and diction peculiar to Washington Irving is preserved in these tales; in addition to which, the extreme novelty of the subject imparts an interest to them hardly to be equalled and certainly not to be surpassed." No. 50. Staffordshire Advertiser. In one volume, neatly bound and embellished, THE HEADSMAN. BY J. FENIMORE COOPER. "The beauties of this work are numerous; all is earnest, tender, and impassioned, and the characters of Maso and Adelheid have the original and natural air so strongly impressed on all the productions of the author."-Athenæum. In two volumes, neatly bound and embellished, Nos. 51 and 52. ANASTASIUS; or, Memoirs of a Greek. BY THOMAS HOPE. "What could be more acceptable to the readers of fiction than to have such popular works as these in such a style and at such a price. The whole of these editions must win their way to immense circulation, since they possess almost every recommendation in themselves— sterling merit, acknowledged talent, and now neatness and cheapness added to the list." Literary Gazette. In one volume, neatly bound and embellished, with a new Preface by the Author written expressly for this edition, No. 53. DARNLEY; or, The Field of the Cloth of Gold. BY G. P. R. JAMES. "This romance is an animated and gorgeous picture of the times-times of wild adventures, of fêtes and pageantry, of tilt and tournament—we cannot, in fact, imagine a period better suited to the pen of the novelist.”—Literary Gazette. "A story that perhaps surpasses any similar work that has ever appeared, with the exception of Scott's Ivanhoe."-Morning Journal. "Mr. James's success is complete; he has rivalled, if not Sir Walter Scott, certainly the best of his other contemporaries."—New Monthly. No. 54. In one volume, neatly bound and embellished, BY JAMES MORIER. "This is the best novel that has appeared for several years past; its story richer in materials and more artful in construction, and its style simple, manly English-the language of a mature observer of men and manners, as well as a scholar, and a ripe one." " Quarterly Review. "A most delightful picture of Persia and its manners, and well calculated to afford a perfect knowledge of a singular country through the medium of an excellent fiction." Literary Gazette. "This work is so generally read, and so well appreciated by the public, that it would be a work of supererogation to enter upon an analysis of its peculiar merits. Few legends of the Rhine are more interesting. The engravings with which it is embellished are very creditable to the taste and skill of the artist."-Sun. In one volume, neatly bound and embellished, with a new Preface by the Author, written expressly for this edition, No. 56. DE L'OR ME. BY G. P. R. JAMES. Decidedly an able production. Neither in the arrangement, invention of its incidents as a novel, nor the conduct of the whole as a dramatic picture of past times, does it discover, even to the eyes of critical experience, the ordinary straining and labour for effect, to which even superior minds have occasionally been driven. The sketches and wit with which this work is interspersed are excellent. But we must refer to the volume itself, which will be read with pleasure by all."-Athenæum. * A work which for grandeur of incident and power of narration has few equals.”—Globe. In one volume, neatly bound and embellished, with corrections, and a Preface by the Author, written expressly for this edition, No. 57. HEADLONG HALL, NIGHTMARE ABBEY, MAID MARIAN, AND CROTCHET CASTLE. BY PEACOCK. "These are tales which may be read over a dozen times, and will be as fresh at the last as at the first perusal. New points of wit, humour, and sarcasm are always appearing." London Paper. No. 58. In one volume, neatly bound and embellished, By the Author of " A MARRIAGE in High Life." "One of the most touching and beautiful fictions that we have met with for a long time. The interest of the story rests upon feelings developed with equal truth and pathos-feelings that all have more or less experienced, and hence awakening general sympathy." Literary Gazette. In one volume, neatly bound and embellished, revised and corrected by the Author expressly for this edition, No. 59. PHILIP AUGUSTUS: or, The Brothers in Arms. BY G. P. R. JAMES. "Mr. James has chosen a most interesting period and his work is a very valuable addition to our stock of pleasure and literary enjoyment."-Literary Gazette. "Philip Augustus' is a novel of much merit; the writer is fully master of his subject, and is very successful in picturing forth the chivalric manners of the time to which his work refers. There is a great deal to entertain and delight the readers in this work--it evidently emanated from a well-stored and reflecting mind."—Athenæum. AND ROMANCES. 33 In one volume, neatly bound and embellished, revised and corrected, with a new Preface by the Author, written expressly for this edition, No. 60. ROOKWOOD. BY W. HARRISON AINSWORTH. 6 "Mr. Ainsworth has certainly produced, in his Rookwood,' a work indicating very considerable powers and resources."-Edinburgh Review. "The author of Rookwood' has shown talents which will, no doubt, produce a strong and fervid strain of romance. The story is one that never flags."-Quarterly Review. In one volume, neatly bound and embellished, revised and corrected, with a new Preface by the Author, written expressly for this edition, No. 61. HENRY MASTERTON; or, The Adventures of a Young Cavalier. BY G. P. R. JAMES. "Mr. James has most happily steered clear of all the shoals and rocks of old romance.' The personage are fictitious (with the exception of a spirited sketch of Ireton). The colouring of that adventurous period is excellently preserved, and the interest of the story maintained to the last. Henry Masterton' is, in our opinion, superior to 'Philip Augustus,' and is a most finished production."-Literary Gazette. "A romance which, for variety of detail and stirring interest, equals, we think, any of the previous productions of this fertile writer. We recommend Henry Masterton,' as abounding in entertainment."-Court Journal. "A spirited performance."-Spectator. No. 62. 6 In one volume, neatly bound and embellished, PETER SIMPLE. BY CAPT. MARRYAT. "Certainly the most amusing of Capt. Marryat's amusing novels-a species of picture quite unique; a class by themselves, full of humour, truth, and graphic sketching." Literary Gazette. "Peter Simple' has other excellences beyond being a delightfully readable book, and presenting a true and vivid sketch of scenery, and nautical life, and adventures. It is unrivalled amongst modern productions as a work of art."-Spectator. No. 63. In one volume, neatly bound and embellished, JACOB FAITHFUL. BY CAPTAIN MARRYAT. "A laudable addition to this popular series. One of its author's best productions; it is every way worthy of a place on the novelist's shelf."—Literary Gazette. 66 Decidedly one of Capt. Marryat's best written novels.”—Brighton Herald. No. 64. In one volume, neatly bound and embellished, BY CAPTAIN MARRYAT. "A most humorous, and a most entertaining book. The execution is as good as in any of the same author's productions. The point, the humour, the wit, the neatness and terseness of style, are as good as ever."-Spectator. "This novel is a clever one, and worthy of the literary reputation of Capt. Marryat. It discovers great power and felicity of invention, and is further remarkable for the correct and faithful delineation of character, circumstance, and incident which distinguishes all the productions of this deservedly popular author."-Scotsman. |