6 VALUABLE BOOKS PUBLISHED BY GRIGG & ELLIOT. 



A more o'elightful addition could scarcely be made to the library of the gen- 

 tleman or lady of taste and refinement. The prize poems, hymns, and 

 miscellaneous writings of Bishop Heber, the 'Course of Time' by Pollok, 

 and the rich, various, and splendid productions of the Rev. George Crabbe, 

 are among the standard works, the classics of our language. To obtain 

 and preserve them in one volume, cannot but be a desirable object to their 

 admirers." And it is to be hoped it will be found in the library of every 

 family. 



A writer in the Boston Traveller holds the following language with refer- 

 ence to these valuable editions: 



Mr. Editor — I wish, without any idea of puffing, to say a word or two 

 upon the "Library of English Poets" that is now published at Philadelphia, 

 by Grigg & Elliot; it is certainly, taking into consideration the elegant 

 manner in which it is printed, and the reasonable price at which it is afford- 

 ed to purchasers, the best edition of the modern British Poets that has ever 

 been published in this country. Each volume is an octavo of about 500 

 pages, double columns, stereotyped, and accompanied with fine engravings 

 and biographical sketches, and most of them are reprinted from Galignani's 

 French edition. As to its value we need only mention that it contains the 

 entire works of Montgomery, Gray, Beattie, Collins, Byron, Cowper, Thom- 

 son, Burns, Milton, Young, Scott, Moore, Coleridge, Rogers, Campbell, 

 Lamb, Hemans, Heber, Kirk White, Crabbe, the Miscellaneous Works of 

 Goldsmith, and other martyrs of the lyre. The publishers are doing a great 

 service by their publication, and their volumes are almost in as great demand 

 as the fashionable novels of the day, and they deserve to be so, for they are 

 certainly printed in a style superior to that in which we have before had 

 the works of the English Poets. 



THE BEAUTIES OF HISTORY, or Examples of the Op- 

 posite Effects of Virtue and Vice, for the use of Schools and Families, with 

 Questions for the Examination of Students. 1 vol. 12mo., with plates. 



This work is introduced into our High School. It is particularly adapted 

 for a Class Book in all our male and female Seminaries, &c. 



" We have received from the publishers, Messrs. Grigg & Elliot, a very 

 neat duodecimo volume, entitled ^The Beauties of History; or. Examples 

 of the opposite effects of Virtue and Vice, drawn from real life.' Afler a 

 careful examination of this book, we can conscientiously recommend it to 

 parents and teachers as a most meritorious performance. There are here 

 collected, within a narrow compass, the most striking examples of individual 

 virtue and vice which are spread forth on the pages of history, or are re- 

 corded in personal biography. The noblest precepts are recommended for 

 the guidance of youth; and in the most impressive manner is he taught to 

 conquer tlie degrading impulses which lower the standard of the human 

 character. We have not lately met with a volume which, in design and 

 execution, seemed so acceptable as this. The book, moreover, is hand- 

 somely got up, and illustrated with wood engravings." 



GRIMSHAW'S LADIES' LEXICON, and Parlour Com- 



panion; containing nearly every word in the English language, and exhi- 

 biting the plurals of nouns and the participles of verbs, being also particu- 

 larly adapted to the use of Academies and Schools. By William Grimshaw, 

 Esq., author of the Gentlemen's Lexicon, «fec. 



THE GENTLEMEN'S LEXICON, or Pocket Dictionary; 



containing nearly every word in the English 1 .nguage, and exhibiting the 



