xxvi WILEY AND PUTNAM'S ADVERTISEMENT. 



XXVI. 



SELECTIONS FROM TAYLOR, BARROW, 

 SOUTH, FULLER, SoC. 



BY BASIL MONTAGU. 50 cents. 



" This is a very valuable book. The selections are made with such taste 

 that every page is precious. We dark the compiler for it, and the publish- 

 ers for adding it to their series." A*. Y. Observer 



" This is No. XXVI. of* The Lib my of Choice Reading.' It consists of 

 iome of the finest passages of the old authors, and is worthy of a place in 

 any library." Christian InteUt&enter. 



" We cannot too highly recommend to our readers this excellent *vork. 

 It is composed of and entitled ' Selections from Taylor, Barrow, South, 

 Fuller,' &.c. ; and this fact is sufficient to recommend it as being well writ- 

 ten and as containing vast mines of thought." Daily Globe. 



" This book is a rich caskei of perfect gems. We imported a copy for 

 our own library four years ago, and have read it and re-read many portions 

 of it with unmingled delight,, and we hope with profit. That copy cost us 

 two dollars : but here is an edition equally good for fifty cents ; and more 

 truly valuable reading cannot be found in any book, of like compass, out of 

 the Bible, in the English language. Would that a copy of it might be 

 found in every family in iho land." American Citizen. 



*' The contents of this volume are thoroughly good, and will doubtless 

 cieate a desire in the minr,s of its readers to carry still further the acquaint- 

 ance with these choice spirits of a noble age, which the work will open 

 The selection, made by Basil Montagu, a sound scholar and accomplished 

 writer, has long been regarded in England as admirable in every respect." 

 J\T. Y. Courier. 



" These fine selections from the best old English writers, will be read 

 with pleasure by all admirers of the good and the beautiful. The selections 

 from Taylor, especially, form edifying Sunday reading, and we shall 

 take the liberty of using much of them for that department of our paper." 

 Saturday Emporium. 



" Some of the choicest gems of the master minds enumerated in the title- 

 page, are here brought together in the present collection in a readable form. 

 The subjects selected are of universal interest, and of course Iree from sec- 

 tarian topics." Hunt's Magazine. 



" The first sentence from Jeremy Taylor is the key to the volume. * If 

 these little sparks of holy fire which I have heaped together do not give 

 life to your prepared and already enkindled spirit, yet they vyill sometimes 

 help to entertain a thought, to actuate a passion, to employ and hallow a 

 fancy.' Surely that must be a choice book which is drawn in rich ingots of 

 thought from the treasure-house of these Old Monarchs of English Litera- 

 ture ! Every line is of pure gold, fraught either with the poetic fancy and 

 teamed illustration of Jeremy Taylor 'the Shakspeare of Divinity;' the 

 "English bluntnesg of the orator of the people, honest and reforming Lati- 

 mer; the sweetness and moderation of Bishop Hall: the sharp-heightened 

 eloquence of John Milton ; the closeness of Barton ; the purity and strength 

 >f South ; the fantastic oratory of Sir Thomas Barrow ; the quaint, wit of 

 /uller ; the sonorous dignity of Bacon, and, among moderns, the tumultu- 

 jus outpouring of the mind and heart of Edward Irving."- J\ r . Y. Morning 

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