6 NEW WORKS PUBLISHED BY COLBURN AND BENTLEY. 



books, but by looking right through the hearts of men— 

 not the men of history, or the men of poetry, but the 

 men of reality, who live the life, who struggle, speak, 

 write, lecture, wheedle, time-serve, trim, baiter, smile, 

 assert, retract, deny, but still push on, deceiving and 

 deceived to their great end— power or wealth, on the 

 arena of this, our most vicious, most glorious metropolis, 

 the great hot-bed of exaggeration, effort, stimulus, toil, 

 talent, and tic douloureux. We have studied this cha- 

 racter from one end of the book to the other, and have 

 examined and compared every part of it, and pronounce 

 it pei feet in its kind."— Spect. 



" Perhaps the most original of all his works: ' Paul 

 Clifford' will at once add to and vary its author's re- 

 putation." — Lit. Gaz. 



XIX. 



STORIES OF AMERICAN LIFE. 

 Edited by Mary Russell Mitford. In 3 

 vols, post 8vo. 



Contents : Otter Bag— The French Village 

 — The Country Cousin — The Esmeralda — The 

 Indian Hater— Pete Featherton — The Drunkard 

 — The Marriage Blunder — Romance of the 

 Border — The Ghost — The Seaman's Widow- 

 Scenes in Washington — The Catholic Iroquois 

 —The Captain's Lady— The Fawn's Leap— The 

 Little Dutch Sentinel— The Rifle, &c. &c. 



" Heretofore the essays of Washington Irving have 

 offered a solitary specimen of the lighter literature of 

 America, but we can now only regard Geoffry Crayon 

 as the founder of a class of writers, who follow closely 

 in his footsteps. The story of Pete Featherton, the 

 Kentucky Braggadocio, bears a general resemblance to 

 that of Rip Van Winkle; while that of the Seaman's 

 Widow, rivals in point of elegance of style, and pathos 

 of sentiment, the happiest efforts of the Sketch Book. 

 The Little Dutch Sentinel, the Rifle, &c, the Country 

 Cousin, and the Drunkard, are replete with all the tragic 

 interest of Lillo." — Court Journal. 



XX. 



DE L'ORME. A Novel. By the Author 

 of " Darnley ; or, The Field of the Cloth of 

 Gold," "Richelieu," &c. In 3 vols, post 8vo. 



" As an historical novel, these pages have the great 

 and rare merit of marking the spirit as well as the 

 manners of their time; the" real personages introduced 

 are drawn with equal animation and accuracy, while in 

 the story itself, the interest is well sustained to the last; 

 and a tone of imagination, reflection and touches of 

 picturesque description, are the lights and shades which 

 fill up the picture. Public opinion has amply con- 

 firmed our praise of ' Richelieu' and ' Darnley;' but 

 we must say, we think ' De L'Orme' much superior to 

 its predecessors." — Lit. Gaz. 



XXI. 



TRADITIONS OF THE AMERICAN IN- 

 DIANS. By A. J. Jones, Esq. Illustrated 

 with Plates. In 3 vols, post 8vo. 



" The work will do more to give us correct impres- 

 sions respecting the American Indians, than all the 

 works hitherto published on the subject."— John Bull. 



XXII. 



WOMEN AS THEY ARE ; or, The Man- 

 ners of the Day. A Novel. Second Edition. 

 In 3 vols, post 8vo. 



" It is, in the true sense of the word — a lady's book. 

 Some of the comic personifications would not disgrace 

 the author of the School for Scandal." — Lit. Gaz. 



" Among the novelists of the day, Mrs. Gore is en- 

 titled to a high place; and her present work is a lively 

 and amusing sketch of modern society. It has all the 



lightness and delicacy of a female hand. One of its 

 principal charms is the fluent ease and sparkle of its 

 style."— Ediu. Rev. 



XXIII. 



The MUSSULMAN ; or, Life in Turkey. By 

 R. R. Madden, Esq. Author of " Travels in 

 Turkey, Egypt, &c." In 3 vols, post 8vo. 



" Told in the very spirit of Defoe."— West. Rev. 



" The portraiture of Turkish life and character which 

 this work exhibits, has perhaps never been equalled."— 

 Sun. 



" Really a spirited performance, -written with great 

 vivacity." — Spectator. 



" Such a work as' The Mussulman' must be popular." 

 — E. L. Gaz. 



XXIV. 



FRASCATI'S ; or, Scenes in Paris. In 3 



vols, post 8vo. 27s. 



" Like a second ' Diable Boiteux,' the author of 

 Frascati's unroofs the houses of a busy capital, and 

 shows us the secrets of every place of human resort. 

 There is, however, a mansion more difficult to ' expose 

 as in a mirror,' and it is this which the author makes 

 us thoroughly acquainted with— the human breast— the 

 mansion of the passions, which are here drawn in all 

 their variety, from the repose of maiden virtue and 

 loveliness, in the duties and affections of private life, to 

 the agitations created by an indulgence in the worst 

 vices of society." — Court Journal. 



XXV. 



THE ENGLISH AT HOME. 



By the Author of " The English in Italy," 

 " The English in France," &c. In 3 vols, post 

 8vo. 



" This work presents, in a series of tales, a picture 

 of the private life of the great of our day. There will 

 be no difficulty in recognizing many of the political 

 and fashionable portraits." — Globe. 



" This novel will please our fair readers ; and read- 

 ers of the other sex would do well to consider its 

 views of society in this country, and its effect upon our 

 national character."— Court Journal. 



XXVI. 



CLOUDESLEY. A Novel. By the Author 

 of " Caleb Williams." New Edition. In 3 

 vols, post 8vo. 



" The new novel of ' Cloudesley,' by this celebrated 

 writer, is admitted to be worthy of his genins. The 

 subject is one of those romances of real life which 

 sometimes actually occur in society, and surpass the 

 invention of fiction. The denouement and catastrophe 

 of the present tale are perhaps without parallel in their 

 impressive character." — Chron. 



" A work of genius, which will be read by all who 

 possess genius, or respect it in others." — Scotsman. 



" Cloudesley is better written than Caleb Williams. 

 The expression is every where terse, vigorous, and 

 elegant — a polished mirror without a wrinkle." — Ediu. 

 Rev. 



XXVII. 



RUSSELL ; or the Reign of Fashion. 

 By the Author of " A Winter in London," 

 Splendid Misery, &c. In 3 vols, post 8vo. 



" A very busy novel, full of incident and variety, and 

 peculiarly adapted to the reading-room of the fashion- 

 able club, and of the provincial mess."— Court Journal. 



XXVIII. 

 SYDENHAM; or, Memoirs of a Man of the 

 Would. In 3 vols, post 8vo. 



" Sydenham is a very clever work, which must 

 make a great stir in the upper circles. Its pages are 



