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WAVERLEY NOVELS. VOL. XLVII. CADELL, EDINBURGH : AND 

 WHITTAKER AND Co., LONDON. 



In this volume, we have the conclusion of Count Robert of Paris, and the 

 commencement of Castle Dangerous. It is illustrated with a frontispiece, 

 by C. Stanfield and Sangster, and a vignette by Frazer and Fox. This cheap 

 and splendid work is now on the eve of completion ; it will, doubtless, be 

 ranged in our libraries only one shelf below the productions of Shakspeare 

 Milton and Bacon. 



HISTORICAL TALES OF ILLUSTRIOUS BRITISH CHILDREN. BY AGNES 

 STRICKLAND. LONDON. N. HAILES. 



This is such " a good little volume," that, having given the presentation 

 copy to our son, we have been induced to purchase another for our daughter. 

 After this confession, all praise would be supererogatory. No compliment 

 can be paid to a work, equal to the sterling compliment of cash. Miss 

 Strickland, in addition to the interest and pure morality of her sketches, 

 " conveys, in a pleasing form, useful and entertaining information, illus- 

 trative of the manners, customs and costume of the era connected with the 

 events of every story;" and judiciously adds an historical summary 

 to each, which elucidates the narrative, and corrects any transgressions as 

 to matters of fact which may have been committed with a view to increase 

 the interest or preserve the tone of the tale. The work contains seven stories, 

 elucidating a large portion of English history ; to all of which, considering 

 the purpose for which they have been written, we give our unqualified 

 approbation. 



The frontispiece, by Parris, is one of the most audacious offences against 

 taste, composition, drawing, and the female figure, we have ever beheld. 

 The designer has found a very congenial engraver, E. Chavane : Arcades 

 ambo ! 



WORKS OF LORD BYRON. VOL. XVI. LONDON. MURRAY. 



This volume, which in beauty of getting up is upon a par with its pre- 

 decessors, contains the fourth and fifth cantos of Don Juan, written at 

 Ravenna, in 1821 ; and the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth, written 

 at Pisa, in 1822 and 1823, with many highly interesting variorum readings 

 from the original M.S. and a singular confutation of several of Lord Bacon's 

 Historical Apothegms, by the " Moody Childe." The subject of the fron- 

 tispiece is Cologne, drawn by Turner, and engraved by E. Findler ; and that 

 of the Vignette, is a view of St. Sophia, Constantinople, by the same artists. 



FAMILY LIBRARY. No. XXXVII. LIVES OF SCOTTISH WORTHIES. 

 VOL. III. LONDON. MURRAY. 



The thirty- seventh number of the Family Library contains, besides an 

 interesting memoir and portrait of the celebrated James the First of Scotland? 

 satisfactory sketches of the lives of Henrysoun, Dunbar, Gavin Douglas 

 and Sir David Lindsay, with copious, but by no means impertinent quota- 

 tions from their works, and a very pleasant chapter of antiquarian illus- 

 trations. 



This is one of the " Libraries," now publishing, to which we purpose 

 allotting a place, most easy of reference, on the shelves of our sanctum. 



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