xx WJLEY & PUTNAM'S ADVERTISEMENT. 



of the existence of which, often as he may have read Shakspeare, he had 

 never dreamed. In short, he shows a perfect familiarity with this Prince 

 among dramatists, and one scarcely knows which most to admire, the won- 

 derful power of Shakspeare's characters, or the magic of the pen by which 

 they are brought before us." American Citizen. 



" Originality is the distinguishing feature of all Hazlitt's productions. 

 Jlis dramatic criticisms are much and deservedly admired ; he seems imbued 

 thoroughly with the spirit of Shakspeare." Asiatic Journal. 



" The present volume is a splendid gem which no reader of Shakspeare 

 should lack; the twaddle of the one hundred and one commentators all 

 vanishes before the sunshine Hazlitt sheds on Nature's best expositor." 

 Sunday Times. 



" This is a very pleasing book, and we do not hesitate to say a book of 

 considerable originality and genius. What we chiefly look for in such a 

 book is a fine sense of the beauties of the author, and an eloquent exposition 

 of them, and all this and more may be found in the volume before us." 

 Edinburgh Review. 



" We have not a doubt of this neat, beautiful, and cheap edition of 

 a highly original and valuable work meeting with a rapid sale, unless all the 

 relish for the immortal dramatist, and all desire to possess some of the most 

 eloquent and searching criticisms that have ever been written,*have departed 

 from us." Monthly Review. 



" Who has spoken with the same penetrative spirit, and in the same con- 

 genial vein ? Who has ever perused one of his glowing commentaries on 

 these plays without rising with a deeper perception and more intense love 

 and admiration of their unapproachable divinity ?" Taifs Magazine. 



" What can we possibly say in commendation of a book of the above title 

 by Hazlitt. To criticize or find fault with it, even were it in our power 

 to do so, would be like putting our own opinion and judgment against that 

 of all the world, and to praise it would be repeating what everybody has 

 done before us. We dislike Hazlitt's peevishness, fault-finding and discon- 

 tentedness, which are displayed in many of Iiis books; but in his works 

 upon Shakspeare, his 'Age of Elizabeth,' the work before us, and others, 

 we can only find matter for admiration none for censure." Saturday 

 Emporium. 



XVIII. 



THE CROCK OF GOLD. 



The Crock of Gold. A Rural Novel. By MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, 

 Author of " Proverbial Philosophy," &c. i vol., oeautifully printed. 

 Price 38 cents. 



" This delightful work we pronounce as one of the best novels of the 

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