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MISCELLANEOUS ENGLISH LITERATURE. 
tory of Aneurin, Taliesin, Llywarch Hen, 
Asser Menevensis, Giraldus Cambrensis, David 
ab Gwilym, Humphrey Llwyd, Dr. John 
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PERCEVAL'S (G.) HISTORY OF ITALY, 
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1844 
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PINKERTON'S ENQUIRr INTO THE 
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POPULAR ERRORS, Explained and Illustrated, 
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This will be found a very entertaining and in- 
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PORTER'S PROGRESS OF THE NATION, 
in its various Social and Economical Relations, 
from the beginning of the Nineteenth Century 
to the pi-esent Time, 3 vols, post 8vo. extra 
cloth, (pub. at £1. 4s) reduced to 13s 6rf 
Charles Knight, 1838-44 
Contents. 
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A book 01 the very highest character. 
PRICE'S (MAJOR DAVID) MAHOMMEDAN 
HISTORY, from the Death of the Arabian 
Legislator to the Accession of the Emperor 
Akbar, and the Establishment of the Mogul 
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QUIN'S STEAM VOYAGES ON THE 
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RABELAIS' WORKS, translated from the French 
by Sir Thomas Urquhart, Motteux and Ozell ; 
with explanatory Notes by Duchat, and others, 
4 vols. fcap. 8vo. richly full gilt, with singular 
devices ; extra cloth, (pub. at £1.") reduced to 16s 
1844 
Rabelais, although a classic in every European lan- 
guage, and admitted into every library, is too indecent 
for the present age, and should not be put in the way of 
females. 
" Rabelais is one of the world's masterminds, he 
belongs to those who have perjietuai dominion, and 
rule us from their urns. His invention is inexhaustible, 
his opulence of diction wonderful, and his learning ever 
ready to illustrate and enforce whatever his genius may 
devise; while for wit and humour he has but one equal 
in literature." — Athenaum. 
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Motteux, and Ozell, may be considered as one of the 
most perfect specimens of the art of translation." 
Tytler. 
"But the most celebrated and certainly the most 
brilliant performance in tlie path of fiction that belongs 
to this age, is that of Rabelais. Few books are less 
likely to obtain the praise of a rigorous critic ; but few 
have more tlic stamp of originality, or show a more re- 
dundant fertility, always of language, and sometimes 
01' imagination. His reading is large, but always ren- 
dered subservient to ridicule ; he is never serious in a 
single jiage, and seems to have had little other aim, in 
his first two volumes, than to pour out the exuberance 
of his animal gaiety." — Hallam's Literature of 
Europe. 
" Heyond a doubt Rabelais was among tlie deepest, 
as well as boldest thinkers of his age. His butfoonery 
was not merely Brutus's rough stick, which contained 
a loil of gold; it was necessary as an amulet againt 
the monks and legates. Never was there a more plau • 
