NEW AND POPULAR WORKS OF FICTION. 



in reality memoirs of the political intrigues of the time, 

 full of keen observation, graphic, sketches of character, 

 biting sarcasm — one page of which would make the 

 fortune of a pamphlet. All the personages are of 

 course real, though under fictitious names ; and their 

 portraits are touched with high powers of satire." — Lit. 

 Gaz. 



XXIX. 



WALTER COLYTON. A Tale of the Reign 

 of James II. By the Author of " Brambletye 

 House," " The New Forest," &c. &c. la 3 

 vols, post 8vo. 



" The principal characters in this work consist of the 

 Prince of Orange; Mary, the daughter of James; one 

 of the Sydneys; Sir Charles Sedley, and his daughter 

 the Countess of Dorchester; Judge Jeffreys, and other 

 ruling spirits of that day, in which the licence of Charles 

 the Second's time, and the growing strictness in matters 

 of religion and morality, which ended in the Revolu- 

 tion, were striving for mastery." — Courier. 



" One of the most entertaining novels of the season, 

 while it offers a lively reverse to the historical tapestry 

 recently developed by Pepys, and other chroniclers of 

 the decline of the House of Stuart."— Court Journal. 



XXX, 



TALES of a TAR. By one of the Authors 

 of " The Naval Sketch Book." In 1 vol. 8vo. 



" These tales are perfect pictures of sea fashions and 

 seamen. As naval sketches, they are indeed true al- 

 most to a fault — every syllable is redolent of the tar, 

 and every thought and action seems to be generated 

 by the motion of ship-board."— Lit. Gaz. 



" Seamen, and landsmen too, ought to buy the book." 

 —Globe. 



" This book ought to become as popular in the navy 

 as the songs of Dibdin." — Atlas. 



XXXI. 



The DENOUNCED. By the Author of 

 " Tales of the O'Hara Family," " The Now- 

 lans," &c. In 3 vols, post 8vo. 



" Among all the avowed imitators, or followers of 

 the great Novelist, the author of the ' Denounced ' is 

 the only one whose hand has depicted scenes and cha- 

 racters, the vigorous truth and spirited raciness of which 

 are, in many instances, not inferior to those which 

 have been called into existence by his illustrious ori- 

 ginal." — Court Journal. 



" Mr. Bauim is well entitled to rank among the fore- 

 most of our modern writers." — Lit. Gaz. 



XXXII. 



THE COUNTRY CURATE. 

 By the Author of " The Subaltern," " The 

 Chelsea Pensioners," &c. In 2 vols, post 8vo. 



" We have risen from the peiusal of these Volumes 

 with feelings of unmixed satisfaction. The ' Country 

 Curate' will increase the well-merited fame of the au- 

 thor."— Lit. Gaz. 



" What Mr. Crabbe effected in poetry, the author of 

 the ' Country Curate' has done in prose." — Morning 

 Chronicle. 



XXXIII. 



LAWRIE TODD ; or, the Settlers in the 

 Woods. By John Galt, Esq. Author of 

 " the Annals of the Parish," " The Ayrshire 

 Legatees," &c. A New Edition. In three vols. 

 8vo. 21s. 



" Oh ! that all real autobiographies were like this 

 piece of admirable fiction ! If we were to express the 

 genuine feelings of delight and admiration with which 

 we have perused this work of Mr. Gait, we should be 



thought guilty of extravagance. It has impressed us 

 with so high an opinion of his genius, that it would 

 be with hesitation that we placed any other poet, or 

 fiction writer, above him." — Spectator. 



" The characteristic humour, deep feeling, and just 

 discrimination, which eminently distinguish these vo- 

 lumes, cannot fail to render them popular with all 

 classes of readers." — Atlas. 



XXXIV. 



THE BORDERERS. By the Author of 

 " The RedRover," "The Prairie," &c. Second 

 and Cheaper Edition, in 3 vols, small 8vo. 21s. 



XXXV. 



BASIL BARRINGTON AND HIS FRIENDS. 



A Novel. In 3 vols, post 8vo. 



" The powerful agency of money is the source whence 

 the interest of this new novel is made to spring; and 

 its irresistible influence in the formation of character 

 — in the preservation of virtue and happiness, no less 

 than in the production of vice and misery, is illustrated 

 by a thousand living instances." — Globe. 



" Every performance from such a hand must be mas- 

 terly and striking." — Court Journal. 



XXXVI. 



The OXONIANS ; or, A New Glance at 

 Society. By the Author of " The Roue." In 

 3 vols, post 8vo. 



XXXVII. 



DARNLEY; or, The Field of the Cloth 

 of Gold. A Novel. By the Author of 

 " Richelieu," a Tale of the Court of France. 

 In 3 vols. post. 8vo. 



" An animated picture of the times : we cannot ima- 

 gine a period better suited to the pen of the novelist." 

 — Lit. Gaz. 



" A story that, perhaps, surpasses any similar work 

 that has ever appeared, with the exception of Ivanhoe." 



-Morning Journal. 



XXXVIII. 



SOUTHENNAN. A Tale of the Reign of 

 Queen Mary. By the Author of the " Ayrshire 

 Legatees," " Annals of the Parish," &c. In 

 3 vols, post 8vo. 



" A tale of great and varied interest." — Court Jour- 

 nal. 



" The most beautiful parts of these volumes are their 

 descriptions ; some are, to our taste, finished as exqui- 

 site paintings." — Lit. Gaz. 



" The period of the reign of Mary Queen of Scots is 

 rich ia materials for the Novelist. The fortunes of 

 Chatelar — the life and loves of Darnley— the history of 

 Morton and the conspirators — and the strange story of 

 the Italian musician, are all replete with interest of the 

 highest order. Rizzio's connexion with Chatelar and 

 the Court — his jealousy of his French rival — and his 

 machinations to displace him in the estimation of the 

 Queen — make up the prominent features of interest in 

 the Novel." — Atlas. 



XXXIX. 



CALEB WILLIAMS. A Novel. By W. 

 Godwin, Esq. New Edition. In 3 vols. 21s. 



" The author of' Caleb Williams' has completed, by 

 the publication of his last story, a series of the noblest 

 romances in our language. ' Caleb Williams ' and 

 ' Cloudesley ' are the fitting commencement and end- 

 ing of that body of fictions illustrative of the mysteries 

 of human passion, in which the intermediate place is 

 supplied by ' St. Leon' and ' Mandeville.'" — Globe. 



